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How to use the word neighbours in a Sentence?

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In this way they help us to build a picture of how the mass of the population lived out their lives -- how close their nearest neighbours were and how they may have used the landscape for farming and grazing animals.

Manuel Fernández-Götz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In fact, in future months we hope to be in a position to help other countries with vaccine supply, including our friends and neighbours but also the developing world.

Liz Truss

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Tough discussions will be needed over ballistic proliferation and Iran’s destabilisation of its neighbours in the region.

Le Drian

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The neighbours in the surrounding tower blocks insult us, take photos, one even called the police.

Susana Cristo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I saw that the neighbours were looking a bit sad about the confinement, i wanted to create a bit of atmosphere in the neighbourhood to help with all of that.

Noam Cartozo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

At a time when our neighbours urgently need help, we would like to do our part...as an act of cooperation and humanity to take on the patients and help them.

Thomas Kirschning

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We had a choice to go back and live in the house where my neighbours were killed or live near this garbage site. My father chose the garbage site.

Mohammad Rafiq

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We can get the legislation through and I think we do, in spite of everything, have a very strong relationship with our EU friends and neighbours and I am absolutely certain that if we needed a couple of extra weeks or something then that would be feasible.

Andrea Leadsom

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There are six countries on one river. The Lancang-Mekong sub-region is our joint home, over the many years of being neighbours we have become family.

Premier Li Keqiang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We know that Afghanistan's success will require the cooperation and support of each of its neighbours, and all of us in the region - India, Pakistan, Iran and others – must unite in trust and cooperation behind the common purpose and in recognition of our common destiny.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our aim is not to exclude anyone, our cooperation is not against anyone. Our energy sources can suffice for the needs of many Europeans and other neighbours.

Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiades

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When they have a contract they can trash it or they can respect it. But they should also be mindful that we are neighbours.

Amrullah Saleh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This surplus crude provides some relief, with OPEC's spare production buffer stretched thin as Saudi Arabia - which holds the lion's share of excess capacity - and its Gulf neighbours pump at near record rates, the shock absorber provided by oil stocks is no longer restricted to just crude. As refineries ran flat out to meet soaring demand for gasoline in top consumers the United States and China, distillate inventories ballooned as a consequence.

The IEA

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I believe (this)... will now allow Kazakhstan to be more competitive..., including on the markets of our neighbours.

Prime Minister Masimov

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It would be positive if the accord could in some way help with the establishment and recognition of an independent, sovereign and democratic State of Palestine which lives in peace and security with Israel and its neighbours.

Antoine Camilleri

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It doesn't have to be a warm peace, it doesn't mean we have to hug our neighbours everyday or expect them to hug us. But there should be a process where we can trade with them and live a normal life where not everything is dictated by Iran, Iran, Iran.

Dov Moran

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is very difficult to build commercial dairy marketing because the limited milk available is sold to neighbours and in local markets.

Amos Omore

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Thirdly, Mongolia has big neighbours who have their own ideas about infrastructure, i don't think that things are hopeless.

Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's turned out better than initial expectations. They managed to reduce the budget deficit without imposing austerity and hiking taxes across the board, growth, current account, by the measures that investors look at, Hungary is doing okay, compared to where it was before, compared to neighbours and the wider emerging markets universe.

Zsolt Papp

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbours.

Ronald Reagan

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Friendships across the world make near neighbours of far horizons.

Wang Bo

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbours.

Ronald Reagan

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbours. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, accused as he was of heresy by the chief priest Eurymedon, it was because he took to his heels in time.

Wieland

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne?er shall find.

Pindar

added by anonymous
12 years ago

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