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After presenting the fake newspaper during the pitch meeting, a very lively conversation ensued, until someone realized the paper was dated the following day.
Their conversation was interrupted by the entrance of Benjie, in whose pocket a paper was found indicating that Nixon had communicated with the Government ; and, during the confusion which ensued, the Hanoverian General Campbell arrived, unarmed and unaccompanied, and after explaining that the Jacobites had been betrayed weeks before, announced that he was sufficiently supported with cavalry and infantry.

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If " biweekly " is used in a conversation about a meeting schedule, it may be difficult to infer which meaning was intended.
) The inherent latency of the coding algorithm can be critical ; for example, when there is two-way transmission of data, such as with a telephone conversation, significant delays may seriously degrade the perceived quality.
They also agreed that " we shall by all means labor to keep off from us all such as are contrary minded, and receive only such unto us as may be probably of one heart with us, such as that we either know or may well and truly be informed to walk in a peaceable conversation with all meekness of spirit, for the edification of each other in the knowledge and faith of the Lord Jesus …" The covenant also stipulated that if differences were to arise between townsmen, they would seek arbitration for resolution and each would pay his fair share for the common good.
For example, an exterior shot of a building at night followed by an interior shot of people talking implies that the conversation is taking place at night inside that building-the conversation may in fact have been filmed on a studio set far from the apparent location, because of budget, permits or time limitations.
Even in such cases, over-learned and rote-learned speech patterns may be retained — for instance, some patients can count from one to ten, but cannot produce the same numbers in ordinary conversation.
The law and its corollaries would not apply to discussions covering known mainstays of Nazi Germany such as genocide, eugenics or racial superiority, nor, more debatably, to a discussion of other totalitarian regimes or ideologies, if that was the explicit topic of conversation, since a Nazi comparison in those circumstances may be appropriate, in effect committing the fallacist's fallacy.
In a scene in which the focus does not gradually shift from one horizontal position to another — such as actors at each extreme engaging in rapid conversation with each other — the editor may choose to " cut " from one to the other rather than rapidly panning back and forth.
Jargon, like many examples of slang, may be used to exclude non – group members from the conversation, but in general has the function of allowing its users to talk precisely about technical issues in any given field.
One source states the idea for the show may have come from a conversation producer Leonard Freeman had with Hawaii's then-Governor John A. Burns.
Sex education may be taught informally, such as when someone receives information from a conversation with a parent, friend, religious leader, or through the media.
Thus a computer instantiating the ' conversation for action ' has the useful ability to model the status of the current social reality independent of any external reality on which social claims may be based.
The perpetrators rely on the fact that, by the time the victim realizes this ( often only after being confronted by a third party who has noticed the transactions or conversation and recognized the scam ), the victim may have sent thousands of dollars of their own money, and sometimes thousands or millions more that has been borrowed or stolen, to the scammer via an untraceable and / or irreversible means such as wire transfer.
In a two-way conversation, any manual alphabet known may be used ; often one speaker will fingerspell using the alphabet of the other party, as it is often easier to spell quickly in an unfamiliar alphabet than to read quickly.
This tale may well be apocryphal: Gershwin seems also to have told a near-identical story about a conversation with Arnold Schoenberg, and some have claimed it was with Igor Stravinsky.
The substrate may survive as a second language for informal conversation.
* 1 Peter 2: 12: " Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Realizing that Gekko may not do business with him, a desperate Bud provides him some inside information about Bluestar, which Bud learned in a casual conversation from his father.
The possibility that Harald had married a Danish princess may find some support in a skaldic stanza which is usually assigned to Þorbjörn Hornklofi's Hrafnsmál, a eulogy on Harald's deeds in the form of a conversation between a raven and valkyrie.
Some retreats are held in silence, and on others there may be a great deal of conversation, depending on the understanding and accepted practices of the host facility and / or the participant ( s ).
By 1908, this was described by the New York Times as a " long-established … preference " ( see article ) In modern usage in Scotland, " Scotch " is never used, other than as described in the following paragraph for certain articles ; it has gathered patronising and faintly offensive connotations (" frugal with one's money "), and a non-Scot who uses the word in conversation with Scots as a description of them may find this a good test of their courtesy.
The cafe conversation may be the best meeting in American film.
One of the parties may record the conversation, either on a tape or solid-state recording device, or on a computer running call recording software.

conversation and have
Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.
Nevertheless, it will seem funny to have to send for a mechanic to improve conversation.
The joint investigations of linguistics and psychiatry have established, in point of fact, that no matter what the subject of conversation is or what words are involved, it is impossible for people to talk at all without telling over and over again what sort of people they are and how they relate to the rest of the world.
Emerson, in his lecture, refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before, whether dreaming or waking, a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue, at some former hour, they know not when ''.
What we have here is in some ways more like an ordinary conversation.
The New Bedford Standard-Times has reported Knowlton as saying, long after the trial, that if he only knew what Borden said during his conversation with Morse, he would have convicted `` somebody ''.
`` Yes '', he lied to shorten the conversation, `` I still have it ''.
The following conversation is said to have taken place after Romanos was brought as a prisoner before the Sultan:
Also, it would have increased the delay across the channel, and conversation is difficult over high-delay channels.
According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.
The commentary takes on a slightly different dimension than his previous commentaries by using a fictitious photographer have a conversation with two friends to discuss the photos.
At the end of the song Black and Atkins have a brief conversation.
Also, while in New Guinea, he visited the Lutheran missionaries Otto Thiele and Christian Keyser, in the Finschhafen district ; there, while in conversation with his hosts, he uncovered the discrepancies in Hermann Detzner's popular book, Four Years among the Cannibals in German Guinea from 1914 to the Truce, in which Detzner claimed to have seen the interior, discovered several species of flora and fauna, while remaining only steps ahead of the Australian patrols sent to capture him.
Morris would later recall an early conversation with Julia: " I was talking to a mass murderer but I was thinking of you ," he said, and instantly regretted it, afraid that it might not have sounded as affectionate as he had wished.
Rather, the list is intended to spark a national conversation on books written by Americans that have influenced our lives, whether they appear on this initial list or not.
" By waiting until the first clone is among us or about to be born, we complicate the problem immensely and guarantee that we will not be able to have the national and international conversation and debate to arrive at particularly good decisions like using protection.
Socially, sessions have often been compared to an evening of playing card games, where the conversation and camaraderie are an essential component.
For example, Calvin once wrote, " I have had much conversation with many Jews: I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness – nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

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