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How to use the word rewriting in a Sentence?

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History provides perspective and lessons learned — some hard lessons. Rewriting or erasing history is a dangerous game that sets a perilous precedent, we ought to look to our past as a guiding compass to improve our future.

Pete Sessions

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The report that you reference was at the end of the day a very poorly written report, when I talked to career officials in IA, in the office that produced the report, they also had questions about it. They're hard at work on rewriting that report, putting it in some better context and I hope to see that report out soon.

Chad Wolf

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As a lifelong fan of fantasy, I am beyond excited to tell the story' The Witcher : Blood Origin.' A question has been burning in my mind ever since I first read The Witcher books -- What was the Elven world really like before the cataclysmic arrival of the humans ? i've always been fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations, how science, discovery, and culture flourish right before that fall. How vast swathes of knowledge are lost forever in such a short time, often compounded by colonization and a rewriting of history. Leaving only fragments of a civilization's true story behind.

The Witcher

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I was at last beginning to see how ignorant I had become, how long since I had read anything except Party literature. I thought of our bookshelves stripped of books questioned by the Party, how when a writer was expelled from the Party his books went, too. I thought of the systematic rewriting of Soviet history, the revaluation, and in some cases the blotting out of any mention of such persons as Trotsky. I thought of the successive purges. Suddenly I too wanted the answers to the questions Senator Hickenlooper was asking and I wanted the truth. I found myself hitting at the duplicity of the Communist Party.

Bella Dodd

added by Normando
4 years ago

My plans attack the root causes of our dysfunctional economy by rewriting the rules.

Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

But something has gone terribly wrong, the Appellate Body not only has rewritten our agreements to impose new substantive rules we members never negotiated or agreed, but has also been ignoring or rewriting the rules governing the dispute settlement system, expanding its own capacity to write and impose new rules.

Dennis Shea

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We are rewriting the sentences of life to our purposes.

Mr Enriquez

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The campaign against joining the euro was clear that we should be in the single market, but outside of the euro, they are now rewriting history because it is the only argument they have.

Roger Bootle

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Rewriting our state's constitution to condone discrimination would be contrary to our values and harmful to our economy.

Jay Nixon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Sending people to Mars and returning them safely is the challenge of a generation, journey to Mars will forever change our history books, rewriting what we know about the red planet and expanding the human presence deeper into the solar system.

Matt Damon

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They shouldn't be rewriting Obamacare.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Selective attention to detail, at times, my studio is so chaotic that I need to clear a small space on my desk amidst the pile of papers, paints, plants and figurines just to be able to work, but I'd spend an hour erasing and rewriting a letter that's a fraction of a millimeter too low/high/big/small.

Lorraine Loots

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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