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But when these expectations are once too often ground into the dust, innocence can falter, since its strength is according to the strength of him who possesses it.
The mother of a difficult child can do a great deal to help her own child and often, by sharing her experiences, she can help other mothers with the same problem.
No matter how often a man goes back to the scenes of his youth and strength, they can never be recaptured again.
A sweetheart arrangement can come about as often by employers doing the corrupting as by unscrupulous labor leaders demanding tribute.
( Music often sounds best to me when I can dress informally and sit in something more comfortable than a theatre seat.
The answers they give can often pave the way to performance increases and, quite often, are necessary for completing entry blanks for different events.
There is often a means of locking the quill and, on larger presses, the table can be tilted.
Two men can often do the installation in a day.
and natural waters, in addition, often contain impurities such as calcium salts which can react with soils to make them more difficult to remove.
Even though the bondage of his verse is not so great as the writing poet can manage, it is still great enough for him often to be seriously impeded unless he has aids to facilitate rapid composition.
It is often stated that the submarine can be destroyed while building, at bases, in transit, and on station.
Here again laboratory approaches are being evolved, for it is recognized how `` elastic '' these readings can be, how they can apply to many people, and are often stated in general terms all too easily applied to any individual's own case.
A Reb stationed near Petersburg informed his mother: `` I need not tell you that I dodge pretty often for you can see that very plainly by the blots in this letter.
The bad luck that can so often mar a well-played round of golf is simply overpowered and obliterated by the contemptuous boldness of these champions.
And yet this is exactly the risk we run when we assume, as we too often do, that we can continue to preach the gospel in a form that makes it seem incredible and irrelevant to cultured men.
The blackbelly salamander ( Desmognathus quadramaculatus ) can bite an attacking common garter snake ( Thamnophis sirtalis ) two or three times its size on the head and often manages to escape.
Problems which do not satisfy the assumptions of ANOVA can often be transformed to satisfy the assumptions.
The deadline for beginning an appeal can often be very short: traditionally, it is measured in days, not months.
Alphabets often come to be associated with a standard ordering of their letters, which can then be used for purposes of collation – namely for the listing of words and other items in what is called alphabetical order.
Linguistic ambiguity can be a problem in law ( see Ambiguity ( law )), because the interpretation of written documents and oral agreements is often of paramount importance.
Songs and poetry often rely on ambiguous words for artistic effect, as in the song title " Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue " ( where " blue " can refer to the color, or to sadness ).

can and make
Some chaps that know an area well can make their way by landmarks, a tree here, a wash here, a boulder there.
The stink is all the same to me, but I really think they can make one another out blindfolded ''.
When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )
The most effective political inventions seem to make maximum use of natural harbors and are aware that restraining breakwaters can play only a minor part in the whole scheme.
It is not a mess you can make sense of ''.
How can we make sense of this division??
One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.
The Axioms required to make the theoretical machinery operate are set out tersely and powerfully, so that all permissible operations within the theory can be traced rigorously back to these axioms, rules, and primitive notions.
If within one year you can make a success out of the American, you can practically name your own salary thereafter.
`` If you can firmly make the good knight sure to pleasure our Corporation '', Sturley wrote, `` besides that ordinary allowance for your diet you shall have 20 for recompence ''.
That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.
But it can be dangerous if the joiner doesn't want to make a spectacle of himself.
The University can make a valuable contribution to the state's economic development through such a study.
Even though headquarters actually have been moved into the Chatham building, do they believe that they can make the new name stick??
What we must have, if the United Nations is to survive, is as nonpolitical, nonpartisan an organization at the top as human beings can make it, subject to no single nation's direction and subservient to no single nation's ambition.
We don't think she can make her child defective, emotionally disturbed or autistic.
I suppose I am missing some elementary point but I honestly cannot see how two wrongs can make a right!!
Besides the lack of an adequate ethical dimension to the Governor's case, one can ask seriously whether our lead over the Russians in quality and quantity of nuclear weapons is so slight as to make the tests absolutely necessary.
He merely said, `` Any good decorator these days can make you a tasteful home ''.
If we cluster together, the redcoats can make an advantage out of it, but there's not a blessed thing they can do with two or three of us except chase us, and we can outrun them ''.
He thought: Only in my heart can I make the world hang together.

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