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Maybe the authorities should put some structures in place, like perhaps a truant officer to accost these truants.
You will be able to also accost to return to you in the villages where the reception of the population will charm you.
Furthermore we accost students of each department of the ETH Zurich and the EPF Lausanne.
These partisans organize counter-demonstrations in the same places as their adversaries and accost them, often provoking violent outbursts.
The security officers had apparently been watching her steal in the store and waited until she had got outside, thinking she had escaped with her loot, to accost her.
They spread hatred for us with a psychotic mass murderer and then they assailed the capital and when we moved to accost them they mysteriously withdrew.
Or, even more embarrassingly, she did and opted to accost Aslan about his religion regardless of the claims in his book.
The dreamer tries to help, and fends off a man who is about to accost her with lecherous intentions.
Some brave residents are so keen to speak out that they accost strangers, asking if they are journalists.
They were obliged to live frugally, rise early, put on a suit every day and tirelessly accost strangers.
It is equally clear that this kind of subject can not validly accost each other through collaboration with organizations working in the field.
Narrow boats and pleasure boats can accost here throughout the season although no services are available at this point.
Good players, we accost on the principal beach on other side of the peninsula, on the Southern part of the village.
Mr Emanuel's money let him accost voters through their television sets.
Mr Dzurinda recounts, with evident sympathy, how poor Slovak farmers often accost him with tales of how crops and animals, even pet dogs, have been stolen by Gypsies.
It may be legitimate to resort to advertising techniques which accost the public in a manner which some may consider shocking, when the aim is to protect public health by attempting to arouse salutary awareness.
This supportive environment, in a neighbourhood where gang members regularly accost and grope girls on their way to school, is run by a professionally trained adult.
It is essential to grind, clean and to accost the part to be welded.
Familiarising ourselves with his photos gives us the opportunity to travel on a rhinoceros' back, to swim with a gigantic fish, to accost an unusual butterfly.
The tomorrow morning, whereas I does some body exercises and revived my legs on the ground, a policeman came in a car and explained me with gestures that he was prohibited to accost the pier where my boat was!
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She wandered on from street to street, not daring to accost any of the busy people.
What is it if a rude voice accost, or the right of the road be clamorously contended?
An inspiration from above told me to accost her and to invite her to follow me.
After that the child was told how to accost the servants and the governess.
I kept my seat, resolving to accost him directly after supper.
It might be no harm to accost them, and Jem was not shy about strangers.
When she is of the exercise, I will also accost and restrain her.
If they were resolute to accost her, she laid her finger on the scarlet letter, and passed on.
Out of the midst of them, the ghostly face would rise, and he would accost it again.
As none of them seemed looking for any one, he did not accost them, but eyed each new batch with the air of a martyr.
They saw him slouch for'ard after breakfast, and, like a mendicant, with outstretched palm, accost a sailor.
Why did you accost me at the gare du Nord the other evening?
The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him, and he is stimulated wherever he moves, as by personal allusions.
He was not to accost her in the presence of any other person.
He entered the room slowly, uncertain how to accost Mr. Danforth.
On the bridge Da Souza saw him accost a policeman, and brushing close by, heard him ask the same question.
Why do you come to accost me with twelve horsemen at your heels, then?
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