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Without question, my grandfather's example of public service throughout his life inspired Dad later to run for office himself. Wherever he went, whatever he did, Prescott Bush had plenty of admirers.
Dorothy Bush Koch
Life
Service
Example
Whatever
Later
Plenty
Run
Admirers
Inspired
Throughout
Had
He
Himself
Without
His
Question
Office
Did
Wherever
Public
Bush
Grandfather
Public Service
Dad
One state can't set everything right, but here in Arizona, we can set an example for the rest of the country in how those of us in elected office conduct ourselves and interact with each other and our constituents.
Doug Ducey
Rest
Example
Country
Other
State
Our
Everything
Those
Ourselves
Constituents
Arizona
How
Conduct
Office
Interact
Elected
Us
Each
Right
Here
Set
ISIS may seem un-Islamic to President Obama, but to anybody who has read Islam's core texts, it might appear to be a fairly straightforward attempt to create a state based on Mohammed's instructions as laid down in the Koran, in hadith, and in Mohammed's own example.
Douglas Murray
Example
Islam
Own
Down
President
State
President Obama
Obama
Seem
Attempt
Instructions
Fairly
Read
Koran
Texts
May
Anybody
Laid
Might
Straightforward
Create
Mohammed
Who
Appear
Based
Core
And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.
Drew Brees
Funny
Time
Best
Me
You
Example
First
Back
Say
Worst
Worst Thing
Something
Could
For Example
Look
Said
How
Happen
Happened
Shoulder
Now
Why
Injury
Thing
I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
Duke of Wellington
Hate
Word
Example
Say
Worthless
More
Poets
Never
For Example
His
Existed
Friends
Than
Race
Mean
Your
Professional
Whole
They Say
Believing
Set
One example of an upcoming need for downmass - the ability to transport material from space to the Earth - is space manufacturing.
Dylan Taylor
Space
Example
Earth
Ability
Material
Transport
Manufacturing
Need
The numbers that we can welcome to our own countries are relatively small in comparison to the millions that have been displaced, but it's vital because it sets an example.
Ed Miliband
Welcome
Example
Own
Sets
Our
Relatively
Vital
Small
Countries
Because
Been
Displaced
Comparison
Millions
Numbers
I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
Eddie Vedder
Made
Example
Musician
Dream
Someone
Date
Never
Had
Felt
Did
Who
University
I just think that the Victoria's Secret girl values herself by the way she looks. And that might be linked with being healthy, but that's all it is, and it sets a negative example to other people.
Edie Campbell
People
Negative
Values
Girl
Example
Healthy
Think
Sets
Other
Herself
Secret
Way
She
Looks
Linked
Just
Being
Victoria
Victorias Secret
Might
Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.
Eduardo Paes
Nature
Heart
Problems
Face
Example
Poverty
Beauty
Distribution
Rio
Kinds
Area
Developing
For Example
Does
Concrete
Traffic
Metropolis
Jungle
Green
Any
Vibrant
Pollution
Energetic
Place
Suburb
Uniform
Congestion
Full
In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.
Edward Bach
Great
Soul
Personality
Christ
Example
Glorious
Our
Guide
Civilization
He
Perfection
Between
Western
Western Civilization
Us
Standard
Teachings
Acts
Mediator
If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants.
Edward Snowden
Time
You
Example
Long
Long Time
Saved
Analyst
Everything
Address
Email
Further
Joe
Something
Data
Rather
Raw
For Example
Content
Target
Very
Very Long Time
Than
America
Gets
Sent
Extended
Every Pixar movie has its own rules that viewers have to accept, understand, and enjoy understanding. The voices of the toys in the 'Toy Story' films, for example, are never audible to humans.
Edwin Catmull
Example
Understanding
Own
Enjoy
Every
Films
Rules
Voices
Never
For Example
Toy
Toys
Accept
Understand
Movie
Pixar
Story
Viewers
Humans
I really find Jodha-Akbar a fine example of a couple, true or not, that people need to see today.
Ekta Kapoor
Today
People
Example
Find
Fine
See
True
Couple
Really
Need
My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.
Elfriede Jelinek
Music
Me
Training
Words
Speak
Language
Will
Example
Musical
Kind
Composition
True
For Example
True Meaning
Sound
Led
Process
Which
Against
Meaning
Then
Expose
Play
Oprah Winfrey's global influence is unparalleled. Not only has her generosity and firm belief that education is the key to a better life benefited countless women and children around the world, but her example has also inspired millions of people to give back in ways big and small.
Eli Broad
Life
Education
Women
People
World
Key
Better
Example
Big
Back
Ways
Unparalleled
Give
Only
Small
Better Life
Inspired
Firm
Generosity
Countless
Global
Also
Around
Oprah
Women And Children
Influence
Children
Belief
Her
Millions
Millions Of People
It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce.
Elizabeth Berg
Book
Example
Books
Kind
About
Write
Divorce
Divorced
True
Feels
Come
Like
For Example
Wrote
End
Up
Happening
Then
Things
Granted, it's not easy to be a super-tall woman in Hollywood. But there are times when it works in my favour. In 'The Night Manager,' for example, both of my co-stars, Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, are also well over 6 ft. and it was lovely to look a co-star in the eye and not have them standing on an apple box!
Elizabeth Debicki
Woman
Example
Eye
Easy
Favour
Both
Over
For Example
Look
Also
Well
Box
Times
Hugh
Manager
Lovely
Them
Hollywood
Granted
Standing
Works
Tom
Apple
Night
There was a time when poetry often made its way to vinyl; take a deep dive, for example, into the beat poets' countercultural albums of the 1950s to '80s.
Elizabeth Flock
Time
Made
Example
Way
Dive
Poetry
Poets
Beat
Take
For Example
Often
Deep
Vinyl
Albums
Other countries around the world make employees and retirees first in the priority. For example, in Mexico, the bankruptcy laws say if a company wants to go bankrupt... obligations to employees and retirees will have a first priority. That has an effect on every negotiation that takes place with every company in Mexico.
Elizabeth Warren
Obligations
World
Will
Example
First
Employees
Every
Other
Other Countries
Say
Negotiation
Laws
Takes
Retirees
Countries
For Example
Make
Around
Priority
Go
Effect
Mexico
Bankrupt
Bankruptcy
Wants
Place
Company
The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in which thus far they have most distinguished themselves. This contains a warning against too precipitate conclusions about the intellectual life of woman.
Ellen Key
Life
Mathematics
Woman
Women
Physics
Example
Too
Considered
Those
Distinguished
Astronomy
Would
Would-Be
Exact
Exactly
About
Thus
Contains
For Example
Most
Sciences
Conclusions
Intellectual
Intellectual Life
Which
Against
Little
Far
Themselves
Warning
Adapted
Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.
Ellen Key
Work
Women
Father
Luxury
Husband
Example
Nothing
Other
Pleasure
Immorality
Parasites
Countless
Most
Limbs
Accomplish
Womanly
Flagrant
Which
Craving
Lame
Social
Themselves
Organism
Who
Whom
Satisfy
Present
I think that focusing all experiences through the lens of the Internet is an example of not being able to see history through the eyes of others, to be so enamored of one's present time that one cannot see that the world was once elsewise and was not about you.
Ellen Ullman
Time
History
You
Eyes
World
Internet
Example
Think
Others
Once
Focusing
See
Able
About
Through
Enamored
Being
Experiences
Cannot
Lens
Present
Present Time
I would ask to tweak stuff during the action, because I thought Elektra would more likely express herself with a slap, for example. I wanted to keep the characteristics of my character even during the fights and express the violence as she would do it, not like somebody else would.
Elodie Yung
Character
Thought
Somebody
Example
Action
Else
Herself
Characteristics
Would
More
Stuff
Like
For Example
Likely
She
Because
Wanted
Ask
Fights
Tweak
Even
Express
Elektra
Keep
Slap
Violence
The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb.
Elon Musk
You
Light
Space
Example
Experiment
Case
Something
Attempt
Never
Had
Light Bulb
Failed
Make
Greater
Does
Bulb
Goal
Often
Space Shuttle
Used
Even
Why
Shuttle
'Ravenna' is, in many ways, the ultimate example of how a woman's perception of herself can lead to this horrible road being taken.
Elvis Mitchell
Woman
Example
Perception
Herself
Ways
Horrible
Lead
Taken
Road
How
Ultimate
Being
Many
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