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could and take
She could not scream, for even if a sound could take shape within her parched mouth, who would hear, who would listen??
Cruel Burmese governors could, on the slightest whim, take a man's life.
First, it could locate the enemy infantry, learn what they were doing, and hold them until the heavy foot columns could come up and take over.
the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.
Gouge, burn, blast, insult it as they would, could anyone really take Papa-san??
Though this sculpture must take place thirty-three years after her moment of decision, he could not conceive of her as a woman in her mid-fifties, old, wrinkled, broken in body and face by labor or worry.
How much and how many profits could a majority take out of the losses of a few??
Efforts were made to take the grab samples at random periods so that the mass of data could be treated as a 6-hr. composite sample.
He then sold her some capsules that he asserted would take care of the tumors and cysts until she could collect the money for buying his machine.
I could tell you of plenty narrow escapes, but we take no notice of them now ''.
There was no weapon Early could not take apart and reassemble blind-folded.
`` -- so even if we was as dumb as you take us for, we could still find it ''.
Usually she marked the few who did thank you, you didn't get that kind much in a place like this: and she played a little game with herself, seeing how downright rude she could act to the others, before they'd take offense, threaten to call the manager.
She'd say she didn't feel good on Sunday, couldn't go to church -- there'd be a little argument, but she could be stubborn -- and when the old woman had gone, quick pack the things she'd need to take, all but the dress she'd wear Monday, and take the bag down to that place in the station where you could put things in a locker overnight, for a dime.
Several signers affixed their names, it was learned, after being told that no tax increase would be possible without consent of the General Assembly and that a provision could be included in the charter to have the town take over the Johnston Sanitary District sewer system.
The battalion chief said he had just gotten into his 1958 model automobile to move it from the driveway of his home so that he could take his other car to work.
So junior's bedroom was usually tricked out with heavy, nondescript pieces that supposedly could take the `` hard knocks '', while the fine secretary was relegated to the parlor where it was for show only.
I could, he thought, take a long walk -- but where??
If she could not take the children out of this section, at least she could take other children out of their countries and put them on the farms.

could and place
Two men, together like us, we could do somethin fine out there, maybe find a place where no one's ever been.
`` Karipo's women then named this place ' Eromonga ' -- manhood -- for just the strongest men could stay here.
He was right, and Peter Marshall could not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the subject, `` Well, it seemed as good a place as any to do the job ''.
To Serenissimus such tribes as the Cossacks of the Don or those ex-bandits the Zaporogian Cossacks ( in whose islands along the lower Dnieper the Polish novelist Sienkiewicz would one day place With Fire And Sword ) were just elements for enforced resettlement in, say, Bessarabia, where, as `` the faithful of the Black Sea borders '', he could use their presence as bargaining points in the Czarina's territorial claims against Turkey.
Of course the higher officials could add or place a name on the list wherever they wished.
This was one place where Moonan could go for a drink in a back booth without anyone noticing him, or at least coming up and hanging around and wanting to know all the low-down.
Burial had taken place at night in the ground at the public crossroads under the gibbet, so that his enemies could not find his body and have it dug up and burned.
Search as he might, he could find no place where the Bible spoke of a moment when Mary could have been alone with Jesus.
Half the manhours you pay for on most jobs are wasted because the job was not planned right, so the right tools were not handy at the right place at the right time, or the right materials were not delivered to the handiest spots or materials were not stacked in the right order for erection, or you bought cheap materials that took too long to fit, or your workmen had to come back twice to finish a job they could have done on one trip.
The Admassy place could not be far now.
To be Katharine Ross, and work in a nicer shop somewhere, at a little more money so she could have prettier clothes, and learn ladies' manners and all like that, and get to know different people than up to now, not just the ones like her here, with foreign-sounding names, the ones went to the same church and -- Different place, different job, different people, she'd be all different too.
Fifteen years ago, troubled by the rising tide of materialism in the post-war world, a businessman and a minister asked themselves if there might not be a place for a small magazine in which men and women, regardless of creed or color, could set forth boldly their religious convictions and bear witness to the power of faith to solve the endless problems of living.
WBAI is on the right track: in the sound medium there has been excessive emphasis on music and news and there could and should be a place for theatre, as the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations continue to demonstrate.
It seemed to him that if the Ferraros felt sure of them, could place them, it would help him to feel more sure of himself with Carla.
The sensation he so overwhelmingly realized was one which told him he had been there before but he knew he had not, and could not recall any place he had visited to be likened to the limpid green water or the little fountain-falls or the green demon imprisoned beyond his reach.
The skiff was headed for the very center of the nebula -- toward that place which, Jack knew now, could hold nothing less important than the very core of the Angel's life and religion.
He knew all the events which could take place on Shayol.
They could still read the opening: `` Once, I was like you, stepping out of my window at the end of day, and letting the winds blow me gently toward the place I lived in.
The parentheses could not correspond to 9 and 0, however, because the place corresponding to 0 was taken by the space character.

could and tomorrow
We planned ahead only one step, a rendezvous for tomorrow when we could swap notes.
a Portago could say, as he did say to me, `` If I die tomorrow, still I have had twenty-eight wonderful years ; ;
Praise for Lysenko's work included such items as credit from the Soviet newspaper Pravda for having discovered a method to fertilize fields without using fertilizers or minerals, and for having proven that a winter crop of peas could be grown in Azerbaijan, " turning the barren fields of the Transcaucasus green in winter, so that cattle will not perish from poor feeding, and the peasant Turk will live through the winter without trembling for tomorrow.
Today, the issue was the Pledge of Allegiance, but tomorrow it could be reproductive rights, civil rights, or any other fundamental concern.
" It could be tomorrow or it could be 10 years or more from now ," he concluded in September 2005.
Fallibilists hold a similar position, but claim that what is true today could be wrong tomorrow.
" Paine told Abernathy that the advances in space exploration were child's play compared to the tremendously difficult human problems of society, and told him that " if we could solve the problems of poverty by not pushing the button to launch men to the moon tomorrow, then we would not push that button.
On March 31 Kybalchych wrote this solicitation address to the Minister of Interior: “ By instruction of your Excellency my design of an aeronautic apparatus has been submitted for the consideration of technical committee ; could your Excellency direct that I be allowed to meet with any of the committee members on the matter of this design not later than tomorrow morning or at least to receive a written answer from the experts who have examined my design, also no longer than tomorrow.
Vietnam War-era activists, such as Seymour Melman, referred frequently to the concept, and use continued throughout the Cold War: George F. Kennan wrote in his preface to Norman Cousins's 1987 book The Pathology of Power, " Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to remain, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented.
For example the U. S. dollar could be rebased tomorrow so that 1 new dollar was worth 100 old dollars.
He asked Damon if he could come back tomorrow, to which he replied, " Go fuck yourself.
Toock was probably Major John Lovett ( Van Rensselaer's private military secretary ) in disguise, and he repeatedly stated that no exchange could be arranged until " the day after tomorrow ".
EG :" General, the newspapers might record tomorrow that Isa Boletini, whom even Mahmut Shefqet Pasha could not disarm, was just disarmed in London.
Popular belief says the phrase originated in ancient Rome: As a Roman general was parading through the streets during a victory triumph, standing behind him was his slave, tasked with reminding the general that, although at his peak today, tomorrow he could fall, or — more likely — be brought down.
Aristotle was particularly concerned with the problem of future contingents, where he could not accept that the principle of bivalence applies to statements about future events, i. e. that we can presently decide if a statement about a future event is true or false, such as " there will be a sea battle tomorrow ".
Ever since Bunnicula's arrival, Chester becomes increasingly convinced that the bunny could be a threat (" Today vegetables, tomorrow the world!
" In other words, no action has its moral status necessarily: any right action could have easily been wrong, if God had so decided, and an action which is right today could easily become wrong tomorrow, if God so decides.
Goerdeler believed that the main reason why the Army would not overthrow Hitler was the lack of a postitive goal to inspire them with the hope of a better tomorrow, and if he and his colleagues could work out plans for a better future, then the Army leaders would change their minds.
For example, on one occasion they were required to drop the lines " Je sais bien que demain tout peut changer " (" I know that tomorrow everything could change ") and " L ' histoire est a tournant " (" The story / history is at a turning point ") from a French love song, lest they be understood politically.
Going to bed that night, he wished that he could wake up tomorrow and see the Six back behind bars.
She continued her May 11 speech: " Or we could shut all the lights off in Canada tomorrow -- but that still wouldn ’ t be enough -- to reach our Kyoto target we ’ d have to shut off all the lights AND shut down the entire agriculture industry.

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