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`` You may have seen me on TV '', she said.
The body may have been two or three weeks' dead.
Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;
-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.
The American liberal may, in the world of to-day, have a strong case ; ;
Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.
Among Bourbons the racial issue may have less to do with their remaining unreconstructed than other factors.
Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.
Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.
An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.
Looking back, Miss Marsicano feels that her ideas may have been influenced by those of Jackson Pollock.
The conversation that ensued may have been engrossing but it could hardly be called world-shattering.
The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.
The part of the mind that preserves dates and events may remonstrate, `` It could have been like that for only a little while '' ; ;
It may, however, be noted that his gift for color and imagery must have been greatly stimulated by his stay in Paris.
Does our society have a runaway, uncontrollable growth of technology which may end our civilization, or a normal, healthy growth??
In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.
Any abilities I may have were achieved in their present shape from experience in sharing in the growth and control of my business, coupled with raising my family.
The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.
He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.
Such activity may or may not have irritated the Kremlin, but it has frequently condemned America to an unnatural defensiveness that has undermined our effort to give leadership to the free world.
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.
Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

may and been
The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North, to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue, to `` show the world that '' as James's Christopher Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be, you're not quite the people to say it ''.
The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.
General Grant may have been the victim of false information in the instance reported in this book ; ;
But General Grant may have been self-victimized.
Again, he may discover embodied within its texture a theme or idea that has been presented elsewhere and at other times in various ways.
Amadee may have owed this partly to his relationship with the king, but Othon, who at sixty seems still to have been a simple knight, merited his position solely by his own character and ability.
A nation may go to war on some trifling pretext, when in reality it may have been guided by an unconscious instinct that its very life was at stake.
I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.
`` It might well start a craze like swallowing goldfish or pee-wee golf '', wrote Kenneth Rexroth in an explanatory note in the Evergreen Review, and he may have been right.
Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``
much of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent Shriver, the head corpsman.

may and sailor
The islands are mainly known for having been the home to the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk for four years, which may have inspired the novel Robinson Crusoe.
This may be based on a claimed sighting by a British sailor in 1939.
His birth certificate assigns paternity to a salesman and Air Force veteran named Lloyd Marshall, but Louise later claimed that she was seduced by " a sailor " whose name may have been Jack Worthington.
The loose transliteration may be confusing to Russian speakers, as the Russian word matroska () actually refers to a sailor suit.
This is the classic sailor neckwear and may have been adopted from them.
Author and First Fleet officer Watkin Tench, whose accounts are primary sources about the early years of the colony, never suggested that the epidemic may have been caused by Aborigines disturbing the grave of a French sailor who died shortly after arrival in Australia ( supposedly of smallpox ) and had been buried at Botany Bay.
According to these accounts, Godric, who began from humble beginnings as the son of Ailward and Edwenna, " both of slender rank and wealth, but abundant in righteousness and virtue ", was a pedlar, then a sailor and entrepreneur, and may have been the captain and owner of the ship that conveyed Baldwin I of Jerusalem to Jaffa in 1102.
The mass of a ballasted foil means that a system of pulleys may be required to allow the sailor to lift the foil, and a method of latching the board in the upward position is needed.
All of these initiatives, however, may be waived in the event the sailor holds critical training qualifications, Navy Enlisted Classification ( NEC ) job codes, or clearances.
However, this may be waived in the event the sailor holds a critical rate, Navy Enlisted Classification or security clearance.
Shipboard postal facilities are ubiquitous on ships of any size, although the " post office " may consist only of an alcove and a sailor working it part-time.
* Crispus Attucks ( 1723 – 1770 ), sailor who may have used the alias " Michael Johnson "
A survivor of the Ramel alleges that there was a German sailor on board who had helped to guide the Atlantis to the Ramel ; the German may have used torches and lights to signal to the German vessel during the night.
According to Procter & Gamble, the original model for the image of Mr. Clean was a United States Navy sailor from the city of Pensacola, Florida, although some people may think he is a genie based on his earring, folded arms, and tendency to appear magically at the appropriate time.
The sheet bend may be tied by various methods: the basic " rabbit through the hole " method of forming a half hitch in the bight of the larger rope, by a more expedient method shown in Ashley as № 1431 ( similar to the method used by an experienced sailor or mountaineer to tie a bowline ) or by a trick method, Ashley № 2562, involving upsetting a noose knot over a short end of the " larger " rope.
An enlisted sailor who has qualified as an EFMFWS may place the designator ( FMF ) after his / her rate and / or rating ; for example, HM3 John Doe, having qualified for his FMF pin, is identified as HM3 ( FMF ) John Doe.
the mast that may be essential to the cruising sailor for dinghy stowage and other uses.
This may be based on a claimed sighting of Vatnajökull by a British sailor in 1939, during the British occupation of the Faroe Islands in World War II when they were used to monitor German shipping and U-boat movements.
Named suspects who may be entirely fictional include " Dr Stanley ", cult leader Nicolai Vasiliev, Norwegian sailor " Fogelma ", and Russian needlewoman Olga Tchkersoff.
By lucky accident he may have been the first sailor to plane his boat.
And the soldiers beat the sailor, who may or may not have planned to harm him.
Bobby Darin also had a hit version of the song, where he made fun of Clementine's weight, joking at the end of the song that whalers might find her: " Hey you sailor, way out in your whaler, a-with your harpoon and your trusty line, If she shows now, yell ..., A-there she blows now !, It just may be chunky, Clementine.
The sailor may have inspired Daniel Defoe to write the classic 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe.

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