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How to use the word prism in a Sentence?

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The challenge is that they become further and further removed from the people who elected them – seeing the country through the prism of advisors, reporters, and colleagues.

Jimmy Carter

Found on CNN
12 months ago

It’s not coincidental that Dr. Murthy and I are probably talking more about this issue of loneliness more than others in public life, i look at this through the prism of my 14-year-old and my 11-year-old.

Chris Murphy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It doesn’t have to be a voice that is only seeing Australia Day through the prism of positivity, it’s allowed to be a day that is difficult and raw. And it really is for many.

Karlie Brand

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think people's perceptions are clearly colored by the prism they're looking through, the political environment is badly polarized, and that's reflected in how people think about things.

Mark Zandi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Guns flow in this country like water, and that's why we have mass shooting after mass shooting, and, you know, spare me the bullshit about mental illness, we don't have any more mental illness than any other country in the world. You can not explain this through a prism of mental illness because... we're not an outlier on mental illness, we're an outlier when it comes to access to firearms and the ability of criminals and very sick people to get their hands on firearms. That's what makes America different.

Chris Murphy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And we could either deliver that to you in a very' eat your vegetables' kind of way, or we could use science fiction as a genre and the prism of Fairday and Justin Falls, both of whom really are the ultimate outsiders, as a way of looking at our planet and a way of looking at who we are now, the Man Who Fell to Earth.

Alex Kurtzman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The way I view dad is not just through the prism of music and film, he was a pioneer in all the different mediums and all the things that came out of that — technology and music and golf, sportsmanship and hunting. There are a lot of different things that describe the human being.

Harry Crosby

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He will lay out his decision to end the war in Afghanistan after 20 years, including the tough decisions he made over the last seven months since he took office to bring the war to a close, he will make clear that as President, he will approach our foreign policy through the prism of what is in our national interests, including how best to continue to keep the American people safe.

Jen Psaki

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

China does not tend to perceive Afghanistan through the prism of opportunities ; it is almost entirely about managing threats.

Andrew Small

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It would be a mistake to think about climate only through the prism of threats. Here's why. Every country on the planet has to do two things -- reduce emissions and prepare for the unavoidable impacts of climate change. American innovation and industry can be at the forefront of both.

State Tony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I will again reiterate, as he would say, and as intelligence officials have said publicly, that the threats have evolved, the United States need to approach how The United States look at counterterrorism through the prism of what the threats are in 2021.

The United

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You must know that this is a glimpse of God's vision of a more inclusive humanity that embraces all of God's children. I'm just grateful to be a part of this. I'm just grateful because I just want to serve, I just want to be a vessel, I just want to be an instrument, I just want to be a prism of God's glory so that God's glory can shine through me.

Raphael Warnock

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Weve come to this place where history is viewed only entirely through the prism of the present.

Emma Soames

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

What fantasy does is that it helps you understand your world, our world, through the prism of another civilization.

Louis Leterrier

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When the time came to bring the' Transparent' journey to a close, it was clear that saying goodbye to Maura Pfefferman was our path forward, in this musical finale, we dramatize the death of Maura Pfefferman in an odyssey of comedy and melancholy told through the joyful prism of melody and dance.

Jill Soloway

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think anybody in this process needs to demonstrate how they will represent people of any faith, people of no faith, but I also think the time has come to reclaim faith as a theme, the idea that the only way a religious person could enter politics is through the prism of the religious right, I just dont think that makes sense.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

PRISM, PRISM, on the wall, who is the most trustworthy of them all.

Chairman Guo

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

In the case of Jefferson Davis, we must tell America the truth about the complicated man who carried with Jefferson Davis the dreams of Southern independence, jefferson Davis life was the reflection of the simplicity and perseverance of a proud people ; men and women who endured the horror of defeat and its equally hellish aftermath ; men and women who through their Christian prism understood the fall of man and the imperfection of human institutions -- that not all of man's noble experiments succeed.

Secretary Wilkie

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It’s hard to look back in a prism of time.

Jim Himes

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It's a truly miraculous sound they create ... There's a whole choir, there's strings, there's soloists, there's amazing percussion. It's a really dynamic and joyous sound, we're so used to seeing Syria through the prism of news, which is entirely a negative thing. This concert will give a completely different perspective.

Damon Albarn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What seems ninety nine percent impossible through the prism of your mind, seems absolutely possible through your soul's eyes. Minds have learnt to doubt even your own ability while our souls know simply how to trust. Dissolve your mind if you must, open up to all possibilities through your soul's eyes, MickeyMize.

Mickey Mehta

added by Mickeymized
8 years ago

While he was seen by his fiercest critics as a partisan lightning rod, that's not the prism through which Ted Kennedy saw the world, nor was it the prism through which his colleagues saw Ted Kennedy.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The successful completion of the Goldman Sachs BDC IPO is a good sign of an industry continuing to grow and institutionalize. I see the Goldman IPO through that prism.

Todd Owens

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

At this point she is already considered by voters as a candidate in full and, as a result, a story like this is one is viewed through such a prism by voters, for those outside of D.C., this is just the latest in a long string of partisan he saids, she saids that is hard to follow and does not appear especially relevant to their lives.

Chris Lehane

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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