Sentence examples for we owed something from inspiring English sources

"We both had strong commitments in feeling that we owed something back...to the community, not only of resources but of time.

For the 1983 season, the show's producers and research staff decided they would explain Mr. Hooper's death to their preschool audience, instead of recasting the role: the writer of that episode, Norman Stiles, said, "We felt we owed something to a man we respected and loved".

"I genuinely believe that we owe something to try and assist and help in whatever way possible," he said.

"Maybe the true reason is that this is the community that took me and my family in from Nazi Germany, and we owe something back," he says.

This is not to deny that we owe something to those decent associations of which we find ourselves non-voluntary members but we do need some further argument to determine exactly what this amounts to.

Within the post-national space of "Europe" the legal innovation of the principle of non-discrimination by nationality also negates one of the cornerstones of Kymlicka's arguments: that we owe something more to our co-nationals out of egalitarian membership; that is, beyond the humanitarian charity that may lead us to be fleetingly fair to the non-nationals among us.

We owe something to Gabrielle Giffords.

"I'm a baby boomer myself, and I know we sometimes have this idea that we're owed something," he added.

"This all lends itself to the false notion, especially by young fans, that we are owed something from these people," he says.

But our lawyers told us if we lost the case, we would have owed something like $150,000 in legal fees.

What lies behind this feeling of being owed something by the authors we read?