Sentence examples for would only listen from inspiring English sources

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(Now if policy makers would only listen!) She is an unsung intellectual giant, and her work remains vital today".

You would only listen if you were searching for clues – maybe a regional accent that could help Ceop locate the abuser".

But "the impartial – UN operation in Ivory Coast and French – forces did African democracy a great service … by ousting a man who... would only listen to his own obstinacy," Le Pays continued.

It's true that in the long run "we can't say where the next storm will arise," but we are now very good at forecasting the short-term futures of tropical storms, so good that we can predict landfalls within miles and within hours, and give populations ample time to protect themselves (if people would only listen).

The only firm conclusion I can draw is perhaps the most important of all: there are lots of men out there who really want to talk about gender, sex and what it means to be a man, if people would only listen.

Yet all the while Whitman is giving voice (if we would only listen) to a typical mid-nineteenth-century theory about the unity of body and soul, except in a version all his own, with body and soul making love on the lawn — a wild idea, if you think about it.

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"They'd chop ten or fifteen minutes off them games if they'd only listen to my improvement", he said.

All the industry predictions were that we would now only listen to music in playlists, and the new tastemakers would be Spotify employees making mood-defined collections of songs called things like "Rainy Monday" or "Pre-Menstrual Synthpop".

As one U.S. diplomat put it to me: Obama's demeanor suggests to foreigners that he would not only listen to what they have to say but might even take it into account.

At first, she would not speak, only listen.

If you would have only listened to the women who brought complaints and concerns over all these years, this would have saved so many children and women from being abused and from all the scars this has created". .

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