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How to use the word slowness in a Sentence?

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Eyal Press writes in The New Yorker. Audm subscribers can listen to that article.)In the rest of today’s newsletter, we look more closely at the 10 states.Furthest alongInitiatives seem most likely to happen soon in two states.In Ohio, a coalition of abortion rights groups is collecting signatures to place an initiative on the ballot this year that would protect access through roughly the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. For now, most abortions remain legal in Ohio, thanks to a court ruling blocking a ban.In South Dakota, organizers are optimistic that they can collect the signatures needed for an initiative next year. It is a compromise measure that would seek to reinstate the minimum access required by the Roe v. Wade decision. All abortions would be legal in the first trimester (roughly 12 weeks), and some would be in the second trimester.Early effortsIn several other states, efforts have begun, but they’re less advanced.In Missouri, advocates have not yet settled on one approach. Some petitions — an early step to putting an initiative on the ballot — would protect most abortion access until 24 weeks of pregnancy. Others would be narrower and let the state enact parental consent laws.In Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a near-total ban, advocates are hoping to place an initiative on the ballot that would allow most abortions until 24 weeks. But the state’s pro-marijuana movement helps highlight the slowness of the effort: Organizers of a 2024 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana have already raised $30 million and collected nearly all the required signatures — while organizers of an abortion initiative are just getting started.Arizona has tough rules for ballot initiatives, requiring hundreds of thousands of signatures on a petition.

Planned Parenthood

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

The slowness of time will either benefit you or harm you.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
1 year ago

The thing to monitor is how quickly Europe can get out the vaccine. If we see continued slowness there, you will see the gap widen between euro and dollar.

Justin Onuekwusi

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I could not understand how these slow, tasty animals that are just sitting there waiting to be eaten by a jaguar could survive, so I started reading about sloths and I got really excited about embracing slowness in robotics. And when you're measuring things that are evolving over weeks and months, you don't have to be fast -- it's OK to be slow, as long as you're out there and getting the job done.

Magnus Egerstedt

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Exercise can really help the motor-symptoms of Parkinson’s including the tremors, the stiffness, the slowness, the walking, and the balance problems, exercise can also help the non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s, so the mood problems including depression or anxiety, and also the sleep changes.

Rachel Dolhun

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

At its core there is a loss of brain cells that make dopamine, and that’s why in Parkinson’s you see symptoms of movement like tremors, slowness, stiffness, and walking and balance problems.

Rachel Dolhun

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Our estimates are it's somewhere in the vicinity of $50 to $55 billion at some point in time but it's way below that right now. and in fact, they are complaining about the slowness with which there has been a process of repatriation.

State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think there will be a positive statement in the spring but the government is moving slowly. This slowness has annoyed people, the government is behaving like this both because an election is coming and it fears Turkey's division.

Huseyin Yayman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I'm very concerned like all of you have been with the slowness across all of the recalls.

Mark Rosekind

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Joseph Roux

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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