And it's not used only as a form of address, but also when we speak of a mother in the third person.
It's almost as if the way we speak of our parents with a sibling is the same way we speak with a stranger.
The oppression we speak of is driven by a belief system that dictates one rule of law for the for-profit sector and another for nonprofits.
And when we speak of Silicon Valley today, we are talking about their attitude, not the fact that they made 16K bit CMOS DRAM memory chips.
What are we really concerned about when we speak of risks related to consultant conflicts of interest and do these conflicts result in actual harm to pensions?
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We speak of immigration reform, tax reform, ethics reform and campaign finance reform all without a thought of how the term subtly endorses whatever is proposed.
And when we speak deeply of our own personal experience, we speak of family and food, education and medical care, clean water and freedom from disease, oppression, and repression.
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Conversely, the death we speak of and deal with every day, the death that is full of meaning, the non-absurd death, this is a place-marker, a fake, a convenient substitute.
But when we speak of a person as evidencing copiousness, we speak of someone who is abounding in matter, thoughts or words: Someone who is a veritable fountain of fluidity, spontaneity, repertoire of expression and observation.
The letter was forgotten as, on Aug. 29, 1859, Drake and Uncle Billy and his sons got feverishly busy pumping oil and filling wash tubs and whiskey barrels (why we speak of "barrels" of oil today) with the black liquid.
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So the question for President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton is simply this: If the United States and other great powers cannot come together to stop such clear threats, how can we speak of "partnerships" with other nations as a means of meeting other critical challenges?
When the world is indeed transparent enough that we cannot only see what our neighbours are going through but an easy way to help them, then we can speak of a new obligation imposed by a new level of technological and cultural sophistication.
"At the LMA the image of the game matters and we speak to all of our members on an ongoing basis on a variety of issues, " he added.
The only comparable example would be that of Nazi Germany in which we can also speak of an 'eliminationist anti- Semitism' of genocidal dimensions, which ultimately culminated in the Holocaust.
We can't speak of our cherished democracy around the world if we aren't willing to improve it every chance we get.
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The "we" I speak of is not an organization but a loosely joined community.
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At PK Metals, we have a retail recycling operation, and we speak with members of our community every day.
Now, even as we speak, remnants of the old regime continue to fight.
Moore, or Gawain and his staggeringly boring Green Knight, because Harvey had never learned them but we could always speak of Basil.
We used to speak of immigration reform, but in recent years it's become circumspect to say overhaul, which is presumably more neutral.
It is his birthday, so we speak in terms of decades. (Laughter.) It was actually -- (laughter) -- actually yesterday was his birthday.
Where every year and now, as we speak, tens of thousands of political prisoners languish in appalling conditions in Saddam's jails and are routinely executed.
Turkle cites the texted apology or what she calls "saying 'I'm sorry' and hitting send" as a vivid example of what's lost when we type instead of speak.
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When we speak and write of Islam, as we do for example of Christianity, we mean simultaneously a faith-tradition with its non-negotiable core doctrine and an institutional framework of socio-political order built by human enterprise in the name of that faith-tradition.
Instead, the assimilation of elements of French into English produced Middle English and, with it, the basic profile of the language we still speak: a large vocabulary of Germanic and French-derived words organized with a simplified Germanic grammar.
We also want to know where we are going, so we have devised stories that speak of a posthumous existence though, as we shall see, not many myths envisage immortality for human beings.
By his admonition, we are not to speak of the global war on terror.
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