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Knowing very well that his wife wanted to go to a movie, the husband, who was a dog in the manger, cooked up a scheme whereby they had to stay at home waiting for a certain visitor who was not expected to come.
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.
Russia guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine, and her borders, following the treaty of nineteen ninety-four, whereby Ukraine, in exchange, renounced her nuclear arsenal.
You take my house when you do take the prop, that doth sustain my house; you take my life, when you do take the means whereby I live.
"We came here," they said, "to hunt, and having fastened our boat to the shore with a withfe of osiers, we roamed about with our dogs in search of game. In the meantime this young man's goats came to the shore and ate the osiers that secured our boat, whereby it was lost."
But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?
A skewer is called a tactical move whereby two pieces that are in the same line (row, column or diagonal) are simultaneously attacked, so that the first, when moving, dodging the attack, allows the capture of the other one.
Scientists say a new geologic epoch has begun whereby humans are causing major damage to global water systems.
ISDS is a controversial measure whereby foreign investors may sue a state at a secret arbitration for “damaging” their profits if the state has violated a trade deal or international law.
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Shylock: Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.
M. Sawrey […] devised a mechanical method whereby theatrical scenes could be changed in a simple way.
Other heads saw devolution as a whole new way of life and adopted an approach whereby the power of devolution was used to enable the school to drive the curriculum.
Because COBOL does not have a date type, some implementations rely instead on a system whereby all dates are coded to a reference point. The most commonly used is May 20, 1875, as this was the date of an international standards-setting conference held in Paris, known as the Convention du Mètre.
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