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How to use the word neglecting in a Sentence?

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I think we need to break the vicious cycle for the people in terms of national interest without neglecting such a prolonged strained relationship between South Korea and Japan.

Foreign Minister Park

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is painful for me to witness the severe damage to the bishops' reputation in the ecclesiastical and secular perception which may even be at its lowest, i feel that through remaining silent, neglecting to act and over-focusing on the reputation of the Church I have made Cardinal Reinhard Marx personally guilty and responsible.

Reinhard Marx

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In my poem, I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen over the past few weeks and, dare I say, the past few years. But what I really aspire to do in the poem is to be able to use my words to envision a way in which our country can still come together and can still heal. It’s doing that in a way that is not erasing or neglecting the harsh truths I think America needs to reconcile with.

Amanda Gorman

added by davidb
3 years ago

It would virtually mean the death of the Paris accord if we gave priority unconditionally to economic recovery, while neglecting the environment.

Junichiro Koizumi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The prime function of the criminal law is to protect our persons and our property; these purposes are now engulfed in a mass of other distracting, inefficiently performed, legislative duties. When the criminal law invades the spheres of private morality and social welfare, it exceeds its proper limits at the cost of neglecting its primary tasks. This unwarranted extension is expensive, ineffective, and criminogenic.

Norval Morris

added by Normando
4 years ago

Taking strong positions on these issues may not always lead to immediate agreement. But the long term costs of neglecting these things far outweigh political unity.

Wess Mitchell

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

With the iPhone 8 rumors heating up, we’re…neglecting the two other phones we’re going to get.

Danny Winget in a video

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Though today's products are a good start, it takes a long time to change deeply-entrenched perceptions, and Microsoft has its work cut out in trying to convince potential customers that its products are more than just the workhorses they've always been for many, workflows and cultures in many creative companies are built around Apple products, and that won't change overnight. However, Microsoft's timing for these new products is great, coming at a time when Apple has been accused of neglecting its creative community.

Jan Dawson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

All cigars pose serious negative health risks. To exclude some would be neglecting our duty to protect public health.

Mitch Zeller

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The physician caring for the diabetes patient might be focusing on cardiovascular risk factors or diabetes complications and diet and weight control while neglecting smoking as another important risk factor.

Wael Al-Delaimy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are applying nothing new in terms of law enforcement, it's just a matter of the previous administration neglecting to enforce the law properly.

Weerachon Sukhondhapatipak

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Neglecting relations with the Palestinians is dangerous. It indicates what will happen after the election, especially if we have a right-wing coalition, this means that the coming period will be very difficult.

Riad Malki

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We think our internationalisation strategy has been gradual without neglecting our role of investing domestically.

Azman Mokhtar

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight.

Ingrid Weir

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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