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We take leave of Pumblechook as he gloats over Pip's loss of fortune, extending his hand `` with a magnificently forgiving air '' and exhibiting `` the same fat five fingers '', one of which he identifies with `` the finger of Providence '' and shakes at Pip in a canting imputation of the latter's `` ingratitoode '' and his own generosity as Pip's `` earliest benefactor ''.
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We and take
We may take her with us -- to California.
We take the position, however, that the third choice still remains the only sane one open to us.
We must build a corps of highly professional teachers of interior design who have had education, experience in the profession and are willing to take on the usual accompaniments of teaching -- minimal income and minimal status among their confreres.
We have every obligation to take seriously their claims to being democratic and free countries ; ;
We have emphasized that the modernizing process in each society will take a considerable period of time.
We had nearly decided that all the tales of Lao lethargy must be true, when we were invited to take a trip with the Prime Minister.
We may now take up for consideration a hard case which seems to require either no action employing economic pressure or else action that would seem to violate the principles set forth above.
`` We can't take a chance on that.
Mrs. Molvar, who kept reiterating her request that they `` please take a stand '', said, `` We must have faith in somebody -- on the local level, and it wouldn't be possible for everyone to rush to a school to get their children ''.
We cannot take the space to record all the efforts for the removal or alleviation of collective ills.
We don't want to take the world by storm.
We can run the algorithm a constant number of times and take a majority vote to achieve any desired probability of correctness less than 1, using the Chernoff bound.
An early statement appeared in Discourse of the Common Wealth of this Realm of England, 1549: " We must always take heed that we buy no more from strangers than we sell them, for so should we impoverish ourselves and enrich them.
We sure not tryin ' to take credit for swingin ' it.
We must take the offensive and beat Sinn Fein at its own tactics ... If a police barracks is burned or if the barracks already occupied is not suitable, then the best house in the locality is to be commandeered, the occupants thrown into the gutter.
' We may take this literally, understanding that by a purely mechanical process one which could be carried out by a machine.
We may take ( 1 ) to mean
" When Robert B. Anderson, Eisenhower's first Secretary of the Navy argued that the Navy must recognize the " customs and usages prevailing in certain geographic areas of our country which the Navy had no part in creating ", Eisenhower overruled him: " We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step.
We are like travellers at an inn, or guests at a stranger's table ; whatever is offered we take with thankfulness, and sometimes, when the turn comes, we may refuse ; in the former case we are a worthy guest of the gods, and in the latter we appear as a sharer in their power.
In a fuller description, when angels came to Abraham to tell him of the future punishment to be imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah, his wife, Sarah, " laughed, and We gave her good tidings of Isaac, and after Isaac of ( a grandson ) Jacob " ( XI: 71-74 ); and it is further explained that this event will take place despite Abraham and Sarah's old age.
We cannot take the risks and risk our hard-won freedom.
We may be permitted here to take as proven the unity of the author of these three writings handed down under the name of John and his identity with the Evangelist.
Loach, Laverty and O ' Brien subsequently wrote that: " We feel duty bound to take advice from those living at the sharp end inside the occupied territories.
After the signing of the Louisiana Purchase agreement in 1803, Livingston made this famous statement, " We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives ... From this day the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank.
We and leave
We therefore leave the writer to the enjoyment of the unenvied reputation which the personal abuse he has heaped on us will entitle him to from the low and vulgar herd to which he belongs ''.
We decided to leave the third one intact for tomorrow.
He announced that he had reached an agreement with the Communist Czechoslovakian government that the refugees could leave: " We have come to you to tell you that today, your departure ..." ( German: " Wir sind zu Ihnen gekommen, um Ihnen mitzuteilen, dass heute Ihre Ausreise ...").
We can leave the theatre now ...”
The sovereign has unrestricted freedom of choice ... We leave that to Her Majesty in all confidence.
:( 1 ) Speaker X: " We should leave for the show or else we ’ ll be late.
During a Politburo meeting Eduard Shevardnadze said " We will leave the country in a deplorable situation ", and talked further about economic collapse, and the need to keep at least 10, 000 to 15, 000 troops in Afghanistan.
The last line spoken is Petruchio's " We three are married, but you two are sped ;" thus omitting Petruchio's comment to Lucentio "' Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white ,/ And being a winner, God give you good night ," as well as Hortensio's line, " Now go thy ways, thou has tamed a curst shrew ," and Lucentio's closing statement, "' Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so.
We leave that sort of thing to Bismarck ".
We can practice joint cooperation in government, military, cultural, and economic matters and you can leave us with a guerrilla force.
We will leave the matter undecided although, in the case of an indulgent nature ( remissum ingenium ), we regard as suspicious ( suspectum ) the association between persons of disparate age ( aestimantes societatem aevi longe imparilis ).
In October 2007, Karzai again rejected Western accusations against Iran, stating, " We have resisted the negative propaganda launched by foreign states against the Islamic Republic, and we stress that aliens ' propaganda should not leave a negative impact on the consolidated ties between the two great nations of Iran and Afghanistan.
We talked for a few minutes about London and things like that and I could soon see that it was time for me to leave.
We have been sellers, and they all leave in outrage.
We leave the best behind for others
The Lords still favoured a compromise, and suggested the addition of a paragraph to the petition reading " We humbly present this petition to your majesty, not only with a care of preserving our own liberties, but with due regard to leave entire that sovereign power, wherewith your majesty is trusted, for the protection, safety, and happiness of your people ".
We will see what the market requires and we will not leave a customer without oil.
We leave the Titans with the arrival of Hyperion, and the scene changes to Apollo ( the new sun god, also god of music, civilisation and culture ) weeping on the beach.
We all want the young fighter to leave this great night as a winner.
The last line spoken is Petruchio's " We three are married, but you two are sped ;" thus omitting Petruchio's comment to Lucentio "' Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white, And being a winner, God give you good night ", as well as Hortensio's line, " Now go thy ways, thou has tamed a curst shrew ", and Lucentio's closing statement, "' Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so.
Following the Zero Sex single, Demone opted to leave the band and Valor recorded the two-part All The Love, All The Hate concept album in collaboration with Nick the Bastard, which spawned the double A-side single We Fall Like Love / I Hate You.
We had our day, it was wonderful but it is best to leave it now.
" We could leave our packs, and run into it even in open day … We see people walking about the streets in great consternation ..." But caution prevailed, and plans by Burgoyne for a formal siege, backed by Canrobert, were prepared.
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