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How to use the word owned in a Sentence? Page #10

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Virtually all of them would have owned guns anyway.

David Kopel

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Back in the 1997 U.S. Census, one out of six women who owned businesses was a woman of color. Now it’s one out of every three. There’s tremendous ethnic diversity.

Julie Weeks

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

He owned nothing of --- any part of, any share of, anything.

Michael McStay

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Regardless of what you heard about Lehman's risk management, I had 27,000 risk managers at the firm because they all owned a piece of the firm.

Richard Fuld Jr.

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A lot of the interest in Morgan comes from us being very true to our roots, in new markets it becomes a nice selling point because the 106 years of heritage are fascinating for people when they do the research, and being family-owned adds another element.

Steve Morris

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They destroyed the door of my shop and they destroyed a photo studio owned by the father of one of the boys.

Ashraf Salah

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The best (outcome) would be one where the officers were disciplined and officials realized what happened and owned up to their wrongdoing.

Larry Little

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My husband was all excited about the new Apple watch, but couldn't justify a reason to purchase it since he owned three watches, i am convinced that he and Mocha joined forces here to destroy all of his current watches in order to make room for Apple's new watch.

Michele Parkinson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Sold everything I owned and was just living in the car basically, not doing much.

Sam Worthington

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I didn't want any television show about my family to include a guy who owned slaves. I was embarrassed.

Ben Affleck

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I didn't want any television show about my family to include a guy who owned slaves. I was embarrassed. The very thought left a bad taste in my mouth, i regret my initial thoughts that the issue of slavery not be included in the story.

Ben Affleck

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We have been living here for 40 years and hardly own any land. Since most of the area around here is owned by the state, it should be allotted to us so we can increase our agricultural production.

Bakhto Bibi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The super rich? They don't pay this tax. They have a legion of lawyers and tax planners. They have charitable trusts and foundations, these are family-owned, hard-working, risk-taking, determined Americans who are building their business, their farm, their ranch. These are not, as we will hear today, the Paris Hiltons and robber barons of the Teddy Roosevelt days.

Kevin Brady

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Each elephant costs over $65,000 a year, per year, over all the years of their life, we're fortunate we're for profit. We do make a profit and we're a privately owned family business, and so we've made a decision we want to devote a lot of resources here.

Irvin Feld

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Everything I owned got broken -- all my electronics, my GPS devices.

Frank Jordan

Found on CNN
9 years ago

So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today will be another one of those moments in time, a moment that will forever change the course of music history. For today we announce of Tidal, the first ever artist-owned, global music and entertainment platform.

Alicia Keys

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There is no member of this government who has expressed any Greek government intention to take over Germany-owned buildings - this was going around a lot recently, as well as the idea to put an end to the important and great activity of the Goethe institute in Greece, none of this is true.

Alexis Tsipras

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Those who had previously owned Pan Ocean did only shipping, but we will add grain trading, we have done lots of business in livestock sectors requiring grains as raw materials. We know how to do it and we also have a demand base.

Kim Hong-kuk

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They're state-owned companies, and they're getting what we believe are infusions of cash, which is not fair.

Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We will end the long-drawn process of the privatisation of the state-owned Albpetrol company this year, since the very first day, it was clear to us Albpetrol was an anachronism and a hybrid that could not meet the challenges of the future.

Prime Minister Edi Rama

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Our tough stance on corruption is here to stay; our tolerance for corruption is zero, and anyone guilty of corruption will be dealt with seriously. We will see to it that every instance of corruption, should it be committed higher up or lower down, is severely punished, we will intensify government supervision, make full use of auditing oversight, and strictly monitor public funds, public resources and state-owned assets.

President Xi Jinping

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The focus will be on state-owned enterprise reforms, price reforms and fiscal reforms, the economic growth target will definitely be lowered. A target of 7 percent is more appropriate.

Wang Jun

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Presidential campaigns are now talking about spending $2 billion, $2 billion, the simple truth is we can't have a government that fights for the middle class if it is owned by the big money.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
9 years ago

My personal opinion? I am against it, there's still room for a fully-owned state bank in Brazil and the need for a public policy agent to preserve equilibrium in the system is huge.

Outgoing Chief Executive Hereda

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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