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I would rather have approached her at the bar than the other one.
So the way we approached this is we studied the hydrology very carefully.
And so when a consortium of engineers approached us and asked us to work with them on this power station, our condition was that we would work with them and that, whatever we did, we were not just going to decorate a normal power station.
As I approached this concrete building, these tiny little windows, barbed wire, high walls, observation towers, and on the inside, these cold, hard spaces, little light or air, the guards are screaming, the doors are clanking, there's a wall of cells filled with so many black and brown bodies.
And I approached them, and I said, "OK, well, as you set up your process, could I work with the community to design a peacemaking center?"
But one of the things that has stayed with me is when, during my Northern Uganda tour of the play, a man approached me and introduced himself as a former rebel soldier of Joseph Kony.
And I was approached by a nice young man called Tim Berners-Lee who said, "Are you Ian Ritchie?" and I said, "Yeah."
And so we approached this patient and asked if he would collaborate with us.
Well imagine a small cube that's about this big standing in front of you in the middle of the room, and as you approached it, it tried to intimidate you by growing into a cube that's twice its height and [eight] times its volume.
Two years ago, we were approached by a partner of ours to digitally preserve an important heritage site, a UNESCO heritage site in Uganda, the Royal Kasubi Tombs.
Well, this is how I approached it, this is what I did.
Every time I approached the corner or the curb, I would panic.
In fact, my involvement in the whole pesticide issue was sort of a surprise as well when I was approached by the largest chemical company in the world and they asked me if I would evaluate how atrazine affected amphibians, or my frogs.
When I was him back then, I was approached by J. Walter Thompson, the ad company, and they were hired sort of by the Sundance Channel.
When we first approached one of the big, charitable UK organizations that fund this kind of stuff, we essentially gave them an engineering proposal.
The first way we did this was, one Vancouver morning, we went out on the campus at University of British Columbia, approached people and said, "Do you want to be in an experiment?"
He was trembling when our boat approached, frightened it would run over his tiny canoe.
In February, he approached the White House, and said, "I would like to fund a prize to create scalable national applications, apps, that will help not only the homeless but those who deliver services [to] them to do so better."
While it's true that many who died in Katrina did not have access to transportation, others who did refused to leave as the storm approached, often because available transportation and shelters refused to allow them to take their pets.
And as we danced and danced, and we approached this circle of women, men, women, children, everybody was there.
There were my sisters and a couple of other girls, and as I approached her, she looked at me, and I sat down.
As the Chinese officer approached my family, I impulsively stood up, and I told him that these are deaf and dumb people that I was chaperoning.
And as I sat contemplating what to say, a woman approached in a black shawl and black robe.
And as I approached the front door, Abed saw me, my jeans and flannel and cane, and I saw Abed, an average-looking man of average size.
NG: So Peter approached me.
He approached me with a vision of doing these things not for people, for animals.
From Makoko to Zabbaleen, these communities have approached the tasks of planning, design and management of their communities and neighborhoods in ways that respond specifically to their environment and circumstances.
One day, he's approached by a gentleman who offers to take him to lunch, then to dinner, to breakfast.
So, a few years ago I was at JFK Airport about to get on a flight, when I was approached by two women who I do not think would be insulted to hear themselves described as tiny old tough-talking Italian-American broads.
And when I was 15, a member of my local community approached my parents and wanted to nominate me for a community achievement award.
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