Sentence examples for ever ought to from inspiring English sources

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"That is not to say that we think it ever ought to be done again," he said.

It is factual Hindley and Brady, and not our spirited Lake poets or cozy tram-trammeled novelists, who supply the unspoken and who take the travelling mind further than it ever ought to have gone.

Machado, a prolific Brazilian writer for young children and the winner of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award, offers an inspired vision of what the "craziest, wildest, funnest party ever" ought to be.

Hardly a day goes by without President Trump being accused of breaking a presidential norm or two, doing something that no president has ever done — nor, it's implied, ever ought to do.

If you ask me, Olivia is the only reason the cameras ever ought to be in the DVF headquarters, given how little appears to go on there beyond pointless staff meetings underscoring the urgency of fashion week.

Since their "oughts" are indexed to different ends, it seems that when the Nazi says "We ought to bomb London" and the pacifist says "Nobody ever ought to bomb anything" they are not contradicting one another, though it is as clear as daylight that they are.

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More than ever we ought to understand why Major League Baseball should be preserved in the Bronx and realize that Yankee Stadium is even more entwined with New York culture than it is with the World Series.

With that off Clydesdale's mind and books, this year's first ever loss ought to be its last.

"Now more than ever we ought to be empowering IGs; their work is critical to saving taxpayers money and ultimately getting our fiscal house in order".

So while there probably has been a good deal of overlap between belly dance and non-binary or fluid sexual identities, the notion that that's the only way men have ever participated ought to be taken with a grain of salt.

But where exactly does authority come from, and when, if ever, ought we defer to it?

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