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The woman stood up from the chair and looked towards the door.
Tom is very rude to his wife but he behaves towards other people.
That girl behaved like a spoiled child towards her mother.
He undressed and went down nude towards the beach.
I was taken aback by their animosity towards us.
Tom feels hostile towards his neighbours.
The ball rolled on the ground towards me.
The road curves gently towards the west.
This policy is sure to go a long way towards stimulating business.
He acted fairly towards me.
I experienced a feeling of antipathy towards the speaker.
A boy came running towards me.
My attitude towards him changed.
They rushed towards their mother.
Andreas feels hatred towards Angela.
She got off the bus and ran towards him.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
It seems that I often see mean and disparaging behavior towards individuals on the net.
The dog ran towards me.
Socrates said that recognising your own ignorance is the first step towards wisdom.
The suicide bomber fired towards former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, but missed.
German punctuation is pedantic, English punctuation is chaotic, and for Esperanto Dr. Zamenhof suggested we look towards our mother tongue as a guideline. Go figure!
I think that Misty has different feelings towards insects.
Your attitude towards women is offensive.
It finally stopped raining towards evening.
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You seem sort of cold towards her lately.
Of course, we could luck out and actually send our message towards an alien civilisation.
Then we see Carolina stumbling towards the girls' cabin, and the girls go rushing over to her.
Don't come towards me!
She was heading towards Kyoto.
Uh, guys, guys, uh, the area that he's headed towards is pretty dangerous at night.
Let's just say her feelings towards Colonel Moutarde weren't exactly murderous, more amorous.
She was riding out towards the hills.
I had no ill will towards Mrs. Palmer.
That will lead us towards the mountains.
And then I try to make a step towards you and you close up and move away.
Moreover, your unqualified behaviour towards city clerk Hermann Schraat is considered a serious offense against a public administrator.
Out of the night came the Little Fellow, towards the dancehall, that beacon light of pleasure, that retreat of lost dreams.
If you hear us shooting, immediately open fire towards the village.
And towards the edges of the disc the stars were further and further apart.
May Allah guide you towards fair and honorable peace.
Thus he walked into the glare, towards the sun.
Towards morning.
I lost my head. I went towards her.
Yvette Delys then heads back towards her dressing room. She walks down the same dark hallways to her brightly lit dressing room, where she'd left the money, the 15,000 f we talked about earlier, foolishly left on her vanity.
It's the victim's footsteps heading towards the room.
She came towards me.
A red mist spread over the lawn and came towards me like a raging fire.
Towards dawn this morning he grew quiet.
But I'm completely bewildered by your attitude towards me.
I know your feelings towards me.
It's getting on towards five. I'd better be off.
And the horses are back on parade towards the starting point.
Heading towards peace.
But why do I have to be so humble towards you?
This is an all-or-nothing battle. By winning I gain the path towards becoming a government official. I lose everything.
Towards Barbes.
If you make another step towards that door.
You have again neglected your duties towards the calendar.
No, when a clumsy cloud from here meets a fluffy little cloud from there. he billows towards her. she scurries away and he scuds right up to her.
Now, it isn't that I don't like you, Susan. because after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn towards you. but there haven't been any quiet moments.
He knows how to behave towards a woman.
We'll head towards Foucherolle.
It might be difficult in view of our policy towards his people.
Men reaching towards the heavens instead of digging into dusty archives.
News and current affairs
But British policy towards the EU has often led to worse rather than better relations among member states.
Of course, no one simple change will eliminate the huge bias towards deficit spending in most modern political systems.
To enhance credibility, a number of governments are gingerly moving towards creating fiscal councils with greater independence, often with central banks as a role model.
Still, the general principle seems like an important step towards fiscal sanity.
But greater transparency and a more systematic independent evaluation of government policies could be a very helpful step towards solving the perpetual conundrum of outsized deficits.
Its growth was fueled by an extraordinarily rapid structural transformation towards an increasingly sophisticated set of industrial goods.
The latest Eurostat figures on the evolution of the price index for self-produced goods (GDP deflator) show no tendency whatsoever in the crisis-stricken countries towards real devaluation.
This has given new strength to those who want Turkey to develop in another direction, towards a more Islamic society instead of a modern secular state.
This means that once predator species become depleted, fishing pressure shifts towards plant-eating fish species, leading to precipitous declines in the numbers of herbivores on coral reefs.
At the same time, the lack of structural reforms in emerging markets, together with their move towards greater state capitalism, is hampering growth and will reduce their resiliency.
Chaos, a resurgence of terrorism, the rise of radical Islamism, and massive waves of immigration towards Europe are just a few of the potential threats to the European Union that are now being contemplated.
Among other problems, the Kyoto Protocol does not go far enough towards redistributing carbon emission rights towards developing countries.
Of course, Arabs are still unhappy with the United States' continued bias towards Israel.
Will the tide truly turn, propelling the world towards nuclear disarmament and a future free of nuclear weapons?
The EU must urge its Latin American partners towards further integration.
But only profound reforms of traditional authority can pave the way towards freedom and growth.
Today's educators should inspire our children towards creativity and innovation.
VIRGINIA BEACH - The problem of long-term energy sources has been drifting towards crisis for decades.
The Union for the Mediterranean, launched by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008, must be revitalized and re-directed towards development projects ranging from highways and ports to the promotion of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs).