This country, like its neighbors in West Africa, gained its independence four decades ago and inherited a colonial educational system that essentially sought to instruct a select few to serve as administrators.
"Beatrice, promise me you'll never love me as much as I loved Crackerjack," Honey instructs Beatrice a few moments later, referring to Beatrice's recently deceased brother.
Wigan had been instructed to take a few more chances with the ball and in the first quarter they surged to an 18-0 leas as every pass stuck.
In other words, the organs of justice have been instructed to add a few more jail sentences to the seven years she has already got for signing that gas contract.
Hemingway showed writers of Updike's generation what the story's possibilities were, and (having a highly professional view of the business) instructed them in a few rules of craft — the importance of suppressing information, and the use of dialogue to convey significance, so that a conversation about a cat in the rain, for example, becomes the anatomy of a marriage.
Hemingway showed writers of Updike's generation what the story's possibilities were, and (having a highly professional view of the business) instructed them in a few rules of craft the importance of suppressing information, and the use of dialogue to convey significance, so that a conversation about a cat in the rain, for example, becomes the anatomy of a marriage.
Average folk might take a "computer class" which instructs them on a few specific tasks — usually application specific (How to use Microsoft Word), as opposed to task specific (How to use a word processing program) — but when experiences diverge from those presented in the class, the user is not well equipped to deal with the situation.
I was instructed to stay a few hours hooked up to the fetal heart monitor for observation, just in case.
They were instructed "to ask a few Questions and take [Howe's] Answers", but had no further authority.
In preparation for this second dinner, each girl was instructed to answer a few questions: Three adjectives to describe themselves (my answer: Jew, Jewy and Jewess), two songs to add to the dinner mix (Prince-Purple Rain and Hall and Oates-I can't go for that... pure groove, please).
