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We once had a contract to collaborate on the Moore book and split the byline ; but instead we split, because I was convinced that lawmen at every level were involved in every phase of the murders, while he was bent not just upon whitewash but on praising the G-men for a " stellar performance ". I must say that I am not at all comfortable about being in Freakonomics, anyway.
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We and once
We are not now afraid of atomic bombs in the same way that people once feared comets.
We see at once what Victor Hugo means when he calls Macbeth a northern scion of the house of Atreus.
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 were at a party once and heard an idealistic young European call that awful charge glorious.
We did not accept the diagnosis at once, but gradually we are coming to.
We took the matches -- they were book matches and once they'd been touched might retain fingerprints -- and the change.
We went once more over every point, then triple-checked.
We undressed and made love with the comfortable acceptance I had once known with Valery.
" He continued, " We believe that by attacking with tanks we can achieve a higher rate of movement than has been hitherto obtainable, and — what is perhaps even more important — that we can keep moving once a breakthrough has been made.
" We simply cannot do without auxiliary constructions ", as Theodor Fontane once said ... dwelling on imaginary wish fulfillments '.
When a general said in a meeting " We should throw in a nuke once in a while to keep the other side guessing ," Dyson became alarmed and obtained permission to write an objective report discussing the pros and cons of using such weapons from a purely military point of view.
We know little of her past, except that as a young woman she lived in Vienna, was once married, and she carries what is presumably a Nazi concentration camp tattoo on one arm, although the tattoo itself is historically inaccurate with respect to actual camp tattoos.
Citing this difficulty, former American Political Science Association President Lawrence Lowell once said " We are limited by the impossibility of experiment.
He once told Time, " We don't want one set of rules for people whose collars are blue or whose names end in vowels, and another set for those whose collars are white and have Ivy League diplomas.
As an example, he stated that " We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess.
We must condemn once and for all the formula ' chess for the sake of chess ', like the formula ' art for art's sake '.
We do not find anything in the article which suggests that an amendment once proposed is to be open to ratification for all time, or that ratification in some of the states may be separated from that in others by many years and yet be effective.
In a letter written to his aunt at this time, Wilhelm wrote of their circumstances, " We five people eat only three portions and only once a day ".
According to his son Pierrepont Noyes, John Noyes once remarked, We made a raid into an unknown country, charted it and returned without the loss of a man, woman, or child.
It states that " We give thanks to the Author of all that is good, who allows us once again, in prayer and in dialogue, to express the joy we feel as brothers and to renew our commitment to move towards full communion ".
We have only the names of some auguria ( augural rites ): e. g. the augurium salutis which took place once a year before the magistrates and the people, in which the gods were asked whether it was auspicious to ask to for the welfare of the Romans, the augurium canarium and the vernisera auguria.
We know all the pains that the Greeks and Trojans once endured
The pope responded with the bull Ad Sanctam Beati Petri Sedem ( dated October 16, 1656 ) in which he stated " We declare and define that the five propositions have been drawn from the book of Jansenius entitled Augustinus, and that they have been condemned in the sense of the same Jansenius and we once more condemn them as such.
: We once again appeal to the industrialized countries, particularly those who have not done so, to urgently ratify and fully implement the Kyoto Protocol, and to provide concrete support in all our adaptation efforts to cope with the effects of climate change and sea level rise.
In his last speech to the Cabinet on 18 January he said: " We must show the world the extent of our victory, and we must take up the mentality and habits of a victorious people, which once more takes its place at the head of Europe.
We and had
`` We had to do something ''.
We haven't had anything to eat all day ''.
`` 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 found that a charitable society in New York had a long case-history of the two ; ;
He said, `` We had a good time tonight, didn't we, Earl ''??
We had walked it many times and shivered, figuring what a fish barrel it had been for the French.
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 just sit quiet and wait '', Prevot had said.
We came down off the wall as if he had toppled all of us, and we crouched behind it.
We both had hangovers.
We still had that much in common.
`` 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 had merely been discovered by the pool sharks.
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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