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How to use the word ongoing in a Sentence?

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Deterrent actions like this one are an important tool in our country’s efforts to stop countries from engaging in detentions with impunity, but they are deterrents of future behavior and no deterrent is going to resolve the ongoing detention of Americans that is going on right now.

– Neda Sharghi

Found on CNN
12 months ago

The ongoing paradigm shift reminds us that what we think we know is always subject to revision, and that true progress requires a willingness to challenge and evolve our beliefs.

– Martin Tobias Lithner

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1 year ago

The Secret Service relies on partnerships to provide the highest level of dignitary protection in the world. The Police Service of Northern Ireland is a truly dedicated partner, and we have the utmost confidence in the PSNI’s abilities to work side by side with our agency. We remain grateful for their ongoing support during the president’s visit.

– Jocelyn Keaveney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He’s almost daring the judge, ultimately though, as much as the threats and other rhetoric in my view are far over the line, I think that the judge is unlikely to impose a gag order, given the normal First Amendment concerns multiplied by Donald Trump’s ongoing candidacy.

– Elie Honig

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Investigations are not linear so we are following the leads in front of us. That’s what we’re doing, the investigation is very much ongoing.

– district attorney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mortgage applications increased for the third consecutive week, despite the ongoing volatility in the financial markets and the broader economy.

– Bob Broeksmit

Found on CNN
1 year ago

TikTok’s algorithms make it truly unique in terms of data harvesting and strategic analytics, therefore, I don’t see Beijing allowing it to fall into the hands of US interests, unless they can somehow still access TikTok’s data through other means and methods, including ongoing cyber intrusion and other forms of back-door access.

– Alex Capri

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We no longer state that we anticipate that ongoing rate increases will be appropriate to quell inflation, instead, we now anticipate some additional policy firming may be appropriate.

– Jerome Powell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There has been an ongoing attempt to remove Sheriff Burkett from office before he even took office.

– Gabe Crocker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Markets could get messy amid the fallout from Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, alongside ongoing uncertainty over the future path of the global economy and interest rates.

– Marty Dropkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ongoing threat assessments show evolving risks that require continuous protection, additional funding would provide for contract positions, eventually transitioning to full-time employees, that will augment capabilities of the Supreme Court police force and allow it to accomplish its protective mission.

– Supreme Court

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As inflation and mortgage rates likely soften later this year, buyers are likely to return to the market and be in search of an affordable home, and the ongoing housing supply shortage will only continue to put pressure on the market.

– Danielle Hale

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While that brings greater supply to the market, most of it will be used for rentals and won’t address ongoing affordability challenges in the for-sale space.

– Hannah Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The footage of this massacre, coupled with the ongoing killing and abuse of countless Syrians, serves as a sobering reminder for why countries should not normalize relations with the Assad regime absent enduring progress towards a political resolution, the United States calls on the Assad regime to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China continues to be the glaring exception to the ongoing global decline in coal plant development, the speed at which projects progressed through permitting to construction in 2022 was extraordinary, with many projects sprouting up, gaining permits, obtaining financing and breaking ground apparently in a matter of months.

– Flora Champenois

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Considering that a crisis on the border is still ongoing, and continues to haunt Indian Ocean and China, the silence does not bode well for Indian Ocean, it emboldens China.

– Sushant Singh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Substantially all of Cambodia’s media is now government controlled, it also occurs in the context of [the] ongoing wrongful imprisonment of opposition supporters and routine intimidation of those who continue to operate.

– Sam Rainsy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Long Covid is pretty real, and there’s a sizable share of the population who continue to suffer health effects related to Covid that are preventing them from being able to work, then there’s ongoing child care challenges; we’ve got a lot of folks who retired early; we’ve got limited immigration not where it was pre-pandemic.

– John Leer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As this is an active and ongoing investigation, no additional information is available.

– Ericka Miller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The ongoing lack of affordability has limited buyer activity this winter, but this month’s retreat in mortgage rate has shown how eager buyers are to get back into the market, lower interest rates and the coming spring homebuying season promise more opportunities for buyers and sellers alike.

– Hannah Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is no ongoing COVID-19 emergency to justify the continuation of the national emergency declaration, cases are down and most Americans have returned to a pre-pandemic normalcy. This hardly sounds like a country under a national emergency which is why I am calling on my colleagues and Mr. Biden to reverse course and move to give the People back their say in government.

– Paul Gosar

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Consumers are increasingly struggling to navigate the ongoing effects from the spike in prices last year by drawing on credit and savings, with consumer demand likely to continue its downward trajectory, business investment is also likely to slow in the coming quarters, increasing the probability of a recession this year.

– John Leer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Over the years Metropolitan Police Service’ve had a series of blows to policing, around the policing of violence against women, metropolitan Police Service’ve had the kind of collapse in rape prosecutions which has been an ongoing issue for a while and then Metropolitan Police Service have had the emergence of this phenomenon of police perpetrated abuse.

– Sarah Everard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This case is an ongoing investigation. We are unable to comment beyond what has already been released publicly.

– Daniel Crifo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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