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How to use the word respond in a Sentence?

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The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government’s assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors’ needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior.

– Doug Bandow

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11 months ago

What I always stress is that bad things can happen to us, but they don’t need to define us, it goes back to understanding that there are things out of our control, and we’re really spinning our wheels when we try to control them. What we do have control over is the way we respond to it.

– Leah Brogan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you get that packet in the mail, respond to it promptly.

– Sabrina Corlette

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our current thinking is that it is best for parents to share the story of donor conception with their children at a very early age, so that if I were to ask their child when they are an adult when they learned that they were donor conceived, they would respond that they ‘ always knew, ’ this allows the child to grow up with the information, as opposed to learning it later in life, when it comes as a surprise or shock and can hurt their trust in their parents and their identity development.

– Lauri Pasch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Xylazine is one of the contaminants in fentanyl, but there could be others, so, I think with the declaration of an emerging threat, we’re sending a clear message to producers and traffickers of illicit xylazine and illicit fentanyl that we’re going to respond quicker, we’re going to match the challenge of evolution of these drugs supply, and that we’re going to protect lives first and foremost.

– Rahul Gupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Those goods are a bit more responsive to any changes in the market, and that’s why we’re seeing that industry respond faster than durable goods.

– Sinem Buber

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy.

– Justin Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At some point, [their offensives] are likely to culminate, they will need to decide whether they assume a more defensive posture in the coming weeks in order to absorb or respond to any Ukrainian offensives.

– Mick Ryan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They will want not only to surprise the Russians with the time and location of their main and supporting thrusts, but will want to generate an operational tempo that overwhelms the Russian ability to respond quickly or at the right time with the right force.

– Mick Ryan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s so many organisms that respond to sound, I thought there was no good reason for plants to be deaf and mute.

– Lilach Hadany

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Access to AEDs Act will help ensure that schools are just as prepared and trained to respond in the time of crisis as those on the sidelines of an NFL game.

– Damar Hamlin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As President Biden has made clear, we will take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing, no group will strike our troops with impunity.

– Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This incident has emphasized the need to better train and equip firefighters to respond to hazardous material incidents, specifically to derailments in rural areas, which are mostly served by volunteer fire departments that often lack sufficient resources, tax base and manpower.

– David Comstock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We typically expect some degree of improvement these medications, but when we saw him two day later, he was getting far worse, so that’s when we inquired about specifically the EzriCare tears, because we knew they were associated with resistant infection that may not respond to those really strong antibiotics.

– Naomi Gutkind

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The way that teachers and school leaders respond to Black boys is not very different from the way they respond to Black male teachers, the misunderstanding, the misrepresentation, the inability to communicate, all of that is really similar.

– Robert Hendricks III

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The move by US authorities is a sign that they are responding quickly, whereas Europe has still to respond.

– Chris Beauchamp

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People want to know, ‘how would I be if everything else was stripped away, how would I respond? What person am I, really, when it comes down to that?’.

– Glenn Stutzky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s never too late to start, sleep is very individualized, and every child will respond differently to the time change. Make sure you as the parent are getting the rest you need as well, so you’re not overly irritable with your child.

– Raj Dasgupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today, a video has been released showing how the occupiers brutally killed a warrior who bravely said to their faces: ‘Glory to Ukraine,’ i want us all to respond to his words in unity: ‘Glory to the hero. Glory to heroes. Glory to Ukraine.’.

– Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout/Reuters Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I look at that enthusiasm for [another season], which is not at all in existence or moving towards existence as of now, to be flattering, we all do. But I also am like still, you know, eyes deep in season three. We’re still worried about this and going episode to episode. I didn’t know we were gonna get to do three seasons. None of us knew that this thing was going to take off the way it did, and people were going to respond to it the way they did.

– Jason Sudeikis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s really important that we understand the good, the bad and sometimes the ugly of how dark patterns or personalized targeting can influence how consumers respond, when they respond, and the extent to which they are able to benefit from competition, a lot of the assumptions have been that consumers can discipline bad behavior [of a company] by switching. But if consumers don’t switch as easily as they used to, or if consumers are being nudged in one direction or another, that’s a market reality we need to understand.

– Jonathan Kanter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Albuterol is one of those things that if there’s a patient who needs it, you want to have it all the time. So there’s always that potential for the market to respond and react in a way that that will then create downstream shortages of other sizes or presentations of a product.

– Jessica Daley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If I respond to you fast on text or open your sc up right away. It’s because I’m on my phone 24/7.

– The Blonde Jon

added by TheBlondeJon
1 year ago

Nobody overlapped. Everybody is working hard to make sure we are communicating with each other and we are forcing the Democrats to respond.

– Kelly Armstrong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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