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How to use the word ordinarily in a Sentence?

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My only question is why the 65 year age cutoff? What was that based on? Ordinarily I would have preferred that it be brought down to 60 or even 50, for those Americans who understand its importance, we should make second bivalent boosters available. Finally, we’ll soon need guidance about another annual fall booster. Presumably that information comes sometime this summer.

Peter Hotez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mostly because members of Congress vote for bills like the omnibus that they might not ordinarily support but for the earmarks, inequitable, although we have not analyzed exactly who got them this time, the last time there was a list of members of Congress receiving earmarks, 51 percent of the earmarks and 61 percent of the money went to the members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, and they only constituted about 15 percent of the entire Congress.

Tom Schatz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the short term, between now and three months, the conflict will affect food supply primarily from a pricing perspective, as net importers of products like wheat, which influences bread and cereals, sunflower oil and maize, African countries are fairly exposed on some of these supplies that are coming out of Russia and Ukraine. There will be challenges if the war continues for more than three months — because ordinarily, countries usually keep stock of supplies for three to five months.

Wandile Sihlobo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'll be completely honest with you, it is a little bit like reading tea leaves, ordinarily, if it were a different leader, the fact that he continues to build forces along Ukraine's border, from Belarus all the way around, you'd say,' Well, that means that he is looking like he is going to do something,'.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Supreme Court's procedural order not only wipes away two lower court rulings, but it also orders dismissal of the entire dispute -- leaving for some other time resolution of the many questions Trump's conduct raised about The Emoluments Clause, ordinarily, The Supreme Court pursues such a step only when the prevailing party moots a case while the appeal is pending -- as opposed to here, where the disputes became moot because Trump's term ended.

Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Retailers which were mainly focused on duty-free and other products popular with inbound tourists are struggling hard, it’s extremely difficult, to have an entry ban on tourists at a time when Chinese visitors would ordinarily be coming for Lunar New Year holidays.

Shu Uemura

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

She raised the issue. She was questioned by four different senators : two Democrats, Dick Durbin of Illinois included, and two Republicans. What did she mean by this ? Ordinarily, you would never raise the question of religion in a hearing.

Dick Durbin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They've really chosen to pull out some of the tools that we ordinarily would have as emergency protective measures in our toolbox, it's a really uncomfortable position for states to be in to have to weigh' Gosh, you know, with our budgets, where do we spend the finite amount of state dollars that we have ?'.

Andrew Phelps

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Actions seem to follow feelings, howbeit, they go together like Siamese twins. By regulating the actions, which are ordinarily under more direct control of your will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling that is not.

Matthew Dube (at weed thumb)

added by anonymous
3 years ago

One of the pleasures of being an actor is that it takes you places you wouldn't ordinarily go, and you don't enter as a tourist, you really enter the life of the place. You achieve because you're lucky to work with people who are very talented.

Ben Gazzara

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

We know that ordinarily the window of opportunity for women with abusive partners to make a call and seek help is often very limited, now, it is likely that window has become even smaller.

Sandra Horley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When a guide meets up with someone who is lost, ordinarily his reaction is to direct him on the right path, not mock or malign him, then turn on his heel and walk away. As for you, lead someone to the truth and you will find that he can follow. But as long as you don’t point it out to him, don’t make fun of him; be aware of what you need to work on instead.

Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
4 years ago

There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.

James Otis

added by Normando
5 years ago

The department has been operating in good faith and earnestly trying to comply with court orders, including the rapidly approaching deadline for reunification, our interpretation of the court's order is that HHS must make a determination of parentage, fitness, and safety before reunifying families, but that HHS need not undertake the fuller process of vetting for children's safety that HHS would ordinarily conduct in its operations.

Evelyn Stauffer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When enlightened souls come in contact with ignorant people like you, they have to speak in YOUR language, because you are not yet qualified to speak to them, you have not yet mastered the ART to commune with them. Ordinarily communication happens between two minds, communion between two beings.

RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by anonymous
6 years ago

We think it is important that this unit exists, that victims have support and information that they ordinarily would not have.

Alphonso David

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These airlines have allegedly raised fees beyond what you would ordinarily expect in the Northeast Corridor at a time when the Amtrak line was shut down.

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Construction for Crossrail is providing rare and exciting opportunities for archaeologists to excavate and study areas of London that would ordinarily be inaccessible, there are up to 19.6 feet of archaeology on site, in what is one of the oldest areas of the city, so we stand to learn a great deal.

Nick Elsden

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property.

Theodore Roosevelt

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

T. S. Eliot

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

Bruce Henderson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

Heinrich Heine

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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