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How to use the word present-day in a Sentence?

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On the very first day in office, President Biden sent to the Hill, to Congress, a comprehensive package that would have meant so much to our ability to really manage the situation at the border, to really bring a broken immigration system that hasn't been reformed for decades, to really bring it into the present day, not just from a point of view of enforcement, but also realizing the opportunities that immigration brings to our country.

Alejandro Mayorkas

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In the show, I have to play myself at two different ages, 19 years old and present day.

Andie MacDowell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Knowing more about how and where water exists on present-day Mars is essential to understand what happened to Mars' once-abundant water, and helps our search for habitable environments, possible signs of past life, and organic materials from Mars' earliest days.

Colin Wilson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Really, what we've been doing on Is National Day of Mourning every year since 1970 is telling the truth, explaining why we don't give thanks for what happened in the 1620s or afterward, up until the present day.

Mahtowin Munro

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That determination... is for the California state bar, the consequences of the assault by President Trump and his enablers on our democracy are reverberating to the present day.

Norm Eisen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our aim to look at present day as an opportunity to be Joyful, purpose driven and full of self love will naturally brighten our future.

Purvi Raniga

added by Purviraniga
2 years ago

In the 1906 California earthquake, some people living 100 miles away slept through The Haiti quake, whereas the New Madrid earthquakes( which happened in 1811 and 1812 in present-day Missouri), it actually rang church bells in Charleston, South Carolina. That has to do with how the waves travel through the crust. There's a difference.

Susan Hough

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We attempt Best Supporting Actor to not walk in the footsteps but in their Black Panther Party paw steps, and not just in theory, not in a romanticized type of way( but) with our programs, with our criticisms, with our self-criticisms, with our struggles, our politics of internationalism, with the present-day Rainbow Coalition, with the Triple Cs -- the children, community and Black Panther Party Cubs -- supplying services for the people, not in a charity type of way but where people themselves can get involved and fight for their own self-determination.

Hampton Jr.

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Some people have taken these false doctrines to heart. The rioters pulling down statues thus see nothing wrong with desecrating monuments to those who fought for Unalienable Rights -- from our founding to the present day, this is a dark vision of America's birth. I reject it. It's a disturbed reading of our history. It's a slander on our great people.

Secretary Pompeo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Reports that these were part of exercise equipment do not remove nor excuse their torturous and terrorizing effects, we are all responsible for knowing the history and present day reality of lynchings, hate crimes and racial violence. Objects that invoke such terror will not be tolerated in Oakland's public spaces.

Libby Schaaf

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To be honest, whatever the life of The Crown is after where we are now, I doubt well ever go as far into the present day, i think well probably ... we dont travel into the present day. The series currently takes place between 1964 and 1977 and portrays the life of the royal family from the time when the queen was crowned. Harry and Meghan announced on Jan. 8 that they would take a 'step back' as senior members of the royal family and instead work independently, splitting their time between the United Kingdom and North America, specifically Canada. (Getty) The shows creator, Peter Morgan, also echoed Mackies sentiment in 2018, telling Entertainment Weekly that Markles likeness was unlikely to be featured in the series simply because its too close to the moment.

Suzanne Mackie

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It was in the Terminal Classic when Chichn Itz, becoming a prominent metropolis in the northeast of present-day Yucatn, extended its influence over sites such as Kulub.

Alfredo Barrera Rubio

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I wanted to show the tough ride of being a successful artist, and how I went through tough times, and how I came out at the end and got my life together, it's the story of my life up to the present day, warts and all.

John Lennon

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I wanted ... the audience (to) feel that the people they're watching up there are in their present day.

Armando Iannucci

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I wanted it to feel that the audience feel that the people they're watching up there are in their present day, this is their modern world.

Armando Iannucci

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The discovery of Nanopithecus browni reaffirms Kenyas contribution to understanding the evolution and diversity of Pliocene fauna and the environmental contexts in which they lived, environmental changes during the Plio-Pleistocene may have influenced the present-day distribution of guenons.

Fredrick Kyalo Manthi

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

While the deep water cyclecan effectivelychange sea level over hundreds of millions to billions of years, climate change can change the sea level in zero to 100 years, for comparison, the present-day sea level rise associated with climate change is about 0.1 inches (3.2 millimeters) a year. The sea level drop associated with the deep water cycle is about 1/10,000 of that.

Krister Karlsen

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I think The Season is much less about a looming mystery and much more about the story taking place in the present day, so I think The Season's going to feel very different than the' How did he die ?' mystery, which kind of took on a life of The Season own.

Elizabeth Berger

Found on CNN
5 years ago

As to Grant Robicheaux, we are examining crimes that may have taken place from two decades ago to the present day.

Tony Rackauckas

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They are starting to see that a 401(k) is not enough. Employees say: I have present-day needs I have to take care of before I can take care of retirement.

Chris Whitlow

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Christian pilgrims to the Land of Israel from all over the Byzantine Empire (Turkey, the Balkans, Greece and present-day Russia) would carry his icon to protect them from harm, it is probable that the ring belonged to a pilgrim who sought the protection of St. Nicholas on his travels.

Yana Tchekhanovetz

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Therefore, how we have experienced previous events is likely to be an influencer as to how we might experience the present day and the future.

Dr Lukins

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It was like traveling back in time, it was like a Wes Anderson movie. But then you see mobile phones, and plasma TVs, and you realize it is the present day.

Wes Anderson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There's no doubt the most effective people to talk to present-day jihadis are former jihadis -- those who defected or changed their minds.

Peter Bergen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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