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How to use the word needle in a Sentence? Page #4

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Were I advising her I'd suggest she try to thread the needle - explain that free trade has great benefits for the country as a whole, but past and pending agreements do not adequately recognize and compensate the losers. She will remedy that failure.

Morris Fiorina

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The free pen, prone to pour out the suggestions of artless affection, vivid imagination, or domestic anecdote, is as much woman's especial instrument as the needle.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

It felt like needle pricks.

Linda Pietk

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It’s like a needle in a haystack and the waves were pretty choppy.

Michael Sahr

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I could see( bankruptcies) as a marginal contributor to lower supply, but if you ask me could it ever move the needle, the answer is no.

Bill Costello

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What moves the needle is if your average person, an independent voter or a moderate Republican, sees inaction on a nominee as the Senate not doing its job.

Michael Gottlieb

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What Rubio did is not going to convince any Trump voters that they're wrong; in fact, it's only going to further convince them they're right -- we've seen this time and time again, the message Rubio was sending to people supporting Cruz, Kasich and (Ben) Carson. ... I'm not sure how much it's going to move the needle. It's going to move it somewhat, but I don't think it'll move it 15 points, which is what Rubio needs.

Monmouth University pollster Patrick Murray

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Our World War II cases are the ultimate cold cases. All of the crimes took place many decades ago on the other side of a vast ocean, it's very much a search for the proverbial needle in a haystack.

Eli Rosenbaum

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The WEF pull the levers they can pull, until we have women CEOs, how are you going to move the needle?

Beth Brooke-Marciniak

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These companies know that with digital services you can cut down the number of people that need to work out of client locations and that visa costs do not pose a long-term threat, with legacy business shrinking, the larger digital becomes, the more it can move the needle in terms of top line growth.

Aneesh Srivastava

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

With legacy business shrinking, the larger digital becomes, the more it can move the needle in terms of top line growth.

Moshe Katri

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As for Charity Navigator overall impact, I don’t know that it has significantly moved the needle on total annual donations to charities, but I do think as a campaign, it has done a great job of bringing greater awareness to all the different causes that need support and helped donors remember to give at year-end.

Sandra Miniutti

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

Nikola Tesla

added by anonymous
8 years ago

When a large operation is prepared, they are told to keep a low profile in the months before. As they are no longer on police radars, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Roland Jacquard

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When a large operation is prepared, they are told to keep a low profile in the months before. As? they are no longer on police radars, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Roland Jacquard

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is very much like looking for a needle in a haystack as the night sky covers a very large area that can only be searched one telescope pointing at a time.

Scott Sheppard

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In my view, that is what it would take to move the needle: severe and visible consequences for violating policies on harassment, and they do have to be visible.

Meg Urry

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's common sense, the fixation on high-stakes testing hasn't moved the needle on student achievement.

Randi Weingarten

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I'm a proven leader, i disrupted the old order in Tallahassee. I relied on people like Marco Rubio and many others to follow my leadership and we moved the needle.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The only way to achieve spending cuts that will move the needle will be to attack these favoured areas of spending - which is pensions first and foremost.

Christopher Granville

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's a big difference between profits and meaningful profits that will move the needle, we would not expect [data services] to be a needle mover in the near future.

Matt Arnold

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think he is trying to thread an awkward needle, rubio might be able to be the establishment candidate. But he would also like to be the tea party, outside candidate.

Vander Plaats

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We’re at a point where we have to move the needle and we have to do it with policies like this.

Marie Bragg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The era of easy money would officially be over, a rate hike would mean putting the needle away, no more drugs, time for the methadone.

Jim Bianco

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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