His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South, implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation.

But he -- and all of China -- wears the scars of American indecisiveness, and he knows what an uncertain ally we are.

A reporter restricted to the competing propaganda statements of both sides in a major labor dispute, for instance, is unable to tell his readers half of what he knows about the causes of the dispute.

`` But when it comes to war, the Colonel knows what it is and Jeff doesn't.

So you see Mr. Christiansen knows what it's all about.

The stories Everyone really knows what is happening there ''.

No one really knows how many boats there actually are or what their aggregate value may be.

For he knows that the first and sometimes most difficult job is to know what the question is -- that when it is accurately identified it sometimes answers itself, and that the way in which it is posed frequently shapes the answer.

And they couldn't have entrusted Henri to better hands because `` le professeur '' knows his muscles from the sterno-cleido mastoideus of the neck right down to the tibialis anticus of the leg and better still, he knows just what exercises work best for them and what Weider principles to combine them with for fast, fast muscle growth.

He knows your signals, what is expected of him and the way the Class is conducted, right up through the flash-bulbs of the photographers ''.

The modern student, who knows what was to come next, is likely to place first the factors of change which are visible in the eighth century.

New, indeed, is Luther's perception, but not modern, as anyone knows who has ever tried to make intelligible to modern students what Luther was getting at.

God knows what the African nations, who hold 25 per cent of the voting stock in the U.N. were thinking -- they may, for example, have been thinking of the U.S. abstention when the vote on Algerian freedom was before the Assembly -- but I think I have a fairly accurate notion of what the Negroes in the gallery were thinking.

And isn't it true that you get a deeper perception about a man and his motives when you know what it is he knows??

Every library borrower, or at least those whose taste goes beyond the five-cent fiction rentals, knows what it is to hear the librarian say apologetically, `` I'm sorry, but we don't have that book.

And nobody knows what comes next.

I mean, however, that the moral theologian knows what he means by `` permit ''.

Even now I am appalled at how little anyone knows of what they really are.

In the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ), calls for clarification of what constitutes a culture, of how an observer knows where his or her own culture ends and another begins, and other crucial topics in writing anthropology were heard.

As said by the officer in the story, " In this age of Realien advancement, who knows what goes on in the mind of those responsible for these mechanical dolls.

he knows that the land is hard and pitiless.

He knows that the economy of life in the `` outback '' is awful.

For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.

So we see that a specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less as he develops, as contrasted to the generalist, who knows less and less about more and more.

True reality, of course, is the ideal, and the poet knows nothing of this ; ;

But now he knows `` that an intellectual is not only a man to whom books are necessary, he is any man whose reasoning, however elementary it may be, affects and directs his life ''.

Secondly, the VA physician knows that when the patient leaves the hospital, he is no longer going to have a chance to visit his patient.

He knows that he is thinking about action in relation to a future which can be perceived but dimly through a merciful fog.

He is interested in public opinion for two reasons: first, because it is important in itself, and, second, because he knows that the American public cares about a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.

Last year a boy he knows and helped in Journalism won the Thoroughbred Racing Ass'n Scholarship which is worth $10,000.

Russia knows this, and that is why there were over 800,000 competing for places as candidates for the Olympic gymnastic team.

Strongheart ( Adios-Direct Gal ), a fair-looking sorrel colt, knows nothing but pace and has been right there in the best miles.

The Italian master Piero Taruffi, no less sensitive, knows twice the ecstasy though he thinks of a car's adhesion to a wet two-lane road at 165 miles an hour as a matter best expressed in algebraic formulae.

Each one knows what is right and each one can do whatever he thinks is best.

Set in “ The Present ” ( 1895 ) in London, the play opens with Algernon Moncrieff, an idle young gentleman, receiving his best friend, John Worthing, whom he knows as Ernest.

:: “ Suppose that a sheriff were faced with the choice either of framing a Negro for a rape that had aroused hostility to the Negroes ( a particular Negro generally being believed to be guilty but whom the sheriff knows not to be guilty )— and thus preventing serious anti-Negro riots which would probably lead to some loss of life and increased hatred of each other by whites and Negroes — or of hunting for the guilty person and thereby allowing the anti-Negro riots to occur, while doing the best he can to combat them.

( He is the man in the world who knows best how to create and formulate problems.

Obi-Wan wishes to fight Sidious to avoid having to kill his best friend, but Yoda insists that Obi-Wan is not strong enough to fight the new Emperor of the galaxy, and would have to accept that the Anakin he knows no longer exists, having been " consumed by Darth Vader.

National interests and foreign affairs are still deemed to be beyond the average citizen's competence, and the idea that the party / government knows best is still prevalent in the popular mind.

* Nature-Nature knows best, Life Positive ( retrieved 4 December 2010 )

Only naïve applications of the Homo economicus model assume that this hypothetical individual knows what is best for his long-term physical and mental health and can be relied upon to always make the right decision for himself.

More unnerving is that his best friend Luke apparently knows about both Ghostwheel and Merlin's connection to Amber.

He shares a tearful goodbye with Mr. Feeny, acknowledging how Mr. Feeny never once gave up on him and that he is the best man he knows.

Sir Humphrey, on the other hand, genuinely believes that it is the Civil Service that knows what is best for the country ( a belief shared by his bureaucratic colleagues ) which is usually what is best for the Civil Service.

Mom ( whom Zoidberg informally knows as " Carol ") referred to Zoidberg as " the best in the business " when it comes to alien anatomy and, unlike with other characters, addresses him with great respect and admiration.

I regret to this day, sometimes, that my children didn't get to be as famous and as popular ... but God always knows best.

He knows what He's doing, and sometimes we project what we can't see, but only God knows what's going to happen, and He knows the best.

Ochs and Taylor uncovered how, through naturally occurring stories told during dinners in white middle class households in southern California, both mothers and fathers participated in replicating male dominance ( the " father knows best " syndrome ) by the distribution of participant roles such as protagonist ( often a child but sometimes mother and almost never the father ) and " problematizer " ( often the father, who raised uncomfortable questions or challenged the competence of the protagonist ).

This is because the best moves are the ones most likely to produce a cutoff, a condition where the game playing program knows that the position it is presently considering could not possibly have resulted from best play by both sides and so need not be considered further.

Despite Ernie's attempts to cover up the crime Bert knows Ernie is lying ; for example in one sketch Bert wants to have his chocolate ice cream but when he finds that Ernie has eaten it he charges but then Ernie tries his best to cover up his crime by making a disgusting dish ; Mashed Bananas with Ice Cubes and Gold Beef Gravy at the same time Bert is shouting at him that he knows better.