It's easy to say no publicly to second helpings and chocolate cake when you have eaten sweets before the meal. |
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Be sure to politely say no thank you the next time someone offers to serve you large helping of meat pie at the dinner table. |
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As a second caveat, I also reserve the right to say no to a book, if I'm really opposed to it for some reason or another. |
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Tentatively we can say no to the activity of single cells and yes to that of assemblies. |
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But the great relief for me is that, in liberal circles, it will no longer be politically incorrect to say no. |
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The high-pressure sales tactics start and it becomes very difficult to say no. |
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Of course, if someone wanted to give me a book contract, I wouldn't say no. |
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Parents are so overjoyed with their children that they never say no to them. |
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Avoid refined sugar, corn syrup, white bread and other white flour products, and say no to soft drinks and sugar-coated, ready-to-eat cereals. |
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Over all the team looks tired and I wouldn't say no to a complete generational change. |
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I would have just had a regular burger, but they were having a special on bacon avocado cheeseburgers, and how could I say no? |
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So, when the opportunity came up to paint the town red last night with Simon and a couple of friends I just couldn't say no! |
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The accident was under investigation, though the military did say no hostile fire was involved. |
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In a culture that measures everything in terms of size, success, and influence, we have to say no to these worldly values as well. |
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Most people would instinctively say no, and his implication in his article is that this crazy. |
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Parents who contacted the group say no action was taken to combat bullying, despite repeated requests to school management. |
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This Father's Day, just say no to ties and thick books about dead presidents. |
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They simply couldn't say no to a photo opportunity in front of the aircraft. |
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But if you were felt up at a high school party because you got a little too drunk to say no, maybe we should put you in jail. |
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Do you strictly say no or if the right television product were to land on your desk, would you do sitcoms again? |
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But when I got home I found that our cook had prepared this delicious chicken, and I just couldn't say no! |
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For any Iraqi who tries to present a noble project to help his own people they try to find a million ways to say no. |
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I wouldn't say no to chocolate, especially in brownie form, right now either. |
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It's okay to explain yourself once, even twice but then just say no in a normal calm voice and ignore the grizzling. |
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Louis did not exactly say no, but he temporized and did not say yes, either. |
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Mr Miliband would say no more than that the final decision would be left to the council. |
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I watch my hand creep traitorously to the door, listlessly wondering when it got so bad that I can't even say no to him anymore. |
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This worry has been on my mind all the time, it's a shame I did not say no right at the start. |
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Well you always say no, even though its obvious you're bored out of your mind. |
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We know that many relatives say no to organ donation simply because they do not know what their loved one would have wanted. |
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In arranged marriages, as in traditional western love marriages, both parties ultimately have the right to say no. |
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I'll say no more for fear of spoiling the fun, except that the twists don't alter the film's comic tone. |
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I say no to all invitations to travel, but honour long-standing promises to appear in London and Aberdeen. |
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I did not understand the logic of asking me to apply only to say no, but there we are. |
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Despite calls from my family to have a satellite subscription, I decided to say no as from what my friends tell me, its all much of a muchness. |
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If he asks you out on a date, say no, sorry, you have a boyfriend and aren't interested. |
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We believe it would be hard for Europeans to say no when asked to support a more rapid electoral process in Iraq. |
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Without the power to say no, all kinds of treachery is used and everyone involved becomes demoralized, cynical and fatalistic. |
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I think he was trying to say no, but he couldn't talk because he was trying to get his food down. |
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Thomas' breathing was shallow, and he could say no more than a few words without pause. |
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Their philosophy is never say no to a man if his car is more expensive than yours. |
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The trouble with being a fairly empathetic person is that makes it hard to say no to anyone in pain. |
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If you are trying to make your eyes look bigger go for a white liner and just say no to frosted shadow. |
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All of these factors are important, but the cornerstone of any preservation system is the ability to say no to demolition. |
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He is even polite enough to invite me to stay for lunch, whereas five years ago he used to say no way was he feeding journalists. |
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Of course, who am I to say no to a wonderful vintage dress, and an on trend jacket or skirt. |
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The man I am doing business with has asked I accompany him and his daughter out for the night and I couldn't say no. |
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Chris hesitated to ask because of the fear she might say no. |
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It drives me crazy the way a lot of parents are afraid to say no. |
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It's too shrewd by half for you to now say no contracts were signed. |
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Don't tell me you'd say no to a few of those chilling your whiskey sour! |
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The fact that the restaurant rotated was too kitsch for me to say no. |
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How many people get called by the fraternal Order of the Police and say no? |
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Well known for his inability to say no to worthy causes, Palmer has always been a whirlwind of good works. |
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The diet industry is, after all, worth many billions of pounds every year and I wouldn't say no to a slice of that, for want of a better word, pie. |
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All I said was that, if the he was hit with an injury crisis that robbed him of all his strikers and so came to me to fill-in for one game, I wouldn't say no. |
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All I'm saying is that I wouldn't say no to a piece of chocolate cake. |
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I mishear him and think he's asking if we have a room to rent, and say no. |
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But last week the idea that sometimes we should say no to unproven technology was finally given a hearing. |
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Ours is a unique nation, and we have to assert our unity and say no to these narrow-minded movements. |
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That was nixed because it was thought that voters could be less likely to say no to an invitation to agree to something. |
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Authorities say no one saw him because the water was so murky. |
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I knew that if I didn't say no straight away he would browbeat me into saying yes, or make me feel so guilty that I'd be practically begging him to stay. |
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They say no man is a hero to his valet, and now we've all become valets. |
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And, just to add to your woes, as soon as they learn to say no, it's a cast-iron certainty that they will detest every item of clothing you choose for them. |
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Even if they intend to overcharge us, who could have the heart to say no? |
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He envisions a system of discipline imposed by independent overseers, inside and outside the corporation, with the power to say no and make it stick. |
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Between insulting relatives who don't care about their waistlines and being a party-pooper around co-workers at company parties, it's hard to say no without being ousted! |
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To say that a number of constituted meanings are compossible is to say no more than that a transcendental subject has in fact succeeded in constituting them. |
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The Danes, the Poles and the Czechs also look like they could say no. |
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And were they to say no, it could all prove very embarrassing for Tony. |
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He had disburdened his mind of the subject and would say no more. |
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Police say no gunshots were fired after they arrived, and no one was hurt. |
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North America, Cammie McBrayer of Marietta, Georgia, to help empower women across the nation to say no to abuse. |
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She wasn't necessarily interested in looking for a pick-up, although she probably wouldn't say no to the right offer. |
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Just say no to exposed bra straps unless you are in your boudoir in French knickers and a matching balconette-bra ensemble. |
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They want us to say no to the ideologues on both sides of the aisle and they want us to say yes to bipartisan cooperation. |
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Elaneer Payasam, a lovely dessert made of tender coconut and condensed milk, is hard to say no to when you have a sweet tooth like mine. |
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When I would say no, he would be honestly surprised that I would say no! |
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It is a proposition which I venture to say no one in Scotland or England who was not a lawyer would for one moment doubt. |
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People say that the NHS is going down the drain, I can say no to that. |
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I would say no interview technique is 100 per cent effective but polygraphs are about 85 to 89 per cent accurate and that is much better than anything else. |
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Our guiding motto is that we never say no to a Golden Retriever in need. |
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