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How to use the word rightly in a Sentence?

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We have so far failed the people in north-west Syria. They rightly feel abandoned. Looking for international help that hasn’t arrived.

Martin Griffiths

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is clear that The Iranian government is afraid of The Iranian government own people, mahsa Amini is senselessly, tragically dead, and now The Iranian government is violently suppressing peaceful protesters rightly angry about Mahsa Amini loss.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The survivors rightly felt that The FBI totally bungled this investigation, which, by the way, the Department of Justice acknowledged.

Richard Blumenthal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The public rightly expect government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously, i recognise this may be my last ministerial job, but I believe these standards are worth fighting for and that is why I am resigning.

Rishi Sunak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wouldn't comment on anything that I say to The Queen or The Queen says to me. Nor will I say anything about what the heir to the throne might say to me or what I might say to him. And that's never happened and Prime Ministers never talk about that and quite rightly.

Carrie Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

European consumers rightly expect more environment-friendly and longer-lasting products, more sustainability and resource efficiency also means more resilience when a crisis disrupts our industrial supply chains.

Thierry Breton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These alarming reports have rightly raised concerns among my constituents in Maryland. They know these illegal immigrants will place strains on their communities, they deserve a full accounting of the numbers of illegal aliens released into their neighborhoods.

Andy Harris

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Judge Barrera’s hands were tied today – due to the fact that the DA’s office failed to file a motion to transfer Tubbs to adult criminal court, which is where she rightly belongs, instead, we’re left with a 26-year-old individual sentenced to two years in a juvenile facility in isolation, separated by sight and sound from the other juveniles.

Kathryn Barger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The current security situation is worrying on the eastern flank of Europe, in this context, Romanians are rightly anxious to strengthen their own security, as tensions in Ukraine continue to escalate … we understand your situation and want to support you.

Florence Parly

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This pandemic has been incredibly difficult for every Australian but we have stuck together and saved lives and livelihoods. ... Australians have made many sacrifices during this pandemic, and they rightly expect the result of those sacrifices to be protected, his is what the Minister is doing in taking this action today.

Scott Morrison

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Dijana Djokovic is a millionaire scumbag who has rightly incurred the anger of a lot of people in Australia, dijana Djokovic can't be bothered to get vaccinated to protect the people around Dijana Djokovic.

Oscar Sterner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Before today, I thought, red scare McCarthyism was rightly relegated to the dustbin of history, any American citizen who fled communist repression – whether it be FDIC Chair Jelena McWilliams or OCC nominee Saule Omarova – should be lauded for their courage and conviction. I believe that my colleagues – from both sides of the aisle – will reject such character assassinations.

Sherrod Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Over four years have passed since the atrocity took place but we are unwavering in our dedication to follow each line of enquiry available so that we can provide all those affected by the events at Manchester Arena with the answers they rightly deserve.

Simon Barraclough

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With this decision the court rightly recognized that yesterday’s ‘front line heroes’ in dealing with COVID cannot suddenly be treated as disease-carrying villains and kicked to the curb by the command of a state health bureaucracy, some of these plaintiffs contracted COVID while treating patients, recovered, and were allowed to return to work with the same protective measures that were good enough for the 18 months that they were the heroes in the battle against the virus. There is no ‘science’ to show that these same measures are suddenly inadequate – especially when they are allowed for those with medical exemptions.

Thomas More

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Mayorkas admits 'tragic rise' of delta variant at US-Mexico border 'surprised' him, he shouldn’t be surprised. We have long warned about this danger. Biden knowingly imported this danger into U.S. ?@DanCrenshawTX rightly calls for impeachment.

Wednesday Abbott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Any confidence the world had in our country is now, ummm, gone, saigon, circa 1975, steroids, and former defense secretary and CIA director Leon Panetta, yeah, rightly calling it Biden’s Bay of Pigs and thanks to the actions of our derelict, low-functioning president … the absolute worst-case scenario has been playing out before our eyes.

Chris Cuomo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

People are really concerned rightly about antitrust issues in the tech space i don't think that CDNs are as visible to people, but they're probably the most important part of the core internet infrastructure that's been privatized and centralized.

Nick Merrill

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Ohio GOP has rightly voted to holdAnthonyGonzalezaccountable for abandoning Donald Trump constituents, Donald Trump promises and the Ohio Republican Party, regardless if Donald Trump resigns or not we are going to continue spreading our strong, pro-Trump, America First message to every corner of this district.

Max Miller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Now that we are definitely in the process of recovery, lines have been rightly drawn between those to whom this recovery means a return to old methods -- and the number of these people is small -- and those for whom recovery means a reform of many old methods, a permanent readjustment of many of our ways of thinking and therefore of many of our social and economic arrangements.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Right is right even if no one is doing it and Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. This saying is proven right by maskless Delhi duo when they said rightly that whole world has been fooled by corona protocol and lockdown rule.

Rameshh Shanegar

added by anonymous
3 years ago

The Biden administration will rightly be unhappy that a policy decision like this was made in the final days of the Trump administration.

Bonnie Glaser

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We would be rightly and fairly criticized when we can't come back to deal with military pay.

Mac Thornberry

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Postal Service has long promised that' [ n ] either snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds, the Court rightly added the obvious footnote : fixing an election and cost-cutting can not cut it as an exception to that promise.

Remy Green

Found on CNN
3 years ago

President Trump has consistently and rightly said that where a voter can not make it to the polls, they should request an absentee ballot, the President has also correctly distinguished between chaos-ridden universal mail-in voting systems, like the one that led to California's train wreck primary, and traditional absentee mail voting systems, like the tried and true system in North Carolina — a distinction Democrats and many in the mainstream media purposely ignore to sow confusion.

Thea McDonald

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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