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    Examples of deems in a Sentence

  • Examples of deem
    1. I deem thy brain emperished be. — Spenser.
    2. But what their admirers call grit and critics deem shamelessness can overshadow another essential element of the Clinton school: a willingness to put on the hair shirt of humility to regain power.
    3. The manager was given her head to make whatever changes she might deem necessary in the structure of her department.
    4. NML insists Argentina is overegging the RUFO worry: given that the country has appealed its case all the way up to the Supreme Court and been rebuffed, a judge is unlikely to deem any deal “voluntary”.
  • Examples of deems
    1. She is attired in a style she deems “eclectic with a professional edge”: metallic beige jacket above nonmatching gauchos above beige fishnet stockings above peep-toe wedge sandals.
  • Examples of deemed
    1. 1847: Nor was this strong geographical position her only bulwark; the capital itself in those unskilful days of obsidional tactics was deemed impregnable except through famine. — Henry Edward Napier, Florentine History (E Moxon 1847, p. 3)
    2. Accordingly, by Dr. Chen's method of calculation, the copayment experience would have to be deemed even more pound-foolish than we found it to be.
    3. But Columbia Records executives deemed the idea uncommercial [ … ] and instead proposed an album of lullabies.
    4. The municipal pension plan was deemed actuarially unsound.
    5. He was charged with a hate crime, because the attack by a white man on the black man was deemed to be racially motivated.
    6. Thrand answered that whereso he was, he would still be deemed a brave man, "And now it is meet for thee to settle down and get married, and I would put forth my word and help, if I but knew whereto thou lookest."
    7. She deemed his efforts insufficient.
    8. Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.
    9. 2004 ... were once presented with a garland of plumeria. but the Mission elders deemed garlands immoral. — Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
    10. She’s trying to piece together shards of precious pottery gleefully sledgehammered by a delegation led by the Taliban’s minister of culture, who deemed the world’s greatest collection of Central Asian artifacts un-Islamic.
  • Examples of deeming
    1. This city has opened a new front in its longstanding battle with billboard companies, ordering building owners to remove so-called supergraphic signs, enormous advertisements draped across multistory structures, after deeming them fire hazards.
    2. The governor of West Java, a member of the Prosperous Justice Party, tried to ban a dance called jaipong, deeming it too erotic, but many people view it as part of their cultural heritage.
    3. Some parleying was audible in the hall, and soon the new-comer entered. He bowed to Lady Ingram, as deeming her the eldest lady present.
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