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How to use the word sticking in a Sentence? Page #5

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It was race against time to save the life of the patient, who had come to the hospital with severe injury with a steel rod sticking out from his chest on [his] right side, the success can be attributed to the speed and teamwork by all departments and staff concerned.

Santosh Nayak

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It is entirely premature, really premature to assume the Clean Power Plan will be struck down but, even if it were, come what may, we are sticking to our plan to sign, to join, we're going to go ahead and sign the agreement this year.

Todd Stern

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are a whole bunch of areas that the federal government has no business sticking its nose in, i will fight every day for you, for your freedom, for your right to run a small business, for economic growth and for keeping government the heck off your back.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It was obviously great to work in a city like Rome and to be kind of back together with Ben and Owen and that sort of thing but it was a pretty tight schedule, there were a lot of days where you're running around and wearing some uncomfortable corset you can't breathe in. And I had people sticking pens in me, things like that. So it's not really a funny story but it's a painful story. But for your art you sometimes have to suffer.

Will Ferrell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is an all too rare example of an airline management team setting a clear path and sticking to it, in the face of strong opposition from unions.

Jonathan Wober

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're just out there playing with confidence, we're sticking with our principles. We're maintaining our principles and we're maintaining our composure.

Guard Kyle Lowry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

At low tide all you see is these forest of things sticking up and at the north end of Mallows Bay, it looks like shore, but it's ships -- bow to stern, bow to stern -- I call these the flowerpot ships. Each of those ships have become islands -- some have trees 30-40 feet tall... It's very exotic, it's just beautiful.

Don Shomette

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Law and Justice seems to be sticking to its election pledges...you can basically draw a straight line for the zloty from May until now.

William Jackson at Capital Economics

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s a matter of figuring out the best way to quit for you, and sticking to it.

Bill Blatt

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The idea that people were going to vote after the election and have those votes count, that's a pretty irregular idea, the Republicans and the clerks in counties, they were actually sticking to the law.

Ron Klain

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I don't think that sticking up for being a person with balance in your life, for wanting to spend your weekends in your home with your family ... I don't think that means signing up for some new unfunded mandate.

Paul Ryan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's a great dish. I love it. And it's been The Ugly Bunch now for about five years, so I guess we'll be sticking with that name.

Michael Cimarusti

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Our perspective is that this a global challenge, and all rich countries should be playing their part both in helping the victims and in trying to support political and diplomat efforts to tackle the problem at source, the fact that people are literally lapping up on the shores of Europe tells you that sticking your head in the sand is certainly not moral but it is not wise either.

David Miliband

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When you look at our position, that is being in the minority and looking like we will be there for a while, every opportunity we get, I think we have to at least try to bring our votes together to affect change, our power will be sticking together.

Elijah Cummings

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Sticking refugees in trains and sending them somewhere completely different to where they think they're going reminds us of the darkest chapter of our continent's history.

Werner Faymann

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Unpredictable situations come up— new challenging diagnoses such as cancer, social problems and behavioral health issues— that often require physicians to suspend ‘sticking to a schedule’ and focus on the patient in front of them.

Sachin Jain

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You watch them - you keep an eye on them. It's the same way you keep your babies from sticking things in electrical outlets.

Tamar Manasseh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That has made a huge impact on people's thinking. I'm less inclined to believe that the Fed would move in September, but I'm still sticking to it.

Ellis Phifer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you’re working out, sticking out with regular water is your best bet.

Dell Polanco

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

To say that one particular issue is a sticking point to a potential deal just isn’t based in reality.  A number of very serious issues remain for countries to negotiate.

Rick Roth

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To say that one particular issue is a sticking point to a potential deal just isn't based in reality. A number of very serious issues remain for countries to negotiate.

Rick Roth

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

At the moment, a Wels catfish ticks more of the boxes than any of the other contenders for the explanation, i would like it to be something new and undiscovered rather than something a little bit mundane. People do report four- or five-feet long necks sticking up out of Loch Ness. That's not going to be a Wels catfish.

Steve Feltham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Traditionally, we're focused much more on academic achievement and more and more we're realizing through many studies that academic achievement is only one part of making somebody successful, if we're sticking with the schools analogy, it takes the discipline, it takes the motivation, the attitude, the ability to work with others and work with adults to be able to succeed in schools and attain degrees.

Penn State Jones

Found on CNN
8 years ago

These findings are important to dieters because they show that promoting adventurous eating may provide a way for people– especially women– to lose or maintain weight without feeling restricted by a strict diet, instead of sticking with the same boring salad, start by adding something new.

Brian Wansink

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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