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How to use the word precondition in a Sentence?

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We do face an extreme crisis of wealth concentration, and it’s important before all, I think, to recognize that it’s not inevitable. A strategic precondition to reining in extreme inequality is taxing the ultra-wealthy.

Nabil Ahmed

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Otherwise Iranians have no doubt that the Americans will take advantage of this, or use this as a tool to undermine the agreement within weeks or at most months. This is a precondition for the implementation of a deal.

Mohammad Marandi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is classic negotiation in some ways, and the pre-steps to a negotiation, where they're trying to see what are we willing to do... as a precondition ? And are we willing to essentially pay them to come to the table ? anytime you need to pay someone to come to the table, you can be pretty sure that they're not going to stay there.

The US official

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Voting rights actually is a precondition for every other issue, since the 2017 letter, I have witnessed a violent attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and a non-stop assault on the integrity of the American election system and democracy, based on slanderous lies about voter fraud and stolen elections.

Ed Markey

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As the President Joe Biden administration develops The Biden administration new Iran policy, my family expects that President President Joe Biden and President Joe Biden administration will not make concessions or deals with Iran that do not include, and indeed require as a precondition, the release of my father and Siamak, president Biden and his administration releases should not be a subsequent step. That approach by both the Obama and Trump administrations failed.

Baquer Namazi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A precondition for the success of the app is that it has to be safe and anonymous, and state-of-the-art in terms of the technology, with regard to the latter I am only mildly optimistic as East Germany is lagging behind in terms of digitization compared to other countries.

Sebastian Siegloch

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Sports exchanges have always played a positive role in enhancing China-US friendship and promoting bilateral ties, at the same time, whether it's in China, the US or elsewhere in the world, an important precondition for such exchanges and cooperation is mutual respect.

Geng Shuang

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Peace can only be achieved if it comes with a pathway for people to improve their lives, that is why agreeing on an economic pathway forward is a necessary precondition to resolving what is a previously unsolvable political situation.

Jared Kushner

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If the U.S. is trying to drive us into a corner to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment, we will no longer be interested in such dialogue and cannot but reconsider our proceeding to the DPRK-U.S. summit, we have already stated our intention for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and made clear on several occasions that precondition for denuclearization is to put an end to anti-DPRK hostile policy and nuclear threats and blackmail of the United States.

Kim Kye Gwan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We have already stated our intention for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and made clear on several occasions that precondition for denuclearization is to put an end to anti-DPRK hostile policy and nuclear threats and blackmail of the United States.

Kim Kye Gwan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There were agreements between the U.S. and North Korea to open up discussion on a peace treaty, but they never materialized, the U.S. wants a peace treaty at the end of the denuclearization process, while for the North, it’s the precondition for its denuclearization.

Koh Yu-hwan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

As a second stage we have to raise taxes or share taxes. I think it more efficient not to make it a precondition for the euro zone budget otherwise it will take a lot of time.

French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We urge the governor to stop demanding that the General Assembly approve his unrelated agenda items that would harm the middle class as a precondition to budget talks, and instead work with lawmakers to fairly fund state government and the important services it provides.

Roberta Lynch

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.

Ayn Rand

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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