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How to use the word statistic in a Sentence? Page #2

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What do they want us to be, a statistic?

Alfredo Quintero

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These are human lives. Lives which hold inherent dignity endowed by our Creator, they are neither a mere statistic nor collateral damage in the world's attempt to curtail Iran's nuclear development. They are husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers. Do not forget them.

Naghmeh Abedini

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I was a shameful suburban statistic.

Tom Hardy

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I would have sold my mother for a rock of crack, i was a shameful suburban statistic.

Tom Hardy

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

They've shown over time that kids who have family support like the early intervention, they have a very similar statistic of suicidality and suicidal ideation as the general population, so the family support is so important.

Darlene Tando

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The percentage of lottery winners who are broke after five years is staggering, parents don't want their kids to be that statistic.

Reid Hartsfield

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

(Europe, Middle East and Africa) has been more active than the U.S., which is a pretty extraordinary statistic.

Craig Coben

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is not satisfactory to have doubts about the accuracy of steel production statistics, particularly for a country as large as China with its importance to the global mining sector and steel supply, how can the authorities make meaningful decisions about investment, rationalisation, emissions control, privatisation issues for an industry in which there is no consensus about the most basic statistic - the level of output?

Peter Fish

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

Josef Stalin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

Winston Churchill

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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