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This usage is particularly widespread in medicine ; for example, pathology is often used simply to refer to " the disease " itself ( e. g. " We haven't found the pathology yet ") rather than " the study of a disease ".
At the time of the declaration, an Israeli Foreign Ministry official stated: " We haven't decided when we're going to decide, and instead will monitor events and consider the issue ".
Despite this, during the visit of President Nixon in 1972, Mao Zedong told him " We haven't even begun to establish socialism.
His sister, Berta, sent him a postcard from the Polish border describing the family's expulsion: " No one told us what was up, but we realised this was going to be the end ... We haven't a penny.
56 when he stated "" We managed in the past without illegal immigrants to pick the tomatoes here, and I haven't heard anyone say that if we sent them all home nobody would be left to do that work.
Hans Monderman, the innovative Dutch traffic engineer, and pioneer of shared space schemes, was sceptical of their role, and is quoted as having said of them: " We only want traffic lights where they are useful and I haven't found anywhere where they are useful yet.
Niall Ferguson in Empire quotes Kitchener in 1914: " We haven't an army, and we have taken on the foremost military power in Europe ".
We haven't done anything absolutely different from our style, because that wouldn't be natural, that would be weird-it wouldn't be us.
Gerard Cosloy, co-president of Matador, stated that " We usually don't sign people we haven't met, or heard other records by, or seen as performers.
Now, Mr. President, / We haven't always agreed in the past, I know, / But that ain't at all important now.
In a 2009 interview, Plain Dealer music critic John Soeder asked Don Henley this about the lyrics :" On " Hotel California ," you sing: " So I called up the captain / ' Please bring me my wine ' / He said, ' We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.
The host then announces, " We were going to reunite you with your sister, whom you haven't seen in 27 years, but you blew the question, so we sent your sister back to Maine.
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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.
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