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How to use the word reflects in a Sentence? Page #16

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It's a serious economic situation that is largely of their own making and largely reflects the consequences of not following a set of international rules.

Jason Furman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The transaction reflects Accor's strong will to expand in China, there are 15 hotel rooms in the United States for 1,000 people, 10 hotel rooms for 1,000 people in Europe and less than two hotel rooms in China.

Accor Chief Executive Sebastien Bazin

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9 years ago

My 98-year-old life goes on, i am disappointed because it reflects not so much on me but on the prejudice of the McCarthy era.

Miriam Moskowitz

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9 years ago

Takata's approach reflects ignorance or denial of the reality that the court of public opinion can put you out of business long before a court of law decides about liability.

Jonathan Bernstein

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It (scrapping South Stream) reflects internal Russian pressure on where it is going to invest limited resources at a point in time when sanctions are hitting, it's harder, more expensive to access capital and the fastest growing gas markets in the world are in Asia, and Russia has virtually no export capacity to the Asian market.

Carlos Pascual

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I try to create a cuisine that reflects the nature surrounding us, it should represent this very moment in time.

Claus Henriksen

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Most of what's going in and out of a city is the water going in and sewage coming out, the change in water in and out reflects a broad array of human activity going on in a city.

Eric Alm

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It reflects companies' increased uncertainty about the impact of slower global growth and stronger dollar on their demand outlook, leaving many to approach capital expenditure plans with increased caution.

Gennadiy Goldberg

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Yoga is anything which reveals or reflects the wholeness that we truly are, and the world is anything that makes us feel that we are fragmented, dissected, cut into pieces and out of tune with ourselves.

Swami Krishnananda

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9 years ago

The idea of Jewish settlements under Palestinian sovereignty, as was suggested by someone in the Prime Minister’s office, is very dangerous and reflects an irrationality of values.

Naftali Bennett

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10 years ago

Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their evil look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.

Camille Paglia

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10 years ago

The consistent anarchist should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat. Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a vanguard party, or a State bureaucracy.

Noam Chomsky

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10 years ago

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

Margaret Mead

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10 years ago

To every soul you encounter, be a mirror, which reflects only their beauty.

Bryant McGill

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11 years ago

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

Bharavi

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12 years ago

Mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

Dirk Struik, A Concise History of Mathematics, vol. I

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13 years ago

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante

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13 years ago

Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.

Abraham Myerson

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13 years ago

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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14 years ago

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Jean Baudrillard

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14 years ago

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.

Book of Proverbs

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14 years ago

When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.

Shakti Gawain

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porter

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14 years ago

There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

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14 years ago

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