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The pigeon and the ostrich are both birds; one can fly and the other cannot.
You are both pretty and kind.
I know both of the girls.
I like both of them very much.
I like both.
When both girls told John they had feelings for him, he was in a quandary as to which girl he should be with.
We are both to blame.
In Kyoto, you can see both old and modern buildings.
Fish and meat are both nourishing, but the latter is more expensive than the former.
Hold the vase in both hands.
Both buildings burned down.
I know that if we discuss it, we can find a solution that will satisfy both of us.
I like both dogs and cats.
Mary is both intelligent and kind.
First, I should hear both sides.
Both Nancy and Jane were absent from school.
We have given careful thought to both alternatives.
You can buy whichever you like, but not both.
Both air and water are indispensable for life.
The school uniform is convenient because it can be worn for both informal and formal occasions.
We are influenced both by environment and by heredity.
I hope I can manage to make both ends meet.
Whether you pick the Lions or Tigers to win, the result will be a toss-up because both teams are equally strong.
Movie subtitles
Can you both let go of my wrists?
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Both sides, lower your weapons!
The real killer app that the West had and the rest lacked was competition, both political and economic.
As we'II see, there was more than one killer app, but the one that really started the ball rolling was surely competition - both the main driver of capitalism and of the fragmented European state system.
Europeans discovered the joys of competition, both economic and political.
We are both smarter than everyone else here.
It is this crosspiece that acts as both the bones supporting the body of the biwa as well as its heart.
Reasonable ventilation across both lung fields.
I'm putting both of you under at the same time.
Um. I'll be back in a bit to check on you both.
Are you? You know I could - have you both arrested?
But since you were both stoned when you broke in, and not in your right mind.
Because Valencia is Mexican and I'm Filipino and rice is a staple in both of our.
And both proton and electron also spin around their own axis.
There is a difference between both parts.
But the spiral arms from both parts do connect!
He is both Emperor of the French and King of the Arabs.
You're both wrong.
It will make it so much easier for the both of us.
You guys are both gross.
I'll take him and apologize for both of them.
Gabby, I miss both of you.
I'll be out of both oxygen and propellant pretty soon.
If I'm going to save all those I can, then both this body and this power. are an important part of me.
I'll stop you if it costs both our lives.
Both the men who were so brutally murdered were innocent civilians, not only that, but intellectuals trusted by those around them.
Both sides fought hard, but when the recess bell rang, the game was still scoreless.
I want you to tell the girls that I love them both very much.
We're both here for something.
They placed a special magnetic stripe on top. If this isn't dealt with properly, whether it's the Royal Family or South Korea, it'll both be finished.
Musashi tastes both suffering and discord.
It is this crosspiece that acts as both the bones supporting the body of the biwa as well as its heart. if this crosspiece was merely straight and stiff and everything was tight and tense you wouldn't get much sound from it.
I'll be back in a bit to check on you both.
Ah! But since you were both stoned when you broke in, and not in your right mind.
I love them both.
My best to you and Valencia both and always.
So you can both be in the wedding.
News and current affairs
The most important way to achieve both objectives is to increase exports by strengthening US competitiveness.
Only then will America improve its competitiveness enough to allow the government to reduce both private and public debt to sustainable levels while maintaining a respectable growth rate.
The good news is that, following President Hu Jintao's recent visit to Washington, both America and China have been taking positive steps to resolve their differences over the bilateral current-account balance.
The answer lies both in the fact that it promised not to do so when it signed the NPT and in the consequences that it would impose on others.
Meeting this imperative entails both an enormous technological challenge and an opportunity to redefine the meaning of modernity.
A solution to both high prices and misdirected research is to replace the current model with a government-supported prize fund.
Was it new scientific information that led to the lifting of the flight ban, or was it a reflection of the hardship, both personal and economic, that the ban was causing?
As with any compromise, the contending parties would both gain and lose from this arrangement.
Of course, we all know the proximate causes of an economic crisis: people are not spending, because their incomes have fallen, their jobs are insecure, or both.
Both factors challenge us to define, in the longer term, more sustainable patterns of production and consumption.
To resist these powerful pressures, fiscal councils will need to have their work audited periodically by international agencies such as the International Monetary Fund, both to protect their independence and to promote accountability.
It would create a trade area large enough to generate both local and foreign investment.
Terrorists might buy malware from criminals, and governments might find it useful to hide behind both.
Because 80 years ago, when Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George redrew the map of Europe, small states were dysfunctional in times of both war and peace.
At the start of the crisis, many people likened it to 1982 or 1973, which was reassuring, because both dates refer to classical cyclical downturns.
For geo-strategists, however, the year that naturally comes to mind, in both politics and economics, is 1989.
Cutting these programs will lower American economic growth in the long term, with negative consequences both at home and abroad.
One or both of these agencies would then have an account with several billion dollars.
Both have saved millions of lives during the past decade, and have paved the way to a new more efficient and scientifically sound method of development assistance.
This argument is both disingenuous and dishonest.
In this way, both the Israelis and the Palestinians share a secret fear - for some, a belief - that each has no intention of accepting the other's right to a country of their own.
We are convinced that the concepts that Liu and his colleagues put down on paper in December 2008 are both universal and timeless.