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How to use the word squarely in a Sentence?

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We stand squarely behind Matt Schlapp, and the ACU Board of Directors has full confidence in his leadership of the organization.

Carlton Huffman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

House Republicans are squarely focused on bringing down costs for all Americans, which is why a Republican majority will prioritize measures to unleash American energy.

Lauren Fine

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I've been lifting up this circumstance amongst many individuals that are in leadership and have influence over a solution, i don't want to put it squarely in one person's lap, but I think there's a well-defined record of me lifting that up.

Chokwe Antar Lumumba

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If Roe is overturned, this fight will move squarely into the states.

Geoff Burgan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We knew( it was) just a matter of time. Last January, Kim Jong Un already revealed goals to develop and test new ICBMs among other high-tech weapons as part of Choi Yong-hwan five-year plan, last January doesn't matter what United States does or does not do... Pyongyang is squarely focused on meeting its nuclear weapons milestones because of its military imperative to do so.

Kim Jong

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The responsibility for the violence of January 6 and the Insurrection on that day lies squarely with the people who inflicted the violence and those who encouraged it.

Nick Clegg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Those are felonies. There are more than enough tools in the California criminal justice toolbox to charge them as such and hold the folks accountable, these fit squarely within the organized retail crime statutes in the state of California where people are acting in concert with one or more people to exchange or return or sell what they steal.

Rob Bonta

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The point we have made is that even with the creation of this new bureau, even with the creation of the new cyber envoy, these issues are going to be pervasive across State Department, across the government. So it's not going to be squarely defined -- solely defined to one bureau, to one special envoy -- but we do see tremendous value in ensuring that we have a bureau that is focused on these issues, squarely on some of the most important elements of these issues.

Ned Price

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My perspective is that the blame lays almost squarely with Newsom, at any point, he could have ordered the schools to reopen, just like he ordered them closed at the beginning of last fall.

Scott Davison

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I stand squarely behind my decision. After 20 years, I learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces, that’s why we're still there.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The colossal failure of Ms. Payette’s term falls squarely on his shoulders, it’s not a constitutional crisis. ... There is a system in place to allow for continuity of the role.

Don Davies

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It's inspiring to have leaders in office who squarely put clean energy and the environment as one of the most urgent and top priorities.

Tom Werner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They didnt allow Grand Jury to do what the law says they have the right to do. This failure rests squarely on the shoulders of Daniel Cameron, only because a brave member of Grand Jury asked for permission to issue a statement and Judge OConnell ruled on the side of transparency do we have this confirmation of AG Camerons dereliction of duties.

Ben Crump

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

President Donald Trump has helped President Donald Trump along, he takes processes that might have taken another two cycles and puts them squarely into this one.

Robert Lang

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I am putting the prime minister on notice that he has got to get a grip and restore public confidence in the government's handling of the epidemic, if we see a sharp rise in the R rate, the infection rate ... responsibility for that falls squarely at the door of No 10. We all know the public have made huge sacrifices. This mismanagement of the last few weeks is the responsibility of the government.

Keir Starmer

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

That falls squarely on me.

Tim Walz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

At first I thought, is it a hoax ? Is someone on a wind-up ? , i looked into it and realized that this chap had, I thought, won fairly and squarely.

Tony Hadley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are out of the realm of focusing squarely on the US Treasury or the Iranian central bank governor or Iran's oil minister. It does seem a bit of an afterthought, which is oddly misplaced, to discuss the power of sanctions when there is no meaningful new economic measure that will create a powerful new impact at this point.

Liz Rosenberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Many know I take no pleasure in discussions of impeachment. I didn't campaign on it, & rarely discuss it unprompted, but the report squarely puts this on our doorstep.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

In Kentucky, we want more than to simply give someone a Medicaid card they can put in their wallet -- we want a program that focuses on actually improving health outcomes, and that is what Kentucky HEALTH was designed to do. Kentucky HEALTH is precisely in line with the objectives of the Medicaid program and squarely within the authority of the HHS Secretary to approve.

Adam Meier

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The case had nothing to do with abortion, Kavanaugh's apparent vote not to hear this particular case does nothing to vindicate Sen. Republican Sen. Susan Collins vote for Justice Brett Kavanaugh, sen. Collins' should not breath a sigh of relief until Brett Kavanaugh squarely votes to support Roe.

Elizabeth Wydra

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A national public health emergency warrants a public health approach, which should center squarely on prevention, in particular primary prevention.

Keith Humphreys

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It squarely falls within the definition of a violation of not just the right to education but also other rights of girls.

Elin Martinez

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The president is ‘the government’ when it comes to making security clearance determinations, as the granting, denial, or revocation of a security clearance falls squarely within the president’s commander-in-chief powers per [a Supreme Court ruling].

Sean Bigley

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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