Sentence examples for reckon the man from inspiring English sources

I reckon the man who sowed the seed of my life must have possessed a rotten set of chromosomes and belonged to the subsoil of the species, otherwise I can't explain my ravaged face, my ruin of a body propped up by the most grotesque of cornerstones.

But many observers reckon the private-equity men are out of their depth.The two biggest majors—Universal, which is owned by Vivendi, a French conglomerate, and Sony BMG, a joint venture between Sony and Bertelsmann, a German media firm derive some protection from their parent companies.

It is a safe bet that any Democratic candidate would want to throw more money at the city's horrendous educational problems, even though the $11 billion school budget already adds up to over 50% more per pupil than the national average.Mr Giuliani reckons the new man should come from outside the educating professions, and should ideally be a former chief executive of a big corporation.

The songs, ideas, energy come from God, he reckons - the man's a devoted Jehovah's Witness, He'll just wake up in the night and there they are.

Some palaeontologists still prefer a climatic explanation for this new bout of extinctions, but most reckon that man was either partly or wholly responsible.In the grand scheme of things this wave of destruction was not particularly remarkable.

IF AUSTRIANS were ever to storm over the Alps into Bavaria, they would have to reckon with the men of the Gebirgsschützen, the "Mountain Guards" descended from the local militias of the late Middle Ages who later fought the Swedes in the Thirty Years War of the 17th century.

I reckon that man was never my father.

The Dell computer billionaire by our reckoning the 12th richest man on the planet and his wife are to give a $50 million gift to the University of Texas for a pediatric research institute, a computer sciences building and a center for healthy living, the Dells and school officials announced Monday.

In her classic account of why the rain-soaked British Isles are perpetually caught between deluge and drought ("Water in Great Britain"), Celia Kirby, formerly of the country's Institute of Hydrology, reckoned that the man-made forests of densely packed conifers had much to answer for.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Vox pop Interviews with people on the streets of Athens shows contrasting views – one man reckons the strike will achieve nothing as Greece must stick to its reform plans, while another argues that the "incompetent people" running the Greek government should quit.

The investors who voted to give Mr Colaninno's Olivetti the majority stake that made its takeover bid for Telecom Italia a success reckon he is the man for the job.