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I do not wish to criticise British sportsmen generally, for there are many fair minded people among them but I want to make it as strong as possible that the attitude of Messrs: Davidson, Andrews, Fischer, and Dr Bulger, the English Officials of the games, was not only outrageous to Americans, but contrary to their own rules, and if these men continue to dictate affairs, England will become athletically degenerate.
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`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.
`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.
Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.
As I had expected, he insisted that my visits to the hall would do nothing to further the process of my application.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.
He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.
Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.
You think that Highlands swindled you and I helped 'em do it.
I just do what I'm told, and '' --
`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.
`` So help me, Crouch, I'd like to kill you where you stand, but, before I do, I'm going to hear you admit killing him.
I don't mean to pry, but do they hide the swimsuit with the bubbles??
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I could show what I can do ''.
As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.
`` Only when I do it ''.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
Why she married him I do not know.
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I and wish
I could not cling to my past nor did I wish to.
Now I wish to enter the American market, where the competition is very strong.
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among whom, his Party have indeed more Friends than I could wish ''.
`` Mr. Lane '', Hearst said, `` if you ever wish anything that I can do, all you will have to do will be to send me a telegram asking, and it will be done ''.
What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.
I wish you would return them to her.
Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.
I wish you could see the situation as I see it.
-- In reply to a letter in Today's `` Voice '' urging the sale of meat after 6 p.m., I wish to state the other side of the story.
I just wish to congratulate Inspector Trimmer and his efficient police troops in cleaning the city of those horrible automobiles.
I wish to advocate two drastic changes in Washington Square: 1.
Krist, I wish they could write!!
I wish I did.
I wish to make Jesus an authentic Jew.
I wish our doctor could have saved her ''.
I wish you was Henry.
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I and criticise
Sir, I am not going to criticise these proposals, and I am only referring to them as signs that there is much to be done — that their condition is far from satisfactory ; and it is eminently, as I think, our duty to develop in the first instance, every means that we may possibly devise whereby, if possible, the labourer may be able to make this provision for himself, or to approximate towards making such provision far more efficaciously and much more closely than he can now do.
I feel that if the Americans wish to be critical in our inaction in trying war criminals, I should prefer that they should continue to criticise rather than that we should commit an injustice in order to avoid their criticism.
Hobbes then goes on to criticise what he sees as many of the practices of Catholicism: " Now for the worship of saints, and images, and relics, and other things at this day practised in the Church of Rome, I say they are not allowed by the word of God ".
O ' Callaghan was correct to challenge McGuinness about his past misdeeds, he said " I wouldn't criticise Miriam for doing what she did ".
In a statement issued on her departure, she said: " I chose to play a positive role model and wanted to encourage these young people in their endeavours, rather than criticise them.
After Gascoigne was left out of the 1998 World Cup squad, Baker went on Have I Got News For You to defend his friend and criticise the omission.
In a statement issued on her departure, she said: " I chose to play a positive role model and wanted to encourage these young people in their endeavours, rather than criticise them.
If the grocer's child becomes literate, he not only will criticise my speech, but he will also utter words that neither you nor I will understand .... What would happen if the forage-seller's child turns out intelligent and capable — and mine, the son of a Haji, turns out lazy and foolish?
And I have to criticise it in order to build a more perfect and stronger one.
Amery went on to criticise the whole conduct of the war to date, and called for formation of a truly National Government and a small War Cabinet ( similar to that of World War I under Lloyd George ), and for a change of personnel ( his final quote was directed against the Government Front Bench ).
Zebina describes it " It is a racist act, I believe one has the right to criticise the team.
Chairwoman Tove Lifvendahl proudly wore an " I love Bush " shirt after George W. Bush's election in 2000, although she was quick to criticise him for the steel tariffs he later imposed.
She attempted unsuccessfully to get reappointed as a BBC Governor and in 1937 visited the Nuremberg Rally, writing for the Sunday Chronicle to criticise other British people present for refusing to give the salute and to say that she found Hitler " a simple man of great personal integrity " of whom " I would not hesitate to accept his word ".
In October 1998 he resigned after a 34 year career with the UN in order to have the freedom to criticise the sanctions regime, saying " I don't want to administer a programme that satisfies the definition of genocide "
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