But if that principle is settled, religious organizations, unlike political parties, may be better positioned to remind us of our obligations to each other and to God.
The hushed reverence with which everyone treated the girls, lying side by side in the same position, reminded me of some sort of pagan ritual.
These are all legitimate concerns and I was happy to see that this evening a local squad car was putting itself in a prime positions -- reminding me of American Graffiti's famous scene as Richard Dreyfuss's character de-axles the cops with a chain to earn his bones with the Pharaohs.
America's position today reminds me of Britain's situation in 1945.
There were two reasons: one was that I had been teaching languages for many years and I thought it would be really good for me to go back and be on the other side of the desk for a while, to put myself back in the student's position and to remind myself of what it is like to be in a language classroom where you actually don't understand anything.
In an e-mail, he wrote, "Their position reminds me of the argument put forward by the philosopher Berkeley, who argued against empiricism by noting that reliance on scientific observation is flawed since the link between observations and conclusions is intangible and is thus immeasurable".
The plaintiffs' position has always reminded me of an old Amelia Bedelia story.
Webb told a long story that turned on his arriving in the city at sixteen, with his clothes in a pillowcase, and finding Trash and Vaudeville, seeing all the clothes he wished he could afford, and now being in the position of helping kids who reminded him of himself, of being "the dreammaker" to them, and the improbability of it, to his mind.
Her fabrication of identity and need to assume the position of the victim has reminded some of Binjamin Wilkomirski, whose 1995 memoir as a holocaust survivor, Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood, complete with death-camp stories, turned out to be completely made up.
Their movement is often more animal than human, and as effortfully, painfully, they inch their way along the floor in various lying positions, they remind me of nothing so much as beached seals.
