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yes and they
`` At home, yes '', they argued.
yes, they had read about the case ; ;
If the answer isn't yes, they should get rid of it.
Oh, yes, they are complete.
He described a nation of people who are harder-working, more virtuous – yes, more virtuous, because the market punishes immorality – and more hopeful about the future than they ’ ve ever been in their history.
On the one and the same account they glorify them and they degrade and diminish them ; yes, further, they openly condemn them to disgrace and civil degradation ; they keep them religiously excluded from council chamber, rostrum, senate, knighthood, and every other kind of office and a good many distinctions.
Although these type of questions will likely result in a " yes " or " no " response, they are properly understood to be direct questions, not leading questions, and are permissible.
The Labour Party argued that the " yes " votes amounted to less than 50 % of the overall votes, hence, and citing the Integration referendum as an example, they claimed that the " yes " had not in fact won the referendum.
If they voted " yes ", then an ostracism would be held two months later.
Oh, yes they can!
In both cases, to defeat the law the no votes must not only outnumber the yes votes, they must also number at least 30 % of the electorate.
To pass, the yes votes must not only outnumber the no votes, they must also number at least 40 % of the electorate.
They express a yes / no-question via subject-auxiliary inversion, 2. they express a condition as an embedded clause, or they express a command via imperative mood, e. g.
But yes, they are here.
The booth they sit in has a fortune telling machine on the table that answers yes or no questions for a penny each.
I soon learned that my sisters could say " no " when they meant " yes.
" And they could say " yes " and mean " no " at the same time.
Sometimes the strings would be actual English words requiring a " yes " response, and other times they would be nonwords requiring a " no " response.

yes and had
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
Every woman has had the experience of saying no when she meant yes, and saying yes when she meant no.
And the old man had given a sly and wicked laugh and said, `` Hell, yes!!
But yes, nineteen plus thirty was forty-nine, and she was forty-nine and she had been married at nineteen.
And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.
And he certainly couldn't have guessed that she would resist his demand for the gold or that she was not the yielding -- yes, and credible fool he had every right to expect.
`` Oh, yes -- you had ideas ''!!
She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.
Hassan Gouled Aptidon, a Somali politician who had campaigned for a yes vote in the referendum of 1958, eventually wound up as the nation's first president ( 1977 – 1999 ).
Cagney had long been told by friends that he would make an excellent director, so when he was approached by his friend, producer A. C. Lyles, he instinctively said yes.
Kesselring also had to contend with Göring appointing " yes men " to positions of importance.
Djibouti finally gained its independence from France in 1977, and Hassan Gouled Aptidon, a Somali who had campaigned for a yes vote in the referendum of 1958, eventually wound up as Djibouti's first president ( 1977 – 1991 ).
Mulroney famously responded, " You had an option, sirto say ' no ' and you chose to say ' yes ' to the old attitudes and the old stories of the Liberal Party.
' You had an option, sir -- to say ' no ' — and you chose to say ' yes ' to the old attitudes and the old stories of the Liberal Party.
Many political insiders remarked that Davis had made several comebacks and that he should not be counted out of the race despite poll numbers that showed over 50 % planning to vote yes on the recall.
The competition was tough, and the talent was somewhat lacking, as some of the players had never played a game of baseball ; and yes, some had never owned a baseball glove or baseball shoes.
He had great endurance, he was very tough and, yes, reliable.
The answer for the analogous question about polygons in 2 dimensions is " yes " and had been known for a long time ; this is the Bolyai – Gerwien theorem.

yes and let
Lyrics include the injunction ".. Let's drink to old Jim Bridger yes, lift your glasses high-As long as there's a USA don't let his memory die-That he was making history never once occurred to him-But I doubt if we'd have been here if it weren't for men like Jim ..."
She never questions or explains why she finds herself in the predicament she is in most of us never understand how we wind up in a rut, or stuck in the mud to use similar earthy metaphors but her dream is that she will “ simply float up into the blue … And that perhaps some day the earth will yield and let me go, the pull is so great, yes, crack all round me and let me out .”
For i = 1, ..., n, let X < sub > i </ sub > = 1 or 0 according as the ith chosen voter will or will not vote " yes ".
Chief prosecutor Henry Hyde countered: " A failure to convict will make the statement that lying under oath, while unpleasant and to be avoided, is not all that serious ... We have reduced lying under oath to a breach of etiquette, but only if you are the President ... And now let us all take our place in history on the side of honor, and, oh, yes, let right be done.
They were the only ones who owned their own house where everyone else rented, they stayed together and didn't stray or have affairs and, yes, they bickered among themselves but let anyone else criticise either of them and they would be up in arms.

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