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Grateful in sentence

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Nonetheless, we should be grateful: it is better to be standing still than it is to be heading in the wrong direction.
In one sense, we should be grateful for our hard-working M&A technicians, well-paid as they are: it is important that businesses with lousy managements or that operate inefficiently be under pressure from those who may do better, and can raise the money to attempt to do so.
Above all, we should be grateful to the police forces and intelligence agencies whose unflagging hard work and dedication far away from the public eye help keep us safe.
Many financial-market players are grateful for the regulatory laxity that allowed them to reap enormous profits before the crisis, and for the generous bailouts that helped them to recapitalize – and often to walk off with mega-bonuses – even as they brought the global economy to near-ruin.
Perhaps international investors will be grateful to the US for its aggressive monetary and fiscal stimulus, which will accelerate sharply when President-elect Barack Obama takes office on January 20.
Nobody in Russia - aside from a few corrupt officials - is grateful for this aid.
Some would even have been grateful.
The people were so grateful to the emperor – who became known as Nintoku (Emperor with Virtue and Benevolence) – that they volunteered to repair his palace.
The world should be profoundly grateful that, on nuclear proliferation as on other issues, we have in the current US president someone for whom reason instinctively trumps emotion.
Some Americans are grateful for Edward J. Snowden’s revelations about the NSA, which they believe have stimulated urgently needed public deliberation.
And, while the people of Japan were grateful for Taiwan’s unexpected generosity, the Japanese government failed to offer any thanks, despite running advertisements in major newspapers expressing gratitude for the relief sent from other countries.
To empower global society to act, Ban has launched a bold new global initiative, for which I am grateful to volunteer.
Moscow and Kiev are full of stories of initially successful foreign investors unlawfully forced to leave without compensation by their not very grateful partners.
If we are unwilling or unable to demand transparency from the institutions that have power over us, we should be grateful for those who put their lives (and their consciences) at risk to do so.
So, let us be grateful for strict debt ceilings, for they can help to nip disaster in the bud – even if bumping up against them can leave politicians slightly bruised.
A loyal and grateful alumni network can help to ensure this.
They were grateful for the international community’s involvement, but described in moving terms the huge loss of life that Qaddafi had inflicted on his own people.
Non-Muslim and secular Tunisian citizens – and a large part of world opinion, notably in France – were grateful.
But he is simply grateful to be alive, and far away from the torture and misery he left behind in Myanmar.
Given a slowing global economy, in which emerging markets are probably very grateful for any reserves they retain, this might seem an ill-timed question.
Though the German government does not officially support quantitative easing, it should be grateful to the ECB for calming financial markets.
And we should be grateful that they do.
Participants included nomads, farmers, and students, who in theory should have been the most grateful to China for modernizing Tibet’s economy.
We in Liberia and across Africa welcome her leadership, and are grateful for the G8’s support for Africa, particularly its commitments in recent years to reduce debt burdens, double aid by 2010, expand trade access, and fight HIV/AIDS.
The people of Liberia are grateful for the strong support we have received as we have moved from the crisis of the past to the opportunity of the present.
This type of aid would also provide political support for the authorities from a population grateful for policies that promote job creation.
Only American neo-conservatives, understandably grateful for his championing of the Iraq war and his ability to argue for it coherently and eloquently (unlike President Bush, who was and is unable to do either), are sorry to see Blair go.
Rather than bash the BIS, monetary authorities should be grateful for the informed perspectives that it provides.
For that, we should be grateful.
They should be grateful, rather than foolishly insist that China take it back.
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