How To Use Would-be In A Sentence

I've seen leadership schools set out on the fringes, including one in an outpost of Jerusalem that teaches would-be messiahs to lead in the coming apocalypse.
Would-be apprentices are questioned about their attitude towards foreigners, and they take part in a week-long workshop on tolerance and diversity.
The absence of a clear understanding about those root causes largely explains why several would-be peace agreements ended up dishonoured or discarded.
For that matter, why does a would-be bedroom farce also try to utter philosophic profundities?
He identifies three potential risks for would-be investors. Times, Sunday Times

Drogo, ever the clever Dothraki punster, says that he'll give Viserys "a golden crown that men shall tremble to behold" and then coronates the would-be king by pouring molten gold over his head. Game of Thrones Postmortem: Harry Lloyd on Viserys' Golden Crown
Over time, their trivia games lead to sexual exploration and all kinds of would-be kinky relationship layers start to develop and ferment.
(Read The Observer's extensive coverage here.) "Save The Hotel" activist Gregory Jones once took issue with my use of the term "fleabag" to describe the dowdy would-be landmark on Seventh Avenue. Win Trip To 'Luxurious' Hotel Pennsylvania!
One of my favourites, this is a light hearted piece inspired by a chance encounter at a private party with a man then at the height of his power in the country; I was fascinated beyond words by the effect he had on the would-be urbane and aspiringly sophisticated! Archive 2007-05-01
This unmanly dread of simplicity, and of what is called "tautology," gives rise to a patchwork made up of scraps of poetic quotations, unmeaning periphrases, and would-be humorous circumlocutions, -- a style of all styles perhaps the most objectionable and offensive, which may be known and avoided by the name of _Fine Writing_. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
A lifeboatman yesterday branded the would-be seadog, who earlier this month ran the vessel aground, a 'nightmare'. The Sun
In the end, the company found its would-be rescuer in a Canadian electronics retailer.
Knowing that the club would still have a home at which to play would be a massive boost for any would-be investor.
The band's strict avoidance of a ‘stereotypical, gangsta-styled’ video speaks for their desire to avoid parody, and they rejected any script that called for them to present themselves as would-be gangstas.
So, once again, I would caution would-be writers against excessive length.
In 2004, the Republicans will be a prowar party led by a would-be crusader.
If a would-be spammer had to perform one second of computation for each person he spammed, the pace of spam would slow to glacial.
The Republican House members defenestrated the outspoken proponent of "moral values" then serving as speaker, and his would-be successor, too.
Sorry, would-be martyrs, we do not censor your favorite sites from comments, unless you're into mature mamas or something.
Faulk and other would-be seniors, meantime, have enjoyed fine rookie seasons.
Would-be house buyers should not get too excited. Times, Sunday Times
And they also believe that would-be organic farmers should be encouraged with financial incentives.
Yet, as with the army, the government had the greatest difficulty in controlling would-be conquistadores.
Unless the AP is leaving something out, the only enticement ObamaTour offers would-be visitors is the prospect of shelling out a sawbuck. Mirror, Mirror
Old habits persisted, nonetheless: the would-be virtuous made their ablutions and sloped off to Friday prayers.
The country has no reason to believe that 2005 will see any reversion to the unchecked lawlessness that, at J'Ouvert in Port-of-Spain, for example, has scared away some would-be participants.
On the night Lincoln was shot, another would-be assassin put Seward's son in a coma and slashed the secretary of state's face so savagely that the doctor who saved his life said he'd "looked like an exsanguinated corpse. David Quigg: HRC's Choice: Seward or Chase?
At this time of the year, many of our would-be prizewinners should be in peak form.
The decision to call a deselection vote has caused tensions with the national party, as Ms Truss is on David Cameron's A-list of would-be candidates. BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
They would gather together, without husbands, would-be husbands, or bring-home work.
As for his would-be assassin, the Tories took turns yesterday to plunge the knife into Mr Lamont.
Earnings potential is still a higher draw for would-be solicitors than for barristers. Times, Sunday Times
More importantly, and with wider relevance, the war was intended as a substantial demonstration of the continuing validity of the regulative order as against any would-be subverter of it.
Some of the would-be asylees are in serious need of international protection.
's broodiest vampire has entered into early talks to trade in his would-be fangs in favor of the slightly more realistic-but just as potentially dreamy-drama E! Online (US) - Top Stories
The telepic also dealt skillfully with the common issue of longtime friends as would-be lovers.
Here, then, Alberti is speaking to would-be patrons and laying the groundwork for enlightened and responsible artistic commissions.
Jonathan Madden is a would-be twentieth century folly builder who's been thwarted by town planners.
Most were in their 50s, an age that can cause a would-be employer to blanch. Middle-Class Struggles, Americans Treading Water In Gulf Between Rich And Poor
To would-be revolutionaries it was becoming abundantly clear that their central problem was lack of contact with the masses.
He shook off a couple would-be tacklers and bulldogged it for a couple yards more till our own Michael Jameson came flying in like a Mack Truck and blindsided him at the thirteen yard line. An Open Letter to Fans of South Plains Football
Would-be strippers were told: 'Some strippers will remain in underwear but others may become completely naked. Times, Sunday Times
The work artfully juxtaposes two complex, quasi-symphonic percussion instruments piano and gamelan ensemble, East and West each making fluent-sounding attempts at adopting the accent of the other, with the piano's unusual tuning giving a quirky tinge to its tones, a slight acridity to would-be octaves. Music review: Post-Classical Ensemble recognizes the work of Lou Harrison
Justice reinforces social norms and deters some would-be perpetrators.
Freed, he swung his legs up and over the pit's edge, breaking the ankle of the would-be killer.
Check the reputability of your would-be agents through one of the best safety nets out there for unagented writers, Preditors & Editors. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » From the Mailbox: “How do I find an agent?”
Can the would-be veep be trusted to obediently follow a campaign script without setting off controversy with potentially explosive remarks?
All the same, the 1988 results give Socialist defenders of the mixed economy new ammunition to fire at would-be privatisers.
Lies, insults and rumours, which are unleashed at campaign meetings by various political parties have only served to keep some would-be voters away from inking their names to the register.
Her husband, John Hall, is decent and dull, which Tuck Milligan doesn't mitigate: Rafe, the would-be lover, is decent and torn, to which Armand Schultz adds wooden; Trent Dawson plays Lane as a standard scapegrace.
If there was one thing all would-be footballers wanted to do it was play in the final at Wembley. The Sun
Close-set buildings, laundry lines, slant light, patches of weeds, a few would-be gardens and bare ailanthus trees and the fire escapes that fixed fretwork patterns of light and shade on the walls and paved surfaces. Underworld
There must surely be ways of, for example, employing undergraduates during vacations to enthuse these would-be physicists in labs that would otherwise be lying empty.
A certain would-be bibliopole, desirous of emulating the Constables, Boyds, and Colburns of this century, lately opened a couple of windows at The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 383, August 1, 1829
She renounced the role of tragic widow with an austerity that irritated her would-be saviours.
Many SIBs would previously have been recorded as would-be suicides.
Armed officers, who were lying in wait for the would-be raiders, disabled their van using Hatton rounds - bullets designed to deflate tyres with minimum damage.
It didn't take long to attract the 30 teams needed, and some eager would-be dragon racers had to be turned away.
There are always men like him, eager vaingloriously to display their would-be-insuperable power.
What makes me chuckle is how Microsoft Excel has become the modern-day weapon of choice for any discerning would-be Senior Leadership Team ‘member’ – there are spreadsheets for this, spreadsheets for that – hell, they probably even have starched spreadsheets on their beds. Names Will Never Hurt You « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
This not only protects companies against would-be imitators but also ensures that a company owns a design. Times, Sunday Times
Although this would-be seventh province need not share all of Border with its predecessors, it would be sure to share a certain subregion of Border (a subregion that is itself a line-segment) with each of the others.
Happy the author whose earliest works are read and understood by the lustre thrown back upon them from his latest! for then we receive the impression of continuity and cumulation of power, of peculiarity deepening to individuality, of promise more than justified in the keeping: unhappy, whose autumn shows only the aftermath and rowen of an earlier harvest, whose would-be replenishments are but thin dilutions of his fame! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
Smugglers commonly fool would-be asylees, taking their money and disappearing or simply failing to help them cross Turkey's borders.
Reuters - WikiLeaks's ability to receive new leaks has been crippled after a disaffected programer unplugged a component which guaranteed anonymity to would-be leakers, activists and journalists who have worked with the site say. WikiLeaks Crippled By Ex-Associates, Sources Say
He's been double-crossed by would-be clients too many times to relax when someone he knows drops by.
Would-be practitioners attempted unsuccessfully to make daguerreotypes from Western manuals.
Reuters - WikiLeaks s ability to receive new leaks has been crippled after a disaffected programer unplugged a component which guaranteed anonymity to would-be leakers,... WikiLeaks Crippled By Ex-Associates, Sources Say
NGU.EN: Screening, finger printing, no-fly lists, all efforts to keep would-be terrorists out of the U. S, but the threat is still there and experts say it is coming from one of America's closest allies. CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2008
The "flics" look as menacing as ever, complete with body armour, truncheons and pistols, even though they are mostly dealing with shambolically intoxicated youths rather than would-be revolutionaries. France's young binge drinkers upset cafe society with their 'British boozing'
A would-be suicide was talked out of hanging himself from a public bridge - only to be promptly charged with assault.
It is full of absurd would-be lovers, quick-witted opportunists, cold-hearted villains and crackpot eccentrics.
I know, I know, the Teheran embassy wasn’t built in a day, but it still seems like Ross’s would-be billet is an odd bureaucratic entity. Her Family And Friends Treated Him Like An Ambassador | ATTACKERMAN
And that fired her sense of injustice, and so she became an anarchist at that time, and she was, as we ` ve already said, associated with Berkman (ph), the would-be assassinator of Henry Clay Frick (ph), and she was this sort of fire-eating orator and rhetorician who went around the country giving these speeches about how, you know, you should resist tyranny. Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt�s America
Would-be doctors had personality defects ranging from extreme over-confidence, narcissism and aloofness to being overly empathetic.
The guidebook writer seems to take great pleasure in disclosing this to fresh-on-the-trail would-be thru-hikers. Waldo Jaquith - Tenth anniversary.
A problem for would-be suitors would be finding further cost-cutting and synergistic benefits.
Cuban martyrdom is not new - whether we speak of those Don Quixotes who took up arms against the revolution early on, the many would-be Mandelas who rotted in prison or the families who perished on boats fleeing the island, giving a moral meaning to the Spanish word balsa "(raft). The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Just as before, the would-be dominators try to convince us that it is necessary to apply a firm hand to the benefit of a shiftless character.
Loser pays, it is argued, would disincline would-be litigants to assert good-faith positions. Times, Sunday Times
In Dresden, witnesses reported violent clashes between police and would-be emigrants desperate to board trains to the West.
One could go on, but the important lesson to remember for would-be reformers is that in their zeal to cull waste and limit the scope of the federal government, they don't get caught up being "penny-wise, pound-foolish. Edward Flattau: Frivolous Pork
Every now and then some would-be curmudgeon rises up on his hind legs and yowls at the sky that the latest form of social networking is a blight on the cultural landscape and proves that people have nothing better to do than post pictures of their pets in various shocking forms of dishabille. MIND MELD: How Does Blogging and Social Networking Affect the Publishing Industry?
The would-be assassin was a member of the presidential bodyguard and of the elite Revolutionary Guard.
In 1974, when the Watergate revelations were rocking the presidency, the would-be assassin went over the edge.
The divisions and headings make the book easy to dip into and in theory to skim, although would-be skimmers will need to keep one thumb lodged firmly in the index.
Over the years the Humber Bridge has built up an unenviable reputation for attracting would-be suicides.
Well, there's no reef at El Gouna itself, so each morning would-be divers climb into a minibus and head off down a dusty unmade road to a small scruffy dock where Dive Tribe's day-boats await.
Perversity — or would-be originality — alone could declare Jonson's tragedy preferable to his comedy.
What is out there course-wise for would-be roving reporters?
From my third floor vantage point, I could see a young would-be car thief trying to hot-wire an old van that I had not seen move in over a year.
Even in his late seventies, Louis is still haranguing his son about his attitude towards Israel, and Allen is responding with the same mixture of would-be facts and baffled fury.
Several would-be robot makers fell by the wayside, among them Remek of Milton Keynes.
The front door was rammed open, but the cash machine had been emptied earlier and the would-be thieves left empty-handed.
Formally, the Posthorn episode takes the place of the trio in the would-be scherzo of the third movement.
The specialiser does the latter so our would-be compiler writer can concentrate on the former. Planet Haskell
But now, with more-affordable computer equipment and software available, any would-be market maven can analyze a universe of stocks.
It is a career path frequently followed by would-be entrepreneurs. Times, Sunday Times
Promising the would-be poet a freedom from formal constraints, the irregular ode, with its lofty manner, prosodic liberty, and intensity of feeling, attracted many writers, most of whom were not equipped for its demands.
A talented trio of sisters making a name for themselves in the world of animation are among the guest speakers at an event aimed at firing the imagination of young would-be entrepreneurs.
It's easily the worst of the many overplotted, would-be fantasy franchises launched. MovieWeb: News
And if the club still owned its own ground it would also be a much more attractive proposition to would-be owners.
But the company sees state regulatory rules shaping up unfavorably for it, as a would-be competitor for residential customers.
Would-be entertainers with an almost hallucinatory shortage of talent would enact their dismal showbiz fantasies before an audience of hostile yahoos.
The would-be spaceman took his 37 ft-high Starchaser rocket to Stockport Grammar School to encourage youngsters to follow his lead and take up engineering.
He watched his would-be freshman prodigy Alton Ford make just one of two free throws at the other end.
And I have no problem at all with summary execution of would-be suicide bombers.
What kind of message is that sending to all our would-be male strippers?
Naismith watches would-be owners interact with the horse and visits the site where the animal would live, often several times.
Love, life, art, death, their limits and interrelations all combine in the witty dialogue of an artistically ‘dead’ actress and her lawyer and would-be wooer.
For a few dirhams (there are about 15 to the pound) you get someone who knows the city's nooks and crannies inside out, and by hiring a guide all the other would-be tour givers leave you alone.
Let's hope that means an end to the most badly abused aspect of existing law: It forces the discharge of otherwise law-abiding service members whose sexual orientation is revealed by third parties such as jilted partners or spurned would-be lovers of the opposite sex. Local News from The Gainesville Sun
Socialist poetry: two words to conjure images of earnest but artless efforts by would-be Woody Guthries.
Yet many would-be entrepreneurs are often shocked when they discover the importance marketing has assumed-in building any new business.
The focus on encouraging more would-be adopters is a positive step. Times, Sunday Times
Would-be authors suffering a constant stream of rejection slips will be able to find out how to get into print next month.
Would-be, wannabe, might-have-been, Moss is an incarnation of that combination of boulomaic modality and subjunctivity level so common in Crime and Realism, that of failure, of events that "should have happened, but did not". Archive 2008-01-01
I would personally feel justified smacking any would-be assassin upside their head.
Some would-be ‘experts’, I use the word advisedly, are of the opinion that this has to be our year.
Many business owners also know that there are certain nightmare customers that one simply does not want to do business with, no matter what the circumstances, and it is your ochlophobic employee that is most suitable for the task of allowing that would-be customer to feel that this is not the place to do business. The Ochlophobist
They seemed to have the contrary effect, making him irritable; and though he made up his mind to watch the stars peer out through the opalescent sky -- he did not call it opalescent, for the simple word dusky took its place -- even their soft light had no effect upon him, and to come to the result at once the would-be sleeper gave it up at last for a bad job. In the Mahdi's Grasp
In an office where I was the only bloke with about 12 women, the creepy would-be-lothario sandwich fella used to try and lure the laydeez with his 'sun-kissed tomatoes' Where did flame raisins come from?
A future age will have for these would-be wickeds, who are only monks half turned inside out, more laughter than we now indulge in at Chloe and Strephon. The Gypsies
Hurrying back to the office he found the would-be client gone and his boss apoplectic.
A plucky woman kept a tight grip on her handbag during a tussle with a would-be robber.
His comments are a tacit admission that the police cannot protect all women from the attentions of would-be attackers.
Still, it must make it very easy for their receptionists to give directions over the phone to would-be visitors.
Meanwhile, two teams of would-be Bargain Hunters pick up objets d' art at knock-down prices from their local antique fair and then try to flog them down the auction room.
The lonely Harlan Pepper, a would-be ventriloquist and believer in animal ESP, has his hopes riding on Hubert the bloodhound.
After gazumping and gazundering, the property market has identified a new danger for would-be homeowners: gazanging. Gazanging – the new menace facing potential homebuyers
The title of Prefab Sprout's first album in eight years embodies the kind of vaunting egotism one might expect from Bono, Sting or some other mononymic would-be saviour, and one's first instinct is to suppose it's ironically intended. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Other songs have ageing rockers dying unmourned and a would-be suicide weighing up the pro's and con's of life.
All in all, anything anyone ever wanted to know about the inside of a Lancaster is here for casual browsers or would-be restorers of a Lancaster - if they can lay hands on one!
While my previous contrasting of eventive and non-eventive explains the use of the two sets of personal endings of the verb to an extent, there are still a few cases such as the would-be sigmatic aorist (eg. *bʰērst 'he carried (at one time)') where a term like non-eventive is totally inadequate, if not wrong altogether, but it was the closest concept I could find to explain the pattern. Interesting quirks of a PIE subjective-objective model
They bought off would-be raiders with greenmail.
While we doubt that use of the term trope has actually scared off would-be adherents of trope-theory, it cannot hurt to have an accurate, suggestive, single descriptive expression for tropes of given degrees. Tropes
And I am not saying that all of Empson's elucidative (or would-be elucidative) writing is on this new high level.
It is one thing, we have learned, to describe something as being ‘beyond parody’, but another, as would-be parodists, to experience the consequences of this phenomenon.
Unroasted nuts such as almonds, cashews, pecans, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts and walnuts make an ideal snack food for would-be slimmers keen to get cracking.
Even more surprisingly, it seemed as if many of the would-be actors were actually getting placements from the agent.
It declares such marriages null and void in general (and may criminalize the sexual activity between the would-be spouses), but it doesn't do anything preventative to stop people from getting married.
The ensuing race to the deadline is a pacy affair that alternates between the hapless Tamara's frequent recourse to her thesaurus S*nday, she reckons, is just the place to scatter words such as "chthonic" and "hermeneutic" and Tait's grim determination to keep her would-be profiler at bay, particularly from her rather murky private life. The Spoiler by Annalena McAfee – review
What gives it the power to tempt millions of would-be basketball stars is the years of advertising behind it.
Ryu was once another man, Takuto, who was killed in an accident with his lady-love Maki, but has been resurrected by a would-be Mephistopheles with a sinister agenda.
But surveys have found that one in four would-be adopters are turned away at their first inquiry. Times, Sunday Times
I will not name the sum which he offered, the ghoul, the vampire, the anthropophagous jackal, the sneaking would-be incendiary of my little Alexandrian, the circumcised Goth! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
Despite all that solicitude for the privacy of would-be spouses, the prohibition on incestuous marriages stands.
The would-be rescuer who has become a target of wrath over Wall Street excesses and the ravages of the recession, knows all too well what is driving public anger.
He described in glowing terms the blackguardism of the would-be bigamist, sitting there in smug complacency by the side of his already one too many wife. My beloved South,
It could just be about the world's losers, the failed would-be suicides and all our broken hearts.
Modernized base housing gives would-be renters an attractive home option.
In every bar and restaurant, every nook and cranny, were people talking about deals, done deals, would-be deals, projects, scripts, airy-fairy stories and sheer invention.
• Perhaps not the best week for bloviators on Fox News to call for the abolition of the US's national weather service just because it's government-funded, but what are we to make of Republican God-botherer and would-be presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's suggestion that the east coast's hurricane was God's way of sending a message to America? Stephen Bates's diary
We're tasked with ensuring areas are swept free of any possible explosive devices left by a would-be assassin.
Lord of land l GIVE lots of written detail to avoid misunderstandings by any would-be renters. The Sun
Such investors have tried to turn a profit by fixing and reselling the homes, but the possibility that the sale will be challenged is making some would-be buyers wary. Insurers Ease on Amnesty
In a world filled with would-be Supermen, he was the one man who would be Clark Kent.
There are two cultures in Australia: the jaded, would-be sophisticates of the cities versus the home-grown patriots of the small towns and the bush.
Yet many would-be entrepreneurs are often shocked when they discover the importance marketing has assumed-in building any new business.
Each of these would-be reasons is defeasible and has been more than adequately seen off in argument during recent weeks.
Like a well-oiled machine, the organisers had collated details and created a database on the would-be grooms and brides.
Competition for the few males is now so fierce that dominant females actively push young, would-be mothers out of the picture.
As for colours, Valentino followed next winter's trend for deep anthracite and rich cream with the occasional splash of burgundy leather, sewn in strips down suits like a would-be chalk stripe.
The intention is to make St Lucia a household name and give would-be visitors a new island choice.
Highlights of the series in which would-be entrepreneurs are challenged to come up with the best business ideas. The Sun
If one child attempts to escape, the rebels force the other abducted children to kill the would-be escapee, usually with clubs or machetes.
Public Enemy is posting vocal tracks from their next disc on the Net and asking would-be DJs to mix in instrumentals and post them. Boing Boing: July 8, 2001 - July 14, 2001 Archives
Would-be strippers were told: 'Some strippers will remain in underwear but others may become completely naked. Times, Sunday Times
The story of his resistance to ordination is a fine reminder to all clergy and would-bes of the gravity of the office.
It will trip off the tongue of First Minister and would-be eco-hero, Jack McConnell - and it will become a new battle cry for families who fear they are being poisoned by opencast mining and landfill dumps.
That doesn't mean would-be globetrotters must give up their dreams of adventures abroad, though.
DETROIT (The Borowitz Report) - A would-be terrorist who is accused of attempting to ignite an explosive onboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas has confessed to authorities that he is a follower of Osama bin Laden, but only on Twitter. Andy Borowitz: Airline Terror Suspect Says He Follows bin Laden, But Just on Twitter
Spencer Tracy as the father of the would-be bride is pressing Mr. Poitier on whether he has considered the sufferings their mixed-race children might have to endure in America.
At the end of the day, one has to admit that most would-be megastars, the pigeons in this behavioral con game, are complicit in their deception.
Musicians, designers, aspiring actors and other would-be iconoclasts have settled the area, as have young professionals opting for a less-structured lifestyle.
Would-be catechists can study for three years, during which time they can explore their vocation for the priesthood.
Some sources say that a proxy worked on his behalf none other than would-be powerbroker and Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane.
When Sean Hayes, from Will & Grace, made his Broadway debut in Promises, Promises playing a heterosexual man, the New York Times theater review included these lines: "his emotions often seem pale to the point of colorlessness ... his relationship with [his costar Kristin] Chenoweth feels more like that of a younger brother than a would-be lover and protector. Out Of Focus
Like chili plants, tarantulas produce agony-inflicting toxins designed to repel would-be predators, researchers say.
Clocked as fast as 103 mph, this would-be closer has improved his control but still uncorks enough errant pitches to make the grittiest batter nervous.
The real presence of Christ in the Eucharist is a magnet drawing lost sheep home and keeping would-be strays from the deathly snows outside. Protestantism
And doctors who can't trust would-be slimmers to tell the truth will be able to analyse their diet - fondant fancies and all - before they've even had a chance to enjoy it.
The alarm is usually sufficient to deter a would-be thief.
His would-be assassin (that Fimbria who had gone off with Flaccus the suffect consul to relieve Sulla of his command against King Mithridates, then murdered Flaccus) could produce no better excuse at the time than to laugh that Scaevola deserved to die. Fortune's Favorites
The sight of these illuminated beasts, belching out fire and smoke on a dark night was intended to terrify would-be intruders.
The CIA was not impressed, dismissing the would-be politician as an inept bumbler.
Our analysis reveals that some would-be floaters might respond positively to having advisers based locally.
Knuth and her husband, Dean (a lovely soul), deliver the bedroom set, complete with floral linens, to the ailing woman's home in Kalamazoo's dodgiest neighborhood, meeting drug addicts and would-be thieves along the way. Cathleen Falsani: Thrift Store Saints: Tales of a Second-Hand Savior
The 89-year-old foiled two would-be thieves last November.
Would-be burglars climbed on to the flat roof of the church and unscrewed the plastic skylight cover.
Plenty of other would-be candidates, however, are piquing the interest of municipal veterans.
Testing and monitoring this process enables would-be parents to pinpoint the optimum moment for intercourse.
But the company sees state regulatory rules shaping up unfavorably for it, as a would-be competitor for residential customers.
But this attitude is not dampening the interest of would-be owner occupiers. Times, Sunday Times
Vain jangling" (1Ti 1: 6, 7) of would-be "teachers of the law." godly edifying -- The oldest manuscripts read, "the dispensation of God," the Gospel dispensation of God towards man (1Co 9: 17), "which is (has its element) in faith. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The deal is open to would-be franchisees already running their own shop or those fresh to the business, as the firm will help find a suitable store. The Sun
Unroasted nuts such as almonds, cashews, pecans, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts and walnuts make an ideal snack food for would-be slimmers keen to get cracking.
This slapdash approach is already having adverse effects on Zambia, as would-be investors are not sure what the new Investment Act contains and will not put their money in unknown shadows.
The ministry had promised earlier to fully refund the money that the would-be pilgrims had paid several months earlier.
Would-be Cassandras have been predicting the imminent downfall of the American imperium ever since its inception.

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