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How to use the word substantial in a Sentence? Page #12

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It’s really extraordinary that five rivers have breached their banks and there’s substantial flooding in multiple counties in Northeast Arkansas, as a result of that I’ve declared a state of emergency in about 20 counties in the state.

Asa Hutchinson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It was tough. We know he's tough because of the border issue and everything else, but yeah, it was internally inconsistent, when he talked about the attitude to our allies, to whether they should freeload or not, also when he talked about Russia and China, I was really disturbed. The things he said about how we can work with Russia and China, Russia is not on our side. The head of Russia is a former KGB colonel who wanted to destroy America. China is the world's most powerful communist nation so the idea, if you think we can work with these guys in meaningful fashion, I think history would prove you wrong. So it's an improvement. I have to be honest, it's an improvement, but it's still problematic and I need a more substantial development of his ideas in the next few weeks and months.

Sebastian Gorka

Found on CNN
7 years ago

President Trump tends to talk in personally evaluative terms - both positively and negatively - about his contemporaries. During his campaign, he was better known for his personal insults, but he is also a very complimentary president, hIs compliments, however, tend to be less substantial in terms of touting the complimentee's professional credentials or abilities, and are rather generally evaluative.

Jennifer Sclafani

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Cancer can throw a wrench in that to a substantial degree, what makes it challenging for adolescent and young adult patients that's different from younger patients and older patients is that there are some really unique things that face this group.

Brandon Hayes-Lattin

Found on CNN
7 years ago

You can see with the damage that you have behind me here how substantial that is with someone waking up at 3:30 a.m. and that kind of thing only to have one person injured.

Jim Pruitt

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

When political opposition research becomes the basis for law enforcement or intelligence efforts, it raises substantial questions about the independence of law enforcement and intelligence from politics.

Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We have lived at this address for 14 years and have only had substantial water in that area 2-3 times; which was never during this time of year.

Terry Beam

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I think he’s smarter than I am. He’s not going to step in the same potholes, the industry has changed. It’s like the kind of film has changed. If you want to make substantial stories and things that are profound and mean something you kind of have to delve into the independent realm... He called Hacksaw Ridge a big independent film, noting that the film is not even that huge a budget or anything. Andrew Garfield plays Desmond T. Doss, a United States Army corporal and combat medic during WWII who won a Congressional Medal of Honor despite refusing to bear arms. Mel Gibson said bold men like Doss exist in the world today. MORE : Mel Gibson to be honored.

Brad Pitt

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The scale of fees that potentially are there in the Italian banking market – from restructurings and consolidation – are substantial.

Peter Hahn

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It could be very positive and mean substantial investment in infrastructure schemes or it might mean the dead hand of the Treasury comes in and say 'you will invest in this', that's my greatest concern and the concern of the scheme members.

David Wilcox

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The road to peace is a difficult one, where deadlines and ultimatums cannot just be imposed and where discussions of the substantial agenda are the only sure means to achieve a lasting end to hostilities.

Renato Reyes

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It's a key element ...for the Chinese government... If you had to stop a container at every border from China to Europe it would add substantial costs.

Friis Bach

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Since the estate has substantial creditors running into hundreds of millions of pounds, it is hopelessly insolvent.

Judge Richard Arnold

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We’ve been trying to get this data for a long time, it’s hard because it’s private. We know that it's substantial.

Amy Weinstein

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

If anyone is in any doubt these issues are of paramount interest to China and will form a substantial proportion of the Chinese G20 summit.

England Governor Mark Carney

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They were able to develop imaging technology so you can actually look at a beta amyloid in an entire mouse brain and substantial chunks of human brain and study where is it located, what kind of cells is it connected with.

Nobel Laureate

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

After the substantial rally, the markets are now looking for added fuel. Earnings and the ensuing comments that companies make are going to be the judge and jury as to where we go from here.

Andre Bakhos

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We quoted on a quite substantial piece of business in China yesterday, and when we came to look at the numbers we found we were in a much better position than when we looked at the project earlier - purely because of the exchange rate change.

Jonathan Lane

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The 'leave' outcome has introduced substantial uncertainty that likely would dampen U.S. growth by delaying and or reducing business investment and consumption expenditures.

William Lee

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The outcomes could range from a very small change to a substantial one, where you would have to duplicate some of the infrastructure you now have in the UK, it is too early to say what products you are going to be able to provide from where.

Daniel Pinto

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

All the FTSE 100 companies, except for financials, with majority earnings outside the UK are boosted by the substantial fall in sterling which will inflate overseas earnings in the next results.

Lorne Baring

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The market is in a state of significant anticipation. This is certainly crimping liquidity today because there is not a lot of substantial transactions going on in the market where you have this extraordinary volatile event.

Stefan Worrall

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The value of the pound would decline precipitously. It would also have an immediate and dramatic impact on financial markets, investment, prices and jobs, i would expect this devaluation to be bigger and also more disruptive than the 15 percent devaluation that occurred in September 1992, when I was fortunate enough to make a substantial profit for my hedge fund investors.

George Soros

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Deployment of substantial military force is not being considered, it is not the aim of NATO to create a military barrier against broad-scale Russian aggression, because such aggression is not on the agenda and no intelligence assessment suggests such a thing.

Petr Pavel

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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