Example Sentences

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So, in the meantime, I am proposing an appropriation of $35 million to maintain the state’s financial commitment to funding our classrooms and I am lifting the current suspension of teacher step salary increases.

From Washington Times • Jan. 13, 2021

“I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,” Mr. Pompeo said.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2021

Reuben, now weighing over 3.6kg – “a little fat thing, I feel like I am lifting a toddler” – has technically been discharged already.

From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2017

On Friday, at Craigavon Magistrates Court District, Judge Rosemary Watters said: "I am lifting reporting restrictions in the case as the court has no power to implement them in these circumstances."

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2014

Said the aged V�in�m�inen, "We have caught a shoal of fishes, In the net that I am lifting, With a hundred floats provided."

From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Lönnrot, Elias