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might and well
`` You might as well wait here while I'm gone, so you can use my shower if you'd like ''.
The oxen might as well enjoy it.
Had Dandy been older or wiser, instinct might have warned him that he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' tender care if he valued his life.
Such problems are of extreme interest as well as importance and are so much like fighting in a rain forest or guerrilla warfare at night in tall grass that we might have to re-examine primitive conflicts for what they could teach.
During the 1920's the Abstractionists, the German Bauhaus group of industrial designers, and the new architects all had the dream of some well ordered utopia, or welfare state, in which their neat and logical constructions might find their proper place.
Unspeakable tortures or even execution might well be their fate.
Something indirect, mixed, reconciling, tensional might well be the stratagem, the devious technique by which a poet indulged in all kinds of talk about love and anger and even in something like `` expressions '' of these emotions, without aiming at their incitement or even uttering anything that essentially involves their incitement ''.
But although in many of these discussions Othon and Amadee might have been tempted to consider their own interests as well as those of the king, Edward's confidence in them was so absolute that they were made the acknowledged leaders of the embassy.
Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.
It might be well to consider the literary evidence first because it can provide us with an answer to one important question ; ;
The United States might well have exploited the opportunity provided by the European Recovery Program to push the hesitant European nations toward political federation as well as economic cooperation, but all proposals to this effect were rejected by the United States Government at the time.
Without the good magazines, without their book reviews, their hospitality to European writers, without above all their awareness of literary standards, we might very well have had a generation of Krim's heroes -- Wolfes, Farrells, Dreisers, and I might add, Sandburgs and Frosts and MacLeishes in verse -- and then where would we be??
For the sad truth is that while one might write well without having read Bartleby The Scrivener, one is more likely, to write well if one has `` read it, and much else.
According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.
Hansen will be getting a late spring training start, which might very well set him back.
If the Communists are sincere in wanting a united, neutral and disarmed Germany, it might well be advantageous for the German people in this nuclear age.
If we go into this Common Market, we might just as well stop talking about Constitutional guarantees, Connally Amendments or, for that matter, conservatism in general.
As for rebuilding, well, that might be looked into, but there was no hurry, no hurry at all.
And while her Adonis did not suffer from inexperience, satiety might well be an equal handicap.
With his club foot he might well be grateful.
So, not only had he been here before, but it seemed he might well come again.

might and start
The task force might make a start in Washington with Republican congressional leaders.
It is made up of tumbling, which might be said to start with a somersault, run through such stunts as headstands, handstands, cartwheels, backbends, and culminate in nearly impossible combinations of aerial flips and twists and apparatus work.
The terms are fairly safe to use on this side of the ocean, but before you start spouting them to your date, it might be best to find out if he was a member of Major Pockmanster's Delhi Regiment, since resentment toward the natives was reportedly very high in that outfit.
Just when it seems baseball might be losing its grip on the masses up pops heroics to start millions of tongues to wagging.
Harvey Haddix, set back by the flu this season, will start against his former Cardinal mates, who might be playing without captain Kenny Boyer in tonight's game at Busch Stadium.
He might barge into a gallery, start haggling over prices without so much as a word of greeting.
These bytes might include start bits, stop bits, or parity bits, and thus could vary from 7 to 12 bits to contain a single 7-bit ASCII code.
The battle was a defining moment for the young Athenian democracy, showing what might be achieved through unity and self-belief ; indeed, the battle effectively marks the start of a " golden age " for Athens.
For example, the data warehousing effort might start in the " Sales " department, by building a Sales-data mart.
If more people would mention it, pretty soon it might start having some effect.
Admiral Horthy was advised that the Germans might be open to having more of Hungary restored to former borders, and that the Hungarians should best start concentrating troops on their northern border at once if they were serious about changing the frontiers.
For instance, a simple Rolling Hitch tied around a railing and pulled parallel to the railing might hold up to a certain tension, then start sliding.
As a simple example, a sender might start with an innocuous image file and adjust the color of every 100th pixel to correspond to a letter in the alphabet, a change so subtle that someone not specifically looking for it is unlikely to notice it.
He argues that whilst people might start desiring virtue as a means to happiness, eventually, it becomes part of someone ’ s happiness and is then desired as an end in itself.
In computer science, array indices also often start at 0, so computer programmers might use zeroth in situations where others might use first, and so forth.
For example, in English it might be noted that nouns are words that can co-occur with definite articles ( as stated at the start of this article ), but this would not apply in Russian, which has no definite articles.
In order to please the gods so that they might make the winds start to blow, Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia.
In the few primaries that mattered, Hoover did not perform as well as expected, and it was thought that the president or Vice-President Charles G. Dawes might accept a draft in case of a deadlock, but Lowden withdrew just as the convention was about to start, paving the way for a Hoover victory.
* Many were worried that ozone holes might start to appear over other areas of the globe but to date the only other large-scale depletion is a smaller ozone " dimple " observed during the Arctic spring over the North Pole.
A program might need some resource ( input ...) which has a large delay, or a program might start some slow operation ( output to printer ...).
Habba, released at the end of 1984, is a fine example of what the fifth Doe Maar-album might have sounded like had they decided to take time off and start from scratch.

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