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 given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.

`` 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 would have to imagine a mind, somewhat like our own mind, all by itself causing the tree to pop into existence.

We have also come to understand Harvey's somewhat unorthodox method of dealing with his gout, here cited completely: "... his ( Harvey's ) cure was thus: he would sit with his legs bare ... put them into a pail of water till he was almost dead with cold, then betake himself to his stove, and so ' twas gone ".

The album featured improved song writing and production and had a somewhat more epic style, showcased in such songs as the anthemic " In Union We Stand ".

The concept of ' Sarva Dharma Sambhava ' is somewhat different from European secularism, which is independent of religion ... We may say that the Indian concept of secularism is that of Sarva Dharma Sambhava ... Sarva Dharma Sambhava is not against any religion.

AFI's beginnings were somewhat inauspicious, as Davey Havok laughed in a 1999 interview, " We were amazed that we even got our shit together enough to put out a split 7-inch with Jade's band at the time.

We spent a good part of my adult life being somewhat estranged from each other.

We may have been overlooked somewhat, but all you need to do is listen to the music.

However, consistent with the Reformed formula, “ We are justified by faith alone but not by a faith that is alone ”, salvific faith has overall been seen as one that effected obedience, with those teachings ( known somewhat imprecisely ) as the moral law in contrast to ceremonial law being retained in almost all Christian denominations.

In 2008, Martin Bursík, leader of the Czech Green Party, said of the 2008 vote, " We are sitting here in front of the public somewhat muddied by backstage horse-trading, poorly concealed meetings with lobbyists and intrigue.

We describe these complex interactions with an equation somewhat similar to the definition of force above:

Before the nature of the signal was determined, the researchers, Bell and her Ph. D supervisor Antony Hewish, somewhat seriously considered the possibility of extraterrestrial life: We did not really believe that we had picked up signals from another civilization, but obviously the idea had crossed our minds and we had no proof that it was an entirely natural radio emission.

We may therefore take it that the successive stages in the " invention " of coinage were somewhat as follows: first, the occasional practice of stamping certain weights of metal with marks by which they could be identified ; this probably continued in private use for a long period before it was adopted by a state, perhaps first by Lydia ; and finally the adoption all over the Greek world of a series of state coinages.

Known for his somewhat bombastic speaking style, Smith once said: We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they ( Non-Mormons ) envy us our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow-minded, pinch-backed race of men, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy, and live all their days under the dominion of one wife.

We spent a good part of my adult life being somewhat estranged from each other.

We would have liked to effectuate and fulfill your wishes and request that the new territories should no more be allowed to be infected by people of the Jewish nation, for we foresee therefrom the same difficulties which you fear, but after having further weighed and considered the matter, we observe that this would be somewhat unreasonable and unfair, especially because of the considerable loss sustained by this nation, with others, in the taking of Brazil, as also because of the large amount of capital which they still have invested in the shares of this company.

We see, especially in this simplified form, a speed-accuracy tradeoff, somewhat similar to that in Fitts's law.

We refer to the temperature as an equivalent temperature, since actual firing conditions may vary somewhat from those in which the cones were originally standardized.

' We have a somewhat strange situation.

We say this not in a reproachful spirit, but in a somewhat sad conviction of mind, that we who live on the sunny side of Mason and Dixon's line are not yet sufficiently inspired with a sense of importance of maintaining our just rights, or rather our proper representation in the Republic of Letters.

That year, the " We Are Family " Bucs went on to win the World Series, with the Parrot serving as somewhat of a cheerleader to the crowd along the way.

Due to the success of the albums Frampton and Frampton Comes Alive !, and particularly the hit singles " Do You Feel Like We Do " and " Show Me the Way ", Frampton has become somewhat synonymous with the talk box.

Colonel Russell Parker testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee in March 1977 that " We expect this somewhat unorthodox approach to permit a much reduced development time, thus resulting in an earliest fielding date, albeit with higher but acceptable risks ... the manufacturer will be required by the fixed price warranty provisions, to correct deficiencies.

We asked him to alter and decorate the house — a somewhat new departure, since the architects of that day looked down on house-decoration as a branch of dress-making, and left the field up to the upholsterers, who crammed every room with curtains, lambrequins, jardinières of artificial plants, wobbly velvet-covered tables littered with silver gew-gaws, and festoons of lace on mantelpieces and dressing tables.

Carolla walks in the woods with a guy who looks somewhat like Benjamin Franklin, and plays straight man as the " 1780s guy " questions current phenomena such as metrosexuals (" We call them homosexuals ") and Oprah Winfrey (" Nubian sorceress ").