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How to use the word prompt in a Sentence? Page #4

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People aren't just looking to buy Earhoox, they're looking for an enjoyable, and dare I say fun, experience, it doesn't really end with them purchasing the product. In fact, that's when it begins. We're in this to provide a problem-solving product, but also to engage and build relationships with our customers. It only takes a few prompt email replies, or a couple of tweets back and forth, to turn a regular customer into someone who can't wait to spread the word about our brand.

Helmut Wyzisk

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If the oil price shot up to that level while the deal was completing it could prompt some debate about the value being offered to BG holders. But you would have to believe the oil price rise was here to stay, i don't expect major regulatory hurdles, but the timetable isn't clear yet.

Ivor Pether

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Unfortunately, the assistance we received from other elements of the U.S. Government was inconsistent and disappointing over the course of three and a half years, we hope that my husband's death and the others who have faced similar tragedies in recent months will finally prompt the U.S. Government to take its responsibilities seriously and establish a coordinated and consistent approach to supporting hostages and their families.

Elaine Weinstein

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Unfortunately, the assistance we received from other elements of the U.S. government was inconsistent and disappointing, we hope that my husband's death and the others who have faced similar tragedies in recent months will finally prompt the U.S. government to take its responsibilities seriously and establish a coordinated and consistent approach to supporting hostages and their families.

Warren Weinstein

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Prompt investigation of cases, interviewing hundreds of contacts of infected people, vaccinating hundreds of at risk people, and increasing awareness among health care providers about measles, helped to control this outbreak.

Karen Smith

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It's really a choice between congressional involvement under a prompt and reasonable set of rules or a free-for-all involvement, i think the events of the last couple of months convinced them -- yep, it might not have been our original choice, but we'd rather have it circumscribed and appropriate.

Tim Kaine

Found on CNN
9 years ago

All commodities are subject to storage costs, and much of that is dependent on the forward curve. We're hoping this contract will help price transparency of prompt storage, we think it will be a logistical storage solution.

Peter Keavey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is an outrageous and unacceptable act, we strongly demand the prompt release of the remaining Mr. Kenji Goto, without harm.

Yoshihide Suga

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We still do not know what charges the Iranian authorities have brought against our correspondent Jason Rezaian, but we hope the referral of his case to a Revolutionary Court represents a step forward toward Jason’s prompt release, this step gives Iran’s judiciary an opportunity to demonstrate its fairness and independence by determining that the charges are baseless.

Martin Baron

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It wasn’t going to take much to prompt the decline, it’s probably more resting than anything else. We’ve had a pretty significant move higher, we’ve marched straight up from 1,970 or so to about 2,100 so it’s only natural that we are going to get a little bit of a pullback here.

Stephen Massocca

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It wasn't going to take much to prompt the decline, it's probably more resting than anything else. We've had a pretty significant move higher, we've marched straight up from 1,970 or so to about 2,100 so it's only natural that we are going to get a little bit of a pullback here.

Stephen Massocca

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A further retrenchment in risk appetite ... might prompt sharp moves in market prices.

The BoE

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise of administering the government in the honest, simple, and plain manner which is consistent with its character and purposes. They have learned that mystery and concealment in the management of their affairs cover tricks and betrayal. The statesmanship they require consists in honesty and frugality, a prompt response to the needs of the people as they arise, and a vigilant protection of all their varied interests.

Grover Cleveland

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

Coventry Patmore

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE.

Author Unknown, (apocryphal)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.

Cardinal John Newman

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Marty This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too'

This Is Spinal Tap

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Chilo

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14 years ago

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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