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How to use the word raise in a Sentence? Page #44

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Yellen's comment gave no major news and did not change the widely perceived view that the Fed will likely raise rates sometime this year, if the rates are increased in small increments while U.S. fundamentals are improving, the stock market should take it as a positive thing, and that's what the market is expecting.

Takuya Takahashi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

BHP and Rio have been looking to raise volumes in this environment to maximise every tonne, with Vale's new ships plying the waters and the price where it is, it will be full-steam ahead over the next quarter, with more ore than ever coming out.

Morgans Financial analyst James Wilson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If the economy evolves as we expect, economic conditions likely would make it appropriate at some point this year to raise the federal funds rate.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There are all kinds of sort of bizarre traditions in societies, and this strikes me as, potentially, a more useful one than many others if it can raise that kind of money.

Phil Buchanan

Found on CNN
9 years ago

But NGOs, which are engaged in saving millions of lives, are not always wildly enthusiastic about adhering to them. So, could they make better use of the cash they raise? Absolutely.

Andrew Natsios

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

But it also does raise hard questions about workplace protections and the future of work.

Jake Sullivan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Strains on household budgets such as rising housing and healthcare-related costs may be crowding out purchases of retail goods. I see no compelling reason at this time for the Fed to raise interest rates in September.

Alan MacEachin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Well, he must not have met very many American workers, they don't need a lecture -- they need a raise.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I started the #LetThemCount campaign and I've been passing out fliers, i made a Facebook and I created a GoFundMe to educate students and raise money to support our student organizations.

Stephen Coyle

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It will be an issue for the industry going forward. You can either raise your prices and not be competitive with Apple's price, or you can have no margin.

Tyler Goldman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Anonymous would certainly like to be seen as powerful – they want you to think that maybe it was them, [Tuesday’s tweet] could be just an idle message on the part of an Anonymous person, but the timing does raise an eyebrow.

Roger Kay

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It is really shocking to have had these two reports previously raise attention to the issue( and) have manufacturers pledge to pay more attention and to see there are still products on the shelf that have talc, which is contaminated with asbestos in many cases.

The EWG Lunder

Found on CNN
9 years ago

David Rubincam remains certain about the radical motivation of the then-imam from Mohamed Ibrahim. David Rubincam’s an extremist religious zealot of the worst kind … David Rubincam went to the University of al-Madinah in Saudi Arabia. David Rubincam was educated as an Islamic religious scholar. mohamed Ibrahim was over here to raise money through the Hawala system of -- of money transfer to fund them overseas and to recruit people to their cause to actually go back to Somalia to take up arms or go into Ethiopia and take up arms.

David Rubincam

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I don't think the Fed is going to raise rates in September.

Jeffrey Gundlach

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We won't raise as much as others at this early stage of our campaign, but we will raise what we need to go the distance.

Frank Sadler

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think they (the screens) raise serious public safety questions, from a legislative standpoint, this is going to be something legislators struggle with for years to come.

Joe Simitian

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It does raise the odds of an exit, there is room for compromise.

Russ Koesterich

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

With one week to go in our first fund-raising quarter, we set a goal that we wanted to raise $1 million in a week. Now, I thought that was a pretty audacious goal, well, I'm sorry to tell you we failed in that goal. We didn't raise a million dollars in a week. We raised a million dollars in one day.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Yes, we have to raise individual tax rates substantially higher than they are today because almost all of the new income is going to the top 1%, and yes, those folks and large corporations will have to pay under a Sanders administration more in taxes so that we can use that revenue to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, create the jobs we need, make sure that every kid who has the ability is able to get a college education in America because public colleges and public universities will be tuition-free.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It's an exciting project, it's unique, and us putting the Qhubeka Foundation out there and trying to raise funds is special, a 150 euros ($166.31) bike can literally change a life in Africa.

Tyler Farrar

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is a quick and cost-effective way to help grow your young businesses without relying on the main listed company for funding needs, these young businesses are usually loss making but once you become part of a listed entity in Hong Kong, it makes it easy to raise capital to finance future growth.

Richard Ji

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Wisconsin is a state built by labor, with a proud pro-worker past, so even as its governor claims victory over working Americans, I'd encourage him to try and score a victory for working Americans -- by taking meaningful action to raise their wages and offer them the security of paid leave.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We have (raised money) very, very differently than other campaigns, but I believe we will be able to raise, as will be indicated in this reporting period and in the future, enough money to run a winning campaign.

The Sanders '

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This really is not a question of legal precedent, but more one of how far can people push the boundaries of asking for voluntary donations without really having a cohesive plan as to where the money will go, this is an ‘ all-or-nothing ’ campaign, so if he does not raise $ 1.6 billion, everyone gets refunded. But imagine if he received $ 10 million in donations, and did a ‘ flexible funding ’ campaign where he actually gets the money, even if he did not reach the goal ? What would happen then ? That is the real problem, is if some scam artist tried to take advantage of a situation like this.

Kendall Almerico

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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