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.
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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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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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.
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.
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.
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 do not usually speak of personal characteristics, personal effects, personal correspondence, personal influence, or personal tragedy as referring to corporations or other artificial entities.
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Neither Sapir nor Whorf formulated a definitive version of the hypothesis that bears their names, but in general the theory argues that the language we speak actually shapes our experience of reality.
"Next week we will speak to hundreds of young people about the impact of knife crime and violence and to listen to their concerns and ideas to end the problems, " he added.
But we are relying obviously -- well, we have our eyes and ears, but we speak regularly with leaders of both parties in the House and the Senate to get their assessments of what the institution will bear.
"We are publishing more images of people we would like to speak to and would ask anyone with information to come forward, " said a spokesman.
Unfortunately, given the cacophony of the show floor, we can't speak to the sonic quality of the headphones, but the system did work well in our brief time with it.
If we are serious about these ideals, we must speak honestly about the deeper causes of the crisis -- because we face a choice between the forces that would drive us apart and the hopes that we hold in common.
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We have no inflation to speak of right now, in fact some economists believe deflation is a greater concern.
With an identical chipset and no OS customization to speak of, we weren't surprised to see this 8X notch similar benchmark results as its brethren.
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