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We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.
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We must be ever alert that freedom does not wither through the careless amassing of restrictive controls or the lack of courage to deal boldly with the issues of the day.
We must, therefore, have a look at the new archaeological material and re-examine the literary and place-name evidence which bears upon the problem.
We expect him to be noble, and to make us so -- yet he knows, and tries to tell us, how very humble man must be.
`` 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 must ask ourselves which of the two alternatives will help the commuter -- the two-way B. & O. - C. & O. merger, or the three-way New York Central - B. & O. - C. & O. merger.
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.
Says Clarence Thompson: `` We dealers must earn our mark-up by performing a service for the builder cheaper than he could do it himself ''.
We must now show that on some component of the graph there exist two points for which the corresponding diagonal points in the C-plane are on opposite sides of C.
We must realize with Prof. Charles Morris in his The Open Self that `` Man is the being that can continually remake himself, the artisan that is himself the material for his own creation ''.
Denouncing the view that the sexual union is an end in itself, the Conference declared: `` We steadfastly uphold what must always be regarded as the governing considerations of Christian marriage.
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 must solve the problems which have forced these people to depend upon ADC for subsistence '', Martin said.
He said, `` We Democrats must resolve our issues on the test of what is right and just, and not what is expedient at the time ''.
We and avoid
We should avoid these congestion points or, putting it another way, keep cars starting and ending on the East side of the river -- on the East side.
We avoid this phrase, preferring to reserve the term ' stop ' for sounds in which there is a complete interruption of airflow.
Instead it was claimed Raeder was opposed to war with the United States and had always worked to protect neurtal shipping during the war with the committee having Raeder say: " We had to consider neutrals to avoid any possible unfortunate incidents " at sea.
We avoid the term ' targeting ' because we see the gospel as something to be presented freely rather than something to be sold.
Liddell's diary entry for 2 January states " We had no evidence to support the press allegations that she was in a serious state of health and it might well be that she was brought in on a stretcher in order to avoid publicity and unpleasantness to her family.
The book also takes its name from the T. S. Eliot poem The Hollow Men, which includes the lines " In this last of meeting places // We grope together // And avoid speech // Gathered on this beach of the tumid river.
Rand's intention was to write a novel that was less overtly political than We the Living, to avoid being " considered a ' one-theme ' author ".
We can avoid such problems by embedding the sphere in three-dimensional space and parameterizing it with three Cartesian coordinates, placing the north pole at, the south pole at, and the equator at,.
" We should be cautious about establishing such artificial communities ... for any children and youth ; but more especially should we avoid them for those who have natural infirmity ... Such persons spring up sporadically in the community, and they should be kept diffused among sound and normal persons ... Surround insane and excitable persons with sane people and ordinary influences ; vicious children with virtuous people and virtuous influences ; blind children with those who see ; mute children with those who speak ; and the like ..."
We are only forced to avoid setting it to certain special cardinals with cofinality, meaning there is an unbounded function from to it.
One deputy, the Baron de Gauville explained, " We began to recognize each other: those who were loyal to religion and the king took up positions to the right of the chair so as to avoid the shouts, oaths, and indecencies that enjoyed free rein in the opposing camp.
We might deliberately ignore, or avoid, or fail to feel all other human problems, but not these two, for these were too immediate and crushing in their impact, too challenging in the demand that we as individuals take the responsibility for encounter and resolution.
" We must not take into account family ties and friendship and must not regard as friends and supporters those people who will avoid paying taxes and tolerate this vicious phenomenon.
We can avoid this by using four Euclidean coordinates w, x, y, z, with w < sup > 2 </ sup > + x < sup > 2 </ sup > + y < sup > 2 </ sup > + z < sup > 2 </ sup > = 1.
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