Word: consultive
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...Sermon on the Mount, when they know that atom bombs are being made for use?" Why, he asks, listen to the greatest compendium of moral law ever issued, in a time of singular moral lawlessness? In other words, why should anybody be such a fool as to consult a physician in a time of epidemic...
...identify words in different languages with the same meanings. To do business with an Eskimo, an Iranian rug dealer would trot out his Persian number-dictionary, look up the numbers for the words in his mind, and jot them down. Receiving this coded message, the Eskimo customer would simply consult his Eskimauan number-dictionary...
...know it, in the thought of Christ to agree to call on him today as one rings someone up on the telephone. Indeed, it would seem to me unworthy to call on him without having first put myself in a state to hear him . . . There are some who would consult Christ to know how to lace a pair of shoes; I cannot; I will...
Already there had been three-cornered conversations between Washington, London and Ottawa. St. Laurent hinted at an early conference: "It may be that the free states, or some of them, will soon find it necessary to consult together on how best to establish such a collective security league." They might meet in Ottawa...
Finland's treaty was broadly patterned on similar pacts between Moscow and all its eastern European satellites. It barred Finland from becoming a base for aggression against the Soviet Union by "Germany or any nation allied with her," and provided that the two countries "will consult each other in event of a threat of military attack." Paasikivi and other Finns comforted themselves with this consultation clause, but the comfort was coldish. Moscow could dig up a "threat" any day it had a mind...