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We cannot test public opinion until the President and the leaders of the country have gone to the public to explain what is required and have asked them for support for the necessary action.
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We and cannot
We have proved so able to solve technological problems that to contend we cannot realize a universal goal in the immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted, if nothing else.
We cannot truthfully say of anyone who has succeeded in entering deep into his sixties that he was never old.
We can force Britain and France out of the Suez, but we cannot so much as try to force the Russian tanks back from Budapest.
We can vote in the UN against South African apartheid or Portuguese rule in Angola, but we cannot even introduce a motion on the Berlin Wall -- much less, give the simple order to push the Wall down.
We cannot regard foreign policy as something left over after defense policy or trade policy or fiscal policy has been extracted.
We cannot now speak of maximizing the value of the objective function, since this function is now known only in a probabilistic sense.
We may show, first, that there cannot possibly be an alternative other than the three typically represented by Bultmann, Barth, and Buri.
We cannot take the space to record all the efforts for the removal or alleviation of collective ills.
We must yield to the divine will, he says ; we cannot pick and choose and accept only what we can understand.
Said Romney: " We simply cannot live in a setting where a project of this scale has the potential of threatening human life, as has already been seen ".
In 1944, Jones wrote to John Walvoord of Dallas Theological Seminary that while the university had " no objection to educational work highly standardized …. We, however, cannot conscientiously let some group of educational experts or some committee of experts who may have a behavioristic or atheistic slant on education control or even influence the administrative policies of our college.
We cannot define a point except as ' something with no parts ', nor blindness except as ' the absence of sight in a creature that is normally sighted '.
The words were given in response to the Latin maxim: " Ignoramus et ignorabimus " or " We do not know, we cannot know ":
We cannot tell at what date the book received its present form, since there are no clear historical allusions in it.
" We simply cannot do without auxiliary constructions ", as Theodor Fontane once said ... dwelling on imaginary wish fulfillments '.
We cannot build a water-tight theology promising physical healing, surely, for the most ' miracle-ridden ' Christian will die in the end, yielding to the natural processes of senescence.
We and test
We repeat, that the test of a violation of 7 is whether, at the time of suit, there is a reasonable probability that the acquisition is likely to result in the condemned restraints.
He said, `` We Democrats must resolve our issues on the test of what is right and just, and not what is expedient at the time ''.
We can therefore distinguish in the epistle both a general purpose ( to increase mutual joy ) and a specific purpose ( to provide readers with test by which they might assure themselves of their salvation ).
We enclose groups of objects in sets of hierarchical bounding volumes and first test for intersection with the bounding volume, and then only if there is an intersection, against the objects enclosed by the volume.
In his privately published " Wilmot's World " biography, he says " I took the test to get into the Navy V-12 program .... We had military drills and wore Navy uniforms, but it was mostly just going to college.
When attempting it himself later in the novel, Paul says, " We will see now whether I'm the Kwisatz Haderach who can survive the test that the Reverend Mothers have survived.
At Sullavan's suggestion Universal agreed to test him for her leading man and eventually he was borrowed from a willing MGM to star with Sullavan in Next Time We Love.
We expect the student with the highest test score on the second day to have done worse on the first day.
There is, nevertheless, a small chance that we are unlucky and hit an a which is a strong liar for n. We may reduce the probability of such error by repeating the test for several independently chosen a.
We don't need to assume anything about the distribution of test scores to reason that before we gave the test it was equally likely that the highest score would be any of the first 100.
" We have in the Dogon information a predictive mechanism which it is our duty to test, regardless of our preconceptions.
" We also meet Earl, who is looking for a place to put up a tent for a revival meeting, where " folks go to dance with snakes " in order to test their faith in Jesus.
We could also say that with 98. 6 % confidence we reject the null hypothesis that the 55 test takers are comparable to a simple random sample from the population of test-takers.
Sentamu said that he had conducted wedding services for “ many cohabiting couples ” during his time as a vicar in south London and that " We are living at a time where some people, as my daughter used to say, want to test whether the milk is good before they buy the cow ".
We aim to create a cohesive brotherhood that will stand the test of time while giving back to the world in which we live through charity.
We noted sourly that you would probably fail a driving test in the XM, because you cannot apply the brake ( using your left foot ) until you have put the car in neutral.
We apply the same example-generation strategy to the test documents, then run each example through the learner.
We can compute the likelihood ratio to find the key statistic in this test and its effect on the test's outcome:
1.640 seconds.