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We had lost a series of suits on this, and so we didn't want to have a product which was clearly someone else's product worked on by IBM people.
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`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
We had been walking quite briskly, for despite your being so small and me so tall, your stride in those days could easily match mine.
We had stopped before a shop window to assess its autumnal display, when you suddenly turned to me, looking up from beneath one of your wrong hats, and with your nervous `` ahem ''!!
We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.
We had assumed that at least this local legislative body had nothing to hide, and, therefore, had no objections to making the deliberations of its committees and the city commissions available to the public.
We had a couple of schools in this country, the principal one being on the Marshall Field estate out in Lloyd's Neck.
`` We found some owls had built a nest in the chimney, milord, but I promise you you'll never have trouble of that sort again ''.
We also continued to run a series of ads featuring endorsement of Rhode Island by industrialists who had recently established new plants here.
We have had sound grounding in the principles of the mailed-fist-in-velvet-glove school of diplomacy.
We unanimously agreed that Prokofieff had won his rights as a world citizen to the first ranks of Twentieth-Century Composers.
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 and lost
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 wish the President would remember that `` fiscal responsibility '' was the battle-cry of the party that lost the election.
She lost her job on The Dinah Shore Show when, as she said, " We were shooting all night, and into the next day, and time just got away from me, and I didn't realize that I was supposed to be on the set working as Dinah's double on her show, Chevy Theatre.
We will not be troubled at any loss, but will say to ourselves on such an occasion: " I have lost nothing that belongs to me ; it was not something of mine that was torn from me, but something that was not in my power has left me.
We know from other references that Euclid ’ s was not the first elementary geometry textbook, but it was so much superior that the others fell into disuse and were lost.
At some point on the plot, another character elaborates: " We have lost the element of surprise and they do not fear us.
Damian O ' Neill, the Undertones ' lead guitarist, later admitted: " We ( had ) definitely lost a bit of the spark.
George Howell wrote to Gladstone on 12 February: " There is one lesson to be learned from this Election, that is Organization ... We have lost not by a change of sentiment so much as by want of organised power ".
We believe every savage to be in his heart covetous, treacherous, and cruel ; and we have yet to learn what knowledge the white man – lost, houseless, shipless, apparently forgotten by his race, plainly famine-stricken, weak frozen, helpless, and dying – has of the gentleness of the Esquimaux nature.
Legend has it that, as he put down his pen, Johnson told an aide, " We have lost the South for a generation ", anticipating a coming backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party.
In 1935 it was suggested that the title derived from a line in John Florio's His firste Fruites ( 1578 ), " We neede not speak so much of loue, al books are ful of lou, with so many authours, that it were labour lost to speake of Loue ", a source from which Shakespeare also took the untranslated Venetian proverb Venetia, Venetia / Chi non ti vede non ti pretia
Some commentators, such as Rabbi Hayim Palaggi ( 1788 – 1869 ) argued that Jews had lost the tradition of distinguishing Amalekites from other people, and therefore the commandment of killing them could not practically be applied ("... We can rely on the maxim that in ancient times, Sennacherib confused the lineage of many nations.
That led to the 1977 – 78 motto of " We owe you one ", which would ultimately backfire when they lost in the playoffs that season to the Washington Bullets, who went on to win the NBA championship.
" We pray for those who lost their lives ," Meigs wrote, " The grounds about the mansion are admirably adapted to such a use.
Several scenes were cut from the final film ; one lost scene entitled ' The Isles of Langerhans ' has the three teenagers trying to order in the French restaurant, shocked to discover pancreas on the menu ( although in the finished film, Ferris still says, " We ate pancreas ", while recapping the day.
We believe that our first parents were created in a state of innocence, but by their disobedience they lost their purity and happiness, and that in consequence of their fall all men have become sinners, totally depraved and as such are justly exposed to the wrath of God.
We were going on and on for years making new albums and playing tours and after a while we felt lost without a clue why we kept doing it.
In a 2002 letter to The Guardian Deborah relates the experience: " We were not prepared for what we found-the person lying in bed was desperately ill. She had lost two stone ( 28 pounds ), was all huge eyes and matted hair, untouched since the bullet went through her skull.
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