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We and ask
We will know, and He will know, to whom it is rendered, what the birds would ask:
We must ask ourselves which of the two alternatives will help the commuter -- the two-way B. & O. - C. & O. merger, or the three-way New York Central - B. & O. - C. & O. merger.
`` We ask the people what they want, and they supply the labor.
We all know what the dummies will do '' -- he gestured at the hummocks in which the decorticated men were cradled -- `` and we all know what the new people will ask.
We need only ask such a skeptic, What his meaning is?
We shall ask none.
We have only the names of some auguria ( augural rites ): e. g. the augurium salutis which took place once a year before the magistrates and the people, in which the gods were asked whether it was auspicious to ask to for the welfare of the Romans, the augurium canarium and the vernisera auguria.
We would ask him questions like, " Dave, when did you and God become such good friends?
We also ask our members to avoid photoshopping Prince and posting them on our boards.
" We may justifiably ask ," observes Kerenyi, " Why was this great mythical hunter, who in Greece became a mysterious god of the underworld, a capturer of wild animals and not a killer?
We can similarly ask, " how much space is contained in a meter?
We cannot ask for that which is forbidden in Islam.
" We can come in and ask for just about everything ," he said.
We cannot ask the British constitution for more than the restitution of Grattan's parliament, but no man has the right to fix the boundary of a nation.
" We never let a press conference go by without getting someone to try to ask him about statehood.
We ask Allah, through His Mercy, to forgive the one who uttered it.
We ask only that:
" We firstly ask for the freedom of conscience or the freedom of full universal religion, without distinction as without privilege ; and by consequence, in what touches us, we Catholics, for the total separation of church and state ... this necessary separation, without which there would exist for Catholics no religious freedom, implies, for a part, the suppression of the ecclesiastical budget, and we have fully recognized this ; for another part, the absolute independence of the clergy in the spiritual order ... Just as there can be nothing religious today in politics there must be nothing political in religion.
We ask, secondly, for freedom of education, because it is a natural right, and thus to say, the first freedom of the family ; because there exists without it neither religious freedom nor freedom of expression .”
For example, " We went to Il Ristorante " is acceptable provided your audience can infer that it is a restaurant ( if they understand Italian and English it might likely, if spoken rather than written, be misinterpreted as a generic reference and not a proper noun, leading the hearer to ask " Which ristorante do you mean?
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
* We believe that the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, according to Acts 2: 4 is given to believers who ask for it.
The Spanish version is as follows: " A San Fermín pedimos, por ser nuestro patrón, nos guíe en el encierro dándonos su bendición " (" We ask Saint Fermín, as our Patron, to guide us through the encierro and give us his blessing ").
We ask which is more beautiful, the perfectly round belly button of Jane Fonda or Raquel Welch ’ s grain of coffee navel?
In his encyclical Mystici Corporis, 103 Pope Pius XII said thatthose who do not belong to the visible Body of the Catholic Church … We ask each and every one of them to correspond to the interior movements of grace, and to seek to withdraw from that state in which they cannot be secure about their salvation. Pius IX, Iam Vos Omnes, 13 Sept. 1868 For even though by an unconscious desire and longing have a certain relationship with the Mystical Body of the Redeemer, they still remain deprived of those many heavenly gifts and helps which can only be enjoyed in the Catholic Church.

We and only
We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.
We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.
We are tempted to blame others for our problems rather than look them straight in the face and realize they are of our own making and possible of solution only by ourselves with the help of desperately needed, enlightened, competent leaders.
We already have the only one of its kind ''.
We can be virtuous only if we control our lower natures, the passions in this case, and strengthen our rational side ; ;
We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;
We take the position, however, that the third choice still remains the only sane one open to us.
We now have to think not only of our national security but also of the future generations who will suffer from any tests we might undertake.
We have only to compare the liberty and high standard of living we enjoy in this great country with the oppression and frugality of other nations to realize with humble gratitude that God's Providence has been with us since the very beginning of our country.
We do not favor one field over another: we think that all inquiry, all scholarly and artistic creation, is good -- provided only that it contributes to a sense and understanding of the true ends of life, as all first-rate scholarship and artistic creation does.
We now have not only what has been called over here the comedy of menace but we also have horror jokes, magazines known as Horror Comics, and sick comedians.
We have just observed that we can write Af where D is diagonalizable and N is nilpotent, and where D and N not only commute but are polynomials in T.
We devote a chapter to the binomial distribution not only because it is a mathematical model for an enormous variety of real life phenomena, but also because it has important properties that recur in many other probability models.
We propose a method for selecting only dictionary information required by the text being translated and a means for passing the information directly to the occurrences in text.
We consider here only a few of many problems involved in this crucial federal-state relationship.
We may carry this sequence one step further and say that at seventy he was a poet at the height of his powers, wanting only the impetus of two tragedies, one personal, the other national, to loose those powers in poetry.
We have only to think of Lady Macbeth or the policeman-murderer in Thomas Burke's famous story, `` The Hands Of Mr. Ottermole '', to realize that hands often call up ideas of crime and punishment.
We cannot now speak of maximizing the value of the objective function, since this function is now known only in a probabilistic sense.
We planned ahead only one step, a rendezvous for tomorrow when we could swap notes.
We sold only four pickers all last year ''.
We all painted in our spare time, and we had all started as easel painters with scholarships, but he was the only one of us who made any regular money at it.
We used to kid him by saying he only painted that way because he was so nearsighted.
`` We regard it as fair only when each party feels that what he has received is as valuable, or more valuable, than what he has given ''.
We must yield to the divine will, he says ; we cannot pick and choose and accept only what we can understand.
We show this by contradiction by making a program that creates a string that should only be able to be created by a longer program.

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