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  • What's on today's agenda?
    agenda = list of items to discuss at a meeting
  • Among other things, a game plan for fruit stealing would be on the agenda.   (source)
    agenda = list of items to be discussed
  • "Okay," Phoebe said, "an agenda is a..."
    "So maybe it's for your dad," I suggested. "Does he go to meetings?"   (source)
    agenda = a list of items to discuss at a meeting
  • You're the only buggin' thing on the agenda. And with that, he turned and walked away, leaving Thomas to wonder why in the world a Gathering was needed just to talk about him.   (source)
    agenda = list of items to be discussed
  • Nobody quotes us by name, yet, but they're discussing the points we raise. We're helping set the agenda.   (source)
  • "I promise I'll put it on the agenda at our camp meeting next month," Clancy said with one of his smiles.   (source)
    agenda = list of items to discuss at a meeting
  • For these six, history had a different set of agendas.   (source)
    agendas = list of objectives
  • Berger declared the meeting open.
    "There is only one item on the agenda," she said.   (source)
    agenda = list of items to be discussed at a meeting
  • There was a ten-minute period on the agenda for discussion and objections.   (source)
    agenda = list of items to discuss at a meeting
  • "The first item on the agenda," he said, hardly glancing at the notes that were laid out before him, "concerns the territorial dispute between the sister cities, Caer-Konig and Caer-Dineval, on Lac Dinneshere."   (source)
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  • I attended the next unit meeting and asked for a place on the agenda, which was readily granted.   (source)
  • He had no hidden agendas; he expressed himself directly.   (source)
    agendas = goals or objectives
  • Phoebe explained what an agenda was.   (source)
    agenda = a list of items to be discussed at a meeting
  • I know what an agenda is, Phoebe.   (source)
  • They had reached the point in the agenda over which he and Ekström had disagreed, namely the question of whether they should name their suspect.   (source)
  • There was no saying what G. thought about this theory, but there was a note to the effect that Zala had been on the agenda a year earlier at a meeting with "the special investigative group on organized crime."   (source)
    agenda = list of items to be discussed at a meeting
  • At a meeting one night Young asked that his name be placed upon the agenda; when his time came to speak, he rose and launched into one of the most violent and bitter political attacks upon Swann, one of our best young artists, in the club's history.   (source)
    agenda = list of items to discuss at a meeting
  • I was fifth on the agenda.   (source)
  • There was an agenda; the balding scribe read out the names and the various parties came forward in their turn.   (source)
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  • What's on the agenda today?
    agenda = list of things to do
  • The message was: Everyone has his own agenda.   (source)
    agenda = list of things they want to do
  • Lying in bed was the only thing on the agenda.   (source)
    agenda = list of things to do
  • "That's probably next up on his agenda," Shoto said, grinning.   (source)
    agenda = list of things to be done
  • She gave herself over to the new life that awaited her in this city, a life with a father, with sisters and brothers, a life in which she would love and be loved back, without reservation or agenda, without shame.   (source)
    agenda = a goal to get something
  •   "What's next on the bloody agenda?"
      "Just thought you'd like to eat something, maybe take a shower. Sleep."   (source)
    agenda = list of things to do
  • When she'd get back from one of her trips, she'd materialize in his room in the middle of the night: she managed to do that no matter what might be on Crake's agenda.   (source)
  • My private agenda dovetails completely with my public one.   (source)
    agenda = list of things to be done
  • What's on the agenda for today?   (source)
    agenda = list of things to do
  • As part of his social agenda, the Captain abolished the worst aspects of the company-store system in Coalwood.   (source)
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  • When the palace was mine, that was the first thing on the agenda.   (source)
    agenda = list of things to be done
  • The hidden agenda was marriage to homeland boys, since everyone knew that once a girl married an American, those grandbabies came out jabbering in English and thinking of the Island as a place to go get a sun tan.   (source)
    agenda = goal or plan
  • They have their own agenda, and if they plucked you out of camp, it means they have a plan for you.   (source)
    agenda = list of objectives
  • Sleep was not on his agenda.   (source)
    agenda = list of things to do
  • As spring gave way to summer, Spearhead accelerated into the culminating elements of its training agenda.   (source)
    agenda = list of objectives
  • Tomas always had his own agenda.   (source)
    agenda = goals or objectives
  • Armansky's investigation was formally subordinate to the police investigation, and he had his own agenda.   (source)
    agenda = list of objectives
  • The Taoiseach and I will meet again next spring in London, with key ministerial colleagues, to give this the necessary impetus and agenda, and will thereafter meet at least once a year to review progress.   (source)
  • The zombie overlords numb our brains with math so they can implant their devious consumer-culture agenda in us.   (source)
    agenda = list of things to be done
  • His 1994 agenda, known as the "Contract with America," helped Republicans achieve their first House majority in forty years.   (source)
    agenda = a list of objectives
  • Out of the blue, I said, "Everyone has his own agenda."   (source)
    agenda = reasons or goals that motivate behavior
  • ...just as I had had my own agenda that day my mother wanted me to walk with her.   (source)
  • For one quick moment we both had the same agenda.   (source)
  • And we're all expecting other people to tune into our own agenda.   (source)
  • Roland uses it to further his own agenda of fear -- after all, he was the one who very publicly predicted that Emby would vanish.   (source)
    agenda = goal or plan
  • "Even the idea of opposing the Capitol's agenda is a source of confusion for the people here," says Haymitch.   (source)
    agenda = list of things to be done
  • Prudence had her own agenda, just as I had had my own agenda that day my mother wanted me to walk with her.   (source)
    agenda = reasons or goals that motivate behavior
  • When I told about the message Everyone has his own agenda, Gram thumped on the dashboard and said, "Isn't that the truth!"   (source)
  • "Mind your own agenda," she said.   (source)
    agenda = list of things to be done
  • Everyone has his own idiot agenda.   (source)
    agenda = reasons or goals that motivate behavior
  • Everyone has his own agenda.   (source)
  • I saw everyone else going on with their own agendas while Mrs. Cadaver was frantically trying to keep her husband and her mother alive.   (source)
  • But increasingly we share a common agenda and common objectives: completion of the Single Market and structural economic reform; better conditions for growth and jobs in Europe; successful enlargement; a united and coherent foreign policy voice for Europe; a more effective fight against crime, drugs, illegal immigration and environmental damage; flexible, open and accountable European institutions.   (source)
    agenda = list of objectives
  • The Admiral says his goal is to save Unwinds, but what if he's got an entirely different agenda?   (source)
    agenda = goal or plan
  • The scrolls highlight glaring historical discrepancies and fabrications, clearly confirming that the modern Bible was compiled and edited by men who possessed a political agenda—to promote the divinity of the man Jesus Christ and use His influence to solidify their own power base.   (source)
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  • Of course he had his own agenda.†   (source)
  • "I believe it's on our agenda for Saturday," Mr. Dimming replied enthusiastically.†   (source)
  • Sir, my agenda?†   (source)
  • "Your desires aren't at the top of Rose's agenda, Ginny."†   (source)
  • I was merely observing; I have no agenda.†   (source)
  • He has some sort of agenda to stop us from winning against the Colonies.†   (source)
  • He even said that "a key element of the U.S.-Soviet agenda" is "more responsible Soviet conduct around the world"—as if the United States were a bastion of "responsible conduct around the world"!†   (source)
  • Dina is constantly rolling her eyes, muttering under her breath about Molly's various infractions—didn't put away her laundry, left a bowl in the sink, can't be bothered to make her bed—all of which are part and parcel of the liberal agenda that's ruining this country.†   (source)
  • She would listen seriously as if she were mentally noting the points of our agenda on a steno pad to which she would later refer.†   (source)
  • For a time she carried these letters in her book bag, to her classes, thickening her agenda.†   (source)
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  • The agenda for District 12 includes a dinner at Mayor Undersee's house tonight and a victory rally in the square during the Harvest Festival tomorrow.†   (source)
  • What's on the agenda today?†   (source)
  • There is always one agenda swallowing another, a squeaky wheel crying out.†   (source)
  • The credit flimsies confirmed that he had held to the agenda on the week he was murdered, with the addition of a few extra purchases-shoes one day, groceries the next-and one stop at a bar on Renaissance V on the day of his "murder."†   (source)
  • He doesn't know what 'agenda' means, but he knows eight thousand more complicated words."†   (source)
  • The new writer has his own agenda, her own slant to put on things.†   (source)
  • This includes persons pursuing a political agenda, religious extremists, or other disgruntled individuals.†   (source)
  • He had unrivaled access to impressionable young minds — and other corporations, with other agendas to sell, were eager to come along for the ride.†   (source)
  • I would wholeheartedly support any progressive agenda coming out of the city.†   (source)
  • Gods have different agendas than humans do, Sadie.†   (source)
  • The Red Agenda was worked out and agreed upon: Comrade Rahel would go for her Afternoon Gnap, then lie awake until Ammu fell asleep.†   (source)
  • He was beginning to suspect that Flamel's agenda was about more than just protecting him and his sister.†   (source)
  • "I don't have an agenda here, Mack.†   (source)
  • I deal too often with people who are programmed, or have an agenda, or guard their feelings.†   (source)
  • No one I've loved has ever not had an agenda.†   (source)
  • Charlie huffed and followed behind, though he could hardly complain about the activity on tonight's agenda.†   (source)
  • The lack of an agenda.†   (source)
  • What my bosses did not know was that behind my journalistic wanderings was a secret agenda: to use my position as a columnist to engineer as many shamelessly transparent "working holidays" as I possibly could.†   (source)
  • "It's on the agenda.†   (source)
  • In the old days, when Paul blew in from Haiti and wanted to talk to Jim but had to get to an appointment, he'd say, "Walk with me," as if everything on his agenda mattered more than anything Jim might have to do himself.†   (source)
  • No underlying agendas.†   (source)
  • The quantity of facts to be sought and sifted, and the agenda planned to obtain them, promised perspiration a plenty, entailing, as it did, the tracking down, the "checking out," of hundreds of people, among them all former River Valley Farm employees, friends and family, anyone with whom Mr. Clutter had done business, much or little-a tortoise crawl into the past.†   (source)
  • You don't want a judge with a personal agenda, believe me.†   (source)
  • Many minutes passed before Ellen's composure returned and before I gained the courage to broach the next topic on my agenda.†   (source)
  • His presence made the talks more problematic and suggested a larger agenda.†   (source)
  • One of the items on the agenda had to do directly with Ad Worx: 'an assessment of the association to this point,' the letter had said.†   (source)
  • It was carried by a man, a volunteer, riding on a cold night with no personal agenda other than a concern for the liberty of his peers.†   (source)
  • Now, though, I was realizing maybe I would have preferred to eat my regular sandwich on a bench alone, as it became increasingly clear that my sister had come with An Agenda.†   (source)
  • He gave us each a perfunctory greeting and muttered, "I hope that … well, I mean … I just don't— Miss Hastings stopped him by saying, "I believe our agenda today involved your report to Mr. Hamilton on your progress with respect to understanding friendship."†   (source)
  • "Experts"—from criminologists to real-estate agents—use their informational advantage to serve their own agenda.†   (source)
  • With the demise of the zampolit this duty devolved upon the commanding officer, but Ramius doubted that regulations anticipated the sort of discussion on today's agenda.†   (source)
  • Simply asking questions put the issue on the agenda.†   (source)
  • Now do you see these hidden, poisoned agendas?†   (source)
  • "After a decent interval, Mortenson tried to steer the conversation toward Vera's donation to the CAI, but his host had her own agenda.†   (source)
  • A swift return had not been on the agenda, Hibernius.†   (source)
  • No, I did not vary from my planned agenda.†   (source)
  • He then turns the conversation to the last issue on his agenda, telling Pelcovits he's planning to take all his classes satisfactory/no credit, or S/NC, Brown's parlance for pass/fail.†   (source)
  • I assume that's also high on your agenda."†   (source)
  • Taking an item off your agenda.†   (source)
  • The following points are therefore high on their agenda: (1) They have to convince the district court (the public, in effect) that the decision to lock you up in St. Stefan's in 1991 was a legitimate one, that you really were mentally ill.†   (source)
  • New agenda.†   (source)
  • Postseason awards were now on everyone's agenda in college football, and I was blessed to have been included in the consideration for a number of them.†   (source)
  • Conventional wisdom agrees that political fiction is not art; that such work is less likely to have aesthetic value because politics—all politics—is agenda and therefore its presence taints aesthetic production.†   (source)
  • These days, history is a difficult thing to impart, especially because of political agendas.†   (source)
  • For some there is also an immigration reform agenda.†   (source)
  • I tried to interpret the nature of their secret agenda against us.†   (source)
  • Though he did not trust or like abolitionists and believed their agenda would ultimately divide the union, he had a sneaking admiration for Tappan and his abilities.†   (source)
  • That Was Fun Maybe even more fun than what I've got on my agenda now.†   (source)
  • There are some truly powerful demons among the four kingdoms with their own agendas and factions and rivalries.†   (source)
  • I can see they're not sure if I'll promote an agenda that suits them.†   (source)
  • In fact, they didn't care about war, Turkey, or much of anything else, for they had hidden agenda that overrode everything.†   (source)
  • The liberation of Jerusalem, he said, was high on his agenda.†   (source)
  • "What's first on the agenda?"†   (source)
  • Now, please, can we return to the agenda and start recording again?†   (source)
  • The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda.†   (source)
  • So, I ask you to join me in helping to write that agenda.†   (source)
  • You can help me to develop a national agenda for the 1980s.†   (source)
  • It wasn't on the agenda.†   (source)
  • As Reich went to his desk he was followed by secretaries and sub-secretaries carrying the urgent agenda of the day.†   (source)
  • Remember, the people who know me are the ones who are free to live and love without any agenda.†   (source)
  • We're professionals, we have a long agenda, and it doesn't involve charity projects."†   (source)
  • Even if we put aside his agenda, the content of that book was often inaccurate.†   (source)
  • The hardest part is deciding where to write down the phone number, in what part of her agenda.†   (source)
  • My trip to New York has no agenda other than to know this one part of his life a little better.†   (source)
  • Lei's agenda was even simpler: He just wanted Ye's paper.†   (source)
  • Today, we will continue the agenda from the last time.†   (source)
  • Let me tell you now, the Adventists have their own secret agenda.†   (source)
  • Back then, many people wrote to the central leadership with all kinds of personal agendas.†   (source)
  • This "tour", as you call it, was not on my agenda.†   (source)
  • "So what's on your agenda the rest of the day?"†   (source)
  • A shower was definitely first on the agenda.†   (source)
  • I don't have any kind of agenda—really.†   (source)
  • "So what's on your agenda tonight?" she asked.†   (source)
  • I couldn't anticipate their darker agendas when such things were unthinkable to my species.†   (source)
  • Then how can you criticize me for having an agenda because of what I believe in?†   (source)
  • So what's on your agenda today?" he asked.†   (source)
  • The second house on my agenda turned out to be right across the park from Jesus Is Lord's.†   (source)
  • I could tell Thrynga had her own agenda.†   (source)
  • Nothing-absolutely nothing but what's on the inn's agenda.†   (source)
  • Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.†   (source)
  • The issues involved, however, have barely registered on the global agenda.†   (source)
  • Any crazed lunatic with a gun and an agenda can easily take a shot during moments like those.†   (source)
  • Behind their smiling faces will be a hidden agenda.†   (source)
  • Actually, that was on my agenda for today.†   (source)
  • The room was more or less at capacity since nobody knew the agenda for the meeting.†   (source)
  • Why hadn't I seen these hidden, poisoned agendas?†   (source)
  • It is left to Lyndon Johnson and Bobby Kennedy to finish the civil rights agenda of June 22.†   (source)
  • We can, we -- and I say it with emphasis -- write a new agenda for our future.†   (source)
  • It is in this spirit that I ask you to join me in writing an agenda for the future.†   (source)
  • They've got their own agendas.†   (source)
  • While I outwardly express discontent about our lack of any real participation, I'm busy with my own agenda.†   (source)
  • There were passive Muslims, uncertain Muslims, borderline agnostic Muslims, devout Muslims, and Muslims who twisted the words of the Qur'an to suit their temporary desires and agendas.†   (source)
  • But she has been the quickest to determine that I have an agenda of my own and am therefore not to be trusted.†   (source)
  • Lauren Mallory was the evil core of thethem side, and almost everyone else, including my first friend in Forks, Jessica Stanley, seemed content to go along with her anti-Bella agenda.†   (source)
  • Even if her path and Elena's demands were now tied closely together, she wouldn't become the King's Champion just to serve some ghost's agenda—an agenda that Elena had twice now failed to reveal.†   (source)
  • After I tell the students that first time that it's a sonnet, half of them groan in belated recognition (often they know but think I have a hidden agenda or a trick up my sleeve) and the others ask me how I knew that so fast.†   (source)
  • Enjoying a great meal at a restaurant was "the very essence of freedom;' he declared, a ritual now being threatened by groups with an agenda that was "anti-meat, anti-alcohol, anti-caffeine, anti-fat, anti-chemical additives, anti-horseradish, anti-non-dairy creamer."†   (source)
  • What's on your agenda today?†   (source)
  • Her body tends to move on its own agenda, with feet sometimes kicking out unexpectedly and arms occasionally flailing, connecting with whatever is close by—a stack of CDs, a bowl of soup, a vase of roses.†   (source)
  • And now we get to listen to the senators and the representatives who are running for office again; they tell the colonel all he doesn't know about the U.S. Constitution; they point out to him that patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda—and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.†   (source)
  • You are free to love without an agenda.†   (source)
  • I think we'd be reasonable to conclude that the whole Count Dracula saga has an agenda to it beyond merely scaring us out of our wits, although scaring readers out of their wits is a noble enterprise and one that Stoker's novel accomplishes very nicely.†   (source)
  • Even though a necklace wouldn't protect her from the murderer, and even though Elena had some agenda she was being cagey about, Celaena wouldn't take it off.†   (source)
  • Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's Contract With America, stressing government deregulation and opposition to an increased minimum wage, fit perfectly with the legislative agenda of the large meatpackers and fast food chains.†   (source)
  • About the time the community had a handle on this cosmic mystery, though, the next item on the agenda, or next but one, was probably the matter of spring following winter, the days growing shorter but then growing longer again.†   (source)
  • After that, she'd sworn never to trust girls again, especially girls with agendas and power of their own.†   (source)
  • And each faction divided into new rebel groups from time to time, each based on different backgrounds and agendas, leading to even more ruthless fighting.†   (source)
  • So, what's on the agenda today?†   (source)
  • "So, what's on your agenda today?†   (source)
  • The afternoon papers printed news about him attending Our American Cousin with General Grant and their wives, almost as if daring every crackpot and schemer with an anti-North agenda to buy a ticket.†   (source)
  • He read about a young man who landscaped the front of the VFW building to earn the right to be an Eagle Scout, a new dry cleaner opening on Main Street, and a recap of a town meeting where the top of the agenda was to decide whether or not to put a stop sign on Leary Point Road.†   (source)
  • If she had been honest with herself, she could have anticipated Travis's agenda and headed off the situation.†   (source)
  • "What's on your agenda today?"†   (source)
  • My associates have their own agenda.†   (source)
  • We haven't spoken much of the Volturi agenda, but Alistair worried that no matter how decisively we can prove your innocence, the Volturi will not listen.†   (source)
  • The facts they do manage to glean have usually been varnished or exaggerated or otherwise taken out of context to serve an agenda that isn't their own.†   (source)
  • "Despite the stated intentions of Uruk Ko," said Bert, "we must remember that the Winter King has another agenda.†   (source)
  • It looked so perfect that during long meetings, when my mind wandered from the official agenda, I'd sometimes wondered if she slept in it, or if it was like a clipon tie, easily removed at the end of the day.†   (source)
  • It was almost like she had an agenda.†   (source)
  • In media photographs and video he appeared to me as an ambitious minority politician and what being one had always meant-the adjutant interest groups, the unwavering agenda, the stridency, the righteousness.†   (source)
  • Self-medication firmly at the top of my agenda, I blow through Lawler's history quiz, put my pencil down, and sit staring out the window, waiting for the bell.†   (source)
  • One item on the legislative agenda that day was a bill to designate tortilla chips and salsa as the Official State Snack of Texas.†   (source)
  • It was sometimes hard during the lengthy and intense recruiting process to figure out others' agendas; they all had them, we all do, and so much of the typical recruiting process is insincere and depends on how good a salesman the recruiter is.†   (source)
  • The entire nation has come a long way since feminism and women's lib became part of the political agenda in the 1960s, and the changes since have transformed perceptions in the workplace.†   (source)
  • Aside from continuing to care for those affected by the Shadow-Born, the effort of which was being guided by Charys and the centaurs, preparing the ships for departure from Terminus was the last item on the allies' agenda.†   (source)
  • And it's the only way to muster the political will to get now-invisible women onto the international agenda.†   (source)
  • Tyler had determined by the time he reached the command center that the next thing on the agenda for construction was gray walks.†   (source)
  • The laws that supported competition in the marketplace he attacked as stifling to the larger agenda of industrial growth from which would flow all manner of benefits for everyone-well, practically everyone.†   (source)
  • Would I have come to the consulate if I had a political agenda to hide or if the Americans or the Taiwanese had helped me?†   (source)
  • Such concerns never gain a place on the mainstream international agenda, and never gain sufficient resources.†   (source)
  • Defectors, double and triple agents, and field officers returned from complex assignments for rest and debriefing were continuously processed through its various agendas.†   (source)
  • His party holds a majority in the House and Senate, making it easier for JFK to promote his presidential agenda.†   (source)
  • The central government called for hundreds of thousands of young people to go to Tibet to help advance the government's political agenda: they wanted people like my brother to influence Tibetan culture in the dominant Mandarin way.†   (source)
  • Pro-choice and pro-life camps, despite their differences, should be able to find common ground and work together on many points, in particular on an agenda to reduce the number of abortions.†   (source)
  • "Poverty and disease just weren't on my agenda," Rick Warren, pastor of the Saddleback megachurch in California and author of The Purpose Driven Life, told us.†   (source)
  • I felt very privileged to meet Barbara, but her husband was such a high-profile politician that I was deeply suspicious of her hidden political agendas.†   (source)
  • Now I could contribute to Mao's political cause more effectively, enthusiastically participate in all of the party's agendas and try my hardest to make a difference whenever I could.†   (source)
  • But action on these three measures would raise the underlying issues higher on the international affairs agenda, and would illustrate solutions to the problems.†   (source)
  • In the early 1780s, slavery was an unquestioned part of the global landscape--and then, astonishingly, within a decade, slavery was at the top of the British national agenda.†   (source)
  • The movement's agenda should be broad and enveloping, while focusing on four appalling realities of daily life: maternal mortality, human trafficking, sexual violence, and the routine daily discrimination that causes girls to die at far higher rates than boys.†   (source)
  • In the 1990s, the American left and right collaborated and achieved the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, which was a milestone in raising awareness of international trafficking on the global agenda.†   (source)
  • When the Joint Chiefs of Staff hold discussions of girls' education in Pakistan and Afghanistan, as they did in 2008, you know that gender is a serious topic that fits squarely on the international affairs agenda.†   (source)
  • We will try to lay out an agenda for the world's women focusing on three particular abuses: sex trafficking and forced prostitution; gender-based violence, including honor killings and mass rape; and maternal mortality, which still needlessly claims one woman a minute.†   (source)
  • I challenge, for example, the medical students in this audience to put on their agenda the achievement of a cure for cancer.†   (source)
  • America's future depends upon Americans -- especially your generation, which is now equipping itself to assume the challenges of the future, to help write the agenda for America.†   (source)
  • As I see it, the time has come to look forward to an agenda for the future, to unify, to bind up the Nation's wounds, and to restore its health and its optimistic self-confidence.†   (source)
  • All of these specialities and many, many more are required if young people like you are to help this Nation develop an agenda for our future -- your future, our country's future.†   (source)
  • As we strive together to prefect a new agenda, I put high on the list of important points the maintenance of alliances and partnerships with other people and other nations.†   (source)
  • It is true that we have launched our Bicentennial celebration without having achieved human perfection, but we have attained a very remarkable self-governed society that possesses the flexibility and the dynamism to grow and undertake an entirely new agenda, an agenda for America's third century.†   (source)
  • The new agenda, that which is developed by you and by us, must place a high priority on the need to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and to work for the mutual reduction in strategic arms and control of other weapons.†   (source)
  • What I mean, with all this, I just wanted to tell you how the examining judge really does write lots of reports, especially about you as questioning you was definitely one of the main things on the agenda that Sunday.†   (source)
  • As to the world's agenda, Naphta sarcastically replied, Herr Settembrini did not appear very well informed about that.†   (source)
  • But the plan for an excursion to the waterfall was now on the agenda— Peeperkorn himself had selected the goal, and he felt up to the effort.†   (source)
  • You have not been residing here among us for so long now that, taken all in all, the question can be removed just yet from the agenda.†   (source)
  • The world, Herr Settembrini said with a self-assured smile, would glide right past the revolution of inhuman reaction and move on to its real agenda.†   (source)
  • A Europe that knew how to preserve its eternal treasures would coolly, calmly proceed with the agenda of classical reason and ignore any proletarian apocalypses that might be envisioned here or there.†   (source)
  • A matter that the Italian evidently preferred to take for granted would be the next item on that agenda: whether the classical tradition of the Mediterranean was intended for all humanity, and therefore eternal in human terms, or whether it had not merely been the intellectual fashion and trimmings of one particular epoch, the bourgeois liberal age, which could then die with it.†   (source)
  • As the next motion on the agenda paper may I suggest that the house do now adjourn?†   (source)
  • …parlor-car saloon-carriage patrolman (police) constable pay-day wage-day peanut monkey-nut pie (fruit) tart pitcher jug poorhouse workhouse post-paid post-free potpie pie prepaid carriage-paid press (printing) machine program (of a meeting) agenda proof-reader corrector-of-the-press public-school board-school quotation-marks inverted-commas railroad railway railroad-man railway-servant rails line rare (of meat) underdone receipts (in business) takings Rhine-wine Hock road-bed…†   (source)
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