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How to use the word scales in a Sentence?

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Despite the huge shifts in market momentum, home sellers can count on the usual seasonal trends tipping the scales a bit further in their favor while home shoppers should expect a fair amount of competition that should ease as we move later into the year.

Danielle Hale

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One thing troop leaders can do is talk about the joy around food by sharing their favorite combinations of cookies, this tips the scales in the direction of creating a balanced relationship with food.

Oona Hanson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As you can imagine,( the) same with any mammals, juveniles aren't as experienced. They don't have as much pattern recognition skills as adults, we suspect strongly that it's the juveniles and their judgment and discernment between what is somebody's foot and what's a flash of a bony fish's scales.

Gavin Naylor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's shocking to me that one individual that's supposed to be the district attorney, not the public defenders, the district attorney is supposed to be there to support victims, to provide, you know, balance the scales of justice, to provide support and guidance, to be able to abide by the law. And he's not even willing to do that. And in all honesty, is revictimizing victims and their loved ones.

Patricia Wenskunas

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The deployment of Russian troops within our own territory has frequently occurred on varying scales before and has not caused any hysterics whatsoever, the discussions about a threat of war is provocative in it of itself.

Vasily Nebenzya

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Sabism is an art and theatric movement of 21st century occupied with the philotipes, mythologic forms, schematism and chromatic scales, dual art, logism of color, cult art, conglomeration. As an art movement it tries to explore word act, group performance, collective structure, fruitfulness and aesthetics of multitude through philotipes as implicit connotation of colors or schemes in their general use (honeysuckle yellow, female, courtly, savage, dionysiaque).

Vladan Kuzmanović

added by anonymous
2 years ago

On one side of the scales, it advances a detailed process for accelerating climate mitigation goals, but, on the other side of the scales, on finance and loss and damage, it is fuzzy and vague, the missed deadline for the $ 100 billion promise doesn't get acknowledged -- and this is a key ask from vulnerable countries.

Mohamed Adow

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Survivors in Xianzi's position face near-insurmountable odds because courts give little credence to testimony and are looking for' smoking gun' evidence, zhu Jun is powerful, and it seems like outside political pressure was tipping the scales even further in Zhu Jun favor.

Darius Longarino

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Zhu Jun is powerful, and it seems like outside political pressure was tipping the scales even further in Zhu Jun favor.

Zhu Jun

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Let's say somebody is on the ballot or someone who is close to someone who is on the ballot says,' I'm going to put half a million dollars or a million dollars into a specific area,' that could really tip the scales toward voter turnout in certain areas and disadvantage other areas.

Tre Hargett

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you know how they typically operate, that helps tip the scales in your favor a little more, there is a fair amount of strategy that happens before you get to the negotiation table.

Tony Cook

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When people are paddling on their board, the soles of their feet catch the light and very quickly, in exactly the same way the scales on a mullet or a menhaden might catch the light, and when you’re a predator, you don’t tarry. You have to be quick and make a quick decision.

Gavin Naylor

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Like most research endeavors, this first paper offers more questions than it can answer, and we plan on investigating the breadth of data denticles( v-shaped scales) offer through a varied set of lenses, from hydrodynamics to ecology, the current state of declining shark populations is certainly cause for concern.

Leah Rubin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are printing money, we are creating government bonds, we are borrowing on unprecedented scales, those are things that surely create more of a risk of a sharp dollar decline than we had before. And sharp dollar declines are much more likely to translate themselves into inflation than they were historically.

Larry Summers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We believe there's a serious problem when Gannett is making lots of admirable diversity pledges, but failing to address pay fairness, we don't believe that the company will be successful if it doesn't address the problems of very low starting pay, pay scales that are not tied to experience and pay disparities for women and people of color.

Rebekah Sanders

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This particular babyno. 3 was... I think she commented to the press that she tipped the scales at 240 lbs, that's not coming from me, she mentioned that in a post, so, we had our work cut out for us and perhaps more so on this baby than the others.

Harley Pasternak

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This business grows faster, it scales faster, if you just add it up — yes, a lot of people need to buy things, they need to watch stuff online, they need to ask Alexa what temperature it is outside — but infinitely more people are touched each day by cloud services.

James McQuivey

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is similar to how weather forecasts are produced, but we are working with much longer time scales.

Andrew Tangborn

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's a big success, it scales, it's user friendly and it helps society.

Christian Klein

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

What it seems to me you're asking us to do is to put a kind of 10-ton weight on the scales between the president and Congress, and essentially to make it impossible for Congress to perform oversight and to carry out its functions.

Liberal Justice Elena Kagan

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Time for Original Thinking, Long Term Approach, Innovation, Building Great Products, Large Scales & Solving Challenging Problems. Enough of Myopic/Weak Start-Ups in India.

Sandeep Aggarwal

added by letsdroomer
4 years ago

The President's frustration is one that a lot of the Americans have which feels like the scales of justice are not balanced anymore, and when someone like Roger Stone gets a prosecution that suggests a nine-year jail sentence which is four years above the sentencing guidelines ... they feel it is unusual.

Marc Short

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Our results show that these changes would allow the ocean to absorb an enormous amount of [carbon dioxide] on long time scales; perhaps hiding the warming effects of volcanism in the aftermath of the event.

Donald Penman

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

When everyone is leaning one way, eventually something can tip the scales the other way.

Keith Lerner

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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