Approached in sentence

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I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile.

So I approached her to say hello, and I said, "Hi, Jeannie!

You see, as a writer, I approached this issue as an observer, as an Indian, I felt embarrassment and disbelief, and as an activist, I looked at it as a defender of rights, but as a citizen journalist, I suddenly felt very vulnerable.

Four years before the trees, we were approached by the government to help them come up with a communications strategy to get as many guerrillas as we could out of the jungle.

Minutes before the camera was turned on, they approached a Palestinian family that was working their land and told them that they have to leave the land, because this land belongs to the Jewish settlers.

More or less around the same time, I'm approached by a great guy named Uri Fruchtmann.

I stopped women as they approached the barricades to lay their tributes and asked to make their picture.

There was so much disease, they approached it differently.

The officer approached the car, and shined his flashlight on the driver, then on my brother in the front seat, and then on me.

You see that from the circle where we started, the white line, actually you get more and more and more elliptical, and then finally we approached the comet in May 2014, and we had to start doing the rendezvous maneuvers.

They approached the most powerful judge, Lord Mansfield, who was chief judge of the court of King's Bench, and they demanded that he issue a common law writ of habeus corpus on behalf of James Somerset.

Shortly as I approached the door of my new school and attempted to enter, and found the door locked with chains, I could hear Ashley's voice in my ears going, "Miss!

That was 21 years ago, and for 19 of those years, I have been married to that marvelous introvert who never in a million years would have approached me under other circumstances.

I saw as they approached the gate one night, and felt an immediate connection to them.

I approached my time in each Whitopia like an anthropologist.

And it's not a great building, but I approached it optimistically, that we would make a compositional relationship between us that would strengthen both of us.

Think how you would have approached your world differently if at nine years old you found out you could swim a mile and a half in 56-degree water from Alcatraz to San Francisco.

For example, when I approached the stage just now, I needed assistance.

As each person, one by one, approached the front of that courtroom, I couldn't stop but think: How did they get here?

And other people approached me.

As I turned the corner onto my street, my house in sight up ahead, I heard footsteps behind me that seemed to have approached out of nowhere and were picking up pace.

So at this human resources managers conference, I approached a high-level manager in a very large company, and I said to her, "Look, what if, unbeknownst to you, your system is weeding out people with high future likelihood of depression?

She frequently shares the story of how a young boy approached her after a couple of terms in office and asked, "Can boys really grow up to be president?"

He then approached her from behind, pressed the barrel of his gun against her head, and with a single bullet, lacerated her midbrain.

So I just approached him.

So, when we started work, my Egyptian co-director, Mohamed Youssef, approached me and said, "We must work at this one particular tomb.

I was on my way out, and before I could make it to my car, two police cars pulled up to block my exit, and an officer approached me from behind.

So I approached my PhD supervisor, Professor Rachel Calam, with the idea of using my academic skills to make some change in the real world.

They approached me as a human being, and that was more transformative than two full decades of outrage, disdain and violence.

Have you ever been approached by strangers?

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