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How to use the word set-up in a Sentence? Page #13

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Russia supports actions that benefit Russia. Russia purports to support sanctions against North Korea, but in practice supports North Korea in its effort to evade sanctions, russia employs criminal networks to set up front companies in Singapore, for example, to transship oil.

Geoff Hellman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

His negligence set up our baby on a course that was irreversible.

Rachel McFarland

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We have just begun the process of accumulating evidence but we’re confident that the tabernacle rested at Shiloh, the tabernacle was set up at Shiloh in 1400 B.C. - Joshua 18:1 mentions it.

Scott Stripling

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Does it guarantee that new countries will not create enrichment facilities? Of course not, but it creates additional incentives for new nations not to set up enrichment facilities.

Anton Khlopkov

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We don't want to set up a military party but we want to be able to challenge the big parties, our expectation is that if we come together we can support Prayuth as prime minister.

Suchart Chanthornchotikon

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I think it's to set up tax reform.

Bill Cassidy

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The commission is not set up to disprove or to prove President Trump's claim, nor is it just looking at the 2016 election. We're looking at all forms of election irregularities, voter fraud, voter registration fraud, voter intimidation, suppression, and looking at the vulnerabilities of the various elections we have in each of the 50 states.

Kris Kobach

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It was set up a while ago and, frankly, I could have waited but what difference does it make? i'm not looking for cosmetics.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The most notorious allegations have been levied against Chinese investment in Africa, which often sees large, state-owned companies set up shop, bring in workers from China -- as opposed to hiring locally -- and then re-export mined raw materials back home.

Nick Marro

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We have now pre-existing conditions in the bill. We have -- we've set up a pool for the pre-existing conditions so that the premiums can be allowed to fall.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

From the feel of the festival grounds, if it was set up properly, it would have been one heck of an experience.

Alyssa Saran

Found on CNN
7 years ago

You know, I’m working with HUD. I’m going to get some housing for underprivileged people. We’re gonna set up some centers around the country.

Steve Harvey

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It will help mitigate the abuses related to ICE's widespread tactic of presenting as local police to enter homes without judicial warrants or set up meetings with individuals only to detain them.

Mizue Aizeki

Found on CNN
7 years ago

What we’re finding out is often, someone will set up an attack, they’ll set up a fire just to go after people that they don’t like.

Chris Barron

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I think these are important steps because in recent years the system has been set up to favor the applicant and to put the thumb on the scale in favor of the applicant and to make it harder for an asylum officer to reject the claim, even in cases of reasonable doubt or credibility, there's been a very remarkable increase in the number of people asking for asylum in the last five or six years or so, and ... it looks very much like people were trying to take advantage of a very lenient system and one they would not be penalized for using and that motivates illegal immigration and harms the integrity of our legal immigration system.

Jessica Vaughn

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Perhaps a new meeting will be set up with the @nytimes. In the meantime they continue to cover me inaccurately and with a nasty tone!

Eileen Murphy

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

But the people have spoken, donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th president of the United States. And it will be up to him to set up a team that he thinks will serve him well and reflects his politics. Those who didn’t vote for him will have to recognize that that’s how democracy works. That’s how this system operates.

President Obama

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The point that the president was making is not that he didn’t know Secretary Clinton’s email address, he did, but he was not aware of the details of how that email address and that server had been set up or how Secretary Clinton and her team were planning to comply with the Federal Records Act.

Josh Earnest

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We're set up for change, but I don't know what the change is going to be, it's hard for anyone in any position in financial services to discuss what the outcome of Europe is going to look like.

Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Sprecher

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

One man, who got separated from his family, had not spoken to his daughter in two years. And only this year he managed to speak with his daughter on Facebook through Wi-fi that NetHope had set up.

Isaac Kwamy

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It’s called burrowing, you take them from the political appointee side into the civil service side, in order to try to set up ... roadblocks for your successor, kind of like when all the Clinton people took all the Ws off the keyboard when George Bush was coming into the White House.

Chris Christie

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

For some reason these women need to brag about their faade ; posting pictures on their IG of $ 25,000 dollar purses, red bottom shoes, cash and of course the selfies from a yacht in the South of France or Dubai, 100 percent of their IG postings are fake set up situations to lure more men to ‘ like ’ their pictures.

Nik Richie

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I did not prejudge the minds of those policy committees, nor could I. That's not the way the system works, that is not the way the system is set up.

England Governor Mark Carney

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I think it is too early for us or anyone else to opine on how Brexit is going to play out, but I can tell you that the aircraft leasing business is set up to deal with temporary issues in geographic areas whether it is Russia or Brazil or The UK for us or Europe. North America was slow for 10 years and then North America has been on fire the last three years.

Philip Scruggs

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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