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How to use the word follow-on in a Sentence?

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Many try to be “on” as leaders & happy to be “off stage” but truly those that live their lives as leaders do not have to try to be the one & being worth a hollow follow on social media... it is not the same as being worth a soul commitment in a no shadows real life…

Chase Leblanc

added by leadagers
1 year ago

This study shows very nicely that the impact of aerosols is not isolated to the Atlantic, but involves a global shift in the distribution of tropical cyclones, aerosols are among the most uncertain elements of the climate system, so I think that there should — and I predict there will — be follow-on studies that explore the sensitivity of the results to a range of aerosol-related uncertainties.

Gabriel Vecchi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We know people have been stopped for extraordinary time periods leading up to these closure areas, but we are clearing trucks one by one to break through this blockage, and we will get to each driver and restore traffic flow, crews continue to work intensely to tow vehicles that are stuck and blocking the interstate near mile markers 136 in Stafford County, and then plow and treat the interstate to prevent follow-on crashes.

Kelly Hannon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Crews continue to work intensely to tow vehicles that are stuck and blocking the interstate near mile markers 136 in Stafford County, and then plow and treat the interstate to prevent follow-on crashes, this is also occurring where traffic remains stopped on Interstate 95 northbound at mile marker 117 in Spotsylvania County.

Kelly Hannon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have seen Chinese and Iranian state actors leveraging this vulnerability, and we anticipate other state actors are doing so as well, or preparing to, we believe these actors will work quickly to create footholds in desirable networks for follow on activity which may last for some time.

John Hultquist

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is a follow-on rally from a very good Fed meeting, to me that showed there were no surprises and things were as expected.

Tim Ghriskey

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The president has made clear that he believes that through follow-on diplomacy, the United States seeks to lengthen and strengthen nuclear constraints on Iran and address other issues of concern. Iran must resume compliance with significant nuclear constraints under the deal in order for that to proceed, we would expect that some of his earlier conversations with foreign counterparts and foreign leaders will be with partners and allies and you would certainly anticipate that this would be part of the discussions.

Jen Psaki

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

As somebody who worked on al Qaeda-related terrorism throughout the 2000s at the Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington and worked extensively on counterterrorism investigations and cases, there were several times where we were anticipating a follow-on attack to a world event, i have that same feeling now.

Carrie Cordero

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Social media is not toxic. Social media sites are not toxic. It might just be that you've allowed the toxic people you follow on social media to make it toxic for you. There is no rule, no law or no condition on any of these sites that says you must continue to follow or stay connected with someone you don't want to on social media. Unfollow, disconnect and block if need be and as often as you like.”

Loren Weisman

added by anonymous
3 years ago

At some point it became clear that it would not be possible to deliver so quickly, by then it was already too late to place follow-on orders.

Oezlem Tuereci

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It’s a positive tone to the U.S. market and part of that is the signing of stimulus package by Trump, which appeared to be in doubt but is finally been accomplished, we still have a follow-on to the Christmas rally and the favorable market we’ve had for a while here.

Tim Ghriskey

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Any follow-on investments in those entities may now require approvals.

Delano Furtado

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Lando seems to have struck a chord with the esports stuff and I think the resurgence of McLaren as well has helped, there's a lot of interest and he seems to have done it more than most of the drivers. I think people will follow on from that as well.

Nielsen Sport Nigel Geach

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The president's language is always vague and hard to follow on almost every issue he talks about and it has been especially difficult to parse when he's talking about the issue of changing America's gun laws, he's talking to the gun lobby much more frequently than he's talking to me.

Chris Murphy

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There's a higher degree of positive statements coming out of Islamabad about reconciliation than we have seen. There is good momentum in Doha right now with follow-on schedules for inter-Afghan dialogue.

Joseph Dunford

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

A lot of companies that went public last year didn't raise as much money as they wanted to, it's probably fair to assume that quite a number of them should revisit capital markets to see what kind of additional capital raises are possible for them, whether it's through follow on offerings, through convertibles or a combination.

Bruce Wu

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I wish our leaders in the States would follow on her footsteps and do the same thing especially given our history of mass shootings, something needs to happen and it's a great example for our elected leaders.

Mohammed Faqih

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's only been a couple of days, we've already seen a number of companies follow on certain elements.

Buzzfeed News.Porat

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Most of the buying was done ahead of time, if an event is built in and there's no follow-on catalyst they tend to sell off on the news. This is all very positive.

Jason Zandberg

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

If it were done in retaliation we'd expect some sort of follow on disruption or destruction of it, which we didn't see. Typically, when we see cyber espionage actors, they prefer to stay quiet and remain on target where they can gather as much intelligence as possible.

John Hultquist

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Mali attacks (have led to) follow-on concerns.

Atif Latif

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are the Air Force. What do we want to do with this technology? We want to weaponize it, the follow-on program to this is the High Speed Strike Weapon effort. It’s taking a lot of the lessons learned and the technology and moving to a weapons acquisition.

Ryan Helbach

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Our intelligence community believes (he) was training in poisons at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, and had been sent to the United States before September the 11th to serve as a sleeper agent ready for follow-on attacks, among the potential targets our intelligence community believes this al Qaeda operative discussed … were water reservoirs, the New York Stock Exchange and United States military academies such as this one.

George W. Bush

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The reason you're seeing Europe up so much, they're basically doing it on the premise of significant euro depreciation as a follow-on for QE.

Dan Morris

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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