If Yancey failed to get the statement he wanted, he would take Southern Democrats out of the convention.

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Now, people--some people make an enormous jump from that and wrongly suggest that what the Greeks basically did was-- well, if you want to take the most extreme statement of it, stole their civilization from the other folks.

现在有些人,跳脱了这个定义,错误地认为,希腊人仅仅是,如果选取其中最极端的陈述,从他人那里窃取了文明

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Jiang echoed He's statement, urging developed nations to, in her words "take the lead in emissions reductions."

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

Are we to take his statement at face value he is in fact a lumberjack?

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Then, take each statement one step further and add in what the benefit was to your boss or your company.

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Once the tent was down I had no protection, I was thinking there would be a police officer there to take a statement.

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