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We and couldn't
We couldn't budge them
.
We have
seen good new products shelved because
no one had
the assignment
to develop such facts
and plans --
and management
couldn't make up its mind
.
We couldn't help laughing
.

"
We figured we could win if
our offense didn't put us into too many holes ", said 35-year old Colts lineman Billy Ray Smith
, who
was playing in his last NFL game
, " Let me put it this way
, they didn't put us into any holes we
couldn't get out
of "
We couldn't imagine
a happy ending
.

She said years later
, "
We couldn't even take care
of ourselves
.
We couldn't get insurance
for Spence
.
We couldn't think up things as funny as
the real things that had happened
.
We couldn't affect anything
, but I still tried
.

Ginn once stated that after Rollins joined
, "
We couldn't do songs
with a sense
of humor anymore ; he got into
the serious way-out poet
thing.

When
the messenger turned back
to look at
the spot where Oedipus last stood
, he says that "
We couldn't see
the man-he
was gone-nowhere!

Despite having finished
the script in 1985
, Joel explained
, "
We couldn't make Hudsucker back then because we weren't that popular yet
.

The book Conversations
with Woody Allen reports that director Woody Allen wanted
to cast Downey
and Winona Ryder in his film Melinda
and Melinda in 2005
, but was unable
to do so because he could not get insurance on them
, stating
, "
We couldn't get bonded
.

In 1964
, Martin
and Lyon began
to control less
of the organization
, saying
, "
We felt that if
the organization had any validity at all it
couldn't be based on two people
, it had
to be able
to stand
and grow on its own
.

Their composition
, " When
the Kissing Stops " made it
to the final eight
, but although initially tempted
, the group decided not
to perform
the number themselves ("
We all agreed it would
be better
to be remembered as winners
, and we
couldn't bear
to lose!
We went through
the stage door alley (
for the Curran Theatre ),
and I
couldn't get
the stage door open
.

Wilson realized that by scheduling
the Golden Raspberry Awards prior
to the Academy Awards
, the ceremony would get more press coverage: "
We finally figured out you
couldn't compete
with the Oscars on Oscar night
, but if you went
the night before
, when
the press from all over
the world are here
and they are looking
for something
to do
, it could well catch on ," he said
to BBC News
.
We couldn't have done it without Hollywood's help
.

"
We couldn't infect
the pigeons ," Swayne said
.
We have
a wonderful companionship that Hubert
and I didn't have
, couldn't have
.
We recorded it live
, and they all got enormous laughs
, which just went on
and on
, but we
couldn't use
the jokes
.

Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke said
, "
We had originally approved
a rule where
the goaltenders
couldn't handle
the puck behind
the net at all
.
We couldn't eat when we wanted
to.
We couldn't do it
, but God did
.
We and be

``
We aim t'
be see-lective
, y'know??
We spoke
of the need
for advertising
, and I agreed that
the deep dive would
be most useful
for publicity
.
We, in
our country
, think
of war as an external threat which
, if it occurs
, will not
be primarily
of our own doing
.
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 must not forget
, to be sure
, that free discussion
and debate have produced beneficial results
.
We would
be ignoring
the special circumstances
of other countries
.
We face
, indeed
, what may
be a turning point in history
, and we must act decisively
and wisely
.
We must
be ever alert that freedom does not wither through
the careless amassing
of restrictive controls or
the lack
of courage
to deal boldly
with the issues
of the day
.

``
We were requested by
the Secretary General
, as I understand it
, to discuss
with you such matters as appear
to us
to be relevant
, and we are not
of course either
a formal group or
a committee in
the sense
of being guided by any rules or regulations
of the Secretariat
.
We need not
, to be sure
, expect
to find such ideas in every piece
of literature
.
We must avoid
the notion
, suggested
to some people by examples such as those just mentioned
, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable
to coins or counters that can
be passed intact from
one group
of people
to another or even
, for that
matter, from
one individual
to another
.
We can
be virtuous only if we control
our lower natures
, the passions in this case
, and strengthen
our rational side ; ;
We lived
for a while in
a movie melodrama
with a German cook
and her son who turned out
to be Nazis
.
We must
, first
of all
, be willing
to forgive others before we can secure God's forgiveness
.
We want
the past forgiven
, but at
the same time we must
be willing
for God
to direct
the future
.
We expect him
to be noble
, and to make us so -- yet he knows
, and tries
to tell us
, how very humble
man must
be.
We have
no right
to criticize them
, as they realize they would
be sitting ducks in
a nuclear war
.
We feel that The Detroit News is
to be complimented upon arranging
for articles on these subjects
and we hope that it will continue
to provide material along wholesome lines
.
We would
be crippled by reduced output
, industrial decline
, widespread unemployment ''
.
We welcome this able brief
for the negative as part
of a many-sided discussion
of the Atlantic Common Market which JNR will
be continuing in
our pages
.
We hoped that its practitioners
and teachers might
be put on some sort
of reserve list
and called back
for refresher courses each year or so
.

--
We won't
be too long
.
We blushed
and were flustered
, and it turned out
to be the fleetest brush
of lips upon cheek
.
We found in Gonzales v. United States
, supra
, that this
was the controlling reason why copies
of the recommendation should
be furnished
a registrant
.
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