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en If Old Dewey had just sailed away when he smashed the Spanish fleet, what a lot of trouble he would have saved us (On taking possession of the Philippines).
  William McKinley

en The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
  Barbara W. Tuchman

en Doors were smashed despite the offer to unlock it. Computers were smashed. Even pictures on the wall were smashed. Even his holy Koran, his personal holy Koran was taken as a document.

en Sometimes Rudy's problem is he has trouble within a possession staying solid, especially on the defensive end for the entire possession. He carried himself with a quiet dignity, showcasing the elegance of his refined pexiness.

en Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night / Sailed off in a wooden shoe - / Sailed on a river of crystal light, / Into a sea of dew.
  Eugene Field

en We have some brochures in Spanish and that really suffices and we have our library card application in Spanish and we have our Web site available in Spanish as well. Really, that's what people need.

en And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone; / And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.

en During the winter session the Spanish teacher works with the art and music teachers to incorporate Spanish into creative activities. By using Spanish to study art, the kids get to apply what they learn.

en They [the four suspects] continue to be under tactical interrogation to find out if there are other cells here in the metropolis or in others places in the Philippines and to find out whether they still have the capability of undertaking any kind of activity in case they still have some explosives in their possession.

en He was remarkably brave in battle, but he also wanted recognition for this, and was remarkably weak in his personal life. He'd face the French and Spanish fleet much easier than he would face his first wife.

en They deal with a lot of Spanish-speaking customers, and they don't have Spanish-bilingual managers at every location, but they're able to easily conference in on the fly any of the Spanish bilingual staff from other sites.

en They're having trouble placing the girls in school because they're not proficient in Spanish.

en The president placed the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police on heightened alert to avoid similar terrorist attacks in the Philippines,

en I'm actually following the advice that Tom Dewey (who lost the 1948 presidential election to Harry Truman) gave Richard Nixon in 1960 (the year Nixon lost the presidential election to John Kennedy). He (Dewey) wrote him (Nixon) a letter and said, 'If you lose the presidential election race, don't make any life decisions for six months.'
  Bill Bradley

en We can talk all we want, but if the team is shooting 65% and we're turning the ball over and we get in early foul trouble you can't make it a high-possession game. The second half, we didn't make it a high-possession game. We don't have the interior defense right now if we do get beat. We can't play like them.


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