Asking in sentence

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They have had to move, and every parliament session, I'm getting complaints from different communities asking for assistance to build seawalls, to see what we can do about the freshwater lens because it's being destroyed, and so in my trips to the different islands, I'm seeing evidence of communities which are now having to cope with the loss of food crops, the contamination of the water lenses, and I see these communities perhaps leaving, having to relocate, within five to 10 years.

AT: Yes, and I'm sorry, I think somebody was asking why we were sneaking off to visit that place.

Another reason why I did that was because I had been asking the international community that in order to deal with climate change, in order to fight climate change, there has got to be sacrifice, there has got to be commitment.

So in asking the international community to make a sacrifice, I thought we ourselves need to make that sacrifice.

Can you turn to your neighbor, the one you don't know, and look at them for two full minutes in their eyes, right now? (Chatter) I'm asking two minutes of your time, that's so little.

I found Morgan's website and I sent him a message, asking if any of his Spanish-language novels had been translated into English.

I'm not asking for the same to happen in Europe, for all European villages to have more refugees than inhabitants.

What I am asking is for Europe to do the job properly, and to be able to organize itself to receive people as other countries in the world were forced to do in the past.

There was a recent survey of millennials asking them what their most important life goals were, and over 80 percent said that a major life goal for them was to get rich.

Most of what we know about human life we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight is anything but 20/20.

For 75 years, we've tracked the lives of 724 men, year after year, asking about their work, their home lives, their health, and of course asking all along the way without knowing how their life stories were going to turn out.

Or that Gertrude Stein is more of a computer than William Blake? (Laughter) These are questions I've been asking myself for around two years now, and I don't have any answers.

So that when we ask, "Can a computer write poetry?" we're also asking, "What does it mean to be human and how do we put boundaries around this category?

What we seem to be asking over and over is can we build a human-like computer?

So that when we begin to grapple with the ideas of artificial intelligence in the future, we shouldn't only be asking ourselves, "Can we build it?"

But we should also be asking ourselves, "What idea of the human do we want to have reflected back to us?"

When a friend says, "I'm sad," you often respond by asking, "What happened?"

It was like asking, "Can a mountain fly?" King Hieron had a lot riding on that question.

I'm working on my PhD at SMU, trying to understand Peru's geothermal energy potential, when I remember this legend, and I began asking that question.

But a few months after we got off the boat, we got to a meeting at Conservation International, where the Director General of WorldFish was talking about aquaculture, asking a room full of environmentalists to stop turning from it, realize what was going on and to really get involved because aquaculture has the potential to be just what our oceans and populations need.

For example, research shows that asking someone about suicidal thoughts actually reduces their suicide risk.

Three: apply the information, something you do by asking critical questions.

Try asking them things like, "What was that like?" "How did that feel?"

All but two of the sums are unique, and if the hallway number had matched any of these, Zara would have known the correct combination right then and there without asking for the third clue.

What good is asking a question if you can neither understand the answer nor know if it's true?

Now, we can be sure that asking either Tee or Eff a question put this way will yield 'ozo' if the hypothetical question is true and 'ulu' if it's false regardless of what each word actually means.

As I motion for the tab, I make the mistake of asking him, "So where are you staying tonight?"

And by the time they're adults, whether they're negotiating a raise or even asking someone out on a date, they're habituated to take risk after risk.

Number two: I'm asking you and I'm asking me to be the person specifically who blurs the lines, who is ambiguous, who is hard to classify.

Growing up in Melbourne, Australia, I was one of those seriously irritating little kids that never, ever stopped asking, "Why?"

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