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I and guided
`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.
In fact, I can only say this seems to me to follow from a wide, continuous, and properly guided exposure to literary art.
Here again it was vacation time and there were many things I could not see, but I was able to visit with a professor who is famous in Japanese circles and be guided through the grounds by his assistant.
Two books resulted from this and these books guided a whole generation of Belgian children through the first few years of school, I Read with Michel and Nicole and I Calculate with Michel and Nicole.
* In the collection of short stories and essays by Lafcadio Hearn, In Ghostly Japan, the author is told the popular story of a girl that swims to her lover guided by a lantern, and he comments on the similarities with the western story: "—" So ," I said to myself, " in the Far East, it is poor Hero that does the swimming.
Do you believe I am ever, in any of my actions, guided by the thought that I am ' German '?
Firstly, I remember Pope Benedict XV, that courageous prophet of peace, who guided the Church through turbulent times of war.
I am appreciative of his hard work and the imprint that he left on our team .” Over the span of five seasons with the Bulls, Skiles compiled a record of 165-172 (. 490 ), and guided the team to the playoffs three consecutive years before getting fired.
He insisted that psychological techniques should always be tried first, for example " even where a violent and destructive maniac could be calmed by a single dose of an antispasmodic referred to opium, observation teaches that in a great number of cases, one can obtain a sure and permanent cure by the sole method of expectation, leaving the insane man to his tumultuous excitement ... ... and seeing, again and again, the unexpected resources of nature left to itself or wisely guided, has rendered me more and more cautious with regard to the use of medications, which I no longer employ — except when the insufficiencies of psychological means have been proven.
Ornstein, the vanguard iconoclast of American classical music, followed a much more idiosyncratic muse: " I'm guided entirely by just my musical instinct as to what I feel is consequential or inconsequential.
He often refers to the value of his experience in the Marine Corps in his writing and stump speeches ; in his book on the subject, entitled Corps Values: Everything You Need to Know I Learned in the Marines, he wrote: " In the twelve weeks of hell and transformation that were Marine Corps boot camp, I learned the values of achieving a successful life that have guided and sustained me on the course which, although sometimes checkered and detoured, I have followed ever since.
He lived in Rome between 418 – 429, and appears to be the " Deacon Palladius " responsible for urging Pope Celestine I to send the bishop Germanus to Britain, where he guided " the Britons back to the Catholic faith.
I have been guided by the principle in all my dealings.
I DESIRE that my successor shall, during the first seven years of his Imamat, be guided on questions of general Imamat Policy, by my said wife, Yvette called Yve Blanche Labrousse, the BEGUM AGA KHAN, who has been familiar for many years with the problems facing my followers, and in whose wise judgment, I place the greatest confidence.
She says that, led by the presence, she " permitted her hand to be guided ", and wrote, " I am your guardian Angel and my name is Daniel.
" The following day, Slave Catcher guided the expedition up the Little Tennessee, although the Timberlake party struggled to keep up, with Timberlake recalling, " my hands were so galled, that the blood trickled from them, and when we set out the next morning I was scarce able to handle a pole.
It was like being on a guided tour of the moments of my life I am most ashamed of ".
The tapes played guided visualizations meant to help the listener relax and focus ; however, Stuart makes a vow at the beginning not to make any edits or corrections in the recording process because " I'm a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I'll never stop.

I and her
I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''
`` I saw your fire '', she said, speaking slowly, making an effort to control her anger.
`` I won't force Beth to come against her will.
`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.
`` I've got her as neat as I can '', Donovan said, as he dropped the straps of the Seton harness over Greg's shoulders.
I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.
How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.
She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.
She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
I sat by her on the divan.
She realized I'd have to notify the police, but fervently hoped I could avoid mentioning her name.
But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.
I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.
One Monday morning I saw him approach the store with a woman and introduce me to her as my new Aunt.
You must forgive me if I seem to dwell too much on her physical aspects but I am an artist, accustomed to studying the physical body.
And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

I and divan
Shah Ismail I, the founder of Safavid dynasty in Iran, who himself composed a divan in Azerbaijani Turkic under the pen name of Khatai, praised Nesimi in his poems

I and turned
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
I quickly turned around and began to drink.
I turned to look at the lubra.
And I select this sentence as its pertinent summation: `` in essence the drama of his ( Eisenhower's ) Presidency can be described as the ordeal of a nation turned conservative and struggling -- thus far with but limited and precarious success -- to give effective voice and force to that conservatism ''.
But every time I suggested this to her, Mrs. Wright turned it down and demanded that I go out and punish Mr. Wright.
I turned around with the percolator in my hand.
The covers slid down his skinny neck so I saw his head, fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed, but his face was turned to the wall -- there was the pale shadow of his nose on the plaster -- and I thought, Well you don't look much like a pig-drunk bully now.
From there I turned left along Cumhuriyet Cadesi past more hotels and a park on the left, Republic Gardens, and came in a few moments to Taksim Square, one of the hubs of the city, with the Monument of the Republic, erected in 1928, in its center.
Outside I walked past the entrance to St. Sophia, turned left at the end of it, and continued toward a gate in the wall ahead.
One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone, clasping him by the arm, whispered, `` I want a word with you, please ''.
`` I like to dance '', she said, then turned and walked away.
As the bus turned into the main highway and headed toward Hanover I settled back in my seat and closed my eyes, thinking over the events of the past two weeks, trying to put the pieces in order.
I turned on the electric bug, and the signal came in loud and clear.
I couldn't see him, but the electric bugging device gave steady beeps when it was straight ahead, short half beeps when the car I was following was to the left, and long drawn-out beeps when it turned to the right.
I turned left too soon and got a signal showing that I was still behind him but he was to the right.
I turned on the device again, half fearful that I might find silence, but the buzzes came in loud and clear.
Pete turned around and said to Marty, `` I guess you think I'm a yellow-bellied hound.
I drove out of the Harbor, turned off into a dirt road among the scrub pine trees and stopped.
`` I'd just turned on the ignition when there was a big flash and I was lying on the driveway '', he said.

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