I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

I think you are being unfair to take these things up now.

The favorite excuse of those who have now recanted their approval of communism is that they did not know how things would develop.

She hesitated, she hopped, she rolled and rocked, skipped and jumped, but in some two weeks she started to pace, From that time to this she has shown steady improvement and now looks like one of the classiest things on the grounds.

`` Those are the things I can do, now that I'm set up ''.

We now know that things rarely ever work out in such cut-and-dried fashion, and that car loadings, while perhaps interesting enough, are nevertheless not the magic formula that will always turn before stock prices turn.

I just don't have time to do half the things I want to do now.

Is not the present world crisis a race between things we have created which can now destroy us and between populations of sufficient wisdom and character to forestall the tragedy.

As things stand now, the local and the ecumenical tend to compete with each other.

`` There are things about me that I can't tell you now, Mary Jane '', I said, `` but if you'll go out to dinner with me when I get out of Hanover, I'd like to tell you the whole story.

under secction 7 ( 1 )( a ), but that section has been superseded by section 66 ( 1 ) of the Police ( Northern Ireland ) Act 1998 ( c. 32 ) which now provides that it is an offence for a person to, amongst other things, assault a constable in the execution of his duty, or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty.

A story, probably apocryphal but popular at the time, is that the appointment caused Montgomery to remark that " After having an easy war, things have now got much more difficult.

After listening, Pasternak told Mandelstam, " I didn't hear this, you didn't recite it to me, because, you know, very strange and terrible things are happening now: they've begun to pick people up.

Moral psychology is a field of study that began, like most things, as an issue in philosophy and that is now properly considered part of the discipline of psychology.

* Jenner's house in the village of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, is now a small museum, housing among other things the horns of the cow, Blossom

Stone suggested that there was nothing absurd in this view, and noted that many entities now regarded as having legal rights were, in the past, regarded as " things " that were regarded as legally rightless ; for example, aliens, children and women.

In modern times things are very different ; now we no longer see philosophic individuals who constitute a class by themselves.

Arguments for irreducibility often assume that things started out the same way they ended up — as we see them now.

" The times now running on to their consummation ; and he whom Daniel foretells would have dominion for a time, and times, and an half, is even already at the door, about to speak blasphemous and daring things against the Most High.

At this point in his career, he was " trying to do things now that are much bigger and outside himself ".

Mathematicians now know of many types of projective geometry such as complex Minkowski space that might describe the layout of things in perception ( see Peters ( 2000 )) and it has also emerged that parts of the brain contain patterns of electrical activity that correspond closely to the layout of the retinal image ( this is known as retinotopy ).

Benaud said: " I ’ ll be doing Australian cricket next year – 2010 – but I don ’ t do any television at all anywhere else now and when I finish next year, then I ’ ll be doing other things ... But that ’ ll be no more television commentary ".

The next days may show where things stand.

Here is where things stand today:

“ Teachers of English should teach our students that words are not things, but verbal tokens or signs of things that should finally be carried back to the things that they stand for to be verified.

" Theologian and author Arthur A. Cohen, in The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition, questioned the theological validity of the Judeo-Christian concept and suggested that it was essentially an invention of American politics, while Jacob Neusner, in Jews and Christians: The Myth of a Common Tradition, writes, " The two faiths stand for different people talking about different things to different people.

Athena disguises Odysseus as a wandering beggar so he can see how things stand in his household.

Stare decisis means to stand by things decided.

His Bengali writings stand testimony to the fact that he believed that words — spoken or written — should be for making things easier to understand rather than show off the speaker or writer's knowledge.

The three nations agreed that for the next ten years they would " stand by and co-operate with one another in ... their prime purpose to establish and maintain a new order of things ... to promote the mutual prosperity and welfare of the peoples concerned.

However, it is well known that sentences of this kind cannot be interpreted in first-order logic, where individual variables stand for individual things.

IEA can stand for several different things, such as those listed here:

Extension ( semantics ) to the actual things that referring terms like nouns stand for, provided that agreement on reference is accomplished, is one method of breaking this circularity, but this is outside the capacity of a text-based definition.

Iconic calls and gestures mimic the forms of the things they stand for ( such as outlining shapes or moving your hands back and forth multiple times to show repetition.

Since he has a fairly legitimate claim on the throne himself, is on better terms with his neighbours ( Begma, who objected to Duke Arkans ), and has given up his vendetta on Amber, Random is letting things stand.

And when the lead was torn off and cast down into the church and the tombs in the church were all broken ( for in most abbeys various noblemen and women were buried, and in some kings, but their tombs were no more regarded than those of lesser persons, for to what end should they stand when the church over them was not spared for their cause ) and all things of value were spoiled, plucked away or utterly defaced, those who cast the lead into fodders plucked up all the seats in the choir where the monks sat when they said service.

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God ; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

During her husband's 1992 presidential campaign, Barbara Bush stated that abortion and homosexuality are personal matters and argued that the Republican Party platform should not take a stand on it, saying that " The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, platforms and conventions.

Vetinari has refused to become involved in the war with Klatch, due to the fact Ankh-Morpork does not have an army to stand against any opposing forces ( the reason given being that killing enemy soldiers makes it difficult to sell them things afterwards ), but Rust declares Martial law and orders the city's noble families to revive their old private regiments.

It is for this reason that one of the first things whitewater boaters learn is never to stand up in more than ankle deep water where there is a current.

belongeth only to the king ’ s court of the old right of his crown, used and approved in the time of all his progenitors kings of England ," proceeds to condemn the practice of papal translation, and after rehearsing the promise of the three estates of the realm to stand with the king in all cases touching his crown and his regality, enacts " that if any purchase or pursue, or cause to be purchased or pursued in the court of Rome, or elsewhere, any such translations, processes, and sentences of excommunications, bulls, instruments or any other things whatsoever ... he and his notaries, abettors and counsellors " shall be put out of the king's protection, and their lands escheat.

Intentionality is a philosophical concept defined by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as " the power of minds to be about, to represent, or to stand for, things, properties and states of affairs.

Constructive critics try to stand in the shoes of the person being criticized, and consider what things would look like from their perspective.