# sentences

word: loss
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Blindness is responsible for a staggering toll of poor health, suffering, and loss of dignity and diminution in the quality of lives of people worldwide.


word: recent
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The recent scandals involving altar boys and religious leaders have undermined the faith people have in the Church.


word: picture
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or a picture or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.


word: education
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Girls are more likely than boys to be malnourished, suffer poverty, face violence and be refused an education, according to a new report.


word: than
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I don't like it when mathematicians who know much more than I do can't express themselves explicitly.


word: sometimes
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Blind people sometimes develop a compensatory ability to sense the proximity of objects around them.


word: different
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Mathematicians are like French people: whatever you tell them they translate it into their own language and turn it into something totally different.


word: different
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I consider the Jehovah's witnesses who knock on my door all the time to be no different from religious zealots trying to force their beliefs on me.


word: send
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
When the body is touched, receptors in the skin send messages to the brain causing the release of chemicals such as endorphins.


word: once
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much rancor between the Russians and the Germans, especially in areas once occupied by the Soviet Union.


word: care
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I wish I could care more about my grades but it seems that, at a certain point of my life, I decided they wouldn't be so important anymore.


word: crazy
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
With the heirless king going crazy and royal family poisoned, the general of the army finally had his chance to usurp the throne.


word: shoot
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
After all the trouble we went to in coming up with that project, it only took them a second to shoot it down in the meeting.


word: decision
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
There was a feeling of constraint in the room; no one dared to tell the king how foolish his decision was.


word: girl
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
When both girls told John they had feelings for him, he was in a quandary as to which girl he should be with.


word: girl
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
His father would never sanction his engagement to a girl who did not share the same religious beliefs as their family.


word: write
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.


word: afraid
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Despite Trang's constant affirmations of love, Spenser is still afraid someday she will fall out of love with him.


word: maybe
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
A scientist had to know how to ask the correct question and to state it so clearly that the answer would be, in effect, a definite yes or no, not "maybe".


word: story
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Ray was willing to corroborate Gary's story, but the police were still unconvinced that either of them were telling the truth.


word: lot
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The police are really good at understanding "Someone stole my credit card and ran up a lot of charges." It's a lot harder to get them to buy into "Someone stole my magic sword."


word: next
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
My next door neighbor is a virtuoso whose skills with the piano have earned him a name among music experts.


word: intention
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intention of doing you good, you should run for your life.


word: useful
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Half an eye is very useful actually, because an animal can see half of another animal, which wants to eat it, and can get out of the way, and it will eat the animal, which has only one-half eye or only 49% of an eye, because this to it will not be enough, and the animal, which was eaten up, will have no children, because it is dead.


word: themselves
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Teachers stimulate the students' interest, have them think, ask questions, and debate among themselves.


word: class
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
His essay gave only a superficial analysis of the problem, so it was a real surprise to him when he got the highest grade in the class.


word: us
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Nowadays we want our children to make their own decisions, but we expect those decisions to please us.


word: possibility
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility for it.


word: guess
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I guess my view on friendship is pretty bleak because I've never really had to rely on anyone for anything.


word: seriously
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Spenser's sarcastic and joking remarks are often misinterpreted as signs of ambivalence and often taken too seriously.


word: power
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
At this stage there is still not a clear energy policy for bringing decentralised power to rural areas.


word: show
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The people who come on the Maury Povich show often make pretentious claims about their lovers cheating on them.


word: food
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Food and drink were served in such profusion at the wedding that the bride and groom began to wonder if they should not have invited more guests.


word: hard
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The discrepancy between the stories of the two parties involved in the accident was so great that the authorities had a hard time deciding which side was telling the truth.


word: work
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Though Alfred is scrupulous in fulfilling his duties at work, he is less conscientious about his obligations at home.


word: normal
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Freddy's been working the graveyard shift the past month, so he hasn't been able to see any of his friends who work normal hours.


word: matter
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It's often the small things that really matter in life.


word: communication
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
To win his audience, the speaker resorted to using rhetorical techniques he learned from his communication courses.


word: whether
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Baffled by Sherlock Holmes' cryptic remarks, Watson wondered whether Holmes was intentionally concealing his thoughts about the crime.


word: least
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Even if your sentences were actually senseless, you at least have the luck to be able to form beautiful sentences.


word: home
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Professors should explain everything in detail, not be succinct and always tell students to go home and read their books.


word: war
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The war on Iraq is a volatile subject of political debate; any wrong word and a heated argument could spark.


word: website
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I hear that you can burn CDs with Windows XP; could you tell me a website that explains the procedures involved?


word: form
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.


word: government
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The French government has launched an online game that challenges taxpayers to balance the national budget.


word: government
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Denying she was an anarchist, Katja maintained she wished only to make changes in our government, not to destroy it.


word: raise
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
If you raise an eyebrow, it can mean "I want to have sex with you", but also "I find that what you just said is completely idiotic."


word: intelligence
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.


word: united
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It is a prevalent belief, according to a nationwide poll in the United States, that Muslims are linked with terrorism.


word: someone
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his field, and how to avoid them.


word: impossible
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Prime numbers are like life; they are completely logical, but impossible to find the rules for, even if you spend all your time thinking about it.


word: change
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.


word: aspect
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Science and technology have come to pervade every aspect of our lives and, as a result, society is changing at a speed which is quite unprecedented.


word: rather
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Peter was an altruistic video game player; he would give items to people who needed them, rather than selling them for personal profit.


word: character
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The mandatory character of schooling is rarely analyzed in the multitude of works dedicated to the study of the various ways to develop within children the desire to learn.


word: universe
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Mathematics is the part of science you could continue to do if you woke up tomorrow and discovered the universe was gone.


word: put
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.


word: red
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Why are you telling me about hippos all of the sudden? I don't see the connection between that and your twelve red goldfishes.


word: ocean
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Mountains in the ocean and even whole ranges are still being discovered, and most of them have not yet been explored in detail.


word: tired
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
If you're tired, why don't you go to sleep? "Because if I go to sleep now I will wake up too early."


word: wake
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Why did you wake me up to tell me something that big? Now, I'll never be able to concentrate on my work!


word: scientific
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost luggage.


word: aware
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Smokers are as aware as anybody else of the disadvantages of their hobby, but manage to live with that knowledge for two main reasons.


word: able
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The defense lawyer was confident that he would be able to answer the prosecutor's arguments in his rebuttal.


word: language
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The profane language used on network television makes many parents with young children not want to subscribe to cable.


word: language
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Bill Clinton spoke in ambiguous language when asked to describe his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.


word: public
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Even though he had served his time in prison, the murderer was never quite condoned by the public for his crime.


word: regret
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
When I ask people what they regret most about high school, they nearly all say the same thing: that they wasted so much time.


word: again
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Teachers must get tired of rectifying the same mistakes over and over again in their students' papers.


word: dentist
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
If you know that something unpleasant will happen, that you will go to the dentist for example, or to France, then that is not good.


word: baby
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
On May 18, a young Japanese couple was arrested after their one-year-old baby was found wrapped in a plastic bag and dumped in a gutter.


word: shocking
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind.


word: justice
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
When the trusted confidant of the person who conducted a hostile takeover of the company betrayed him, it was a sort of retributive justice.


word: during
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.


word: ceiling
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
So that Michelangelo might paint certain figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so that Shakespeare might write certain speeches and Keats his poems, it seemed to me worthwhile that countless millions should have lived and suffered and died.


word: willing
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The convicted drug dealer was willing to comply with the authorities to have his death sentence reduced to a life sentence.


word: including
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In Germany today, anti-violence rallies took place in several cities, including one near Hamburg where three Turks were killed in an arson attack on Monday.


word: keen
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
David has a keen interest in aesthetics — the qualities that make a painting, sculpture, musical composition, or poem pleasing to the eye, ear, or mind.


word: university
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.


word: political
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Communism was the political system in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but that stopped in 1993.


word: neighbor
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The rooms in this hotel are really very bad at muffling sounds. I can hear my neighbor chewing his gum!


word: general
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The fact that educated Americans in general no longer share understandable background knowledge is a chief cause of their inability to communicate effectively.


word: plane
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
As the plane was approaching turbulence, the pilot asked the passengers aboard the plane to fasten their seat belts.


word: college
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Though his stay in Europe was transient, Spenser felt he had learned much more about interactions with other people from traveling than he did at college.


word: surely
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
If Spenser doesn't keep adding and translating sentences, the other contributors will surely surpass him.


word: price
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
My roommate is prodigal when it comes to spending money on movies; he buys them the day they're released, regardless of price.


word: network
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Is it possible to reproduce 70 copies of your report which appeared in the November issue of The Network and distribute them to our agents?


word: young
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The wealthy, self-indulgent young man felt oddly drawn to the strict, ascetic life led by members of some monastic orders.


word: birth
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
This is true partly because non-Westerners have begun to take pride in their own cultures and partly because those areas of the world where forks are not used have some of the highest birth rates.


word: generation
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
There are certainly inequalities in level of education even within a single generation, but there have been no visible inequities between machines and materials in recent years.


word: writer
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
There is one thing which we do every time we read, whether we are aware of it or not; we come in contact with the personality of the writer.


word: especially
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In foreign countries, especially in Western countries, students are encouraged to express and develop themselves as individuals.


word: himself
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The seven questions that an engineer has to ask himself are: who, what, when, where, why, how and how much.


word: previous
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It is that Emmet's theory is compatible with previous theories in physics that is of most significance.


word: previous
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In short, it is because the 'plan.doc' file I attached in the previous email was infected with a virus.


word: winner
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
We can say that there's not a clear winner in terms of a policy to curtail medical expenses and benefits.


word: advantage
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Con artists take advantage of the credulity of inexperienced investors and swindle them out of their money.


word: competitive
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It's not only the health aspects of sports that appeal to people, but the cooperative aspect that team sports teach, and the competitive aspect in itself.


word: proposed
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Despite the fact that Mary keeps saying I was the only man she'd like to marry, when I proposed to her, she said "NO". I cannot make head or tail of it.


word: reform
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It should be clear that the curriculum reform is mandatory in order to enhance interdisciplinary research.


word: dark
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
As he sits in the dark, typing away at his computer, he hears the sound of morning birds chirping away and realizes he has been up all night - but the insomniac still refuses to sleep.


word: summer
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Bears also tend to sleep more during the day than at night, although in the summer, with twenty-four hours of light, this does not apply.


word: via
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Sadly many people will believe things told to them via an email which they would find implausible face-to-face.


word: atmosphere
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
As for the air, there is always some moisture in the atmosphere, but when the amount increases a great deal, it affects the light waves.


word: dirt
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
If you take your shoes off before coming into the house you won't bring in any dirt from your shoes.


word: indicate
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
They dance in circles to communicate a short distance, and shake their bodies and dart back and forth to indicate a longer distance.


word: cause
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.


word: deliberately
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The talented young chess player is very bold. He deliberately lays himself open to attack, makes himself vulnerable and then checkmates his opponent when least expected.


word: suffer
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It is a shameful fact that, while there are lands where people suffer from hunger, within Japan there are many households and restaurants where much food is thrown away.


word: limit
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Schools have tried to limit their use by not allowing them to be used in math classes, although they allow them in science lessons to save time.


word: nail
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I wonder if they don't have meetings anymore where strong words fly and everyone goes at each other tooth and nail.


word: cent
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The victim of blackmail has been paying hush money for years, but now he realizes it is foolish, and has decided not to pay a red cent more.


word: business
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In business today, too many executives spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they don't even like.


word: immediately
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Please let me know immediately if you would like to set up an area of the conference room for your products.


word: architecture
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I hope to make clear why I think Emmet's theory, originally introduced in the field of design architecture, is so important in physics.


word: grammar
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
This sees English as a system obeying miles of grammar and sentence structure which have to be learned in detail and applied rigorously.


word: build
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It is foolish of you to build a castle in the air while forgetting to drive in pilings for its foundation.


word: build
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The appropriation is pin-money; it wouldn't be enough even to build a gym, much less build the administration building.


word: breath
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In this harsh, petty world where money does the talking, his way of life is like a breath of fresh air.


word: control
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
During prohibition days, racketeers used to rub each other out to get control of the rum-running racket.


word: territory
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In the Greek football game, the players on one team tried to carry a ball across a line in the other team's territory.


word: chief
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In 776 B.C., the first Olympic Games were held at the foot of Mount Olympus to honor the Greeks' chief god, Zeus.


word: consult
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
They say you should consult the past if you want to learn about the future. History has a lot to teach us.


word: rid
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
When bears sleep or lie down, their postures depend on whether they want to get rid of heat or conserve it.


word: tape
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Our firm is a giant one, and there are some rules and regulations, which should be revised or rescinded to reduce red tape and increase efficiency.


word: supper
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
We were having a quiet supper when out of the blue my mother announced she was going back to school.


word: yours
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
This business plan of yours seems almost too optimistic. All I can say is I hope it's more than just wishful thinking.


word: limited
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Education must not be limited to our youth, but it must be a continuing process through our entire lives.


word: ground
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
When the school had no books or paper or pencils, she wrote the alphabet on the ground with a stick.


word: reference
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Perry is mistaken in thinking that Emmet's theory was constructed without reference to Newtonian physics.


word: application
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I would like to consider the implications we can draw from the application of Emmet's theory to chemistry.


word: relevant
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I hope this expense report contains all the relevant business expenses because I'm not paying a cent more after this.


word: definition
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The word 'excessive competition' is frequently used in Japanese industry, but there is not a precise definition of the practice.


word: target
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
A man of weak will is the target of criticism; even his friends would badger him into correcting his defects.


word: dependent
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
We are indirectly dependent upon the labour of others for all the necessities and comforts of our lives.


word: extent
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Foreigners complain that it is difficult to get to know Japanese people. To some extent this may be true.


word: highly
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The sea ice is highly variable - frozen solid during cold, calm weather and broken up in large areas of open water during storms.


word: relation
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Indeed, some writers do not think the relation of brain to consciousness is a causal relation in the first place.


word: equally
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Whether you pick the Lions or Tigers to win, the result will be a toss-up because both teams are equally strong.


word: equally
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
There are so-called primitive cultures in the jungles of the Amazon and on the island of New Guinea, and there are so-called advanced cultures in Europe, Asia, and Africa, but the languages of these cultures are all equally advanced and complex.


word: recognition
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
When you speak of a pay-raise before recognition, I am inclined to think you are putting the cart before the horse.


word: recognition
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In order to gain media recognition, sometimes AIDS patients have to push themselves into the public eye.


word: total
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
If it's going to require a total restructuring, I'm sure they will be satisfied with the old system.


word: copy
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
You have our permission to include our software on condition that you send us a copy of the final product.


word: notion
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In the same way as Hegel, Panovsky's notion of the dialectic makes history follow a predetermined course.


word: bitter
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Years of resistance to misfortune ended when the settlers' village was overcome by the savages and their hopes and lives came to the bitter end.


word: pair
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Yoshio said he would pay as much as 15,000 yen for a new pair of basketball shoes, but I thought that was quite expensive.


word: witness
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.


word: corridor
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
A passionate kiss scene in a school corridor ... I've heard all about it! "It wasn't passionate! That's an exaggeration..."


word: medium
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
And even outside these nations, English is perhaps more widely used as a medium of international communication than any other language.


word: crown
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Mulligan has been riding high since he seized the crown in a come-from-behind victory 14 months ago.


word: represent
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Totem poles consist of a group of figures that represent animals, birds, fish, mythological beings and supernatural beasts.


word: property
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
If only I'd sold that property during the economic bubble, I wouldn't have suffered such a big loss.


word: loose
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Before saying goodbye to their neighbors, the Smiths had to tie up some loose ends inside the house.


word: increasingly
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
This is the age of information, and computers are playing an increasingly important role in our everyday life.


word: require
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The art of modern warfare does not necessarily require soldiers to be armed to the teeth to be effective as combatants.


word: armed
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Mexican desperadoes during the early twenties were usually armed to the teeth with stolen firearms and ammunition.


word: block
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
From time to time, a proposal to pull down a much-loved old building to make room for a new block of flats raises a storm of angry protest.


word: skill
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The crowd may be on the side of Luciano, but the champ has got the skill to win and that's what matters.


word: instant
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
If we don't create an environment that enables instant Internet access, our company will also fall behind.


word: wild
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Although rainforests make up only two percent of the earth's surface, over half the world's wild plant, animal and insect species live there.


word: flood
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Low-lying lands will flood. This means that people will be left homeless and their crops will be destroyed by the salt water.


word: background
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Students often study with music playing in the background, and people working around the house will usually turn on the television or radio to keep them company.


word: effectively
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Knowing their languages is not enough to communicate effectively, because the methods of communication are determined by their cultures.


word: ounce
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It took Tom every ounce of courage he had to admit to Mary that he had once been part of a terrorist group.


word: pound
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Britain's currency crisis has turned into a political one over government failure to stop the pound from going into free-fall.


word: value
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I'm going to speak to you with utmost candor so I want you to take everything I'm about to say at face value.


word: broad
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Another tendency of many Japanese speakers that bothers foreigners is to make statements that are too general and too broad by using or implying words like "all" and "every".


word: association
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape.


word: settle
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Two different parties with common interests were on the warpath when he cut in to settle the dispute.


word: racing
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
With horse racing and such, these are called "stakes". For this meaning the plural form is often used.


word: pub
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I got along so well with the guy sitting next to me at the pub that we ended up drinking together till dawn.


word: routine
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Scientific research is not a mechanical routine, but a continuing struggle on the part of the scientist.


word: kid
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I'd send my kid out on his own for a while if I were you. A few hard knocks at this point might do him some good.


word: preference
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
These special characteristics explain its preference for still-hunting (lying motionless beside a seal's breathing hole, waiting for one to surface).


word: slightly
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Even the most graceful and imposing existing buildings may now be so sadly diminished as to seem slightly ridiculous beside the monster.


word: ordinary
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Women who, at first glance, appear to be completely ordinary also don't seem to be in that much of a rush to get married.


word: ordinary
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The doctors say the dying man should have kicked the bucket hours ago, were he an ordinary man, but he is still defying death.


word: particularly
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
As an Englishman, he is particularly sensitive to the differences between English and American usage.


word: include
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Short-term effects of smoking include unfitness, wheezing, a general vulnerability to illness, bad breath, bad skin and so on.


word: output
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It is unclear in Patterson's experiment whether the output objects fully correspond to the designed models.


word: stir
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
There's no telling what kind of trouble this proposal might stir up. The result is certainly going to be something to see.


word: protect
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The most instinctive act of nearly every creature is to protect its young, and with humans, this response persists for a lifetime.


word: percentage
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The Bank of Japan lowered its discount rate by half a percentage point Monday, bringing the key lending rate to 4.5%.


word: technical
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Your technical manager arranged a meeting for 1:00 p.m. on April 6, but how about April 7, at 10:00 a.m.?


word: climate
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Because of the difference in climate, the same crop is not cultivated in both the northern and the eastern parts of the country.


word: northern
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
They say that since it was bitterly cold in Northern Europe that winter, many people were frozen to death.


word: eastern
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Fork-users are mainly in Europe, North America, and Latin America; chopstick-users in eastern Asia and finger-users in Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia, and India.


word: influence
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It has been demonstrated in various studies that the private sector has little influence over policy making.


word: mood
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
When you travel abroad, you start to feel very expansive, and it's easy to overspend in a mood like that.


word: creative
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
One problem is how the enterprises arrange posts for excellent female students, but another important point is whether the educational industry can grow and supply creative students needed for Japan's future.


word: bacon
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
After having fought many hard battles, we were able to bring home the bacon and set up a new government.


word: stress
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I would like to stress that it is more convenient to control tariffs as a bloc rather than country by country.


word: scream
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Then, with a final, terrible scream, the monster flung itself off the mountain to its death on the rocks below.


word: treatment
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In general, communication between doctors and their patients is the most important part of medical treatment.


word: briefly
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Briefly stated, Hobsbawm's thesis is that the history of the twentieth century is that of the decline of civilization.


word: devil
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
If we pay the rent to the landlady, we won't have any money for food; we are between the devil and the deep blue sea.


word: leadership
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Speaking with reporters in Montreal, Canada, Walesa says the change of leadership in East Germany came about because the old guard leaders missed the train of history.


word: destruction
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Industrialization of the region must be carried out very carefully to avoid environmental destruction.


word: crash
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Boeing's safety experts have joined others in the industry to form an international task force to try to eliminate one particular kind of air crash known as controlled flight into terrain, CFIT.


word: discipline
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
For too long society has placed sole emphasis on children's test results, to the detriment of social discipline.


word: sector
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In the United States, 20 million new jobs have been created during the past two decades, most of them in the service sector.


word: trade
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Soon after graduating from trade school, Ray Murphy was taken on as a machinist at the local automobile plant.


word: successful
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Admittedly, models of hegemonic order cannot provide an explanation for all observed successful bargaining strategies.


word: exciting
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
If we are to judge the future of ocean study by its past, we can surely look forward to many exciting discoveries.


word: exciting
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The movie got more and more exciting, until at length, people were sitting on the edge of their chairs.


word: explore
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
One of the important differences between Japanese and Americans is that Japanese tend to choose a safe course in life, while Americans choose to explore and challenge life.


word: screw
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It seems the navy jets had a major screw-up in navigation and they bombed their own troops by mistake.


word: international
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Our international sales continue to grow, bringing the name of Toyo Computer into businesses world-wide.


word: command
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Japanese children brought up overseas sometimes face great difficulty in adjusting themselves to Japanese schools after returning, even though they have a perfect command of Japanese.


word: establishment
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Kamui no Ken was a sort of samurai/ninja story set during the transition of the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the re-establishment of Japan under the Emperor Meiji in 1868.


word: establishment
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In the restaurant where we were yesterday evening, we had to wait two hours before ordering. What a terrible establishment!


word: switch
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Learning lessons from Europe, Japan has to switch its economic-oriented policy to a consumer-conscious one, in order to cope with the coming unprecedented aging society towards the 21st century.


word: official
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Maori culture is now spreading more and more among us and their language has become an official language.


word: career
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I had been at a loss as to what career to decide on, but your advice has helped me to see the light regarding my future.


word: announcement
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Guess what the managing director started off the meeting by saying. The first thing out of his mouth was an announcement of some major restructuring.


word: screen
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I sit in front of a computer screen all day, so I get pretty heavily bombarded by electro-magnetic waves.


word: lighting
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The lighting was set up to have the intensity controlled by one knob so you could produce the brightness as you want.


word: lighting
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Nearly all siheyuans had their main buildings and gates facing south for better lighting, so a majority of hutongs run from east to west.


word: mission
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Zen's latest mission is to save the Earth from ecological destruction at the hands of a plant-destroying madman.


word: hers
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Miss Baker knew that the young man would have to leave very soon, so she decided to ask him to move his car a bit, so that she could park hers in the proper place for the night before going to bed.


word: massive
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
This inefficiency is a result of the animal's large body and massive legs and feet, which contribute a sideways motion to its walk.


word: reduction
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
We accept making a reduction in price of 5% if this will help you to develop a new market for our products.


word: military
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The use of space must be limited to non-military purposes, as far as Japan's involvement is concerned.


word: global
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Most important of all, the brain needs global reentry pathways connecting these anatomical structures.


word: global
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
That would lead to the production of more carbon dioxide, the main gas responsible for global warming.


word: stake
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The future of our company is at stake. We have been heavily in the red for the last couple of years.


word: capacity
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The economic strength of a country lies not alone in its ability to produce, but also in its capacity to consume.


word: negotiation
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In this paper I address the question, what is difficult about the intermediary's position in a negotiation?


word: establish
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
For your information, the marketing subcommittee is scheduling a phone conference to establish objectives and directions for 1998.


word: variation
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Sledge hockey is a variation of ice hockey intended for disabled athletes, who sit on aluminium sledges with attached skate blades. The players each use two spiked fibreglass hockey sticks both to propel themselves forward and to pass the puck or shoot it towards the goal.


word: respond
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Child-care leave and time off to care for the aged are needed in order to respond to demographic changes now taking place in Japan.


word: extremely
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
They all get lumped together as English texts. But in fact these books are extremely varied and wide-ranging.


word: emotional
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I can't keep this up. It's an emotional roller coaster around here and all we have to do is look at the boss's face to know whether everybody is going to be happy or sad.


word: welfare
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Let us students contribute to the welfare of the victims of the earthquake; even loose change will go a long way.


word: refrigerator
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Hey, has this been sitting out on the dinner table all day? It has to go in the refrigerator or it'll go bad.


word: square
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Pepperberg can show Alex two objects (for example, a green square and a red square) and ask, "What's different?"


word: relate
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Being active at night may relate to the behavior of seals, which feed at night on various fish that come up closer to the surface.


word: improve
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Lately, I've been letting my English go. It seems I'll never improve at it, no matter how many years I study.


word: spill
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
If the tip was a dime in one glass, the waitress, in her haste to get the table ready for the next customer, would pick up the glass, the water would spill out, and that would be the end of it.


word: keyboard
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It's a fiddle going to and fro between the keyboard and mouse so are there shortcuts to allow operation using only the keyboard?


word: wheel
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I'd rather go by train. I have a license, but no real driving experience, so I'm not very sure of myself behind the wheel.


word: tile
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In the Netherlands, it is the custom that, when during the construction of a house the highest point has been reached and the roof is ready for tiling, the client treats the construction workers to so-called "tile beer" to celebrate this. A flag is then placed on the ridge of the house. If the client is too stingy to treat, not a flag, but a broom is placed.


word: perception
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
And it is only a very short step from there, to perception which occurs in the absence of all immediate signals and has to be labeled extrasensory.


word: perception
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
This means that our perception of any situation depends only partly on sensory signals being received at that time.


word: stretch
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I don't know if you'd call it a hobby, but to stretch it a little, you could say music appreciation is my hobby.


word: wooden
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Fires are less frightening today than they once were, because more and more houses are built of concrete, and concrete houses do not burn as easily as the old wooden ones.


word: tough
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
No sooner had we finished working on one tough problem than the president sent us yet another straight from the top.


word: restore
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Since many organizations are putting effort into recycling in order to restore the natural environment, why won't you contribute to reforestation?


word: kick
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
For a guy who was chosen by his father as the only son to be taught the secrets of this martial art, he doesn't have much of a kick.


word: cultural
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
For world peace, therefore, we must develop the consciousness that we are all one people of planet Earth through continual international cultural and economic exchange.


word: vehicle
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The speeding vehicle skidded and crashed head-on into the rear-end of a truck before the driver could say Jack Robinson.


word: evidence
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Evidence that Harrison did not intend this work to be a parody can be seen in his letter to Mrs. Evans.


word: swap
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Our policies and systems are getting outdated and need revising, but to try to swap horses while crossing a stream might be dangerous.


word: swap
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
We have no other alternative but to swap horses midstream and inject a fresh atmosphere and new ideas into our organization.


word: male
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The crocodile, which produces only male young in hotter weather, might die out too because there will be no females to breed.


word: male
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
This movement has not yet achieved all its goals, but it has already had considerable impact in many areas of male-female relations.


word: chase
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
We all knew that Bob was on a wild-goose chase after Marge, because she was already happily engaged.


word: guidance
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The widespread application of administrative guidance is considered to be a uniquely Japanese practice in which bureaucrats exert authority, without any legal backing, telling the private sector what to do and what not to do.


word: gently
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Why don't you try expressing your opinion a little more gently? Think about how he feels getting told flatly that he's being cut loose.


word: ad
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Although 475AD is the year that shows the 'decline' of the Roman Empire, it is not the year of its 'fall'.


word: outstanding
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
If you are having temporary financial problems and it is the cause of your outstanding account, let us know about it.


word: meanwhile
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Meanwhile, the PIRATE Party offers space on an internet server of their own to all CDU groups in Kassel that are affected by censorship by the party leaders.


word: leather
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
What were the balls made of? Thousands of years ago, the Egyptians made balls out of soft leather or cloth.


word: attractive
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
People usually find it very difficult to break the ice when they meet someone extremely attractive for the first time.


word: material
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Another interesting source of energy is the heat that can be recovered from radioactive waste material.


word: district
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The fire and power outage resulted in a shortened workday at some exchanges in Manhattan's financial district.


word: tackle
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It's only manners to tackle all out a game that they have gone all out in creating. Pressing the pause button is just rude!


word: marketing
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
There will be an in-person meeting of the marketing subcommittee on Tuesday afternoon of Jan 27, 1999 at the San Francisco CA Airport Marriott.


word: response
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
All I could mumble in response was that when I was a man of fifty, my mother would lean out of the window when I left and remind me not to drive too fast.


word: bowl
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
For example, they do not have to go to a stadium to see the World Series or the Super Bowl because they can enjoy watching the games in their own living rooms.


word: dominant
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The company's analysis shows that in over 60% of all accidents in the past ten years, the behavior of the flight crew was the dominant cause.


word: reverse
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Instead of putting the car into gear, she put it into reverse, causing a great deal of damage to the store-front.


word: sausage
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The next day at the newspaper office he drew a bun which contained a dachshund inside - not a dachshund sausage, but a dachshund.


word: shift
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Forming an information infrastructure, the real impact of the information highway is an expectation of new economic development due to a shift from a tangible hardware-industry to brain-oriented software-industry.


word: adviser
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
My father achieved that and more in four words, which made quoting Shakespeare as effective as any business adviser could wish.


word: legislation
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
This group passes out information on such things as travel and health care, and encourages its members to vote on issues that affect this age group such as legislation regulating the insurance industry, medical care and housing.


word: bin
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The guard's truncheon hit air. Off balance, he regained his posture to see a metal-mesh rubbish bin flying towards him.


word: agriculture
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
And in many countries, where the animals are already under pressure because their homes are being destroyed by agriculture, things can get even worse.


word: disk
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Disk herniation is when cartilage, called 'intervertebral disk' and found between each vertebra, slips out.


word: abuse
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I'm not afraid of anything after having verbal abuse heaped on me like that. In fact, I feel empowered by it.


word: commercial
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
From the standpoint of ecology, Antarctica should be reserved solely for research, not for tourism or for commercial exploration.


word: existing
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Is there an existing meaning if the person in charge does not take the responsibility to begin with?


word: employee
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
And that's why for almost a hundred years, any employee has been able to go to his employer and insist on being paid in cash.


word: traditional
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Still others are traders who have always lived by trading and continue to follow their traditional ways.


word: brief
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In brief, if the individual accepts the values of democracy, he must also accept the responsibilities of democracy.


word: envelope
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It might be a bit big but this envelope will do just fine. It's better to be too big than too small.


word: distribution
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Service industries include communication, transportation, distribution, finance and a host of other areas which do not involve production of goods.


word: scope
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Because they had not achieved complete success they gave more scope for the activity of my imagination.


word: assist
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The best efforts of the human race, in addition, were necessary to assist the gods in their cosmic task.


word: spoil
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
That proposal may be a way to kill two birds with one stone, but we also have to be careful not to get greedy and spoil everything.


word: county
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
These smaller parts are called counties, and each county has a county council, like Westhamptonshire County Council.


word: judgment
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.


word: plug
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Did you know that if you plug a pickle into an electrical outlet, it glows and makes buzzing noises?


word: plug
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Thanks to biofuel cells, one will soon be able to power one's mobile phone, MP3 player or Laptop without power plug but just sugar and water.


word: detect
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The only metal that a metal detector can detect is the metal in another metal detector. That fact was instrumental in my parents' meeting.


word: detect
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Instead, they detect sounds through their tongues and feel vibrations through sense organs in the skull.


word: partner
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Although the two boys disliked the partner of each other the beginning, they became good friends soon.


word: distinction
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Great as is the sensuous beauty of gems, their rarity and price adds an expression of distinction to them, which they would never have if they were cheap.


word: determination
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
And at times when I became discouraged with trying to reconcile working and bringing up children, it was my husband who helped to maintain my determination.


word: centimeter
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The 25-by-57-centimeter oil-on-paper painting shows a person standing in a garden surrounded by trees with a church tower in the background.


word: vulnerable
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework has established in 2010 six degrees of vitality: safe, vulnerable, definitely endangered, severely endangered, critically endangered and extinct.


word: nil
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I think it is certain that there is intelligent life in this universe, but the likelihood of that life coming to Earth is practically nil.


word: enable
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
This may be because of a change in people's attitude toward marriage and the sharp increase of fast food restaurants and convenience stores which are open 24 hours a day and enable young people to live more easily.


word: core
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
He seems like a softy on the surface, but at the core he's got an iron will that makes him an extremely tough negotiator.


word: psychology
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In the early part of my study, I allude to work that had already been done on the psychology of crowd-control.


word: diagram
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Detailed design is the work of drawing up a diagram that is capable of being manufactured from the plan set in the baseline design.


word: encounter
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
We encounter similar difficulties when we substitute rectangles for triangles in this configuration.


word: encounter
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Treasure every encounter with others because you never know if you'll meet a person just once in your lifetime.


word: mate
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
We can conjecture that it may be advantageous for a particular bird to be known to its neighbors or its mate.


word: poster
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
You need permission to put up that sort of poster, and, most of all, you're ruining the looks of the street!


word: intervention
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It has been shown in most studies on this subject that intervention of the legislature had adverse effects.


word: experimental
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
We deal here with Emmet's 'dyad' style first presented in his experimental works in the late sixties.


word: comprise
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It is beyond the scope of the present work to describe all the components that comprise Emmet's architectural style.


word: parent
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Let me ask you something, Dad, she began, in a tone of patiently controlled exasperation that every experienced parent is familiar with.


word: parent
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Among married couples, there has been an increase in divorce and separation with the result that there are many more one-parent families.


word: straightforward
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
We have to be ready not only for a straightforward test of strength, but also for a struggle in which every strategy comes into play.


word: straightforward
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Usually they are all brought about by one’s own misdeeds and nothing more. For me, however, this is not the case; I am a man of great feeling, who values his word, and is straightforward and unrestrained, but these qualities have become the causes of problems for me.


word: option
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In the U.S., you have the option, when you enter a restaurant, to sit in the smoking or non-smoking section.


word: nut
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Instead of giving Alex a nut each time he said something, she'd only give it when he specifically said "nut."


word: panel
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The output power of a one square meter solar panel is about one watt, so it is difficult to use solar power on a large scale at present.


word: holder
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
She uncovers the little plastic tortilla holder so gracefully. It's little things like that that are so cute about people.


word: precisely
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
But, knowing precisely sadness and love and death, and that they are vain images when we observe them from the calm space where we should shut ourselves in, he kept on weeping, and desiring love, and fearing death.


word: purely
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Rows of houses, each of them different and pleasing with their spacious gardens, are replaced by purely functional blocks of flats which have nothing more to commend them than over-praised 'modern conveniences'.


word: bury
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
At long last, the two chiefs of the Indian tribes have decided to bury the hatchet and smoke the peace pipe.


word: motorway
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Incidentally a motorway ramp is being constructed in the neighbourhood, a few hundred metres away, of my clinic.


word: subsequent
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The subsequent years after First Contact allowed humanity to skip what could have been millennia of material and spiritual development.


word: monitor
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
A display, aka monitor, is an appliance that displays video signal of still images and moving pictures produced by a computer or similar device.


word: prosecution
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Criminal law, also known as penal law, involves prosecution for an act that has been classified as a crime.


word: entry
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Our company is a small but elect venture business that assists in entry and totalling of questionnaires.


word: capture
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
We want to capture all the uniqueness of each language. And we as well want to capture their evolution through time.


word: launch
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The launch, which had been scheduled for this morning, was postponed because of the illness of shuttle Commander John Creighton.


word: requirement
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
For that reason the outcome of the primary nursing care requirement authorization has to relate to the amount of nursing care required.


word: congratulation
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Messages of congratulation also came Saturday from the leaders in the Netherlands, Qatar, Egypt, Ukraine, Lebanon, Norway and Greece.


word: drag
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Don't drag out Chinese sayings about the importance of an environment conducive to learning just to justify moving for a child's entrance exams!


word: announce
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Weakness brought on by a number of respiratory ailments had forced him just last week to announce that he was giving up his conducting career.


word: restrict
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Sperm bank regulations restrict a given donor to making sperm donations at only one facility and restrict the number of children that each donor can "father".


word: spiritual
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I suppose that what we mean by beauty is that object, spiritual or material, more often material, which satisfies our aesthetic sense.


word: partnership
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.


word: literary
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
When, one day, computers undertake to translate literary works, it will be the end of literature as we know it.


word: component
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Evidence that the above example is farfetched can be seen by comparing the total occurrences of component X.


word: component
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Vaporise the solvent from the liquid. What's left is the perfume component and a lump of vegetable wax.


word: graph
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The graph in Figure 1 illustrates the differences in the means of total scores for white and black subject in each grade.


word: cooker
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
When I moved into my new home, I just brought with me the things that I needed for cooking, an earthen rice cooker, an earthenware pot and an earthen charcoal brazier.


word: awareness
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Participating in the general meeting raised my awareness of the new technologies in data transportation.


word: specify
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The important point concerning the complementary distribution is to specify the environment where the individual sounds occur.


word: publish
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Among the Internet sites that publish information on education related businesses are those given below.


word: firstly
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Firstly, I think that the first time each foreigner is in China, the earliest impression is certainly the size of the country.


word: secondly
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
You can tell this is college radio. First of all, they actually play records; secondly, they keep playing them at the wrong speed.


word: buddy
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
If you buddy up to everybody and anybody, pretty soon people will think you're just a people-pleaser.


word: buddy
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The "buddy system" is a way to stay safe while hiking in the woods, except when encountering pregnant bears, which eat for two or even three or four.


word: similarly
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In an essay similarly devoted to allegorical procedures in contemporary art, Buchloh discusses 6 women artists.


word: similarly
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Similarly, the strongest reasons for stopping are usually the short-term benefits (for example, feeling healthier and more attractive).


word: similarly
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world.


word: feedback
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Ruby on Rails is an agile development platform, which means we can respond to feedback from our customers very quickly.


word: inevitably
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The attacks of September 11th, 2001 and the continued efforts of these extremists to engage in violence against civilians has led some in my country to view Islam as inevitably hostile not only to America and Western countries, but also to human rights.


word: inevitably
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners of it.


word: circumstance
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
A miserable quarrel provoked by the hardheartedness of the landlord of a public-house, who insisted upon having three pounds of bread in payment for two pennyworth of wine which the woman had regaled herself with, was the circumstance that constituted the charge, and which, if substantiated would be punishable by five or ten years' imprisonment.


word: restriction
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Gategno explained in a press interview that the restriction of access to the e-mail service had nothing to do with the release of the inflammatory video.


word: restriction
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It has recently been suggested that calorie restriction alone has anticonvulsant effects in an animal model of epilepsy.


word: carrot
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
At home, because of his reddish hair and freckles, his mother scornfully named him "carrot" and had everybody else call him that.


word: qualification
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
An employee who is looking to advance their career and attain a job with more authority may want to consider looking within their own company and identifying any gaps in their qualification for the job, in order to work towards developing the necessary skills and experience.


word: historian
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The role of the historian is less to discover and catalog documents than to interpret and explain them.


word: rip
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Oi you, that's too much of a rip off by anyone's count! 6:4 is more than enough. Of course I'm the '6'.


word: cushion
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Using a doubled-up cushion in place of a pillow I lie down on the hard wooden floor with nothing but a carpet spread over it.


word: click
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
It's a troll trying for click-throughs. It's being multiposted in English-related communities all over the place.


word: photocopy
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
They were sold as photocopy books in Comic Market 67. We had no problem selling all of them, so we had bound copies made.


word: user
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Because we love you, we are updating Tatoeba to bring you a better user experience. See? We love you huh?


word: chop
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Actually I wanted to be a damsel in a tower guarded by seven dragons, and then a prince on a white horse would chop off the dragons' heads and liberate me.


word: chop
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Most people who eat with a fork live in Europe, North America, and South America; people who eat with chop sticks live in Africa, the Near East, Indonesia, and India.


word: bloke
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Now that I think of it, I've been asked to look at a haiku he'd written by the tipsy bloke sitting next to me on the train.


word: strip
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Disney strip-mines the world's fairy tales for ideas and then sues people for intellectual property infringement.


word: implement
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Some systems, such as Burroughs B5500, do not use paging to implement virtual memory. Instead, they use segmentation, that divide virtual address spaces into variable-length segments. A virtual address consists of a segment number and an offset within the segment.


word: implement
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
In its "Eleven Five Plan" (2006 to 2010), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology pledged to implement phone connections in every village and Internet connections in every town.


word: packet
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
This book is the literary equivalent of Haribo sweets: you only want to eat one, but end up devouring the whole packet.


word: assessment
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
On a case-by-case basis, in accordance with legislation, the environmental assessment branch will consider requests from members of the general public to undertake an environmental review.


word: limitation
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.


word: limitation
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.


word: limitation
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.


word: subsequently
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Two years ago, the idea of offering a research semester for particularly interested and committed teachers became reality. The aim is to improve communication between schools and universities. Since teachers are the best people for diffusing newly acquired knowledge, they will be given the opportunity to spend a research sabbatical at a university and to subsequently integrate this knowledge into classroom teaching.


word: subsequently
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
As science advances as some describe it, into itself, - by creating technology which is then subsequently of a higher complexity than the ideas it is to help explain - complications often can arise, such as a need for higher education for those who utilise it. This may not be a negative complication in itself, but gives rise to another problem: that this causes education about the subject's fundamentals to be sacrificed for the training in the utilisation of ever changing technology.


word: chap
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
There was a time when Christopher Columbus challenged another explorer to a duel. The latter, an underhanded chap, did not take ten steps - as dictated by the rules - but two, then turned around to shoot. Unfortunately for him, Columbus hadn't taken any steps at all.


word: chap
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Although this chap came into the world in a somewhat impudent fashion, before he was sent for, his mother was pretty; we had fun making him, and the illegitimate fellow must be acknowledged.


word: chap
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Tom's a polite, kind, and self-effacing chap who you wouldn't hesitate to introduce to your parents.


word: cereal
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
The "complete breakfasts" in cereal commercials always include cereal, milk, toast, and orange juice, but even Americans don't usually eat that much in the morning.


word: respectively
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
SOPA and PIPA are two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively.


word: characterize
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
To one of the head psychologists, the depression criteria didn't quite characterize this group of girls.


word: granny
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Granny, what kind of berries are these? "Black currants." "But why are they red?" "Because they are green."


word: strategic
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Libyan rebels have advanced into two strategic towns controlling access to the capital from the west and the south.


word: reinforce
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Before pouring cement mixture into forms for a foundation, the work crew securely place an armature of steel bars at a predetermined spacing in order to reinforce the finished building's hardened concrete. If a piece of steel is not long enough to span the required distance, the workers will overlap two pieces and tie them together to form a strong splice.


word: stair
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
As I was going up the stair // I met a man who wasn't there // He wasn't there again today // I wish that man would go away.


word: stair
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
When Cinder-Maid went to the ball the Prince would dance with none but her; and when midnight came round she fled as before. But the Prince, hoping to prevent her running away, had ordered the soldiers at the foot of the stair-case to pour out honey on the stairs so that her shoes would stick in it. But Cinder-Maid leaped from stair to stair and got away just in time.


word: presumably
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
I hear some guy, presumably a caretaker, going "Rawr, I'm going to eat you!" from the nursery school across the street.


word: presumably
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Recently "simplistic" is being used more and more often as a substitute for "simple." Such solecisms--presumably driven by a desire to appear learned--impoverish the language.


word: notably
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Several of the original signatories, notably the countries with the largest military forces, declined to consider a new treaty.


word: entitle
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Participation in a strike does not entitle the employer to terminate the employee's contract of employment.


word: grandad
source: tatoeba
created_at: 2025-02-18 12:26:14
sentence:
Where's Grandad? He's meant to be playing football with us in the garden. "Grandad's asleep, and I'd like you to keep in mind that he's well over 80 years old now and can't do everything he used to." "Well you wouldn't have thought it yesterday when he was scoring goals one after the other."


