Listened in sentence

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But the problem is not that government listened too much to Wall Street; rather, the problem is that it didn’t listen enough to Main Street, where the real producers and innovators were.

Do we value what we get from Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, and the Internet’s online library of humanity far more than what we previously learned, listened to, watched, or gossiped about through traditional means?

The entire global economy would benefit if both sides listened to each other and coordinated their economic policies.

“However,” he added, “it would be very abnormal for the suggestions to be listened to.”

The new government has listened, putting forward a program that is dazzling in its implications, for India and the developing world.

If they really hoped to be believed, they should have listened to my interlocutors in the old city of Riga over the next few days.

Had governments listened to their advice and not responded to their constituents, they would have possibly made things worse.

I listened to their concerns and sought their suggestions.

Clinton didn’t have to read Kennan, he could have listened to him.

Again, no one listened.

Here Kennan was listened to, but still misunderstood.

Once upon a time, when doctors or teachers opened their mouths, people listened.

In the 1930s, my great-uncles listened to their elders complain about how radio had allowed demagogues like Adolf Hitler, Charles Coughlin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt (that “communist”) to short-circuit the normal processes of public discourse.

“But they listened patiently and respected what we were saying, and it was clear that this was not the same Taliban we faced in the 1990s.”

There, an issue that could have been hijacked by extremists on both sides became the subject of a civilized debate in which people of devout faith and resolute feminists stood their ground, listened, and came to respect each other’s positions.

During her tenure at the Fund, she has wisely listened to a glittering array of chief economists: Olivier Blanchard, Maurice Obstfeld, and Gita Gopinath.

But they need to know they are being listened to.

But he also listened carefully to Kim’s explanation of why North Korea pursued nuclear weapons in the first place: to deter a supposedly hostile United States from attacking it.

Just as we probably would have controlled the coronavirus outbreak faster and more effectively had we listened to the epidemiologists, we still have time to combat global warming before we pass the point of no return.

Trump listened too much and for too long to his economic advisers, who for weeks convinced him to put business interests ahead of the public’s health.

'No – I believe it is all going to begin again,' and he listened to the prayer.

Levin listened to the words and was struck by them.

Kitty listened to the words of the prayer, trying to comprehend their meaning but unable to do so.

But later on, when Golenishchev began expounding his view, and Vronsky was able to follow him, even though he was ignorant of Two Principles he listened with interest, for the man talked well.

After trying several topics of conversation she led him on to the subject of art, about which he talked very well, and listened to him with attention.

Karenin listened to her now, and those very expressions, which formerly had seemed to him if not disagreeable at least superfluous, now seemed natural and comforting.

Now for the first time he listened to her words with pleasure and without mental rejoinder.

Whatever he might say, whatever he might propose, he was listened to as if all he was proposing had long been known and was what no one wanted.

This conversation about horses interested him, but he never forgot Anna, and involuntarily listened to the steps in the corridor and glanced at the clock on the mantelpiece.

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