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382 examples of Gently in a sentence

The Unites States must think long-term and gently support the process, instead of toying with the misconceived notion of Turkey as part of a new "greater Middle East."
Understanding Trump’s enormous ego, Kelly is said to encourage gently rather than instruct.
I was first briefed by a former Monitor Company employee, who gently intimated that I should not to expect too much.
Like other Russian oligarchs, Deripaska is not known to deal gently with people who displease him.
Perhaps burned by the way stock prices and real estate collapsed when the 1980’s bubble burst, savers would rather go for what they view as safe bonds, especially as gently falling prices make the returns go farther than would be the case in a more normal inflation environment.
But, given that the aging “problem” is overstated and solvable by other means, mass migration may instead undermine Europe’s ability to reap the benefits of a stable or gently falling population.
Admitting surprise at the speed of events, Allah advises Al Qaeda groups to engage gently with the rising forces in these countries.
Countries like India that had maintained links with the junta and gently prized open its clenched fist may well have achieved more than those whose threats, bluster, and sanctions had merely hardened the general’s stance.
So let us speak frankly, facing a taboo, about what it means to be a senior woman leading effectively: it means that one will occasionally contradict a man, however politely; overrule a man, however courteously; disregard a man’s strategic advice, no matter how gently the decision is put; and tell a junior man, however tactfully, that he is not performing well enough.
In fact, she has a reputation for gently talking her audiences to sleep.
In testimony to the UK Parliament, Volcker gently observed that “Internationalizing some of the basic regulations [would make] a level playing field.
Many outside the US thought it was high time that someone offered America a taste of its own paternalism – and even better that that someone was Putin, a politician who has, to put it gently, his own set of foibles.
But de Gaulle’s legacy would most likely be snuffed out gently, with nostalgia for both Mitterrand and Chirac possibly proving very tempting for a people disaffected with the political system but desiring to be reassured.
He preferred humor to hectoring, gently making fun of those whom he criticized, while always making sure that even the most severe intellectual critique did not deny the humanity of his opponents.
Only in America is inflation picking up – and only gently.
Thanks to a combination of intense heat and periodic Sahelian rains, Madi consistently produces clean, high-quality cotton on the gently sloping hills that surround his walled compound.
But, with the exception of those who have only just joined, few governments on either side of the Atlantic seem to fear major disaster if it gently faded away.
The government has promised to make the move more gently than in 2009-2010, thereby allowing the flexibility to bring down interest rates over the long term.
This should be done gently, but firmly.
It should be made clear to Russian leaders - again, gently, avoiding triumphalist tones and ultimatums - that in return for generous financial aid, Moscow most rescind its implicit veto on American attempts to help the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, or impose painful costs on Iraq, including the measured threat of the use of force.
No, Yeltsin gently shifted his premier into managing a future presidential campaign, most likely Yeltsin's own.
The US Federal Reserve has been gently encouraged to buy 90% of annual net issuance of US Treasury bills, effectively funding the US fiscal deficit and ensuring, via the resulting negative real interest rates, that businesses and individuals wishing to save, rather than spend, will lose purchasing power by doing so.
Some of these rascals are indeed, to put it gently, past their shelf life.
Russian President Vladimir Putin argues that Iran, unlike North Korea, has not expelled IAEA nuclear inspectors, quit the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) or tested a weapon — so it should be dealt with gently.
Russia’s key problems – the absence of real property rights, rule of law, and democracy – were mentioned this year, notably by former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, but only gently and in passing.
Central bankers today are thus facing a luxury problem: prices are increasing a bit more gently than they would like.
Rather than being dropped directly into boiling water – from which it would instantly jump – the frog is slid gently into a pot of comfortably warm water, and the heat is turned up.
Levin gently disengaged his hand, and without looking at his brother went to his own room and fell asleep.
Go, go!Vasily Lukich is calling you,' said the hall-porter, hearing the approaching step of the tutor, and gently disengaging the little hand in the half-drawn-off glove which held him by his shoulder-strap, as he nodded and winked toward the tutor.
'Gently, gently, children!' shouted Levin almost angrily, stepping in front of his wife to shield her, when the crowd of children came rushing at them with shrieks of delight.
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