How To Use Sayers In A Sentence
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The defeat of the Persian king Darius III by Alexander the Great in the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 B.C. was foretold by soothsayers when the moon turned blood-red a few days earlier.
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Fortunately, most of us disagree with these doomsayers.
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And Favre is loyal, despite naysayers in Green Bay who claim they were "loyally" screwed.
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Hector, being taken ill, consulted on his case some of the witches or soothsayers, to whom this family appears to have been partial.
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The ancient soothsayers looked to birds for auguries -- the birds upon the wing were the flexion of her soul.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Others, though, have leapt to his defence, claiming the gainsayers just don't get it.
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Some nay-sayers deem the ramen overhyped and salty, but that does not stop hungry folks from queuing up starting at around 10 am.
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The voices of the nay-sayers are in the ascendancy, questioning the US's ability to reinvent itself, to heal its wounded economy and sustain its leadership in the face of a burgeoning China.
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Anyway, as I am sure you do not, don't listen to the doomsayers in the press.
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The engine is an absolute monster, and the turbocharging naysayers really can pipe down now.
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These project influencers - both the yeasayers and especially naysayers - are ignored to the peril of the project.
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But, these naysayers would argue, it is always just a whiff.
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Afren proved naysayers wrong, met annual production targets and saw in the new year with a bang.
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Despite that, latest sales figures suggest the doomsayers who predicted mass pub closures when the law was introduced over six months ago were largely wrong.
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So it was with much excitement and fervour I headed to the cinema, not at all put off by the nay-sayers and givers of negative reviews.
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This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression.
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A new breed of soothsayers has already been prophesying the virtual demise of the manufacturing industry.
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Economic doomsayers said the stock market crash would plunge the nation into a recession.
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Crawford damned the ‘naysayers and negativism that surrounds us’ and said he had no doubt that the course on which the agency had been set was the right one.
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It will end in tears, prophesied the naysayers, or a spectacular strop.
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And that is because no sooner are they announced than they provoke widespread fear and condemnation from an army of professional naysayers.
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My response to them is the same as it is to all readers, whether they be cut-throat nay-sayers or members of my lick-spittle sycophantry: To Hell with the lot of you!
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What these entities ultimately accomplish may be academic; but their mere existence should give doomsayers cause for hope.
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There are the naysayers, of course, who claim the wrestling bouts are all staged.
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Awesome and all of you nay sayers can just go and re-watch the Christmas special if you need a reminder as to how bad it could have been … R2 says: Whreooouuuv! quag
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Yet even now the usual cavalcade of naysayers, spoilsports, and harbingers of doom are mustering their forces to oppose this latest face of the technological revolution that is rapidly reshaping society.
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But fund managers and portfolio managers are not seers or soothsayers.
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Here's another fact sure to be unpopular with the doomsayers: the survey was taken last Fall.
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The doomsayers predict that the world is still hurtling towards a major catastrophe as resources run out.
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In my usual burst of optimism, and at the risk of being termed pollyannaish (optimistic), I will bet against the nay-sayers, says From getting a birth certificate to opening a business venture, India's record in clearing red tape continues to be poor, hurting the country's progress.
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Like the lady who commented re hats and gloves, I love the beauty of it all ... and we can reclaim our freedom to dress modestly and femininely, it's our God given right, after all - all the naysayers crow on about their 'rights', let's mount a little revolution of our own, one lady at a time.
Painting Inspired Dress # 1
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The doomsayers were having a field day, spreading their pessimistic philosophy of gloom and doom to every forum they could ooze their way into.
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Unfortunately the highly organized naysayers who cannot ever seem to get published in reputable scientific journals do manage to get much of the mention in the press.
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When the college was first set up, however, disease and accident were believed to be the will of God, and qualified doctors found themselves competing against quack physicians, soothsayers and herbalists.
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The doomsayers are confusing a cyclical downturn with a permanent trend.
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Economic doomsayers said the stock market crash would plunge the nation into a recession.
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Do you really think that while they're arresting heretics is the best time to be having trade with fortune tellers and soothsayers?
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Many scenes on the field were filmed with the real players, and much stock footage of Sayers and Piccolo in action are also spliced in.
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Think of the etiquette of gambling casinos on display in the James Bond series or the erudition about everything from campanology to advertising agencies in Dorothy Sayers's Peter Wimsey books.
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It’s true that my ego isn’t complaining, but these naysayers may be interested to know that the real reason I decided to throw this shindig is actually the gifts I’ll be receiving from the 33 other heads of government attending the meeting.
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When the Cats slipped to fifth in a tough Pac-10 race, the doomsayers fired up their engines.
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Economic doomsayers said the stock market crash would plunge the nation into a recession.
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That's better left to soothsayers and their modern equivalent, the legions of ‘political analysts’ of the 24-hour news cycle.
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Although doomsayers predicted that the new baggage mandates would trigger chaos at airports, implementation went rather smoothly.
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There is a third category, the undecided, and of those there are some who lean toward the views of the yeasayers and others who favor the naysayers position.
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We tend to be very suspicious of the paid hacks, the yeasayers and naysayers who generally act like a bunch of blackbirds on a telephone wire.
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They ask soothsayers and diviners to find out the cause of problems and to suggest remedies.
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Of course, there will always be naysayers in this world, the sort of petty cavillers, who enjoy criticizing folks like Mark.
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There are the doomsayers who predict the collapse of the global ecosystem.
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When people feel irritable about the lack of bounce in the economic rebound; when words like malaise and phrases like triple dip and creeping decrepitude are bruited about - the moment is ripe for yeasayers to pop the pessimists.
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And the epistolary appearance of Lord Peter's mother - the apparently fluttery but always acute duchess, is certainly a Sayers highlight.
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Forget the nay-sayers, the ones who talk about profit margins, and the real gainers from this rural sourcing.
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And you can go foreshorten yourself as much as you want, not a one of you naysayers could *ever* get a picture that looked like that from a real humanoid life form.
J Brand: Cough
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For the naysayers that claim you can't play electronic dance music without samplers or drum machines, this performance would've been a eye-opener.
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Throw in battering ram Earl Campbell and the sweet moves of Gale Sayers and this quintet boasts speed, power, elusiveness, receiving skills and game-breaking ability at every turn.
The not-so-Super team: Best players never to reach the final
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Lose momentum and your forward thrust will be curtailed. If you ingest the animosity and acrimonious threats of the nay sayers you will be discouraged, and indeed that is their controlling motive.
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I think it’s important to remember when looking at stuff like this that even among scientists there isn’t instant acceptance of ideas now taken for granted: plate tectonics is now the broadly-accepted theory that it is basically because its naysayers have all died off.
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The biggest Y2K doomsayers were the computer consultants who raked in big bucks peddling prophylactic programming.
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Spain and Luxembourg have called a conference of yeasayers in Madrid in mid-January to ask why the nine refuseniks should hold everybody back.
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Doomsayers predict that one day California will tumble into the sea.
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If you naysayers would just sit down, and shut up the bad mouthing, and back stubbing for a min. everything would just keep falling into place as the President has it planned.
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For once, how about looking at the ways that yeasayers do a disservice to theater and the craft of criticism?
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For the naysayers that claim you can't play electronic dance music without samplers or drum machines, this performance would've been a eye-opener.
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On November 16, 1974 when the so-called “Arecibo message” was broadcast from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico to globular star cluster Messier 13, many doomsayers warned that the transmission would herald an alien invasion.
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Economic doomsayers said the stock market crash would plunge the nation into a recession.
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Economic doomsayers said the stock market crash would plunge the nation into a recession.
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I'm afraid most of the nay sayers to me are just plain fickle.
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Lose momentum and your forward thrust will be curtailed. If you ingest the animosity and acrimonious threats of the nay sayers you will be discouraged, and indeed that is their controlling motive.
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The ancient soothsayers looked to birds for auguries -- the birds upon the wing were the flexion of her soul.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Gollum, digitally enhanced by actor Andy Serkis's actorly bite, silenced naysayers who argued that synthespians would never emote at the level of their flesh-and-blood counterparts.
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Unfortunately for the doomsayers, their central predictions are simply not coming true.
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This ambition was encouraged by the magicians, soothsayers and necromancers who clustered at the Imperial Court.
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He added: 'There are some naysayers who claim things have changed for the worse.
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The assets - too many to list - are being drowned in the hyperbolic ink that is spilled by the naysayers and the do-nothings.
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Quantity is not everything, but the doomsayers' view that the consumer is being denied a wide choice of books is hard to sustain.
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Many junior officers became naysayers and malcontents.
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Sayers concluded, for example, that no matter how the universe of knowledge is structured, that structure is ultimately strictly logical in character.
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Don't glorify the naysayers when the yeasayers have been at the center of progress since the beginning of recorded time’.
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My response to them is the same as it is to all readers, whether they be cut-throat nay-sayers or members of my lick-spittle sycophantry: To Hell with the lot of you!
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Researchers using Likert scales reword items to identify yeasayers and naysayers.
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He and others who track what they call "denialism" find that its nature is changing in America, last redoubt of climate naysayers.
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Perhaps you have already heard some doomsayers predict that a worldwide catastrophe will befall our planet on either April 6 or May 5 when some of the planets will be in alignment.
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Pundits, bookmakers, soothsayers and prophets of doom were duly confounded.
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She apparently has made mincemeat of more than her share of doomsayers and detractors.
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The naysayers would be wrong.
Times, Sunday Times
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Specimens of the metal were sent to expert assayers for analysis.
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This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression.
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It does seem incredible to me that having emerged from the sixteenth century to a modern world of science, that there is an urge among some in the population to return to soothsayers, crystal-ball gazers and quacks of all descriptions.
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They do not want to spend their careers as professional naysayers, forever doing nothing.
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Some years it drew out the doomsayers who predicted its demise.
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Hence, our hero decided to seek out technicians and soothsayers, wizards and computer persons who could solve the puzzle of this malady affecting the mighty computer.
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After last Friday's carnage, I almost gave in to doomsayers' predictions that the end of our financial system is nigh, but I have to admit, this was in a moment of little faith.
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They ask soothsayers and diviners to find out the cause of problems and to suggest remedies.
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And, yet, at every step we had countless doomsayers who predicted that this or that step would not be taken because of ‘security problems.’
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Sayers kept in mind that she was first of all a human being and aimed to be true not so much to her gender as to her humanity.
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Economic doomsayers said the stock market crash would plunge the nation into a recession.
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If he does that, he can prove his naysayers wrong.
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Saurid, being convinced by his priests, astrologers and soothsayers that the portent was a true one, became from that time possessed of one idea, which was that the vast learning of Egypt, its sciences, discoveries and strange traditions should not be lost, -- and that the exploits and achievements of those who were great and famous in the land should be so recorded as never to be forgotten.
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As flawed as the human race is, we seem to be a lot better than the doomsayers think at muddling through.
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They're so fresh and famous that they even had to change their name over in Merseyside, where they're known as Sayers.
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In addition, shamans and soothsayers deal with the supernatural and the spirit world.
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Despite the site's phenomenal profile, naysayers still argue that it is yet to prove it can make money.
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From Etruria was introduced the art of the haruspices, or soothsayers, which consisted in discovering the divine mind by the appearance of victims slain for the sacrifices.
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Then he calls his soothsayers, but the wise men only shake their heads.
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This tribe was far too complex for modern assayers.
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Economic doomsayers said the stock market crash would plunge the nation into a recession.
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But my personal objection to the codes is something else entirely and has to do with the rise of Judaism as magic and Rabbis as soothsayers.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Rise of the Religious Charlatans
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Naysayers find the Monkees to be a fake Beatles, but mostly what I get off this LP is a smoothed out version of the L.A. garage rock popular at that time.
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Her words revitalize him, and Adams redoubles his efforts to turn the naysayers into yeasayers.
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`The auger Llew is talking about is a bore, like most of the soothsayers you studied in your Latin prose.
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The unlimited electrons of cyberspace gives plenty of room for the naysayers to have their naysay, in a comments section or on a competing blog.
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That, and the truth that in 10 years the naysayers will be forgotten, and made irrelevant...but the show, the *show*...goes on.
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Only the yeasayers were invited to make a presentation.
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All Sayers's hallmarks are here – ingenuity, in-depth research (but without the hairballs of factual information that too often clogged up the originals), dialogue peppered with quotations, and archness of tone (but without the grating snobbery).
Laura Wilson's crime fiction choice - review
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Researchers using Likert scales reword items to identify yeasayers and naysayers.
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Sayers concluded, for example, that no matter how the universe of knowledge is structured, that structure is ultimately strictly logical in character.
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Of course, there will always be naysayers in this world, the sort of petty cavillers, who enjoy criticizing folks like Mark.
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At least some variants are still spreading today, albeit at a much slower rate than many of the Internet doomsayers predicted.
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What intrigued me was the contrast in the entries for Agatha Christie and Dorothy L.Sayers, who of course were two of the period's most celebrated crime writers, especially the summing-up.
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I think the naysayers are reading too much into the fact that kirk is wearing black.
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For example, Sayers went to extraordinary lengths to learn the elements of campanology for
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The naysayers have been proved wrong so far.
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BTW, "contrition" is precisely what rankles for most of the naysayers.
Release of CIA interrogation report delayed
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Economists, businessmen and soothsayers responded and the news wires, television channels, newspapers and radio waves were filled with predictions and projections, mostly bad and gloomy.
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So it was with much excitement and fervour I headed to the cinema, not at all put off by the nay-sayers and givers of negative reviews.
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After the birth, soothsayers were consulted to speak about the child's future and offerings were made to the ancestors.
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Will the upcoming planetary conjunction affect Earth, bringing about volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and floods, as today's doomsayers predict?
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We added self-checkout to 800 stores, even though the naysayers said it wouldn't work.
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In the aftermath of the federal Constitutional Convention, many naysayers became yeasayers in persuading the thirteen states to ratify…
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Now that it's here, perhaps the doomsayers will pipe down a bit.
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The naysayers argue that his was a view of human nature stripped of all love.
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