Sentence examples for thought it ought to from inspiring English sources

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"Hitler was running an aggressive show that threatened to endanger Western civilization, and I thought it ought to be stopped," he later said.

So, rather than issuing directives, Ms. Breininger asked members of her sales staff to tell her how they thought it ought to be done.

Mr. William Shawn, The New Yorker's new editor, remarked in a memo that he did not know how much you had been encouraged but that he thought it ought to be a good deal".

But this liberal approval was odd, because, as Rob Reich, a political scientist at Stanford, pointed out in the Boston Review, foundations were undeniably plutocratic: they were vehicles for the rich to mold society into the shape they thought it ought to be.

And then you might come close, because what you thought it ought to be, it ain't going to be nothing' like that".

O.C. Weekly's Gustavo Arellano was moved to name it one of the best 100 dishes in Orange County this year -- it is nowhere near Orange County, but he thought it ought to be.

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In other words, its behavior can be described by assuming the systems has mental states and that it acts according what it thinks it ought to do, given its beliefs and desires.

I am so thoroughly convinced of its benefits that I think it ought to be offered as a prescribed form of physical and mental therapy..

However, if we are describing our thought as it is, not how some think it ought to be, then it is important that philosophers should be persistent and insist — in the face of this Zeitgeist — that normativity is a necessary condition of the judgment of taste.

"We're not going to vote against making sure that America pays its bills, [but] we think it ought to be a longer term for the economy and the growth of jobs," said House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md).

He does not think it ought to.

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