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Simple sentences
To our surprise, Tom came to our party with Mary.
We set out on our journey full of hope.
We grew up within our family circle.
We took a turn around the city in our car.
Our interests conflict with theirs.
We have made numerous improvements to our house since we bought it.
We've finished cleaning our classroom.
Tom is coming to our school tomorrow.
Inhaling diesel exhaust is bad for our health.
Where do you want to go for our first lesson?
These customs differ from those in our country.
Gasoline became so expensive that we had to let our car go.
Our garden was full of weeds.
Imagination affects every aspect of our lives.
Nowadays we want our children to make their own decisions, but we expect those decisions to please us.
Our opinion is an idea which we have; our conviction an idea which has us.
It's presumptuous for humans to assume that our task is to do what only God can do.
Denying she was an anarchist, Katja maintained she wished only to make changes in our government, not to destroy it.
The formation and movement of hurricanes are capricious, even with our present-day technology.
Johnson is a recluse; he prefers to isolate himself from the rest of the students in our class.
Can you imagine what our lives would be like without electricity?
It would of course be cheaper for you to sleep at our place.
Not material, but spiritual things determine our live.
Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse.
What has made you decide to work for our company?
In the light of what you told us, I think we should revise our plan.
Without your help, we wouldn't be able to carry out our plan.
I think it's a pity you could not come to our party.
The sky is over our heads.
The bank reassured us that our money was safe.
We must cut our expenses to save money.
The chill of coming winter discouraged our picnic.
To our surprise, he was defeated in the match.
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Your mom was a famous movie star a long time ago. And your brother is one of the top singer in our country. Killer, huh?
This is Yoon's house and our house is over here.
Hey, but our house is this way.
This isn't our house.
On tomorrow's sports news page, it's going to be our headline.
To report about our presence here.
Our futures are intertwined with one another, right?
Before Princess Cornelia arrives, we must cleanse the shame of our fellow men!
This concession came as a result of our resistance activities.
It's not just supporters. Some of our own members have applied to the special zone!
And we'll get swallowed up in their regime and lose our independence.
Is it because of our indirect contact and what happened at Kamine Island?
You're. You're our only. hope.
Zero! Return that unit! That machine is the property of our military.
Euphemia has become our enemy!
Our place.
And our place in all that?
In March 1952, just before the new receiver was finished, I went to Kootwijk for a month and a half to calibrate our radio telescope.
Our task was to process the observations from Kootwijk, do some calculations and give the results to Van de Hulst so that he could put together a map.
Our task was to measure the radio intensities at different frequencies.
That was a first indication that our Galaxy has indeed spiral arms of hydrogen gas.
He processed his data in a similar way as had been done by us in our surveys.
That was the great result from the survey done at Kootwijk in collaboration with our colleagues from Sydney.
The Netherlands continue to play an important role in an area where new discoveries are still being made, new instruments are being developed and the frontiers of our know-how and knowledge are constantly being pushed out.
The screws search our lockers, they go through our backpacks.
We spend all of our time trying to keep one step ahead of all the teachers.
Our mom's gravy is too lumpy.
Nick, this whole thing, it's torn our crew apart.
This game is like a religion to us, and they are denying our rights to practice our religion.
Yeah, it's our God-given right.
They water balloon bombed us on our own turf, just because we won't let them on our soccer field.
Frankie, on my father's life, Until you realize our right to share the soccer pitch, we will continue to sting you, and sting you like a swarm of killer bees. Okay, okay, come on, come on.
My friend, they already make our lives miserable.
This is our secret weapon.
Water? Taking off our water supply just makes us thirstier for justice!
News and current affairs
Second, and more importantly, our leaders must seek to calm, rather than exploit, public anxiety.
That is all the more reason for democrats to stand tall in defending our values - first and foremost by acting in accordance with them.
Indeed, our research shows that when mutual-recognition agreements include restrictive rules of origin, intra-regional trade increases - at the expense of trade with other countries - and that developing countries tend to suffer most.
But, globally, our innovation system needs much bigger changes.
Reforming our innovation system is not just a matter of economics.
Our intense desire to take all that we can from nature leaves precious little for other forms of life.
For a very low cash outlay - and perhaps none at all on balance - we could conserve nature and thus protect the basis of our own lives and livelihoods.
It is too painful to believe that humanity would destroy millions of other species - and jeopardize our own future - in a fit of absent-mindedness.
But the research is advancing fast, and it is almost certain to suggest new ways to reshape our moral intuitions, sentiments, and motivations.
But science might also offer more direct ways of influencing our brains.
Science fiction sometimes limits rather than expands our sense of what is possible.
We don't do it, because we give safety a lower priority than our desire to spend less time driving.
It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals.
Faced with a new EU initiative, our traditional response has often been to oppose it, vote against it, lose the vote, then sulkily to adopt it while blaming everyone else.
We can only hope that, in the end, the consequences of 2009 similarly prove to be far less dramatic than we now - intuitively and in our historical reflexes - feel them to be.
Reforming our innovation system is not just a matter of economics. It is, in many cases, a matter of life and death.
So, although the EU represents our best hope of ensuring that Europe is internationally competitive in today's increasingly difficult environment, it is actually being blamed for globalization.
Indeed, scientists have not only identified some of the brain pathways that shape our ethical decisions, but also chemical substances that modulate this neural activity.
Should we use our growing scientific understanding of the basis of human morality to try to make people morally better?
They will agree that our ability to distinguish right from wrong is something precious that we should safeguard, not a broken clock that scientists should fix.
In Ireland, last autumn's financial crisis provoked a turnaround in public opinion about the EU, and even in Iceland, although it lies on the periphery of our continent, membership of the EU and the euro have become a priority.
I don't want to reach the destination that some of our partners may aspire to.
Our economy has not been adversely affected by staying out.
Elected parliaments do not own our liberties.