Sentence examples for the thou from inspiring English sources

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the thou

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A unit of length equal to one-thousandth of an inch.

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The Daily Mail's "sidebar of shame" regularly holds up examples alleging women's failure to adhere to the "thou shalt not age" commandment.

Nature is in this way the other, or, to put it in more overtly spiritual terms, something like the Thou in Martin Buber's I-Thou, so that when you meet the fact it is a meeting that hints at universality, at infinity.

Members of the group will be on church steps again on Sunday, just as they were last week when dozens of Polish Catholics walked out of mass in protest at a bishops' message stating that abortion is contrary to the "thou shalt not kill" commandment.

So much for the Thou Shalt Nots, which still leaves you plenty of room to maneuver.

As he puts it, we discover the "I" only by means of the "Thou".

Inspired by Cohen (see §8 above), Buber elaborated an account of a relationship between the "I" and the "Thou".

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This is why the thou-shalt-not approach, Warren says, "means you'll always be behind".

That's when it decided to take a look at what Kelly calls "the Thou- Shalt-Nots".

"The greater thou art, the more humble thyself," says the Bible (Ecclesiasticus, 3 18) — a sermon not always followed.

The companies adopt the rule: "Thou shall not know the source".

The first thou goes to the person who makes the "coolest" open source implementation — game, app, whatever.

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