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Example Sentences
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“All of this will either rise or fall on effective disarmament,” said Daniel Shapiro, a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council and former U.S. ambassador to Israel under the Obama administration.
Our experience of Christmas past should tell us that it's rare to see snow actually fall on Christmas day - and getting rarer.
From BBC
The towering Sierra Nevada range stops moisture from coming in from the Pacific, causing most rain to fall on the other side of the mountains.
From Los Angeles Times
However, “the near-term financial impact will primarily fall on issuing banks, which earn interchange revenue,” Bhatia noted.
From MarketWatch
While that might have raised concerns that prices could fall on a sustainable basis, the SNB has previously said it avoids relying too heavily on single monthly readings.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
