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How to use the word represent in a Sentence?

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One of the things that we’ve seen year after a year since 2015, with the addition of the Special Victims Counsel program – which are attorneys that represent victims throughout the military justice process – is that victims have made it abundantly clear that they would like to help see the department hold their offenders appropriately accountable, but they’d like to do it through nonconfrontational means, and that’s essentially what we see in the percentages with administrative actions and discharges and non-judicial punishment.

Nate Galbreath

Found on CNN
12 months ago

It was such a dream come true. It was this special moment where you get to go do what you love in front of thousands of people. You represent your country, and you leave your heart there on the mat.

Helen Maroulis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We understand when we took an oath to represent the people who elected us that we speak on behalf of them. It wasn’t about the three of these leaders, it was about who they were representing. It’s about whose voices they were channeling. Understand that – and is that not what a democracy allows?

Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I represent 78,000 people, and when I came to the well that day, I was not standing for myself, i was standing for those young people … many of whom can’t even vote yet, many of whom are disenfranchised. But all of whom are terrified by the continued trend of mass shooting plaguing our state and plaguing this nation.

Justin Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When a synagogue is firebombed, or somebody in the community is being attacked or harassed, it is important for others in that community, no matter what their religion or ethnicity, to say ‘this does not represent us’.

Oren Segal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For the first time, PDP is going to take Lagos, and I’m going to be the governor, people are really tired … the streets of Lagos are yearning for a breath of fresh air and that is what we represent.

Azeez Olajide Adediran

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re very excited that Evan Vucci/AP Biden administration is taking these steps forward. They represent a very positive step in the right direction.

Liz Hitchcock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is the duty of the Attorney General’s Office to represent the State of Florida, and as you know, the legislature will be considering amendments to the law during the current session.

Chase Sizemore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I can tell you this opioid crisis is present in every demographic that we represent, it’s in the affluent areas; it’s in the poorest and the middle-class areas. And it’s often with people who have no experience using narcotics.

Robert Abbott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While exceptions are important and represent real human beings, the bottom line is they are small in number, so it’s a huge victory even with exceptions and I think the governor and his staff are thinking the same way, he’s certainly committed to signing a heartbeat bill.

John Stemberger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The way Jair Bolsonaro narrative is built, to a large extent, as a copy or a mirror image of the narrative that they have in United States is very useful in the sense of showing people this is happening in other places, too. This proves the whole idea that there is a global conspiracy, a global left wing conspiracy to keep us, the people who represent the real people, out of power.

Rodrigo Nunes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If they continue to sell Russia materials in support of their war effort, then they’re not going to have access to the economies of our coalition, which frankly represent a far bigger customer to them.

Wally Adeyemo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The east coast of Yorkshire is known as the Dinosaur Coast for very good reasons, although these different types do not necessarily represent the same number of different dinosaurs, they do indicate a diverse ecosystem of animals including both carnivores and herbivores that roamed the Jurassic coastal plain and (river) complex some 160-175 million years ago. The prints also allow us to interpret their behaviour. Thus, we have records of walking, running and swimming dinosaurs.

Mike Romano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But it’s gotten to a point where, at least for me personally, until this is resolved I ca n’t represent this federation. I ’m such a competitor that breaks my heart and kills me ….

Canada Soccer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Scottsdale prides itself as a welcoming community for all people. We are sad that this incident occurred and offer our full support to those who were targeted. The city condemns this individual’s racist comments – they do not represent our community.

Kelly Corsette

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s isolating, you feel like you have to represent your entire race and descend the racial stereotypes … especially in nuclear and radiochemistry.

Clarice Phelps

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you’re asking for a money judgment, people have to be motivated to give you that money judgment, if you represent Attila the Hun versus some sweet old grandmother, nobody’s gon na give Attila the Hun money, but they would give money to some sweet grandmother.

Mark Tinsley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most of them are now very proud that they can represent their country at international competitions, they are contributing something back to society.

Mambud Samai

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These reality shows often represent our larger culture, and present a question of how far we take things.

Kate Casey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think it would be hypocritic [sic] for him to remove, you know, the first African born on subcommittee on Africa on the Foreign Affairs Committee, where I’ve had the opportunity to not only represent my constituents but the voice of so many people who have never had a voice on the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Ilhan Omar

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We state our most firm condemnation against these acts that attack the fundamental rights and dignity of people and which have nothing to do with the values that represent football and sport, these attacks which our player is now suffering, or those which any athlete could suffer, can not have a place in a society like ours.

Real Madrid

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We carefully picked it to represent our eternal love and our eternal bond.

Suicide Lisa Marie Presley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I admire our youth for taking something that they felt was not gender neutral and changing it as an identifier to represent who they are, where they are right now.

Tanya Rodriguez-Hodges

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I feel that, politically, we do not need to use the term ‘Latinx’ to represent all of us as a grouping of people.

Tanya Rodriguez-Hodges

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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