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Simple sentences
Are you looking for something specific?
He has no specific aim.
He offered no specific explanation for his strange behavior.
Are you looking for a specific product?
I've heard that it is best to always feed your dog at a specific time every day.
A dialect is a specific form of a language, spoken in a certain region.
Be specific.
I should've been more specific.
You'll have to be more specific.
Dan invited Linda for a very specific reason.
An effective writer is one who knows what sort of words should be employed in any specific context.
Please give him detailed and specific directions.
Genes consist of a specific sequence of DNA.
Could you be more specific?
I must ask you to be more specific.
Can you be more specific?
He was very specific about it.
Movie subtitles
My office will be taken care of by me, so there is nothing specific for you to care about, My Lord.
You can get a specific time, but you have to wait like three weeks.
Classic Mediterranean, with a very specific and dare I say very personal Hellenic influence.
I'm afraid I'll need you to be more specific than that.
Specific to the fate of this woman, please.
You could do a lot with ten millions, particularly if you have specific propaganda in mind.
Then there's the kind that, while it has no specific plot, does paint a series of, more or less, definite pictures.
What specific knowledge have you of the military plane patrol over the canal area?
That's one specific form of the disease.
Couldn't you be a bit more specific?
What's the specific idea?
The law is very specific on violation of probation.
It's specific about everything.
Have they made any specific charge? - Yeah.
Only if there's a specific reason.
But if I'm to tell you something specific, you'd have to give me some facts.
First is the kind that tells a definite story. Then there's the kind that, while it has no specific plot, does paint a series of, more or less, definite pictures.
Yes, let me see now. specific.
But top-secret groups like O77. were billeted in remote, country estates where they were held in complete isolation. while awaiting specific assignments.
The greatest concentration is through here, and every one of these launching platforms. is pointed toward, and zeroed in to, one specific target.
We have specific orders not between you, lady Henrietta.
Would you care to be more specific?
And lastly, 300 francs a month for specific school insurance which covers sprains, fractures, scarlet fever, mumps and poked eyes.
The problem you will treat, which will determine your ranking, will not be restricted to a specific question as would be a question concerning homeland, civism, duty to one's parents or animals.
If I've left anything out, just ask me specific questions - - And I'll be glad to answer them one by one.
HE'S BEEN ASKING THESE REALLY ODDLY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS.
It's just that we're doing something very specific.
You lack specific evidence.
A lady never looks into a strangers face in the elevator. Only if there's a specific reason.
There are different reasons. But if I'm to tell you something specific, you'd have to give me some facts.
No specific tests, just get used to her.
Give me specific details.
Could you be a little more specific?
We, shall be specific, feed on brains.
Can't you be more specific?
Nothing really specific, but you would be in charge of it.
It's specific gravity, but it whips cream too.
News and current affairs
The problem exists in all countries affected by the threat of terrorism, though in many it has not become quite as specific.
Yet the agreement commits no one to any specific targets, least of all the United States, whose president, George W. Bush, will no longer be in office in 2009, when the tough decisions have to be made.
A key point here is that institutional arrangements are, by necessity, country-specific.
It is harder because the binding constraints on growth are usually country-specific and do not respond well to standardized recipes.
In 2005, the UN Millennium Project recommended specific ways to scale up primary health care in the poorest countries, with the high-income countries helping to cover the costs that the poorest could not pay by themselves.
The shooting in Newtown was not only especially horrific and heartbreaking, but is also part of an increasingly common pattern - a specific kind of murder-suicide that has been carefully studied by psychologists and psychiatrists.
Of course, some laboratories receive EU grants, but without recognizing a specific European mission in research policies.
But as the states won't be able to do everything alone and won't renounce maintaining political control, we must be able to link the Union's policies and those of specific states.
In proposing the creation of NAPU, we envision a specific plan to create a larger market by fostering an alliance between the three economies.
The language Haider and many leaders of his party have used over the years is informed by the same racist and anti-Semitic discourse that gave birth to Nazism: in the specific Austrian context, it is violently anti-Slav as well as anti-Turkish.
While they are a good defense against many viruses, each vaccine is highly specific to the threat.
With their very specific forms, the most effective anti-viral vaccines must be designed for a narrow range of factors.
Others object to specific rights which they say reflect Western cultural bias, the most troublesome here being women's rights.
The first problem arises when specific factors, real or perceived, block some options from the adjustment menu.
The upcoming climate negotiations ought to address the specific problems of Africa and similarly vulnerable poor parts of the world.
Even here, the MDGs contain no numerical target for financial aid or any other aspect of rich countries' assistance, in contrast to the highly specific poverty-related targets set for developing countries.
Specific negotiations on withdrawing American troops from Korea or on redeploying them from the DMZ to south of Seoul must be carried out according to these principles.
In fact, the absence of a specific ideology was essential to the Arab Spring's initial success in Egypt and Tunisia, for it allowed a large number of young activists to forge loose alliances.
In situations where government intervention is necessary, we must consider specific ways in which the private sector can assist in the recovery.
But a more specific similarity is that highly indebted eurozone countries and Chinese provinces and counties have been spending too much of a common currency.
This will be sufficient to enable the IMF to come to the aid of specific countries in trouble, but it will not provide a systemic solution without conditionality.
Indeed, there is no specific religious or ethnic character to these riots, in so far as youth from various ethnic backgrounds have taken part.
Unfortunately, Greece has become a special case, one that requires focused and specific treatment, most probably involving another round of public-debt forgiveness.