Sentence examples for getting us somewhere from inspiring English sources
"I suppose I have to tell you officially that we still believe in it because I'm going to Paris tomorrow, and why would I go and spend hundreds of euros on the flight ticket if I don't believe that it's getting us somewhere," said Vadym Prystaiko, Ukraine's deputy foreign minister, during an interview in Kiev last week, just before leaving for the latest round of talks.
It means airing out the constructive arguments and helping get us somewhere useful -- a place in which the economy is growing and producing jobs, while we are credibly planning to pay off our burgeoning debts.
It was a radical idea at the time, but it got us somewhere a bit more positive.
The horse-race models haven't been especially accurate, but they have at least gotten us somewhere.
Yet while countries submitted goals to curb emissions that will get us somewhere between 2.7C and 3.7C rise – already about 5C lower than a business-as-usual scenario – this is still well above the 2C target.
Every interjection by Daniel this week really got us somewhere, from the prescient "there's no such thing as invisible is there, Dad" to his lunchtime blurt to Julia that "Dad says one day he's going to ask about your conscience".
Don't tell us you are going to get us somewhere at a certain time if you're not.
Until then, I'd rather we spend our time, money and energy building bridges that actually get us somewhere.
Let's say words that feel hard and raw, but words that mean something and might just get us somewhere.
