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There's bound to be someone on guard, but the hat might fool them long enough for me to get close ''.
A card to Walter would get him an introduction to this Meredith, and that might be good for something.
If you'd get out of your back yard once in a while you might even get her your ownself ''.
`` Well, I might not get that far '', I told them, `` as actually I have no papers to enter Germany and, as a matter of fact, no permit to return to France once I leave ''.
`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.
I thought you might get in on a morning train ''.
If I don't get some whisky down him he might die.
Have cost studies been made of every phase of your operation to determine what might be done if things get worse??
The disadvantages to this method are that you may not have as great a choice of models readily available or you may have to wait a few days or, during the busy tourist season, when cars are in great demand, you might find it fairly difficult to get a car at all.
By permitting freshman students we might extend the opportunity for such a course to some individuals who otherwise might never get to take it.
If we look at the situation this way, we can get an idea of Khrushchev's nightmarish worries -- or, at least, of the worries he might have if his enemies were disposed to exploit their advantage.
Fall River police did go to Westport to see if they could get any information against Morse and possibly find an accomplice whom he might have hired from among these men.
Then on Monday morning -- or it might have to be Tuesday -- get up and leave just the usual time, and last thing, put the money in an envelope under the old woman's purse there in the drawer.
While the city council suggested that the Legislative Council might perform the review, Mr. Notte said that instead he will take up the matter with Atty. Gen. J. Joseph Nugent to get `` the benefit of his views ''.
He wondered Probably because it was a place where she might get a feeling of certainty and security.
One legacy not drawn from the Group was anonymity, which came about due to AA wishing to avoid the publicity-seeking practices of the Oxford Group and to not promote, Wilson said, " erratic public characters who through broken anonymity might get drunk and destroy confidence in us.
Among the Syrian junds were contingents of old Umayyad clients, numbering perhaps 500, and Abd al-Rahman believed he might tug on old loyalties and get them to receive him.
Teams " holding shot " with the closest bowl will often make their subsequent shots not with the goal of placing the bowl near the jack, but in positions to make it difficult for opponents to get their bowls into the head, or to places where the jack might be deflected to if the opponent attempts to disturb the head.
The opportunity to view spectacular comets with relatively small aperture instruments in the to range is more frequent than might be guessed from the relatively rare attention they get in the mainstream press.
There is a probability that John might not be able to get the full $ 150, 000 he is expecting in three years due to a slowing of price appreciation, or that loss of liquidity in the real estate market might make it very hard for him to sell at all.

might and votes
However, if none of the larger parties can receive enough votes to form their preferred coalition, a grand coalition might be their only choice for forming a government.
During the meeting, Daley explained to the president that in the 1966 congressional races, there had been a disappointing showing of Democrats, and that if the convention were not held in Illinois, that the president might lose the swing state with its twenty-seven electoral votes.
Liberty Party candidate James G. Birney won slightly more than 15, 000 votes in New York and likely attracted votes that might have gone to Clay.
In what might have been one of the closest races in electoral history, Pires won by 12 votes, he and Veiga each receiving nearly half the votes.
Tilden was the first candidate for the Presidency of the United States not to be elected despite receiving an absolute majority of the votes ( however, it is worth noting that many blacks in the South were prevented from voting, and had they been allowed to vote Tilden might not have won a popular vote majority or even plurality ).
This was done because of Petzäll's alcoholism problem and the problem that might cause for SD's public image, and not for any philosophical differences with the party, and he still votes with the SD.
While a member of a governing party is free to vote their conscience, they are constrained by the fact that voting against the party line ( especially in confidence votes ) might lead to expulsion from their party.
A statewide recount allowing officials ' interpretation of " undervotes ," where no vote was cast for president, or " overvotes ," where votes were cast for multiple candidates, might have made Gore the winner.
Bismarck told the Diet, " The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes ... but by blood and iron " -- that is, by warfare and industrial might.
These controversies might have a led to a change of coalition after the 2006 municipal elections: the PS lost some votes, the Christian democrats gained some and the liberals and the green party Ecolo where stable.
Another example might be to predict whether a voter will vote Democratic or Republican, based on age, income, gender, race, state of residence, votes in previous elections, etc.
A Briton might say " Alice won with a majority of 9 " ( since Alice polled 9 more votes than her closest competitor ), whereas a Canadian would only say " Alice won with a plurality ", since the Canadian definition uses the word " majority " only if Alice would have polled more than all her competitors combined.
In 1893, Hardie and others formed the Independent Labour Party, an action that worried the Liberals, who were afraid that the ILP might, at some point in the future, win the working-class votes that they traditionally received.
In 59 BC Calenus was praetor, and brought forward a law that the senators, knights, and tribuni aerarii, who composed the judices, should vote separately, so that it might be known how they gave their votes ( Cassius Dio xxxviii.
If he told anyone he had done this, he might have started a rumor that third-party supporters can't be trusted, driving Democrats in red states away from votepair. org and lowering the total votes third parties might get.
Though he originally considered Chen Li-an as his vice presidential running mate, finally he still picked former Premier Hau Pei-tsun, considering Hau's background might attract more mainlanders ' votes for him.
The actual number of votes required in the second round might be the same as in the first round, but as in 2008, it can be a little less, due to the absence of a few parliamentarians.
Somewhat ironically, this might mean that protest votes actually got someone elected.
An expert witness said this approach was like trying to figure out Ichiro Suzuki's batting average by looking at the batting average of the entire Seattle Mariners team, since the illegal votes were cast by a unrepresentative sample of each precinct's voters, and might be as different from the average voter in the precinct as Ichiro was from the rest of his team.
It was proposed that the demilitarized zone of the Straits should be reduced to the following lines: on the European side-Gallipoli peninsula and the coast along the Sea of Marmora as far as Rodosto ; on the Asiatic side-from a point opposite the isle of Tenedos to Kara-Bigha ( west of Panderma ), including the islands in the Sea of Marmora and the European and Asiatic shores of the Bosporus ; the expression " demilitarized " zone was to mean that whereas the Allies might send troops to this zone, both Greece and Turkey should be deprived of this right ; the east coast of the Sea of Marmora was excluded from the demilitarized zone ; the Allied troops occupying Constantinople were to be withdrawn, after the Allies had satisfied themselves of the bona-fide peaceful intentions of the Turks ; Turkey was to have an equal voice on the international committee established to control the Straits, receiving two votes instead of one ; and if Turkey's attitude on the whole proved satisfactory, she would, in all probability, be offered the honorary presidency of the commission.
Van Eck phreaking might also be used to compromise the secrecy of the votes in an election using electronic voting.

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