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We and were
We were coming to an intersection
, turning right
, chuffing to
a stop
.
We were off
the road
, gleaming barbed wire pulling taut
.
We were in
a field
, in
a tight
, screeching turn
.
We were back on
the road
.
We were slowing
.
We enjoyed
a paradoxical freedom when
we were still too young for school
.
We were not
, however
, entirely unacquainted with
the varying aspects of
the street
.
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 can also argue that
the three brothers Karamazov
and Smerdyakov
were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man
, Dostoevsky
, a conflict having to do with father-murder
and the wish to possess
the father's woman
.

``
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 were requested
by the Secretary General
, as I understand
it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant
, and we are not of course either
a formal group or
a committee in
the sense of being guided
by any rules or regulations of
the Secretariat
.
We were struck
by the notable absence of banana skins
and beer cans
, but just so that
we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement
, perfection
was side-stepped
by a couple of braying portable radios
.
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 may say of some unfortunates that they
were never young
.
We were at
a party once
and heard an idealistic young European call that awful charge glorious
.

``
We have just returned from Roswell
, N.M.
, where
we were defeated
, 34 to 9 ''
, the young man noted
.
We were less than
a quarter of
a mile from
the road
, and we could trace its shape from
the ribbon of powder smoke
and dust that hung over
it.

``
We were on our vacation in Canada ''
, Howard explained
, in
a muffled voice that must have been used to booming
, ``
and the news didn't catch
up with us till
we were nearly home
.
We blushed
and were flustered
, and it turned
out to be
the fleetest brush of lips upon cheek
.
We would have
the means to seek
out and destroy
the enemy's force -- whether
it were fixed or mobile
.
We were in business!!
We were camping
a few weeks ago on Cape Hatteras Campground in that land of pirates
, seagulls
and bluefish on North Carolina's famed Outer Banks
.
We and given

Once
, Andrus walked
by it, hastily scanned
the bold black headline
and the five-column lead of
the article (
by Duane Bosch
, staff correspondent -- age not
given )
, and muttered: ``
We a buncha national celebrities ''
.
We said there that
it was necessary `` that
a registrant be
given an opportunity to rebut (
the Department's ) recommendation when
it comes to
the Appeal Board
, the agency with
the ultimate responsibility for classification ''
.
We are not
given to lamentations
, neither personally nor in these Reports
.
We shall find
a formula for
the probability of exactly X successes for
given values of P
and N
.
We first define
a function b{t} as follows:
given the set of squares such that each has three corners on C
and vertex at t
, b{t} is
the corresponding set of positive parametric differences between T
and the backward corner points
.
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 thus have an optimal policy which maximizes
the expected value of
the objective function for
a given Af
.
We may conclude that all six points of information
, ostensibly
given by the dream priest
, could have been furnished
by Dr. Hilprecht's subconscious reasoning
.
We were paid off Tuesday morning
and given tickets back to New York
.

``
We regard
it as fair only when each party feels that what he has received is as valuable
, or more valuable
, than what he has
given ''
.

Articles of faith are sets of beliefs usually found in creeds
, sometimes numbered
, and often beginning with "
We believe ...", which attempt to more or less define
the fundamental theology of
a given religion
, and especially in
the Christian Church
.
We are
given a sequential task which is split into four consecutive parts: P1
, P2
, P3
and P4 with
the percentages of runtime being 11 %, 18 %, 23 %
and 48 % respectively
.
We begin with
the abstract characterization of C *- algebras
given in
the 1943 paper
by Gelfand
and Naimark
.

The words
were given in response to
the Latin maxim: " Ignoramus et ignorabimus " or "
We do not know
, we cannot know ":
We follow
the argument
given in ( Apostol ).

The EPR paper says: "
We are thus forced to conclude that
the quantum-mechanical description of physical reality
given by wave functions is not complete
.
We find temples
and shrines erected in
his honour
, e
. g
. at Nippur
, Girsu
, Ur
, Babylon
, Sippar
, and Nineveh
, and the numerous epithets
given to him
, as well as
the various forms under which
the god appears
, alike bear witness to
the popularity which he enjoyed from
the earliest to
the latest period of Babylonian-Assyrian history
.
We are
given the image of
a " blind
, begging singer who hangs around with little people: shoemakers
, fisherman
, potters
, sailors
, elderly men in
the gathering places of harbour towns ".
We were given minds to allow us to live together in mutual assistance
and security
.
We may represent any
given proposition with
a letter which
we call
a propositional constant
, analogous to representing
a number
by a letter in mathematics
, for instance
,.

He
was given only three months to compose
a large amount of music for
the film
, whilst at
the same time scoring
We Are Not Alone
, Dark Victory
and Four Wives for Warner
.
We were very disappointed
, and also anxious
, but
we were given the impression
, indeed assured
, that
the project would be always subject to Mr Hayao's approval
.

* 1967 – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been
given on November 13
, U
. S
. President Lyndon B
. Johnson tells
the nation that
, while much remained to be done
, "
We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking ...
We are making progress
.
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