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We and depend
`` We must solve the problems which have forced these people to depend upon ADC for subsistence '', Martin said.
We have only the people's hearts and minds to depend upon.
We will have to depend on luck and educative guesses to come up with worthwhile research hypothesis.
We could change the angle of the hand on each clock by a varying amount θ, where θ could depend on both the position in space and on time.
We needn ’ t make one set of arguments depend on the other.
We came perilously close to losing it altogether, in fact: the only manuscripts of Pausanias are three 15th-century copies, full of errors and lacunae, which all appear to depend on a single manuscript that survived to be copied.
Ray Martin denied any ill intent, saying " We faxed a series of general topics, but it was clear at the outset that much would depend on the general run of the interview [...] An ambush was not on the agenda [...] He had no complaints.
We depend on our memory to fill in the blanks when we're listening.
We cannot depend on people's predictions about what they would do in a hypothetical situation ; we can only find out what people will really do when we construct a situation that triggers the same psychological processes as occur in the real world.
" We weren't encouraged to ask questions, but to depend on the so-called experts ," Hawley told Women's eNews.
: We were compelled to appear on television and warned that our release would depend on our performances on tv.

We and upon
We went out of the office and down the hall to a window where documents and more officials awaited us, the rest of the office personnel hot upon our heels.
We must, therefore, have a look at the new archaeological material and re-examine the literary and place-name evidence which bears upon the problem.
We do not defeat the good ones with this cruelty, but we add to their burden, while expecting them to bestow saintliness upon us in return for ostentatious church attendance and a few bucks a week, American cash.
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 blushed and were flustered, and it turned out to be the fleetest brush of lips upon cheek.
We assume further that the union recognizes the possibility that price-level increases may offset wage-rate increases, and it does not entirely disregard the effect of price increases arising from its own wage increases upon the `` real '' wage rate.
We come upon a rabbit that has been caught in one of the brutal traps in common use.
We are quite convinced that one of the main hopes for the future depends upon the informal contacts and exchanges of ideas between individuals.
We know that the number of radio and television impulses, sound waves, ultra-violet rays, etc., that may occupy the very same space, each solitary upon its own frequency, is infinite.
We never become Christ, but we are called upon to become fully Christly or Christ-like, to emulate our Master's great words and works in some measure.
A fan of Philip K. Dick, author of " We Can Remember it For You Wholesale ," the short story upon which the film was based, Cronenberg related ( in the biography / overview of his work, Cronenberg on Cronenberg ) that his dissatisfaction with what he envisioned the film to be and what it ended up being pained him so greatly that for a time, he suffered a migraine just thinking about it, akin to a needle piercing his eye.
We could never have imagined ( had we not seen it fall out in experience ) that a man raised up by ourself and extraordinarily favoured by us, above any other subject of this land, would have in so contemptible a sort broken our commandment in a cause that so greatly touches us in honour .... And therefore our express pleasure and commandment is that, all delays and excuses laid apart, you do presently upon the duty of your allegiance obey and fulfill whatsoever the bearer hereof shall direct you to do in our name.
In fact, We had in mind the justifiable anxieties which weigh upon them when We published Our encyclical letter Populorum Progressio.
We will continue to accept and investigate credible reports of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers, and to promote protection and restoration of the old growth conditions upon which this magnificent species depended across the entire southeastern United States .”
* Total Recall ( 1990 ) – Loosely based upon a Philip K. Dick short story, " We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.
We realize that the mark of Cain stands upon our foreheads.
All learned men and doctors of divinity say that God created it in the beginning ; but it is not so: the very idea lessens man in my estimation ... We say that God Himself is a self-existing being ... Man does exist upon the same principles ... Bible does not say in the Hebrew that God created the spirit of man.
Francis A. Schaeffer, an American theologian based in Switzerland, seizing upon the exclusion of the divine from most humanist writings, argued that rampant secular humanism would lead to moral relativism and ethical bankruptcy in his book How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture ( 1976 ).
::“ We certainly cannot hope directly to compare their effects except within a limited future ; and all the arguments, which have ever been used in Ethics, and upon which we commonly act in common life, directed to shewing that one course is superior to another, are ( apart from theological dogmas ) confined to pointing out such probable immediate advantages …
He added: " We are in some danger of resting our position too exclusively upon the existence, the nature and the wishes of the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands ... if the population of the Falkland Islands did not desire to be British, the principle that the Queen wishes no unwilling subjects would long ago have prevailed ; but we should create great difficulties for ourselves in other contexts, as well as in this context, if we rested our action purely and exclusively on the notion of restoring tolerable, acceptable conditions and self-determination to our fellow Britons on the Falkland Islands ....
On 5 January 1990, addressing Conservatives in Liverpool, Powell claimed that if the Conservatives played the " British card " at the next general election, they could win ; the new mood in Britain for " self-determination " had given the newly independent nations of Eastern Europe a " beacon ", adding that Britain should stand alone, if necessary, for European freedom, adding: " We are taunted –- by the French, by the Italians, by the Spaniards -– for refusing to worship at the shrine of a common government superimposed upon them all ... where were the European unity merchants in 1940?
As the war progressed, with no hope of joining the rebellion due to power of the Royal Navy ( in the letter he had addressed to Bermudians soliciting the theft of the gunpowder, George Washington had written We would not wish to in volve you in an Opposition, in which from your Situation, we should be unable to support you: -- We knew not therefore to what Extent to sollicit your Assistance in availing ourselves of this Supply ), with increasing numbers of Amercan loyalists in Bermuda ( such as the privateer Bridger Goodrich ), and with their economic opportunities dwindling, Bermudians overcame their sympathies for their erstwhile countrymen and unleashed their privateers ( which, by the middle of the 18th Century already outnumbered those of any of the mainland colonies ) upon American shipping.

We and laws
Drennan commented, " We have lots of laws, but human interaction creates unique circumstances and the law has to adapt.
We can then " compose " these " bimorphisms " both horizontally and vertically, and we require a 2-dimensional " exchange law " to hold, relating the two composition laws.
We forbid marriages between blood-relatives because they are forbidden by the divine and secular laws.
We really don ’ t think laws and “ imaginary property ” have any place in peoples ’ love or cultural relations.
We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly.
: We shall embody this viewpoint in a principle of self-consistency, which states that the only solutions to the laws of physics that can occur locally in the real Universe are those which are globally self-consistent.
After the harsh meeting with Bell and other church leaders, and near the end of Tyndale's time at Little Sodbury, John Foxe describes an argument with a " learned " but " blasphemous " clergyman, who had asserted to Tyndale that, " We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.
" We are a country of laws not a nation of guns.
We may take as our unit for study an actual historical case of great dis-equilibrium, such as, say, the panic of 1873 ; or we may take as our unit for study any constituent tendency, such as, say, deflation, and discover its general laws, relations to, and combinations with, other tendencies.
Israeli defense minister Yitzhak Rabin's response was: " We will teach them there is a price for refusing the laws of Israel.
A webpage at the Environmental Agency site put up at around that time states: " We have completed our extensive enquiries to identify those we consider should be held responsible under the contaminated land laws and be held liable for the cost of remediating Brofiscin Quarry.
John declined Abigail's " extraordinary code of laws ," but acknowledged to Abigail, " We have only the name of masters, and rather than give up this, which would completely subject us to the despotism of the petticoat, I hope General Washington and all our brave heroes would fight.
All proceeds from the sales of the items went to the " We The People " group ; a group dedicated to changing the parole laws for convicted murders such as McFadden ( who was paroled in spite of a past marked by violence ) due to overcrowding.
: We must also be wary of those who publish the Bible with new interpretations contrary to the Church's laws.
: One witness wrote, " We are driven from our homes for acting under the authority of Ohio ; our houses broken open in the dead of night ; citizens taken prisoners, bound hand and foot, and tied to fiery horses, gagged that they may not alarm the rest of the citizens ; the females too in the same house are treated with violence by being held and prevented from going to alarm the neighbors ; and all this for saying to an individual, he need not obey the laws of Michigan.
We may say with truth that nature and humanity belong to it, for without its laws both would perish.
The German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn ( 1729 – 1786 ) taught that " According to the basic principles of my religion I am not to seek to convert anyone not born into our laws .... We believe that the other nations of the Earth are directed by God to observe only the law of nature and the religion of the Patriarchs ... I fancy that whosoever leads men to virtue in this life cannot be damned in the next.
" He is also the author of What's Right ( 1996 ) and How We Got Here ( 2000 ), a history of the 1970s, which " framed the 1970s in the shadow of World War II and Vietnam, suggesting, ' The turmoil of the 1970s should be understood ... as the rebellion of an unmilitary people against institutions and laws formed by a century of war and the preparation for war.
The book takes its title from part of a speech given by Taylor on January 4, 1880 in defense of the Mormon practice of polygamy: " We believe in honesty, morality, and purity ; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit.
: We have offended against thy holy laws.
On April 7, 2003, Sen. Rick Santorum referred to the oral arguments in Lawrence when asked his views on homosexuality: " We have laws in states, like the one at the Supreme Court right now, that has sodomy laws and they were there for a purpose .... And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery.
We know of at least one " keeper of the books " who was employed to oversee the thousands of tablets on Sumerian and Babylonian materials, including literary texts, history, omens, astronomical calculations, mathematical tables, grammatical and linguistic tables, and dictionaries, and commercial records and laws.
It was in 1946 when debating the repeal of anti-Union laws in the House of Commons that Shawcross allegedly said " We are the masters now ,", a phrase that came to haunt him.

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