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How to use the word raise in a Sentence? Page #45

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What matters is the trend. We are making a lot of progress in reducing slack and unless the labor market weakens sharply, the Fed is on track to raise interest rates in September.

Ryan Sweet

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The cost is already so high that if we were to raise it any higher, there would be a lot less business.

Steve Sanders

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have [ raised money ] very, very differently than other campaigns, but I believe we will be able to raise, as will be indicated in this reporting period and in the future, enough money to run a winning campaign.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

As part of that effort, President Raul Castro and I directed our teams to negotiate the reestablishment of embassies, since then our State Department has worked hard with our Cuban counterparts to achieve that goal and later this summer Secretary( John) Kerry will travel to Havana formally to proudly raise the American flag over our embassy once more.

President Obama

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There is a constant drive to raise standards and improve practice across the whole of the fundraising sector.

Alistair McLean

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They don't have to raise rates tomorrow morning, we will see how the economy does, and if it does not look like this is going to be a big deal then it is squarely up to U.S. data.

Roberto Perli

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He has to show he can raise money. But at the end of the day he's got to translate grassroots support across the country into votes and that's a tough thing to do.

Dave Bossie

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What I love about what Larry said is, ‘This is his job now,’ his job is to raise awareness, and I really admire that … that it’s not going off and enjoying golf or retirement … he really feels like this is a calling.

Steve Daniels

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There is really no pragmatic way for families, most families, to raise the enormous sums required to pay a ransom.

Philip Balboni

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If I raise standards, if I make it harder to become a correctional officer, I'm going to have fewer professionals watching inmates in those prisons, that isn't the solution.

Jon Ozmint

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We are not asking for any compensation. We are talking about cancellation of the decision to raise electricity prices and will stay here until our demand is fulfilled.

Eduard Mkhitaryan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In the coming five years, we have a plan to raise our coffee produce to 25,000 tonnes, one hundred percent of our coffee could be exported once we attained the quality we need.

Jemal Ahmed

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are now very close to our expected long-term investment rate of 800 million to 1 billion pounds per year, while capital from the UK government was an important start it will not be enough to sustain our level of investment. From the outset it was always part of the plan that we would need to raise additional capital from the private sector to supplement government funding.

Shaun Kingsbury

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Fed is itching to raise rates and just want to get the first rate hike out of the way.

John Canally

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are not naive, the conversations that took place between the defense ministry and the president did not happen on the telephone, that being said, it does raise the problem of the relationship of trust between allies.

Michele Alliot-Marie

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If Marfrig was going to maintain a majority (stake) in Moy Park, it wouldn't have been able to raise enough to lower leverage (substantially).

Omar Zeolla

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Trayvon Martin movement was not created to incite hate or further racial divide, but rather birthed to raise awareness to the social injustices that exist across America with regards to senseless gun violence against our young black and brown boys; the movement also focuses on the growing disparities in the lack of prosecution of the actual perpetrators.

Sybrina Fulton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The Fed is going to be very slow to raise interest rates.

John Manley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Insurers would have to raise rates considerably because they'll wind up with sicker people.

Mike Kreidler

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Sanctions ... have made it almost impossible to raise funds globally. This, of course, affected market capitalisation.

Chief Executive Igor Sechin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A large deal would likely give Coty the opportunity to quickly exit 'tail' (poorly performing) brands and sustainably raise the company's growth profile.

Wells Fargo analyst Chris Ferrara

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I'm confident that (Lavrov) will raise it with him yet again.

State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Kaufhof is losing significantly to e-commerce competitors, and HBC hasn't cracked that in Canada, that's not something they have a lot of expertise in. So it's going to be a real challenge to catch up and then raise the bar.

Sally Seston

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

One way (to boost capital) is to downsize the investment bank, the other is to raise capital. I would not be surprised to see a mixture of these two.

Jonathan Fearon

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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