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We and fashioned
" We learned our trade at a football club with really, really good people who had old fashioned values ," I truly believe that it's because of the way we were brought up back then that we have managed to go on and achieve what we have done in the game.
We are like some old fashioned sailing ship, divided by solid wooden bulkheads into separate and cumbersome compartments.
" We realized that we can ’ t go it alone if we ’ re going to solve problems and take advantage of resources to create real change ," Ben-Horin said, " so we identified our constituency and invited them all to come to San Francisco to meet with our capacity building partners … and what we ’ re going to do now is to use some old fashioned organizing techniques, taking statements of intent that people made at the Summit and putting them on a blog … and calling on people to make good on what they said they would do … we ’ re going to drive each of these conversations towards a specific project and ask did it happen, and what ’ s next …?” Ben-Horin reported back on the results of this process in a featured blog post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review published on July 18, 2012.

We and beards
We might as soon reconcile ourselves to the Spartan community of goods and wives, to their iron coin, their long beards, or their black broth.

We and put
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 put a light mulch over the seedlings ; ;
We could put a portion of our strategic bombers in such shelters.
We found that three men -- two carpenters and a helper -- can put up wall panels or trusses more economically than four men -- because four men don't make two teams ; ;
We will deal first with the program in the Congo though this was put into operation later than the other.
We need many more studies of this sort if the design of written languages is to be put on a sound basis.
We are abstracting from the fact of strikes here, but it should be obvious that the extent to which the public-limit price is raised by a given increase in the basic wage rate is also a function of the show of resistance put up by the industry.
`` We could put up cribs on the second floor sleeping porch and turn the front bedroom into a playroom where it's nice and sunny, but of course it would entail quite a bit of running up and down stairs and Chris said you were to be careful about that ''.
We never learn anything about her husband, but we do know that she hates alcohol and public appearances, and has a great fondness for apples until she is put off them by the events of Hallowe ' en Party.
" We had not got forty yards on our retreat ," remembered Captain Peter Drake, the Irish mercenary serving with the French – " when the words sauve qui peut went through the great part, if not the whole army, and put all to confusion "
We say we want to see put on the statute book something which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country ".
As Gurley put it, " We aren't building computers, we're building ' Programmable Data Processors '.
" Levy quotes Walter Tuchman: " hey asked us to stamp all our documents confidential ... We actually put a number on each one and locked them up in safes, because they were considered U. S. government classified.
: We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel ;
Following the political defeats in July and October 1917, on 1 November the Social Democrats put forward an uncompromising program called " We demand " in order to push for political concessions.
As one put it: " We were convinced that we would get the world's greatest architect putting his best foot forward.
In June 1937, when Lord Mount Temple, the Chairman of the Anglo-German Fellowship, asked to see the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after meeting Hitler in a visit arranged by Ribbentrop, Robert Vansittart, the British Foreign Office's Undersecretary wrote a memo stating that :" The P. M. Minister should certainly not see Lord Mount Temple – nor should the S of S. We really must put a stop to this eternal butting in of amateurs – and Lord Mount Temple is a particularly silly one.
We have put into the mouth of the bearer of this letter, your faithful servant all our woes, which he will be able to unfold to you.
" For example, Peter Schenkel, while remaining a supporter of SETI projects, has written that " n light of new findings and insights, it seems appropriate to put excessive euphoria to rest and to take a more down-to-earth view ... We should quietly admit that the early estimates — that there may be a million, a hundred thousand, or ten thousand advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy — may no longer be tenable.
They also note that Lenin put a ban on factions within the Russian Communist Party and introduced the one-party state in 1921-a move that enabled Stalin to get rid of his rivals easily after Lenin's death, and cite Felix Dzerzhinsky, who, during the Bolshevik struggle against opponents in the Russian Civil War, exclaimed " We stand for organised terror – this should be frankly stated ".
" 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 "
Care: We put the good of students first.

We and them
We couldn't budge them.
We are worried about what people may do with them -- that some crazy fool may `` push the button ''.
We showed them to each other and said `` Would you have guessed ''??
We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.
We shall return to these statements and deal with them more fully as the evidence for them accumulates.
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 scour literature for them ; ;
We experience a vague uneasiness about events, a suspicion that our political and economic institutions, like the genie in the bottle, have escaped confinement and that we have lost the power to recall them.
We feel uncomfortable at being bossed by a corporation or a union or a television set, but until we have some knowledge about these phenomena and what they are doing to us, we can hardly learn to control them.
We met some charming Athenians, and among them our chauffeur Panyotis ranked high.
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 saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.
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 have no right to criticize them, as they realize they would be sitting ducks in a nuclear war.
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.
We want no part in such discussions, because we think them largely futile ; ;
We gently usher them to an island of tables and chairs strategically placed on the far side of the pool where they can amuse each other until we get ready to merge sides.
We didn't even know them till about a month after we moved -- at that time, they had called on us, after I met Fran at a PTA meeting, and had taken us in hand socially.
Another woman, addressing Christmas cards, said to her husband: `` We sent them one last year but they didn't send us one, so they probably won't send us one this year because they'll think we won't send them one because they didn't last year, don't you think, or shall we ''??
`` We go to the park with this nice lady '', one of them said.
We concluded that we may refer workers to the fieldwork ( but not the packing shed work ) provided we give them written notice of the packing shed dispute.
`` We must persuade them to enjoy a way of life which, if not identical, is congenial with ours '', he said but adding that if they do not develop the kind of society they themselves want it will lack ritiuality and loyalty.

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