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1. does not owe anybody
2. She didn't owe him, if she stayed with him on this quest, it was just the hormones she inherited from Tdeshi driving her to it
3. "That's very kind of you, does she owe you?"
4. He was your grandson too, we owe him this
5. "Who is it Will? Who do you owe the money to?"
6. "Anyway, Michael and I both owe him a few grand each
7. You owe it to me
8. Most of them owe money to the fucker and one or two have even been up to that house of his to have the frighteners put on them
9. As I begin to write this chapter, I owe to Tom Thomas for the patience he had in me to
10. "Whatever I am, I owe it to you
11. We owe her a great debt
12. ‘Lintze … I owe you some explanations
13. "So, deary, won't you admit you owe me one, as it were
14. “What do I owe you?”
15. The little dog cocked his leg and urinated against a large potted aspidistra before turning to the old man and saying, "That's five thousand Bonios you owe me
16. this shop at such a low rent, you owe US something
17. How much do I owe you?’ Anna asked reaching for her purse, but Alastair waves away the suggestion that she should pay for her food
18. We owe it to her to go through with it now
19. doing it is significant, because it is to God that we owe
20. we owe every opportunity that lies is in our path
21. ’ He agreed, his eyes on Sally, ‘I owe you a debt, Anna
22. In all of this, who did he think he really owed? He didn’t owe Tdeshi anything, he’d been her last fling in Sinbara
23. He didn’t owe Ava anything
24. To what do I owe the pleasure?” He was quite flushed she thought, though it was hard to tell in the gloom, and a little short of breath
25. 'I think that's one favour you owe me, sir,' whispered
26. He didn’t owe me
27. “I owe you anyway, for
28. "Besides I owe you a meal
29. The second was to make good the debt I owe to you on behalf of your own careful fulfillment of that oath you made so long ago, and if possible make you proud in the service of it
30. "So I owe the place a sheet
31. I still owe some on my Master Charge but I should have that paid off in a couple of months
32. Hawthorne, to what do we owe a morning filled with such
33. “No payment has been received since then leaving 18 weeks of interest at 12% compounded weekly plus the principal meaning that you now owe me $370,348
34. I owe him
35. We owe the world a gospel that shows more of God’s strength than our own
36. My dear Watson, I owe you a thousand apologies
37. was responsible – and that you owe Saint Front a debt of
38. Your faith in me has done so much to help me achieve all my dreams, I owe you a great debt for that
39. ‘These people owe a lot to the Brigadier,’ continued Johnson
40. He showed Zeus the ichor that was flowing from his wound, and spoke piteously, saying, "Father Zeus, are you not angered by such doings? We gods are continually suffering in the most cruel manner at one another's hands while helping mortals; and we all owe you a grudge for having begotten that mad termagant of a daughter, who is always committing outrage of some kind
41. I still owe you that by the way
42. It is my obligation to listen to you and in all honesty, and you owe me the same courtesy
43. “I owe you an apology, Anon,” she said as she drew near
44. “What’s this about the silver? Do you owe him money?”
45. ‘Ah, the stranger arises! To what do we owe this honour?’ the man exclaimed in a friendly tone
46. Their annual returns frequently do not amount to more than a third, and sometimes not to so great a proportion of what they owe
47. Sometimes it is necessary to remind customers that they owe you money!
48. Plato, we owe much of our western philosophical foundations, took these two words, “Know Thyself” as his
49. “You and I owe that to Billy Boy and the fact that he didn’t give up but brought you back in even though he was seriously wounded doing it
50. That debt has been contracted in support of the government established by the Revolution ; a government to which the protestants of Ireland owe, not only the whole authority which they at present enjoy in their own country, but every security which they possess for their liberty, their property, and their religion; a government to which several of the colonies of America owe their present charters, and consequently their present constitution; and to which all the colonies of America owe the liberty, security, and property, which they have ever since enjoyed
1. Another round of profiling type questions fol owed:
2. Luke: 7:41: There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other
3. She felt snippy, she owed Kulai and he deserved better than what she was serving him
4. Half of the debt collection agents owed him money themselves
5. My son knew about him as well but neither of us owed the fucker any money
6. “Lady Chimaera owed her extraordinary vampiric powers precisely to that pact
7. Joris Lilwin was one of our best agents – we owed him that much
8. How much would they care? Desa seemed to be a genuine friend, though he couldn't really understand why, but she hardly owed him her life
9. 'Stud-boy,' Ish slurred, standing up, 'This business and its profit is all owed to
10. She owed her afterlife to the Warlord, but that didn’t mean she was his vassal, far from it
11. 24And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten
12. 28But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, which owed him
13. When their life is al owed to unfold unrestricted, they wil love you
14. In all of this, who did he think he really owed? He didn’t owe Tdeshi anything, he’d been her last fling in Sinbara
15. In fact she owed him because without the letter he had kept, she wouldn’t have this address to chase down
16. If he owed anyone it was Leand
17. Yes … he owed it to Chas to see this little game through to the end
18. “The main reason I wooed you is what I owed Tdeshi
19. pay the full amount that I owed in
20. He still owed the loan sharks $15,000 plus interest
21. They protect their greenery so much, you are not al owed to remove flowers from the mountains
22. He owed her everything, including his life
23. He owed them all more than he could ever give
24. Maybe he owed the man some respect after all
25. It was yet another debt she owed him, and – not for the
26. should not be al owed
27. Empire, fol owed by the fal into barbarity
28. The Ottoman occupation fol owed, which
29. The landscape has al owed the
30. for this reason, when technique al owed the
31. during the breaks, to do what is not al owed
32. headed toward death - the first death, fol owed by the Second
33. But that when it imported to a greater value than it exported, a contrary balance became due to foreign nations, which was necessarily paid to them in the same manner, and thereby diminished that quantity : that in this case, to prohibit the exportation of those metals, could not prevent it, but only, by making it more dangerous, render it more expensive: that the exchange was thereby turned more against the country which owed the balance, than it otherwise might have been; the merchant who purchased a bill upon the foreign country being obliged to pay the banker who sold it, not only for the natural risk, trouble, and expense of sending the money thither, but for the extraordinary risk arising from the prohibition; but that the more the exchange was against any country, the more the balance of trade became necessarily against it; the money of that country becoming necessarily of so much less value, in comparison with that of the country to which the balance was due
34. And to give back what he believed, what he felt was owed
35. Otherwise, please forward us the amount owed in full by March 1st, 20--
36. The distance could not much weaken the dependency of the representative upon the constituent, and the former would still feel that he owed his seat in parliament, and all the consequence which he derived from it, to the good-will of the latter
37. ’ ‘They owed me that much
38. They also owed this chance to see you
39. He found it convenient, accordingly to give up the business of merchant, the business to which his family had originally owed their fortune, and, in the latter part of his life, to employ both what remained of that fortune, and the revenue of the state, of which he had the disposal, in projects and expenses more suitable to his station
40. John told him yes, but he was allowed to take in taxes of the amount owed, not any extra for himself
41. were of Janice again, how she really owed her not one but two
42. She felt she owed him a personal explanation
43. She thought how much she owed him
44. However I was dreading going to see him after the last time we were together but Elijah was a best mate and also a comrade in arms so I owed it to him to see if he was alright
45. I dreaded going but I was with him when he was killed and he was a good mate so I knew that I owed him this at least
46. It was deeply in debt before the end of the sixteenth century, about a hundred years before England owed a shilling
47. The republic was, in this manner, enabled to pay the great debts which it had contracted with the sixth part of what it really owed
48. The law which reduced the coin of all denominations to a sixth part of its former value, as it enabled them to pay their debts with a sixth part of what they really owed, was equivalent to the most advantageous new tables
49. “No I’m only joking I did it because I owed you for the number of times I volunteered you
50. I owed it to them to stay with them and sort something out that would get all three of us safely back home to our trenches and that’s what I was going to do
1. because He owes you anything
2. She owes me for a couple large favors, the details of which I would also prefer to keep private
3. Is there any way you can work things so that Iain can come across too? Surely Errd owes Joris that much
4. the world owes us a bloody living,
5. It was sweet of him to thank me … after all he has done for me, that he should think he owes me anything!
6. me that thou owes
7. 7Then said he to another, And how much owes thou? And he said An hundred
8. “Geez Carl (it sounded like Curl) that was quick, I owes ya,” the man said
9. ‘He owes you money, too?’ said, Jean, trying to
10. In reality B in London owes nothing to A in Edinburgh; but he agrees to accept of A 's bill, upon condition, that before the term of payment he shall redraw upon A in Edinburgh for the same sum, together with the interest and a commission, another bill, payable likewise two months after date
11. “Then he owes you a kinsman’s duty to be civil
12. Phyllis owes me, anyway
13. To hurt, in any degree, the interest of any one order of citizens, for no other purpose but to promote that of some other, is evidently contrary to that justice and equality of treatment which the sovereign owes to all the different orders of his subjects
14. Nothing can be more reasonable, than that a fund, which owes its existence to the good government of the state, should be taxed peculiarly, or should contribute something more than the greater part of other funds, towards the support of that government
15. "Geezer, or whatever it is, heap of chips, owes me close on fifty grand
16. "World owes you a debt of thanks, Miss
17. Half the time the subsidiary also owes so much money on the assets that it is useless to sell
18. When principles of non-violence are either self-contained or practiced unconditionally under circumstances (otherwise) calling for a measured response, (sound) judgment and common sense appealing to the requirements of a peaceful, well-ordered society that every citizen (otherwise) owes an obligation, and whose conspicuous merits, perhaps laudable in some instances, however questionable at other times, and where (such) natural impulses are routinely rejected, even more remarkably when Property and Person and at times the Nation, are at risk by (anti-social) individuals determined to provoke harm; weighs in the balance, and where (institutional) recourse is problematical or uncertain, an (individual) is required, inasmuch as it lies within that individual‘s capacity to do so, to discourage such annoyances as they may present themselves to that individual as well as that individual‘s family and friends, however contrary to that individual‘s ―nature,‖ lest that individual‘s misplaced pacifism further encourage mischief makers and bullies alike, by providing license to habitually upset the harmony and safety of private and public concerns as it (otherwise) suits their primitive whims
19. He owes you no loyalty besides what can be bought and who says you have the biggest wallet?
20. It owes its celebrity to the wonderful natural views and the most famous waterfalls in the whole country, the “Pagsanjan Waterfalls”
21. “He said he’s having bad luck lately and owes me a favor – crazy stuff that goes back to the war, it’s a long story – look, we have to get out of here
22. Somewhere within that subject there should be enough humbling evidence of just what each owes to the other, to create a basis for mutual respect!
23. “I think he feels like he owes Nigel for getting him into the band, since Ian is the youngest and wasn’t nearly as established when the band formed
24. And in those days shall the Earth also give back that, which has been entrusted to it; And Sheol also shall give back that which it has received; And Hell shall give back that which it owes;
25. This class is bought off by welfare, by having to pay no income tax, by the prospect of nationalized health care, and by the incessant chant that they are “victims” to whom society owes retribution
26. mean that the young king owes his kingdom to the physician?
27. "The problem with some persons is that they think the world owes them a living," said Bob
28. all evidence, that he is an exception and that the world owes
29. And in those days shall the Earth also give back that which has been entrusted to it; And Sheol also shall give back that which it has received; And Hell shall give back that which it owes;
30. Succinctly stated, an economically successful man is the man who has a comfortable margin between what he owns and what he owes
31. When have you heard the ‘liberals’ engage in open and factual discussion for the concepts they espouse? For whatever reason they oppose Capitalism, it is an undeniable fact that this country owes its present wealth and high standard of living to Capitalism’s productivity
32. Still owes me a favor though
33. this is that the subject of personal ethics concerns the responsibilities one owes to one's self
34. If someone owes him money he doesn’t give a stuff if they’re having troubles
35. the one who owes you thanks
36. “In the message you left, did you say, ’he now owes me a favour’?” asked Jane, staring him square in the eyes
37. The genius owes something to both his ancestors and his progeny; likewise is he under obligation to the race, nation, and circumstances of his inventive discoveries; he should also remember that it was as man among men that he labored and wrought out his inventions
38. 'Isn’t G having his own fill, well not on the sly? What an army of pimps-on-the-prowl to catch fresh chicks for him? Why, he owes all that to me! Same way as I owe V to G
39. “She has proved that the clout of the rich owes itself to the coveting of the poor,” he said, caressing her head
40. Valerius here owes me five lunas
41. Butler shook his hand and shook his head, “No it is me who owes you thanks
42. Christianity owes much, very much, to the Greeks
43. The look on Simon�s face shows he does not agree with this thinking; he is behind with the rent and owes for gas and electric; and he�d not had a decent drink since he got back from the states
44. Where's Athens now, to whom Rome learning owes,
45. To souls sublime her richest wreath she owes,
46. “Jags one guy is shit scared of you, but at the same time feels that he owes us for saving his life
47. 2 Do I think each family owes it to the community to maintain
48. field of say an electron, owes its very existence from the fact that an anti
49. check in to a motel, the home away from home that owes its existence to the automobile
50. The Order owes the Triplet family
1. on TV raises the fol owing point
2. You may feel you are too sleepy to do them then but you will find that some of the asanas are very bracing owing to their stimulating effect on the nervous system and soon give you a wide-awake feeling
3. It is our resistance to opening up and al owing
4. Most past conditioning is not in alignment with al owing the free
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6. there without struggle (the al owing practice from Key 8)
7. Nor in the present times is this increase principally owing to the continual importation of new inhabitants, but to the great multiplication of the species
8. It has, indeed, in some ; owing, probably, more to the increase of the demand for labour, than to that of the price of provisions
9. country, is not altogether owing to corporations and corporation laws
10. improvements of the country have been owing to such over flowings of the stock originally
11. distance from one another, is probably owing to the obstruction which the law of settlements
12. The present high rent of inclosed land in Scotland seems owing to the scarcity of inclosure, and will probably last no longer than that scarcity
13. This rise in the value of silver, in proportion to that of corn, may either have been owing altogether to the increase of the demand for that metal, in consequence of increasing improvement and cultivation, the supply, in the mean time, continuing the same as before; or, the demand continuing the same as before, it may have been owing altogether to the gradual diminution of the supply: the greater part of the mines which were then known in the world being much exhausted, and, consequently, the expense of working them much increased; or it may have been owing partly to the one, and partly to the other of those two circumstances
14. The scarcity which prevailed in England, from 1693 to 1699, both inclusive, though no doubt principally owing to the badness of the seasons, and, therefore, extending through a considerable part of Europe, must have been somewhat enhanced by the bounty
15. should, in another, be owing to the extraordinary encouragement given to exportation
16. The rise in its money price seems to have been the effect, not of any diminution of the value of silver in the general market of Europe, but of a rise in the real price of labour, in the particular market of Great Britain, owing to the peculiarly happy circumstances of the country
17. If, notwithstanding a great rise in the price, it still continues to prevail through a considerable part of the country, it is owing in many places, no doubt, to ignorance and attachment to old customs, but, in most places, to the unavoidable obstructions which the natural course of things opposes to the immediate or speedy establishment of a better system : first, to the poverty of the tenants, to their not having yet had time to acquire a stock of cattle sufficient to cultivate their lands more completely, the same rise of price, which would render it advantageous for them to maintain a greater stock, rendering it more difficult for them to acquire it; and, secondly, to their not having yet had time to put their lands in condition to maintain this greater stock properly, supposing they were capable of acquiring it
18. The price of raw hides is a good deal lower at present than it was a few years ago; owing probably to the taking off the duty upon seal skins, and to the allowing, for a limited time, the importation of raw hides from Ireland, and from the plantations, duty free, which was done in 1769
19. This diminution of their value, however, has not been owing to the increase of the real wealth of Europe, of the annual produce of its land and labour, but to the accidental discovery of more abundant mines than any that were known before
20. The rise in the price of those other sorts of provisions, therefore, cannot be owing altogether to the degradation of the value of silver
21. The same quantity of silver, it may perhaps be said, will, in the present times, even according to the account which has been here given, purchase a much smaller quantity of several sorts of provisions than it would have done during some part of the last century ; and to ascertain whether this change be owing to a rise in the value of those goods, or to a fall in the value of silver, is only to establish a vain and useless distinction, which can be of no sort of service to the man who has only a certain quantity of silver to go to market with, or a certain fixed revenue in money
22. If the rise in the price of some sorts of provisions be owing altogether to a fall in the value of silver, it is owing to a circumstance, from which nothing can be inferred but the fertility of the American mines
23. But if this rise in the price of some sorts of provisions be owing to a rise in the real value of the land which produces them, to its increased fertility, or, in consequence of more extended improvement and good cultivation, to its having been rendered fit for producing corn; it is owing to a circumstance which indicates, in the clearest manner, the prosperous and advancing state of the country
24. If this rise in the price of some sorts of provisions be owing to a fall in the value of silver, their pecuniary reward, provided it was not too large before, ought certainly to be augmented in proportion to the extent of this fall
25. But if this rise of price is owing to the increased value, in consequence of the improved fertility of the land which produces such provisions, it becomes a much nicer matter to judge, either in what proportion any pecuniary reward ought to be augmented, or whether it ought to be augmented at all
26. The price of superfine cloth, I have been assured, on the contrary, has, within these five-and-twenty or thirty years, risen somewhat in proportion to its quality, owing, it was said, to a considerable rise in the price of the material, which consists altogether of Spanish wool
27. The fol owing statue is
28. Their own distress, of which this prudent and necessary reserve of the banks was, no doubt, the immediate occasion, they called the distress of the country ; and this distress of the country, they said, was altogether owing to the ignorance, pusillanimity, and bad conduct of the banks, which did not give a sufficiently liberal aid to the spirited undertakings of those who exerted themselves in order to beautify, improve, and enrich the country
29. fictional one, al owing the building models,
30. see the result in the fol owing rows
31. In 1751 and 1752, when Mr Hume published his Political Discourses, and soon after the great multiplication of paper money in Scotland, there was a very sensible rise in the price of provisions, owing, probably, to the badness of the seasons, and not to the multiplication of paper money
32. fol owing, despite of the prosperity acquired it
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34. Dodging and ducking were skills she had long since acquired and finessed, owing in no small part to her petite size
35. It is partly owing to the easy transportation of gold and silver, from the places where they abound to those where they are wanted, that the price of those metals does not fluctuate continually, like that of the greater part of other commodities, which are hindered by their bulk from shifting their situation, when the market happens to be either over or under-stocked with them
36. That it has hitherto increased them so little, is probably owing to the restraints which it
37. This gradual fall in the average price of grain, it is probable, therefore, is ultimately owing neither to the one regulation nor to the other, but to that gradual and insensible rise in the real value of silver, which, in the first book of this discourse, I have endeavoured to show, has taken place in the general market of Europe during the course of the present century
38. This high price, however, may have been owing to the real scarcity of the herrings upon the coast of Scotland
39. The mother city, though she considered the colony as a child, at all times entitled to great favour and assistance, and owing in return much gratitude and respect, yet considered it as an emancipated child, over whom she pretended to claim no direct authority or jurisdiction
40. But this great naval power could not, in either of those wars, be owing to the act of navigation
41. This high price, indeed, seems to have been principally owing to the dye
42. The soldiers who are exercised only once aweek, or once a-month, can never be so expert in the use of their arms, as those who are exercised every day, or every other day; and though this circumstance may not be of so much consequence in modern, as it was in ancient times, yet the acknowledged superiority of the Prussian troops, owing, it is said, very much to their superior expertness in their exercise, may satisfy us that it is, even at this day, of very considerable consequence
43. That degree of order and internal peace, which that empire has ever since enjoyed, is altogether owing to the influence of that army
44. Their ill success was imputed, by their factors and agents, to the extortion and oppression of the Spanish government ; but was, perhaps, principally owing to the profusion and depredations of those very factors and agents; some of whom are said to have acquired great fortunes, even in one year
45. It has been owing in part, to the great prosperity of almost every part of the country, the rents of almost all the estates of Great Britain having, since the time when this valuation was first established, been continually rising, and scarce any of them having fallen
46. Yet with one important exception: according to the theoretical model the TE wave should be slowed by at least a further multiple of ten – around twenty thousand times, an anomaly owing to its superluminal effect
47. The ordinary rent of land is, in many cases, owing partly, at least, to the attention and good management of the landlord
48. Ground-rents, so far as they exceed the ordinary rent of land, are altogether owing to the good government of the sovereign, which, by protecting the industry either of the whole people or of the inhabitants of some particular place, enables them to pay so much more than its real value for the ground which they build their houses upon; or to make to its owner so much more than compensation for the loss which he might sustain by this use of it
49. discount; owing partly, no doubt, to the supposed instability of the new government established by the Revolution, but partly, too, to the want of the support of the bank of England
50. It supposes, besides, that the whole public debt is owing to the inhabitants of the country, which happens not to be true ; the Dutch, as well as several other foreign nations, having a very considerable share in our public funds
