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Adam Smith said, " People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Adam Smith said, " People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
* using an in-ear microphone while holding the telephone to the ear normally ; this picks up both ends of the conversation without too much disparity between the volumes
After a confrontation that ends with a conversation with Fonzie, he decides to face his family and declare his intentions.
Cordelia, in conversation with Charles Ryder, quotes a passage from the Father Brown detective story " The Queer Feet ": " I caught him, with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world, and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.
Conversational ends may, however, shift over the life of the conversation.
The book deals with conversation both for its own sake, and for political, sales, or religious ends.
Eric meets up with him, and they have a brief conversation, which ends when Alex shoots Eric in mid-sentence.
As before, it ends with a conversation in which Spock addresses Kirk as Jim.
" Rhetorical questioning is … a fairly conscious technique adopted by a speaker for deliberate ends, and it is used infrequently, proportional to the length of the dialogue, oration, or conversation.
Einar and Brand were in school together, and their conversation ends in a long discussion about the envisioning of God.
In it, Frost instructs Danton to plead guilty and ends the conversation demanding Danton say " I love you ," which Danton does, further fueling speculation of a homosexual relationship between the two.
" People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
The record was then duplicated, with the records being distributed to SIGSALY systems on both ends of a conversation.
Another VHF propagation event called, Sporadic E propagation ; is a phenomenon involving radio reflections off highly ionized segments of the ionosphere which can bring contacts well over with very strong signals received on both ends of the conversation.
However, blackmailer Walter Travis ( John Carpenter ) forces Joe Taylor into recording a meeting at Spence and Iris's apartment that ends up being cancelled when instead it turns out to be a conversation between Iris and Betsy, revealing Mark as a rapist and father of Iris ' baby she is carrying.
" The description of the street ends abruptly, and the story shifts to the conversation of two acquaintances who have decided to split up to each pursue a different woman seen on the street.
* end-word: In informal conversation like instant messengers, sentence-final particles or interjections of Cantonese origin such as ar, la, lu, ma and wor — many of these being “ flavouring particles ”— are used at the ends of English sentences.
From this follows the point that there is a limit to how many correct responses can be made to this first sentence, and then again to the second sentence, and so on until the conversation ends.
The conversation ends abruptly when Carmelita finds out the flight has lasted more than two hours than only a few minutes.
Takaya overhears the conversation and ends up partnering with Smith instead.
The turtle ends the conversation with the comment, " Oh, and another thing ... Rabbits aren't very bright, either!
He ends up outside the walls of the Finzi-Continis ' mansion, where he has a conversation with Micòl, the Finzi-Continis ' pretty daughter.
Their conversation ends only when it comes time to consult the oracle.

conversation and with
He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.
He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.
I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
But no President ever before referred to his as a `` lousy job '' ( as Walter Trohan recently quoted President Kennedy as doing in conversation with Sen. Barry Goldwater ).
Since ordinary breakfast-table conversation was impossible, it was at least something that they were able to offer Eugene the sugar bowl with their sugar in it, and the plate of bread and butter, and that Eugene could return the pitcher of hot milk to them handle first.
Between the telephone and the wall plug there was sixty feet of cord, and when the conversation came to an end, Eugene carried the instrument with him the whole length of the apartment, to his bathroom, where it rang three more times while he was shaving and in the tub.
Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.
After a conversation with another man, he was able to recount practically everything that had been said but could not describe at all what the other man looked like.
Emerson, in his lecture, refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before, whether dreaming or waking, a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue, at some former hour, they know not when ''.
Although we enjoyed our rounds of the government offices in Vientiane, with officials offering tea and pleasing conversation in French, we were getting nowhere.
The New Bedford Standard-Times has reported Knowlton as saying, long after the trial, that if he only knew what Borden said during his conversation with Morse, he would have convicted `` somebody ''.
The hangover in turn reminded him of his conversation with the weirdy, and he groaned.
He was no longer able to relax in the presence of his parents and found it difficult to keep up a conversation with his mother or father, no matter the subject.
Richard thought it a more promising remark than any made during the last conversation, but Charlotte's manner during the gatherings was more flippant and superficial than when she was alone with him and he was sure her remark would lead to nothing much better than the pointless words which had preceded it.
Rieux's position is made clear in part II in a conversation with Tarrou.
One of Xu's students is quoted as having criticized the duke of Teng in a conversation with Mencius by saying:
Alcott's plan was to develop self-instruction on the basis of self-analysis, with an emphasis on conversation and questioning rather than lecturing and drill, which were prevalent in the U. S. classrooms of the time.
In 1763, Greek Orthodox bishop Erasmus of the Diocese of Arcadia, visited London, where John Wesley had considerable conversation with him, and ordained several Methodist lay preachers as priests, including John Jones.
The work arose, he says, from a conversation he had with the emperor Nerva at Frontinus's house at Formiae.
Griffin described Abdur Rahman as a man of middle height, with an exceedingly intelligent face and frank and courteous manners, shrewd and able in conversation on the business in hand.
In an interview, Brooks mentioned a conversation he'd had with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, in which Schrader said that Brooks's character was the only one in the movie that he could not " understand " – a remark that Brooks found amusing, as the movie's antihero was a psychotic loner.
" By 1928, Fuller was living in Greenwich Village and spending much of his time at the popular café Romany Marie's, where he had spent an evening in conversation with Marie and Eugene O ' Neill several years earlier.
According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.
It was clear, however, that Leonidovich himself felt he had not come as well as he should out of his unexpected conversation with the Leader.

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