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Example sentences for "both ways"

  • By reasoning against reason he pulls both ways, like the Scotchman who attempted to lift himself by his ears.

  • A "poor rule that will not work both ways!

  • Perhaps it is upon the presumption that "it is a poor rule that will not work both ways.

  • In seeking to bring it about, no clear-sighted democratic economist would expect to "have it both ways.

  • It is always possible to have it both ways, in case the two ways do not come into conflict; but where they do conflict in fact and in theory, the sensible man must make his choice.

  • But in order for it to be good, it must be good in both ways.

  • But according as hatred is in the intellectual part, since it arises from the universal apprehension of the intellect, it can regard the universal in both ways.

  • For human acts can be considered in both ways, since man moves himself, and is moved by himself.

  • First, with regard to the matter or object; secondly, on the part of the man who sins: and in both ways intemperance is a more grievous sin than cowardice.

  • Wherefore in both ways it belongs to God to move the will; but especially in the second way by an interior inclination of the will.

  • Now God moves the created intellect in both ways.

  • And this is verified in both ways, when it is said, that anything is made from nothing.

  • And in both ways a created thing keeps another in being.

  • According to him, they wanted it both ways, and, so far as he could see, they meant to have it!

  • You will be seeking to have, it both ways.

  • Thus you had it both ways, and were not tarred with cynicism, realism, and immorality like the French.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both alike; both ancient and modern; both are; both armies; both arms; both classes; both ends; both eyes; both families; both feet; both fore; both houses; both inclusive; both parents; both provinces; both shores; both small and great; both species; both the teaching and administrative spheres; both those; both vessels; both white and black; both worlds; usually considered; voluntary association; water enough