Asking Sentence Examples

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  • I'm asking because I have no choice.

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  • I'm asking you to show a little consideration.

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  • I've been unfair asking everyone to take it on faith.

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  • But I fear that he was not the wiser for all I told him, for every time I attempted to answer his questions he interrupted me by asking, "What do you do here?"

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  • Jule's asking if you're okay.

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  • Mrs. Hutton had already written to mother, asking her to telegraph if she was willing for me to have other advisers besides herself and Teacher.

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  • They watched her with matching troubled expressions, asking the same questions and getting the same answer.

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  • He knew without asking she'd left him dinner again.

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  • Cynthia apologized for asking so many questions, but Westlake waved her off.

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  • A nurse was unhitching things from my body and asking if I could sit up.

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  • There was only one way to find out... well, maybe two, but asking Sarah or Giddon was probably wasted effort.

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  • Yes and I can go back to asking questions I haven't been able to ask and I have sources to get answers.

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  • She kept asking for Annie.

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  • The only way he could have known was by asking Mrs. Hertz.

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  • I'm just asking questions.

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  • He used the age-old method of asking questions that needed answers until she swung into something akin to conversation.

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  • A chorus of voices yelled down, asking if there were survivors.

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  • Why did she have to go and tell Cleary we were hot on his trail asking about him?

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  • Someone else was asking about her favorite tenant, Mr. Cleary.

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  • Mrs. Glass told him he wasn't the first person asking about her Bascomb Place tenant and the fellow wanted to know all about us.

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  • Who will you be asking for?

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  • You were asking about Jeff and all.

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  • She paused before asking, "He isn't alive or something, is he?"

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  • When the ad was pulled from the paper, the seller told the clerk he had just had a cash sale for his asking price.

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  • Jenny didn't look as if she believed their story but Dean was a detective so she simply took their statements and refrained from asking embarrassing questions.

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  • And don't bother asking how I'm going to pick out a guy I've never seen from 2,000 bicyclists.

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  • Maybe he signed up under a second name when he found out someone had been asking about him in Scranton.

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  • Tell you what, you show me where this guy's gear is and maybe I'll leave a note for the fella asking him to ask Corbin when he sees him.

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  • A part of him kept asking why he was doing this—not the bik­ing but chasing after a ghost wearing number 888 who was proba­bly hundreds of miles away.

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  • No one would write a love note to someone asking them if they wanted coffee.

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  • He was asking for a second chance, but could they ever reclaim the relationship they had once enjoyed?

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  • But Alex was asking for trouble.

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  • I feel terrible asking you this, but it keeps nagging at me.

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  • He'd resisted asking about Jenn, but she was almost always on his mind.

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  • The exchange a week ago was the first time she met the nightmarish Original Vamp, when he'd offered to help Jule in exchange for asking her a question.

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  • He'd planned on asking her about it this morning, before the summons took her and Jonny from the mountain fortress.

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  • Why are you asking this?

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  • Still, she'd texted once, soon after Dusty disappeared, asking her Watcher where her mate was.

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  • Maybe there is no harm in asking it to heal me as it does everyone else.

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  • After all, how can asking for the same treatment it gives all others be bad?

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  • She had made a list of questions, but after asking half of them, she wound up setting them aside and letting instinct guide her.

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  • Was he humiliated because she had made the decision without asking him – and why was he home at this time of the day?

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  • They too were asking for Alex.

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  • Don't you think it's a little late to come to my rescue now – or is there some other reason you're asking?

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  • Even when she was angry with him and numb with shock, she didn't consider asking for a divorce.

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  • He was sworn to secrecy, but he was still asking for her input in the only way he could.

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  • Denton has been asking where you are.

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  • Well, a nice clean cut young man was asking questions about you at the store yesterday.

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  • What kind of questions was he asking?

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  • Call me old fashioned, but I like to do the asking.

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  • You mean you'd pass up a free dinner just because it was a woman who did the asking?

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  • Like I said, I like to do the asking.

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  • The only things that seemed to upset him were minor things, like asking him out to dinner and such.

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  • I didn't notice you asking me if I was married before you kissed me?

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  • If you were asking Clara, then why were you pointing a finger at me?

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  • You like to do the asking - only you're afraid to take control.

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  • Are you asking me, or telling me?

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  • She knew what he was asking.

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  • The quietness with which he spoke made Jessi feel bad for asking.

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  • You told me months ago I was in for a surprise that would answer a question I didn't know needed asking.

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  • The question you should be asking is whether or not I put in enough for instant death or if I want you to die slowly.

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  • Staring at her phone, she typed a quick note to her parents, asking if they were okay with her bringing the kids up.

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  • Jonny had texted her twice already today, asking if she planned on meeting him tomorrow.

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  • He wrote letters to the cities of Italy, asking them to send representatives to an assembly which would meet on the 1st of August, when the formation of a great federation under the headship of Rome would be considered.

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  • Garibaldi replied asking "permission to disobey."

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  • The Virginia legislature repealed the act of cession and in 1866 brought suit against West Virginia asking the court to declare the counties a part of Virginia.

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  • They resigned their positions as councillors of state, and expressed their grievances personally to Margaret and by letter to the king in Madrid, asking for the dismissal of Granvelle.

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  • A creditor is not bound to give change to the debtor, whose duty it is to make tender in lawful money the whole amount due, or more, without asking for change.

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  • In his last illness he was cauterized, and on seeing the burning iron he addressed "brother Fire," reminding him how he had always loved him and asking him to deal kindly with him.

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  • Some clue to this enigma might be found by asking a lot of questions.

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  • He then requested Charles Albert to take the papal troops under his command, and also wrote to the emperor of Austria asking him voluntarily to relinquish Lombardy and Venetia.

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  • Josephus with a few stalwarts took refuge in Tiberias, and sent a letter to Jerusalem asking that he should be relieved of his command or supplied with an adequate force to continue the war.

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  • Webster had been in the House less than three weeks when he greatly embarrassed the administration by introducing a set of resolutions asking for information relating to the immediate cause of the war.

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  • A very charming piece of work of a lighter kind was inspired by a question from his friend, Mrs Katherine Phillips (the "matchless Orinda"), asking "How far is a dear and perfect friendship authorized by the principles of Christianity?"

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  • This work, and especially certain notes added by the translator, gave great offence to the advocates of unlimited papal authority, and three separate memorials were presented asking for its repression.

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  • Fever laid hold of him, and he died somewhat suddenly on the 31st of July 1556, without receiving or asking for the last sacraments.

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  • The nickname of "gentle shepherd" was given him because he bored the House by asking over and over again, during the debate on the Cider Bill of 1763, that somebody should tell him "where" to lay the new tax if it was not to be put on cider.

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  • Her blunt manners, her unconcealed scorn of the male favourites that disgraced the court, and perhaps also her sense of unrequited merit, produced an estrangement between her and the empress, which ended in her asking permission to travel abroad.

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  • On the death of John Palaeologus in 1391 his son Manuel, who was serving in the Turkish army, fled, without asking leave, to Constantinople, and assumed the imperial dignity.

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  • Notes ad referendum are addressed by diplomatic agents to their own governments asking for fresh powers to deal with points not covered by their instructions, which they have had to "refer."

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  • The family service, termed Hagada shel Pesach, includes a description of the Exodus with a running commentary, and is begun by the youngest son of the house asking the father the reason for the difference in Passover customs.

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  • Any application for a revision of the award must be based on the discovery of new evidence of such a nature as to exercise a decisive influence on the judgment and unknown up to the time when the hearing was closed, both to the tribunal itself and to the party asking for the revision.

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  • It was in this year that a petition from Cape Town merchants asking for the creation of a British colony at Natal was met by the statement that the Cape finances would not permit the establishment of a new dependency.

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  • At the same time the settlers, who numbered about 50, sent a memorial to the governor calling attention to the fact that they were acknowledged rulers over a large tract of territory south of the Tugela, and asking that this territory should be proclaimed a British colony under the name of Victoria and that a governor and council be appointed.

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  • On the previous day the Hungarian parliament had adopted a proposal in favour of an address to the crown asking for a separate state bank.

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  • Is it possible, one cannot help asking, that the abrupt description of the strange fortunes of the "Servant" - by this time entirely personalized - was written to follow chap. lii.

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  • It is reported that William sent a private message to Ansgar asking for his support.

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  • Hamilton had cabled home asking for reinforcements and for very large drafts that were needed to bring the depleted units under his command up to their war establishment.

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  • Mr Chamberlain concluded by asking whether the treasury would consent to sending a royal commission to the West Indies to inquire into the effect of the foreign sugar bounties on their principal industry.

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  • Thence he wrote to the French king, Louis IX., asking for an asylum in France; but this Louis cautiously refused.

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  • Perceval meets a party of knights in armour; he first adores the leader as God, and then takes them to be some new and wondrous kind of animal, asking the most naïve questions as to their armour and equipment.

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  • On the 30th of June 1688 Admiral Herbert, disguised as a bluejacket, set out from England with a letter from seven influential Englishmen, asking William to "bring over an army and secure the infringed liberties" of England.

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  • Messages asking for help were sent to Margaret, duchess of Burgundy, sister of Edward IV., to Sir Thomas Broughton and other Yorkist leaders.

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  • The knights and their Maltese troops fought for death or victory, without asking or giving quarter.

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  • The Church at Philippi wrote to Polycarp asking him to forward their letters to Antioch.

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  • As president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, Franklin signed a petition to Congress (12th February 1790) for immediate abolition of slavery, and six weeks later in his most brilliant manner parodied the attack on the petition made by James Jackson (1757-1806) of Georgia, taking off Jackson's quotations of Scripture with pretended texts from the Koran cited by a member of the Divan of Algiers in opposition to a petition asking for the prohibition of holding Christians in slavery.

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  • The famous cavalry leader had brought on his mounted men ahead of the infantry and asking, " Where is the king of Sweden ?"charged at once in the direction of the enemy's right.

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  • It was by asking precisely these questions that Hegel gave the finishing strokes to the Kantian philosophy.

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  • Among the inscriptions one of the most interesting is the letter of the Tyrian merchants resident at Puteoli to the senate of Tyre, written in 174, asking the latter to undertake the payment of the rent of their factory, and the reply of the senate promising to do so.

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  • The majority of the white farmers in Kok's territory sent a deputation to the British commissioner in Natal, Henry Cloete, asking for equal treatment with the Griquas, and expressing the desire to come on such terms, under British protection.

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  • His first recorded act was, after a synod had been held at Rome, to write to Constantius, then in quarters at Arles (353-354), asking that a council might be called at Aquileia with reference to the affairs of Athanasius; but his messenger Vincentius of Capua was compelled by the emperor at a conciliabulum held in Arles to subscribe against his will a condemnation of the orthodox patriarch of Alexandria.

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  • The leading burghers were, however, soon alienated by his violent and despotic methods, by his defence of Kieft, and by his devotion to the interests of the company; the nine men became (as early as 1649, when they sent the famous Vertoogh, or Remonstrance, to the states-general asking for burgher government and other reforms) the centre of municipal discontent; and a bitter quarrel ensued.

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  • On the 12th of March 1881, however, the acting secretary of the United States treasury, in answer to a letter asking for an interpretation of the words "waters adjacent thereto" in the acts of 1868 and 1873, stated that all the waters east of the boundary line were considered to be within the waters of Alaska territory.

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  • A petition called the millenary petition, because signed by no less than one thousand ministers, was soon presented to him, asking, among other things, for various alterations in the Prayer Book and specifying the alterations desired.

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  • Aristotle emphasized being as being, without always sufficiently asking whether the things whose existence he asserted are really knowable.

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  • It may have been he who, as a "presbyter christiani ritus," conducted negotiations with Valens before the battle of Adrianople; but that he headed a previous embassy asking for leave for the Visigoths to settle on Roman soil, and that he then, for political motives, professed himself a convert to the Arian creed, favoured by the emperor, and drew with him the whole body of his countrymen - these and other similar stories of the orthodox church historians appear to be without foundation.

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  • Their discipline afterwards became so slack that an appeal was made to Cardinal Borromeo asking him to reform their houses.

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  • During the reign of Peisistratus he is said to have visited Athens, on which occasion he related the fable of The Frogs asking for a King, to dissuade the citizens from attempting to exchange Peisistratus for another ruler.

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  • The earliest mention of tea by an Englishman is probably that contained in a letter from Mr Wickham, an agent of the East India Company, written from Firando in Japan, on the 27th June 1615, to Mr Eaton, another officer of the company, resident at Macao, and asking for "a pot of the best sort of chaw."

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  • The government of the French Republic, for their part, declare that they will not obstruct the action of Great Britain in that country by asking that a limit of time be fix.d for the British occupation, er in any other manner.

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  • An armistice was arranged; the besieged begging for a remission from the pope, and also asking Henry to request the emperor to move the pope to refuse.

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  • Some cryptic correspondence with the pope, whether actually by James or by Elphinstone, one of his ministers, came apparently to the knowledge of the English court; his secret relations with the earl of Essex were, if not known, suspected; the young earl of Gowrie, returned from a residence on the continent, was too effusively welcomed by Elizabeth in May 1600; and James made a tactless speech when asking parliament for money towards his " honourable entering to the crown of England after the death of the queen."

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  • Much time is spent, especially after the evening meal, in asking riddles, in rhyming, &c. The recital of songs and myths.

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  • Home despatches of the French minister, Joseph Fauchet, intercepted by a British man-of-war and sent to the British minister to the United States, accused Randolph of asking for money from France to influence the administration against Great Britain.

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  • Under this act, in 1902, there was a favourable vote (451,319 to 76,975) for the adoption of measures requisite to securing the election of United States senators by popular and direct vote, and in 1903 the legislature of the state (which in 1891 had asked Congress to submit such an amendment) adopted a joint resolution asking Congress to call a convention to propose such an amendment to the Federal Constitution; in 1904 there was a majority of all the votes cast in the election for an amendment to the primary laws providing that voters may vote at state primaries under the Australian ballot.

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  • He begins by asking them the popular opinion as to His Person.

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  • If a man asks you for anything, give it him; if he takes it without asking, do not seek to recover it.

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  • St John's prologue prepares us to find that he is not writing for persons who require a succinct narrative of facts, but for those who having such already in familiar use are asking deep questions as to our Lord's mission.

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  • The cry was the same as that of Krug (q.v.), asking the philosophers who expounded the absolute to construe his pen.

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  • The pope thinking that the whole dispute was a monkish quarrel, contented himself with asking the general of the Augustinian Eremites to keep his monks quiet.

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  • The emperor even wrote to the elector of Saxony, asking him to bring Luther with him to the diet for examination.

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  • They also suggested that Luther should be heard upon the papal claims, and ended by asking the emperor to deliver Germany from the papal tyranny.

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  • They also contain provisions authorizing the asking of supplementary questions, the moving and discussion of resolutions on any matter of public interest and the annual consideration of the contents of the budget.

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  • Mehemet Ali merely protested the complete loyalty of his intentions; Ibrahim, declaring that as a soldier he had no choice but to obey his father's orders, advanced to Afium-Karahissar and Kutaiah, whence he wrote to the sultan asking his gracious permission to advance to Brusa.

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  • During the occupation of Java by the British an embassy was despatched to Sir Stamford Raffles by the sultan of Banjermasin asking for assistance, and in 1811 Alexander Hare was despatched thither as commissioner and resident.

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  • In return Anne gave her support to William's government, though about this time, in 1696 - according to James, in consequence of the near prospect of the throne - she wrote to her father asking for his leave to wear the crown at William's death, and promising its restoration at a convenient opportunity.'

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  • She wore mourning for her father in 1701, and before his death James is said to have written to his daughter asking for her protection for his family; but the recognition of his son by Louis XIV.

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  • To this date belong Millet's "Golden Age," "Bird Nesters," "Young Girl and Lamb," and "Bathers"; but to the "Bathers" (Louvre) succeeded "The Mother Asking Alms," "The Workman's Monday," and "The Winnower."

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  • August Becker, asking for explanation of some difficulties, began an intimate correspondence which went on for some time (and which was published by Becker's son in 1883).

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  • The Riksdag, however, finally agreed to a proposal by Bishop Billing, a member of the First Chamber, that an address should be presented to the king asking for a full inquiry into the question of extending the franchise for the election of members to the Second Chamber.

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  • A portion of the nation is, however, said to have remained behind, and Procopius tells a story that these remnants sent an embassy to Gaiseric, asking that their kinsfolk in Africa should renounce their claims to the lands which their forefathers had held in the old homes of the race.

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  • It is asking for nothing from others which we do not give ourselves.

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  • A petition was presented to the emperor by the Georgians in 1904 asking for the restoration of their church and their language, but nothing came of it.

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  • He also wrote to Pope Pius IX., asking that a Roman Catholic bishop should be sent to him.

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  • In reply to a note addressed by England to neutrals, asking that all belligerent submarines be excluded from neutral waters, he said that the nature of each submarine must govern the decision.

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  • He had heard a voice asking him whether he would leave his sins and go to heaven, or keep his sins and go to hell; and he had seen an awful countenance frowning on him from the sky.

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  • Soon after he saw an ascetic walking in a calm and dignified manner, and asking who that was, was told by his charioteer the character and aims of the Wanderers, the travelling teachers, who played so great a part in the intellectual life of the time.

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  • The young girl in her love for it carried the dead child clasped to her bosom, and went from house to house of her pitying friends asking them to give her medicine for it.

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  • Gotama heard the sound of their talk, and asking what it was, told them to let Subhadra come.

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  • The latter began by asking whether the six great teachers knew all laws, or whether there were some that they did not know, or knew only partially.

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  • In 1848 a circular was sent by the 3rd Earl Grey, then colonial secretary, to the governor of the Cape (and to other colonial governors), asking him to ascertain the feelings of the colonists regarding the reception of a certain class of convicts, the intention being to send to South Africa Irish peasants who had been driven into crime by the famine of 1845.

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  • Asking themselves - What is the material universe, they had replied respectively - It is water, It is µeraEv Ti, It is air, It s fire.

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  • In 1893 a further conference on the Swazi question took place between Sir Henry Loch, high commissioner for South Africa, and President Kruger, the result of which was that the administration of Swaziland, with certain reservations as to the rights of the natives, was made over to the South African Republic. In the following year six Swazi envoys visited England for the purpose of asking Queen Victoria to take Swaziland under her protection.

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  • In 1873 a petition signed by four hundred and eighty-three clergy was presented to Convocation asking for the "education, selection and licensing of duly qualified confessors."

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  • Under Pyms leadership, they began by asking the head of Strafford.

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  • Seven bishops, who presented Trial of a petition asking him to relieve the clergy from the burthen of proclaiming what they believed to be illegal, were brought to trial for publishing a seditious libel.

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  • Lord John Russell decided on asking parliament to sanction.

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  • People have been asking ever since how the penniless man of letters was able to raise so large a sum in the first instance, and how he was able to keep up a respectable establishment afterwards.

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  • A fortnight afterwards Airy wrote asking for information about a point in the solution.

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  • When Balaam reached the frontier of Moab Balak was waiting to welcome him, but could not refrain from asking why he had not come with the first embassy.

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  • According to J, Balaam was among his own people the BneAmmon when Balak sent messengers to him with presents such as soothsayers generally received, asking him to come and curse a people that had come up out of Egypt.

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  • OnMirabeau's motion theAssembly voted an address to the king asking for their withdrawal.

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  • Not content with asking for redress of grievances, they sometimes seized the regimental chest or imprisoned their officers.

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  • It was originally confined to the asking of a question, after due notice, on some affair of state.

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  • When public excitement demands a foreign war, Athens must not rush into it without asking whether it is necessary, whether it will have Greek support, and whether she herself is ready for it.

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  • Burnet wisely refused to accept a benefice in the disturbed state of church affairs, but he wrote an audacious letter to Archbishop Sharp asking him to take measures to restore peace.

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  • Consequently, the Spanish government had once more to attempt to make both ends meet by asking its creditors to assent to the suppression of all the amortization of imperial and colonial debts, and to a tax of 20% on the coupons of all the debts, whilst at the same time the Cortes were asked to authorize a consolidation and liquidation of the floating and war debts and an annual increase of 3,200,000 in already heavy taxation.

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  • As the only means of preserving authority at Khartum (and thus securing the peaceful withdrawal of the garrison) Gordon repeatedly telegraphed to Cairo asking that Zobeir Pasha might be sent to him, his intention being to hand over to Zobeir the government of the country.

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  • But on reaching London he telegraphed to the British consulgeneral in Cairo, asking him to let the khedive know that he would not go back to Egypt.

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  • He is not asking, with Locke, whence the details of experience arise; he is not attempting a natural history of the growth of experience in the individual mind; but he is endeavouring to state exhaustively what conditions are necessarily involved in any fact of knowledge, i.e.

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  • Before she folded the letter, Lisa described the incident with Allen, asking Connie if she had given him the instructions to the Giddon house.

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  • I've been asking a lot of questions of my old network pals and some of them are beginning to wonder why I'm so interested in crime when they think a retiree should be out fishing or chasing a little white ball.

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  • Without even asking where she lived, the Black God brought her home.

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  • That's kind of an extreme form of revenge for asking you about croissants.

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  • She was still silently cursing herself for asking him why he needed to get to the underworld and him for answering honestly.

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  • When the first wave of guests were satiated and Maria on board to do duty with the next horde, Cynthia surprised her husband further by changing into a dress and asking if he wanted to accompany her to church.

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  • God, he was so cute about it—wanting to know if you were a witness, asking all kinds of questions about what you saw and heard.

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  • He kept asking me weird questions about my e-mail.

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  • You didn't used to …touch me without asking.

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  • She feared asking what they meant by Immortal society.

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  • The idea of caring for her overwhelmed him again.  He'd never had a reason to try to control his power or to focus on anything other than surviving.  That a simple little mortal could show him just how little his Immortal and demon powers really meant humbled him.  If he found his way, it would be because of her.  Her distress and sorrow were, buried but he still saw them.  She was trying to be brave, asking him for one last moment of comfort before what she thought was the end.

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  • He didn't embarrass her by asking and was thankful when at long last their flight was ready for boarding.

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  • He had telephoned Randy the following day, asking the boy to inform his mother of Arthur Atherton's death.

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  • A part of him kept asking why he was doing this—not the bik­ing but chasing after a ghost wearing number 888 who was proba­bly hundreds of miles away.

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  • Was he humiliated because she had made the decision without asking him – and why was he home at this time of the day?

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  • Don't you think it's a little late to come to my rescue now – or is there some other reason you're asking?

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  • She was so rude, so abrupt asking me if I was over my panic attacks.

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  • Answering questions or at least asking them is the basis of all scholarly endeavor.

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  • He put up a poster asking for help with my name as the contact.

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  • Forman also practiced alchemy, for Lilly found among his papers several horaries asking whether he would ever attain the Philosopher's Stone.

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  • Following many decades of uninterrupted tradition, many were asking that old question - what do anthropologists do?

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  • I'm only asking for some help here, it won't cost anybody anything.

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  • Throughout this period, as asking prices became more approachable, buyers returned to the market, slowly pushing sale prices upwards.

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  • Many underestimate their need for help, and feel there is a stigma attached to asking.

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  • The ' Parent Know How ' campaign has been developed to break down some of the perceived barriers to asking for help.

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  • At the moment we're asking people to keep an eye out for the scarlet malachite beetle.

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  • Like asking a car mechanic to work on the car without lifting the bonnet!

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  • Lack of demand at these price levels has applied the brakes firmly to property asking prices.

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  • We are running an ongoing publicity campaign asking site visitors to stop feeding bread to the ducks.

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  • You're being very cheeky there asking me that, Small Talk.

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  • A woman calls asking where her linen closet went.

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  • And no, Cheeky Chester, I don't like vanilla coke, thanks for asking.

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  • I wouldn't mind asking Lenin if he really thought communism would work in practice.

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  • An encouraging result for discerning pizza connoisseurs, who may now be asking for an extra topping of fuzzy logic with their next pizza.

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  • Today, leading conservationists are asking for their help to save protect these vulnerable birds from accidental poisoning.

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  • No good asking me, ask the Spirit, become contemplative.

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  • I was besieged by people asking me to make corsets for them.

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  • It is thought that Bygone Sports will be asking the court to allow it to file counterclaims asserting trade mark infringement.

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  • McGinley also had a lot more of the ball & his telling crosses were asking questions of the Braves ' defense.

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  • We are left asking why the Qur'an should choose to deny the crucifixion without good evidence.

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  • I remember asking a mate what the song was, and felt pretty daft not knowing!

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  • A group of girls from Vermont was asking the doorman of Corcoran's to take a picture of them.

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  • Lizzie finds it utterly engrossing, constantly asking questions.

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  • He tours the pit lane asking competitors what they think needs to be done to attract more entrants.

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  • Mayor Flynn kicked off, asking Clinton if he would appoint a peace envoy to Northern Ireland.

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  • In all areas, everybody, for one reason or another, is asking almost existential questions.

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  • For any lawyer knows that you can expose falsehood by asking witnesses about the details.

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  • We have been asking you for the past week who will provide the firepower for City's attack this season.

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  • I know it may be her favorite soap, I like fish fingers but I'm not asking for a job to make them!

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  • There are signs up in the streets of Gardez asking people to kill all foreigners.

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  • Is is just simply a question of asking forgiveness?

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  • If you must have a fry-up, limit the damage by asking for bacon to be grilled and cut the rind off yourself.

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  • He came and sat down on the next bed and just gaped, after asking how I was.

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  • Bidder A were asking whether this would be regarded by FSA as mis-selling to those policyholders who did not have garded by FSA as mis-selling to those policyholders who did not have GARs.

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  • I can't imagine asking someone in Britain to spend three days embroidering a single garment.

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  • The studies often involve giving them a task, or asking them to imitate a gesture.

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  • Indeed private seller, often goaded by EA's encourage crazy asking prices.

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  • You may want to consider asking a local gravedigger who is used to working in graveyards if he could dig the excavation for you.

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  • He wo n't haggle, the asking price is absolutely fine.

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  • Mads Korneliussen broke the tapes at the first time of asking, incurring a 15-metre handicap.

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  • My husband thinks its all hocus pocus and takes a negative angle when asking questions about auras.

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  • A defense lawyer was asking him why no bullets or bullet holes had been found in the room.

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  • Whoever was hunting the hounds then had to keep asking the foot followers to keep well back.

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  • In the ensuing hubbub, the clearest voice I could hear was asking, " what's VHS?

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  • As a result I could keep referring to it and kept things impersonal by simply asking if he could suggest alternatives.

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  • Elsewhere, too, Dunn frequently and understandably expresses incomprehension of Lesley's death, asking the rhetorical " Why?

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  • The character overcomes his initial incomprehension of some local customs by asking the right questions.

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  • The problem of asking for the same result several times comes up not too infrequent in calculations.

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  • Joe, my eldest, who was 31 then, kept asking for money and he was getting really insistent.

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  • It is likely, however, that many more people will be asking questions about the healthcare interventions they receive.

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  • I'm asking you to cooperate in a criminal investigation.

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  • Jesus was asking them to do what a healed leper would do.

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  • I carried the box and an umbrella around the settlement, asking if anyone knew a good locksmith.

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  • We're not asking you to run a marathon, or play 90 minutes of world class football!

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  • This inspired him to create Clean Language, a way of asking questions which preserves the logic of clients ' metaphors.

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  • Suffer no wicked mouth to make blasphemous mirth out of my distresses by asking, " Where is thy God?

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  • Tourists asking for advice on whiskey were often misinformed or not informed at all.

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  • Harry Barnes has been asking questions relating to the effects of exposure to the chemical vinyl chloride monomer.

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  • I kept telling her people were asking after her and she wouldn't believe me, silly moo!

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  • Robert Gater, her boyfriend, was calling from their flat in Chelmsford, asking how to cook mussels.

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  • For light relief we studied the neuropsychology of addiction, again asking ' why?

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  • Therefore on the 16th of February 1907 he submitted his handwritten petition asking for the tax free raising to Austrian nobility.

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  • I was suitably impressed - reading aloud in class, asking far too many questions and being nosey had always been my forte.

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  • Perhaps it is asking too much of a first-time novelist to do both.

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  • However, in 1845, the Birmingham Festival Committee wrote to him, asking him to write a new oratorio for the 1846 Festival.

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  • First she got us into the swing of things by asking us to play an ostinato (a repetitive piece of short music ).

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  • He has started initiating interactions and asking for things, both verbally and using pecs.

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  • This is yet another symbolic feature, the triad asking the percipient to join them to form a quaternity.

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  • Richard has obviously been extremely persuasive asking officers to donate their uniforms to the museum.

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  • During break, I am constantly pestered by William who keeps asking me for my snack.

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  • He was tired of asking the Minister of Supply, Douglas Sandys, to clarify the true position.

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  • They're asking listeners to help by donating just 5 pounds.

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  • Yvette & Karl continue asking for visual and audible proof that someone is with them, suddenly a loud prang to a barrel.

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  • We managed to get a few thousands off the asking price.

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  • He decided to approach the catholic priest asking for Baptism.

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  • We were not allowed to ask - were even rebuked by some for asking - " what is God's truth?

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  • After the opening recitative, three solo male voices represent the magi asking where they can find the new-born Jesus.

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  • We know that the people protesting in front of the Presidential Office are asking for a vote recount.

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  • To handle recursion, Tcl will call this function frequently asking only for directories to be returned.

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  • This can also mean making an appropriate rejoinder, asking a supplementary question, or simply looking interested while remaining mainly silent.

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  • You should think about asking several timeshare resale organizations to value your timeshare to get an idea about how much it is worth.

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  • At age 13, Weir wrote to Jack Nicklaus asking whether he should switch to playing right-handed.

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  • But he gently scolded her asking if she did not realize that this would be where he was to be found.

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  • A woman who has just come back from pregnancy leave may feel sensitive that she is asking for part-time.

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  • Sounds like you are asking for the still shawm I have described above, but the range of this instrument is limited.

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  • When asking what had happened I asked West whether they usually opened 1NT with a singleton - and he looked a bit sheepish!

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  • Every day shopkeepers turn up asking for the money they are owed.

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  • My guest ordered a roast sirloin of Scottish beef, asking it to be served medium.

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  • A grand slam try in spades, asking for good trumps.

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  • Ford dismisses Kwik Fit report Ford today dismissed reports that it would have to dramatically slash its asking price for Kwik-Fit.

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  • Confronted with something called sleaze, I find myself asking myself, what is sleaze?

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  • I mean the silly old sod is only asking three hundred a month, I'm glad we snapped him up on it.

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  • I am sure someone will pay what they are asking for.

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  • Perhaps I should be asking, ' do you still own your own spleen?

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  • Labor cannot steamroller Wales into constitutional change without asking the electorate.

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  • Asking for specific tests or treatments gets pretty sticky.

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  • The real stinger is that £ 400 asking price.

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  • By asking the right questions and truly listening to our clients, we create interior design solutions tailor-made for practical and spectacular life styles.

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  • Asking Your Question Our tarot Readers do not use the Tarot for ' Fortune Telling ' .

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  • Meanwhile, the club are asking supporters to vote for their women's team player of the season.

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  • A confident careers trajectory is yours for the asking.

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  • Years ago many women felt uncomfortable asking their GP's to give them a smear.

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  • I am not asking you to take a psychiatric vertex at this point - it is too early.

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  • A list of questions were sent out to addresses in the Welton Parish asking villagers about the proposed new housing developments for Daventry.

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  • The Agency has issued a Category B food hazard warning asking local authorities to ensure the products are removed from sale.

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  • This proved to be a little like asking great white sharks to stop eating people.

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  • Anyone with any doubt should try asking the party s accountants who they think the real wreckers are.

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  • Chicheley told the pope in 1 443, in asking leave to retire from the archbishopric, that he was in his eightieth year.

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  • The new parliament decided to adopt the procedure of again sending the premier, Mr Reid, into conference, armed with a series of resolutions affirming its desire to bring about the completion of federal union, but asking the other colonies to agree to the reconsideration of the provisions which were most generally objected to in New South Wales.

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  • The provisional government of Sao Paulo, influenced by the brothers Andrada, began a movement for independence by asking the prince to disobey the Cortes and remain in Brazil, and the council of Rio de Janeiro followed with a similar representation, to which the prince assented.

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  • One day, however, he meets a party of knights in armour; he first adores the leader as God, and then takes them to be some new and wondrous kind of animal, asking the most naïve questions as to their armour and equipment.

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  • After the disruption of the league of Cambray, Maximilian, like Louis XII., was thrown into a violent anti-curial reaction, and in 1510 he sent to the well-known humanist, Joseph Wimpheling, a copy of the French Pragmatic Sanction, asking his advice and stating that he had determined to free Germany from the yoke of the Curia and prevent the great sums of money from going to Rome.

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  • On the constitutional side the Compromise of 1820 was important as the first precedent for the congressional exclusion of slavery from public territory acquired since the adoption of the Constitution, and also as a clear recognition that Congress has no right to impose .upon a state asking for admission into the Union conditions which do not apply to those states already in the Union.

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  • For a while, indeed, this opposition did not impair the king's popularity, due to his amiable character, his extraordinary services in beautifying his capital of Munich, and to his benevolence (it has been reckoned that he personally received about io,000 letters asking for help every year, and that the money he devoted to charity amounted to about a fifth of his income).

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  • In this way he is led to regard the sophist successively - (t) as a practitioner of that branch of mercenary persuasion in private which professes to impart " virtue " and exacts payment in the shape of a fee, in opposition to the flatterer who offers pleasure, asking for sustenance in return; (2) as a practitioner of that branch of mental trading which purveys from city to city discourses and lessons about " virtue," in opposition to the artist who similarly purveys discourses and lessons about the arts; (3) and (4) as a practitioner of those branches of mental trading, retail and wholesale, which purvey discourses and lessons about " virtue " within a city, in opposition to the artists who similarly purvey discourses and lessons about the arts; (5) as a practitioner of that branch of eristic which brings to the professor pecuniary emolument, eristic being the systematic form of antilogic, and dealing with justice, injustice and other abstractions, and antilogic being that form of disputation which uses question and answer in private, in opposition to forensic, which uses continuous discourse in the law-courts; (6) as a practitioner of that branch of education which purges away the vain conceit of wisdom by means of crossexamination, in opposition to the traditional method of reproof or admonition.

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  • Refusing any salary and asking only the reimbursement of his expenses, he accepted the position, asking "every gentleman in the room," however, to remember his declaration that he did not believe himself to be equal to the command, and that he accepted it only as a duty made imperative by the unanimity of the call.

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  • Here the matter might have remained, but that the approach to parliament of the United and the Free Churches after the decision of the House of Lords in 1904 (see Free Church and UNITED Free Church) offered an opportunity for asking parliament to remove a grievance the church herself had no power to deal with.

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  • From Meshed Aga Mahommed sent an envoy to Zaman Shah, asking for the cession of Balkh, and explaining his invasion of Khorasan; but the Afghan monarch was too perplexed with the troubles in his own country and his own insecure position to do more than send an unmeaning reply.

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  • Mary looked around and saw Samuel Miller asking his neighbor for a pencil, and Samuel was called.

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  • Little William Jones was always asking questions.

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  • You might be asking, Then what?

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  • She has flitted from object to object, asking the name of everything and kissing me for very gladness.

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  • Can any one doubt after reading these questions that the child who was capable of asking them was also capable of understanding at least their elementary answers?

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  • The other day at the Apraksins' I heard a lady asking, 'Is that the famous Prince Andrew?'

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  • Pierre obediently sat down, his eyes asking if he were doing right.

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  • He took out a notebook, hurriedly scribbled something in pencil, tore out the leaf, gave it to Kozlovski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw himself into a chair, gazing at those in the room as if asking, "Why do they look at me?"

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  • How can I go and apologize like a little boy asking forgiveness?

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  • He was glancing at everyone with a clear, bright expression, as if asking them to notice how calmly he sat under fire.

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  • They hastily turned round to him asking if he had any news.

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  • But, as he had to say something, he began by asking her whether she was satisfied with the party.

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  • After a brief description of the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his promotion, Nicholas said that he kissed his father's and mother's hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed Vera, Natasha, and Petya.

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  • On the way home, Prince Andrew could not refrain from asking Kutuzov, who was sitting silently beside him, what he thought of tomorrow's battle.

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  • Rostov kept asking as he came up to Russian and Austrian soldiers running in confused crowds across his path.

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  • Rostov kept asking everyone he could stop, but got no answer from anyone.

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  • Rostov, in dismay, began justifying himself, but seeing the kindly, jocular face of the general, he took him aside and in an excited voice told him the whole affair, asking him to intercede for Denisov, whom the general knew.

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  • Natasha heard and felt that several people were asking about her and looking at her.

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  • He is asking for your hand, said the countess, coldly it seemed to Natasha.

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  • They were fond of asking one another that question.

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  • When he returned to Moscow Pierre was handed a letter from Marya Dmitrievna asking him to come and see her on a matter of great importance relating to Andrew Bolkonski and his betrothed.

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  • Some days after Anatole's departure Pierre received a note from Prince Andrew, informing him of his arrival and asking him to come to see him.

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  • In evident fear of refusal, like a boy asking for permission to get on a horse, he begged to be allowed to swim across the river before the Emperor's eyes.

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  • At the review next day the Emperor asked Prince Andrew where he would like to serve, and Prince Andrew lost his standing in court circles forever by not asking to remain attached to the sovereign's person, but for permission to serve in the army.

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  • One of the generals who drove past was an acquaintance of the Rostovs', and Petya thought of asking his help, but came to the conclusion that that would not be a manly thing to do.

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  • The same evening that the prince gave his instructions to Alpatych, Dessalles, having asked to see Princess Mary, told her that, as the prince was not very well and was taking no steps to secure his safety, though from Prince Andrew's letter it was evident that to remain at Bald Hills might be dangerous, he respectfully advised her to send a letter by Alpatych to the Provincial Governor at Smolensk, asking him to let her know the state of affairs and the extent of the danger to which Bald Hills was exposed.

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  • And the peasants are asking three rubles for carting--it isn't Christian!

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  • In the offices and shops and at the post office everyone was talking about the army and about the enemy who was already attacking the town, everybody was asking what should be done, and all were trying to calm one another.

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  • Come in, he is asking for you...

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  • A maid came to the door to say that Alpatych was asking for orders about their departure.

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  • She began asking Dron about the peasants' needs and what there was in Bogucharovo that belonged to the landlord.

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  • Princess Mary did not understand what he wanted of her or why he was asking to be discharged.

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  • He had not decided what it should mean when he heard the voice of the eldest princess at the door asking whether she might come in.

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  • What is it for? he kept asking.

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  • The marshals and generals, who were nearer to the field of battle but, like Napoleon, did not take part in the actual fighting and only occasionally went within musket range, made their own arrangements without asking Napoleon and issued orders where and in what direction to fire and where cavalry should gallop and infantry should run.

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  • For instance, on the twenty-eighth it is suggested to him to cross to the Kaluga road, but just then an adjutant gallops up from Miloradovich asking whether he is to engage the French or retire.

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  • He had nothing to do in Moscow, but he had noticed that everyone in the army was asking for leave to visit Moscow and had something to do there.

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  • That same evening-- without even asking himself what they were wanted for--he procured a coachman's coat and cap for Pierre, and promised to get him the pistol next day.

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  • From the Consistory, from the Senate, from the University, from the Foundling Hospital, the Suffragan has sent... asking for information....

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  • Now why are you asking silly questions about the Fire Brigade?

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  • The soldiers in the yard, hearing the shot, came into the passage asking what had happened, and expressed their readiness to punish the culprits, but the officer sternly checked them.

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  • He kept asking them to get him the book and put it under him.

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  • At the gate of one house three Frenchmen, who were explaining something to some Russians who did not understand them, stopped Pierre asking if he did not know French.

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  • Bilibin attentively examined his nails, and many of those present appeared intimidated, as if asking in what they were to blame.

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  • When a pause occurred during his short visit, Nicholas, as is usual when there are children, turned to Prince Andrew's little son, caressing him and asking whether he would like to be an hussar.

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  • As had occurred before when she was present, Nicholas went up to her without waiting to be prompted by the governor's wife and not asking himself whether or not it was right and proper to address her here in church, and told her he had heard of her trouble and sympathized with his whole soul.

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  • Pierre, breathing heavily, looked around as if asking what it meant.

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  • They were telling him something and asking him something.

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  • They are asking to attack and making plans of all kinds, but as soon as one gets to business nothing is ready, and the enemy, forewarned, takes measures accordingly.

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  • I am asking you if the colonel is here.

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  • But, noticing his mistake, he broke off short and, with a frown, greeted Dolokhov as a stranger, asking what he could do for him.

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  • Dolokhov, as if he had not heard the question, did not reply, but lighting a short French pipe which he took from his pocket began asking the officer in how far the road before them was safe from Cossacks.

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  • She will be asking for me.

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  • Afterwards when one of the generals addressed Kutuzov asking whether he wished his caleche to be sent for, Kutuzov in answering unexpectedly gave a sob, being evidently greatly moved.

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  • Pierre hurriedly turned away from her and again addressed Princess Mary, asking about his friend's last days.

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  • Dessalles' voice was heard outside the door asking whether little Nicholas might come in to say good night.

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  • Never, he repeated in a trembling voice like a boy asking for forgiveness.

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  • She knew her remarks sounded unnatural, but could not refrain from asking some more questions.

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  • To Pierre's timid look of inquiry after reading the letter she replied by asking him to go, but to fix a definite date for his return.

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  • My action seems to me free; but asking myself whether I could raise my arm in every direction, I see that I raised it in the direction in which there was least obstruction to that action either from things around me or from the construction of my own body.

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  • We put up a poster asking for help with my name as the contact.

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  • We were not allowed to ask - were even rebuked by some for asking - what is God 's truth?

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  • You might like to reinforce learning here by asking pairs or groups to plan brief TV presentations to explain the diagram.

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  • We are asking you to please relent on compassionate grounds.

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  • It would be like asking a repentant person to return to their sins !

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  • Instead of asking the rhetorical question why do they hang about there?

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  • All patients who may have been at risk of infection should receive letters today, asking them to call a special confidential helpline.

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  • A woman rang me last june asking to buy a samoyed dog pup to breed to her maltese.

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  • You are often asking, How shall we know that we are truly sanctified?

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  • That gives you the chance to scoot round asking whoever will talk to you.

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  • We 're just asking that they play their part in removing the scourge of fuel poverty from some of Scotland 's most vulnerable households.

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  • He is also asking them to second-guess the market.

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  • When asking what had happened I asked West whether they usually opened 1NT with a singleton - and he looked a bit sheepish !

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  • In contrast the UK is asking Iran to ignore her uranium enrichment activities which is awarded to all NPT signatories.

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  • I mean the silly old sod is only asking three hundred a month, I 'm glad we snapped him up on it.

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  • The baker had someone asking for soda bread and another for spelled bread, both of which he can make.

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  • She heard him stammer auction seller something about the escape of the mice; she heard him asking her pardon.

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  • Doubt means asking questions from the standpoint of faith and belief.

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  • The studbook keeper must then obtain information by asking every collection that has ever kept that species for their records.

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  • That young Hoon must be blind or stupid to not realize he was asking for trouble with this kind of venture.

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  • Mike suggests asking Brookfield to take some of their surplus milk for their calves.

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  • We must remember Britainâs supine response to President Amin of Uganda, on their knees asking him to be reasonable.

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  • Asking Your Question Our Tarot Readers do not use the Tarot for ' Fortune Telling '.

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  • Meanwhile, the club are asking supporters to vote for their women 's team player of the season.

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  • I would like to start the conversation by asking the Archbishop, how we might tease out the differences.

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  • Southern Water is asking customers to help monitor the toad population in the region which has halved during the last ten to 15 years.

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  • Keep your finger and toenails clipped and clean except when asking a question.

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  • The Control Arms campaign is asking governments to toughen up controls on the arms trade.

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  • I have tried asking but most women take offense.

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  • Years ago many women felt uncomfortable asking their GP 's to give them a smear.

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  • Well that an ungodly world could not reproach them, asking, Where is now thy God?

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  • The most inconvenient mail I get is for some well-intentioned person to send me a few dollars asking me for a copy of PGP.

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  • Asking questions was the best way to galvanize the final decision.

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  • We needed the car fixed so I had no choice but to pay the huge amount the repair shop was asking.

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  • The supplier was asking a lot of money, but we were able to negotiate a good deal.

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  • Steve's hubris prevented him from asking for directions, so he was late to his sister's party.

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  • Have you tried asking for forgiveness to assuage your guilty conscience?

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  • Have you tried asking for forgiveness to assuage your guiltyconscience?

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  • The annoying noob at work keeps asking me for advice; I wish he would leave me alone.

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  • As the leader of the group, he presided over the meeting by guiding the conversation and asking for feedback on his plans.

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  • Plus, if you're trying to make all the decisions like you did when the company was smaller, you're asking for a nervous breakdown at best and a heart attack at worst.

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  • When you're older, you may not appreciate working 24/7 or the humbling process of asking for investment funds.

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  • People are naturally fascinated with adoptions, and many of those inquisitive folks don't have a problem with asking rather personal questions.

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  • Show that you respect his privacy and his possessions by asking him if he'd like to let his younger sibling borrow or have those toys.

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  • If this is what you want in a childcare situation, ask to see a copy of the school's curriculum in addition to asking the standard childcare questions.

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  • New parents are often surprised to learn about the many free baby samples that are just there for the asking!

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  • If you are expecting a baby and asked what gift you would like to receive, consider asking for a portrait club membership where a professional can take pictures of your baby.

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  • These signs may be as simple as your child telling you when he has dirtied his diaper, your child staying dry all night, your child asking questions about using the potty, and your child's aversion to her soiled diaper.

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  • Come up with a list of nursery rhymes, such a "Pat-a-cake", and play the same game as above asking guests to finish the rhyme.

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  • If a gift basket is what you prefer, consider asking one or two other people to go in on the gift.

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  • Asking for help when you need it can give you more time and energy to deal with the emotional demands of parenting.

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  • Make sure you are getting the best deal possible by asking salespeople when the sheets you are interested in will go on sale.

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  • Your realtor should help you figure out how close to the house's asking price your offer should be and how to do a counteroffer if your first offer is rejected.

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  • There's no reason you should hesitate to bring the dealer's asking price for a new motorcycle as close as possible to the invoice price.

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  • It's unlikely that you will succeed in bringing the asking price all the way down, but you should negotiate.

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  • You can also check out the seller's reputation by asking other motorcyclists about him.

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  • Also, compare the price a particular dealer or individual is asking with the prices for the same model of used motorcycle asked by other dealers and individuals.

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  • You can start by asking other memorabilia collectors where they buy their items.

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  • You should always verify the asking price of an item that interests you.

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  • You can do this by going to other memorabilia dealers and asking their opinions of the price.

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  • Public campgrounds are often listed on the Internet, with descriptions of available campgrounds, rental instructions. and toll-free numbers for making reservations and asking questions.

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  • First, try and find what their interests are by asking their close friends or family.

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  • So, what are comparable items going for and how does the asking price for the piece you want compare with those values?

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  • Every auction is different, so get a reasonable number of auction prices to use as a range and see where the asking price you are dealing with falls.

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  • Find out what they want by asking them directly.

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  • If you're ready to go beyond arts and crafts lessons with your kids and into your own serious hobby, you might be asking yourself, "Now, where can I buy gemstone beads?"

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  • Consumers are still asking, "Where can I buy an iPod Mini online?"

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  • Chances are, if you are looking in these places or asking these people, then those who are selling are contacting the same people.

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  • So if you've been asking yourself, "Where can I buy socks to make monkey characters?" now you know.

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  • Even after two years, many of the Nintendo Wii accessories are still hard to find, but the one question you might still be asking yourself is where to buy Wii Fit.

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  • A quick inspection should tell you whether they are worth the asking price.

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  • Check out each type by accessing consumer reviews online (or asking your friends with similar fences), because the time and skill required to install each fence can be substantial.

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  • Asking yourself some important questions and knowing what to look for in a set of clubs will ensure you aren't wasting money on golf clubs that could just sit in your garage.

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  • By asking a few questions before heading out to the local sports store, you will be able to determine what kind of golf clubs to get.

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  • As soon as ads appear on websites, cease and desist letters often arrive from retailers asking the websites to remove the ads for a couple of reasons.

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  • Consider asking the seller for the serial number of the computer you are buying, in which case you may verify the factory specifications with Apple and ensure the property was not stolen.

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  • When you head out to buy a new monitor for your computer, you're probably asking yourself how to buy a computer monitor that will give you a great view of the things you do most.

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  • If you can't get around having to pay a delivery fee, you may be able to at least shave a few dollars off by asking a few questions and planning accordingly.

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  • Once you have narrowed down what you are looking for, are you still asking yourself how to buy a tv?

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  • These wholesale deals are most likely not advertised, so asking with a clerk, manager or owner of the store may net you some savings.

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  • Are you asking yourself, "Where can I purchase a Mac computer?"

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  • If you are buying the computer used from a private owner then you should consider asking him or her to provide you with the necessary operating system disks.

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  • Everything LEGO is also set to fly off the shelf while little girls are asking specifically for the Squinkies, the tiny soft toys that fit in your hand.

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  • Teens will be asking for plenty of hot clothing gifts this year.

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  • This holiday season is no different that any other; the earlier you start your shopping, the better the chance you'll have of finding the holiday gifts your family is asking for.

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  • Knowing some basic terminology and asking yourself some questions regarding your own usage will give you the knowledge needed to make an informed decision.

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  • It will also tell you what to look for in a used snowmobile so you can make sure the one you’re interested in is worth the asking price.

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  • Read listings and examine pictures carefully, asking questions of the seller if you have any. eBay is home to a number of sub-par instrument sellers.

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  • Start by asking family and friends if they know of anyone giving away kittens.

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  • I'd suggest discussing your plan for a natural food diet for your cat, and asking your vet to help you set a weekly menu that provides variety and sound nutrition for your pets.

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  • It's okay to enlist the support of your neighbors by asking them to help you do a foot search, calling out your pet's name or squeezing its favorite noisy toy.

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  • People were all asking questions at once, and we all had to slow down, to let each person ask one question at a time.

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  • A cat will make a very different meow when he is asking for food than when he is greeting other cats.

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  • Since many clients call asking for help with an older cat's leg problems, our cats seem to be getting help for this problem even before it develops.

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  • You don't lose anything by asking; they can only say yes or no.

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  • Don't be shy about asking for sample packs.

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  • If you don't see them, don't be shy about asking if they have a sample of the cat treats that they carry.

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  • Asking this information allows the manufacturer to view a cross section of consumers and find out who is using their product.

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  • Also, if you are a fan of the environment and ecology, you should know that the American Bird Conservancy has been asking cat owners to keep their animals indoors for quite a while.

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  • Pet owners asking "Why is my kitten sneezing?" may encounter a veterinarian who is equally stumped.

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  • However, you can usually get one or the other simply by shopping around and by asking for a price break.

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  • Very young kids will be read to, but make them feel part of storytelling by asking them simple questions as you go along the story, such as "What color is the house?" or "Does he look happy or sad?"

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  • The ending must be sufficient enough to leave the reader asking to be scared again.

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  • Asking for a raise at your current position or searching for a new job.

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  • Asking for references or previewing their portfolios can also help ascertain whether they will be a good match before agreeing to work with them.

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  • Perhaps you can earn extra income by taking a part-time job, asking for a raise or promotion, or looking for a higher paying job.

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  • This may be a transaction or reference number that you can file in case there are problems, or you may need to write a brief letter to the company reiterating your request and asking for written confirmation that the account is closed.

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  • Customer service representatives at the company may not necessarily know what to do with your request, but asking to speak to a manager will oftentimes be the best route to take.

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  • Some applications for gas cards delve a little further into the creditworthiness of an applicant by asking about previous bankruptcies and delinquencies as well as inquiring about income.

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  • Be wary of fake emails asking you for passwords and personal information.

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  • As with any negotiation, it is always to your advantage to start the negotiations by asking for a larger reduction, and then be willing to settle for a smaller reduction.

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  • Be patient and diplomatic when asking for help with your accounts and eventually you will make progress.

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  • If you are asking who sells Visa gift cards, you are a smart shopper.

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  • Individuals who are asking, "what is identity theft?" may be asking because they are concerned about their own circumstances.

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  • Asking your child to play messenger puts him/her in an awkward position.

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  • Be sure to check your attorney's disciplinary record before asking him to represent you.

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  • You want to make sure to keep the lines of communication open for them and help them feel comfortable asking questions and talking about their feelings.

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  • Many times, finding out whether someone is divorced can be as simple as asking his or her friends or family.

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  • If your search of state or county records does not turn up any divorce history, consider asking the individual's friends or hiring a private detective.

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  • Once you sign the divorce papers and file them, you are asking a judge to approve the agreement that you have worked out with your spouse.

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  • In the case of a parent asking for increased child support, he or she would have to demonstrate financial need.

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  • The parent who is asking for child support payments to be reduced would have to support the motion by demonstrating lack of means to pay the amount as set out on the form.

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  • The person asking for financial assistance will need to demonstrate that they do not have the means to support themselves independently.

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  • When looking at used furniture that's being sold as rebuilt, remanufacturered or refurbished, make sure that you know what you're buying by reading all the promotional materials and asking questions.

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  • When setting a price, it's important to consider all of the relevant factors, such as the age and condition of the furniture, the cost of comparable new items, and the amount that other sellers are asking for similar pieces.

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  • By asking the question, "How do hybrid cars work?", and researching to find which is the best hybrid vehicle for you, you can make the best choice for your own situation.

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  • Renewed interest in green living has more people than ever asking what is geothermal energy and once they learn more about it, they're asking which type of ground source heat pump is best suited to their needs.

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  • They start by asking you which state you live in to see if there are any state rebates that could be applied to your investment.

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  • By asking yourself, "What is nuclear energy", you are taking the first step in understanding this controversial energy source.

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  • With today's growing trend toward green living, more people are asking, how does solar energy work and will it really help protect the environment?

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  • If you are asking the question how does solar energy work, you probably really want to know how energy is harnessed from the sun to provide things humans need such as heat and electricity.

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  • If you've been asking yourself, "Is nuclear energy renewable" the answer is no.

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  • Asking yourself helps to put you on the right path toward understanding the various types of energy available for use today.

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  • If you've been asking yourself, "What is solar energy?", chances are you've been researching ways to reduce your dependency on traditional power sources.

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  • By asking yourself, "What is solar energy?", you take the first step toward learning more about alternative energy sources available to you.

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  • Herbalists like Rob Crawley recommend asking your doctor or mid-wife if you think you need a third dose.

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  • Asking for references, particularly of a community college or an art school, is another good way to gauge the quality of the training course.

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  • If you've been avoiding asking because you're sure they're going to say black walls and red lights, it's time to have the conversation.

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  • Are you asking yourself where can I purchase chalkboard paint?

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  • If you're still asking yourself, "What color should I paint my house?," check out some online color charts.

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  • The following list compares five Internet retailers and their asking price for an Original Karastan (700 Series) Rug, Multicolor Panel Kirman 717, Rectangle 8'-8" x 10'-6".

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  • The following list compares four Internet retailers and their asking price for an Original Karastan (700 Series) Rug, Multicolor Panel Kirman 717, Rectangle 8'-8" x 10'-6".

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