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How to use the word needle in a Sentence?

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We’re thinking about how to thread the needle in terms of essential conversations and information that people might have.

Healthcare Garth Graham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

William Stanley Merwin

added by Greying_Geezer
1 year ago

This is not nearly enough, partly because it’s a supply and demand problem. We still got a lot of straws in the ground, but you’d need multiple years like this in a row to really move the needle on recharging those aquifers.

Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was like searching for a needle in a haystack.

Megan Smolenyak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This was a needle-in-a-haystack search with no guarantee that the needle exists, finding a change that could be clearly confirmed as real was absolutely a surprise. We were pretty certain that Venus is volcanically active, but we didn’t know if eruptions occur every few months, years, once every 10,000 years, or longer. All options could have fit with existing data. Unless we got incredibly lucky, we now know the frequency is every few months or so, similar to the family of Earth’s big basaltic intraplate volcanoes like Hawaii, the Galapagos Islands, Canary Islands, etc.

Venus Herrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In some ways, it was reassuring that the SUID rate didn’t increase, but it just further emphasizes what we’ve been seeing over the past couple of decades: We’re not successfully moving the needle on reducing these deaths.

Parks Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not nearly enough, partly because it’s a supply and demand problem. We still got a lot of straws in the ground, but you’d need multiple years like this in a row to really move the needle on recharging those aquifers. There’s probably some recharge going on right now, but it’s unlikely to be the very large amount that would be needed to really make a big difference there.

Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Just seeing nature didn’t really move the needle, but experiencing it did. Other research points to similar conclusions, if you want to reap the full health benefits that nature can provide, you have to immerse yourself in those settings.

Lincoln Larson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you're talking about the issues that affect working Coloradans, that's what's moving the needle, we're talking about record inflation, record crime, and diesel that's over $5 a gallon. That's what matters to working Americans, and that's why we're going to win on Tuesday.

Colorado Senate

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When you go to an acupuncturist who is properly trained and has those techniques, you definitely are going to get better results than somebody who learns where a point is and kind of taps the needle and then doesn't touch it again.

Ayla Wolf

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Hubble constant is The Hubble constant. It can be used to thread a needle from the past to the present for an end-to-end test of our understanding of the universe. This took a phenomenal amount of detailed work.

Licia Verde

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There might be a couple marginal adjustments to policy to make sure police can do their jobs, but that we don’t have needless injuries and deaths and use of force, i think we can thread that needle.

Roger Goodman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We moved the needle. There's a real movement about parents getting involved in their kids' education, and that I could be a little part of that is great.

Beth Connor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The nearest-term issuesThings may not have been blown up on Monday, but there are still very real issues that need to be resolved -- and quickly.There are intensive negotiations to find a compromise on prescription drugs -- something left out of Biden's framework -- that can make its way into the package. This is a huge issue for House Democrats, who know it polls extremely well and has also been a long-standing commitment for the party.But the opposition of a handful of House House Democrats and Sinema have limited the scope and scale of the initial ambitions.Still, for a few days it appeared it would be scrapped altogether. Then House Democrats launched frenzied behind-the-scenes negotiations to try and thread the needle. Those are still ongoing.Democratic leaders also have to address immigration, which a handful of House Democrats have also said must be addressed to secure House Democrats votes. Senate rules have limited -- if not outright killed -- most ambitions on this front. But leaders know they need some kind of resolution here.And finally, Manchin's full-throated view that Senator Manchin needs to see scores in order to vote on any final proposal isn't exclusive to him.There are a group of moderate House House Democrats who share that view and have communicated it with leadership, according to two sources.Given how quickly Democratic leaders want to move, that stance makes things more complicated.Remember : House Speaker Nancy Pelosi can only afford to lose three House Democrats. There is virtually no margin for error and a number of real issues to resolve -- and fast. Another under-appreciated outstanding issueProgressives may now be willing to move forward without explicit assurances from centrist senators, but moderate Democrats have been clear for weeks they don't want to vote on anything that will then be changed in the Senate. With Senator Manchin making clear there's still a long way to go with Senator Manchin, this is an issue that needs to be reconciled.About the Senator Manchin remarksCNN reported that Senator Manchin had been frustrated that House Democrats were trying to get Senator Manchin to make a clear endorsement of the $ 1.75 trillion framework -- and Senator Manchin wanted to make clear where Senator Manchin stood as Senator Manchin was getting lobbied to back adding more social programs to the plan, according to a source familiar with Senator Manchin thinking. Senator Manchin also had grown angry that progressives thought they had leverage over Senator Manchin to back the $ 1.75 trillion social safety net expansion plan if they withheld their support for the $ 1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, the source said. Senator Manchin, the source said, also didn't like last-minute changes being made to the social safety net proposal. In short, Senator Manchin didn't want to get jammed into supporting something Senator Manchin was far from ready to endorse.The White House viewAbout 20 minutes after Senator Manchin concluded Senator Manchin remarks, White House press secretary Jen Psaki released this statement :.

Senator Manchin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Having a strategy that relies exclusively or primarily just on law enforcement doesn't work. And we know that. We've spent billions of dollars across the city policing without other supports for communities and it's not moving the needle fast enough, deeply enough, or permanently enough.

Lori Lightfoot

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Failure is the haystack, success is the needle and I am the magnet.”

Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
2 years ago

And I really feel like yes we may move the needle a little bit by giving a booster dose, but the real fact of the matter is this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

Helen Keipp Talbot

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We accepted significant compromises, knowing that they would be a tough sell to our community, but still believing that we would be moving the needle forward on this issue, but every time, more was demanded to the point that there would be no progress made in the bill that we were left discussing.

Karen Bass

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Nowadays, Nicki Minaj says something on certain issues, and it's probably not going to move the needle at all, it's basically going to be people on the right saying,' Go, Nicki Minaj. Nicki Minaj's great.' And people on the left saying,' Nicki Minaj's a bad influence.' And that's probably the end of it.

Mark Harvey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We will have moved the needle and made North Carolina no longer at the very bottom of the barrel of states.

Drew Reisinger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At no time did Jodi Montgomery express to Jamie Spears that Jamie Spears would currently qualify for such a hold, the concern that Jodi Montgomery did raise to Jamie Spears during Jamie Spears telephone call is that forcing Jamie Spears to take the stand to testify or to have Jodi Montgomery evaluated would move the needle in the wrong direction for Jodi Montgomery mental health.

Lauriann Wright

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Residents are still getting vaccinated, but at a slow pace. We need to move the needle faster. 61.59 % of Orange County residents ages 12 and above have had at least one shot of the vaccine.

Jerry Demings

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These are organizations are fighting for social justice and we are there to support them, to give them not only funding assets but to allow them to tap into our channels, use our megaphone to get their message across and to hopefully move the needle.

Anna Isaacson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Most of our coaches aren’t doing it so I don’t know if it’s going to move the needle much, but I get it.

Todd Berry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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