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How to use the word shoulders in a Sentence? Page #6

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To let everyone know that you're gay isn't easy, but if you have the support of friends, family, and the people that you know, there's no problem, it's a weight off your shoulders.

Hugo Alcalde

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is a great responsibility that is on our shoulders, we should do it so as it rid ourselves, this country, of terrorism; not only ourself, but the entire world.

Abdul Qadir Baloch

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I climbed inside, undid her seat belt and asked if she was OK, she said she was hurting but I told her I had to get her out of there. I grabbed her underneath her arms and around the shoulders and pulled her across the console and out of the car.

Missouri State Trooper Jim Thuss

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I have just been to Robben Island with him to show him the place where Nelson Mandela was. I hope he will be carrying the spirit of that reconciliation which Nelson Mandela was known for, gianni has got a very heavy responsibility on his shoulders... and he needs many people to side with him. There will be all kinds of criticism, all kinds of negatives. But I think he is strong enough to go through that.

Tokyo Sexwale

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It stands head and shoulders above everything else as it is head and shoulders above everything else, it's truly a one of a kind. Where can you go with half-a-million acres under one fence with oil, cattle, natural resources and intellectual property ? Nowhere, it's just not out there. Uechtritz, who has sold everything from cattle stations in his native Australia to celebrity pads in Beverly Hills, explained that he had turned down a number of eye-watering bids.

Bernard Uechtritz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For any young actors out there, I encourage you to watch the history of cinema, you realize we all stand on the shoulders of giants.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is one candidate who stands head and shoulders above them all who has weathered many storms and is totally ready to be the commander in chief, or the commander in kush, as I like to say.

Tommy Chong

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They love each other. You see it. When I worked with them closely in the White House and in Arkansas and after the White House, there is a mutual respect and admiration for certain, but there's also a lot of love, i mean, she -- you know, they hold hands. He just sort of puts his hands on her shoulders and she lights up. And vice versa. They take long walks together. They have long conversations together. It's a very good relationship. How they manage whatever happened or didn't happen is their business and I never ever asked.

Patti Solis Doyle

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You'll see a lot more pep in my step because I don't have as much weight on my shoulders now, i think you'll see that during the debate on Thursday. I'm actually looking very much forward to it.

Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I’m not one to crack under pressure, i feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders, but I do feel like I’m given an opportunity to show my daughter just to believe in yourself—and she’s been with me the entire way.

Fred Pizzi

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Who walks around with their arms over their shoulders?, with the under-handed shot, you stand there with your arms hanging down in a totally relaxed position. It makes so much sense to me.

Rick Barry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For the first time, we are just about to be able to exercise collective defense with the U.S. and others, so the feeling is we have finally been able to get the (Gulf War) burden off our shoulders.

Tomohiko Taniguchi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This 'cybersecurity' bill was a bad bill when it passed the Senate and it is an even worse bill today. Americans deserve policies that protect both their security and their liberty. This bill fails on both counts, i think this is very much on President Obama's shoulders.

Ron Wyden

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think this is very much on President Obama's shoulders, his administration threatened to veto a very similar piece of legislation in 2013, and since then they've done a real about-face on this and are now cheerleading for a bill that's the worst we've seen yet.

Evan Greer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We are going to be recognizing these older foot soldiers and the people's shoulders that we all stand on today, we want to make sure that as many as possible get their moment.

Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The pressure was more on my shoulders because we needed this point against Kyle, i was a little bit worried because Kyle was playing unbelievable. He just had nothing to lose.

David Goffin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I knew Anita as the loving mother of a wonderful seven-year old boy and the former partner of David Garten, one of my senior policy advisors in the Senate, my prayers are with the Datar and Garten families, especially Anita and David's son. My heart breaks thinking of the burden he will now bear on his small shoulders and the courage he will have to show in the days ahead.

State Hillary Clinton on Saturday

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He remembered his uncle putting him on his shoulders and walking to the pool hall and around town.

Lydia Roybal

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If Airbus produces a (plane) which is head and shoulders above what they produce today we would look at them for replacements.

Al Baker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If Airbus produces a (plane) which is head and shoulders above what they produce today - we would look at them for replacements.

Al Baker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If Airbus produces a (plane) which is head and shoulders above what they produce today – we would look at them for replacements.

Al Baker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He put his hands on my shoulders and he asked what my current interest rate was, i said it was fixed at 6.8%. He said that the new reform would be to un-fix it and get the lowest rates possible.

Karina Preciado-Quintanilla

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We were short oil and long the U.S. dollar, so we fared better than the broad asset class, though the tide of broader market price declines ultimately left us swimming upstream, i am extremely grateful that I was given the opportunity to manage client assets, and that I was able to do it for as long as I have. I couldn't have done it without standing on the shoulders of giants, including my now deceased father, prior employers, clients and all those who worked and transacted with me.

John Brynjolfsson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Farmers are very independent, a lot of them don’t want to rub shoulders with suits and ties.

Mark Knudsen

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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