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I shall trust to you so completely that I intend to put the management of everything in your hands; you shall draw upon me for what you want, and I sha’n’t ask you questions.
But Wells, trained under Huxley in biology at the University of London, had all this new knowledge to draw upon.
For the Hackathlon, a hack writing contest for journalists, Deputy Editor Jack Shafer provided a "cheat sheet" of information the contestants could draw upon in each of four rounds.
All politicians draw upon symbols and symbolic issues like partial-birth abortion, which often have little real-world consequences.
In a very general sense the Puritans can be said to have added a few names to the stock which modern parents draw upon, but the author obviously did not mean that.
Suddenly, our non-profit organization has been confronted with a $5,000 deficit, with no other financial resources to draw upon.
New principles might draw upon Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions on the law of armed conflict.
As federal agencies continue to improve their management and financial accountability, they will be able to draw upon the expertise and experience of these private sector and state government organizations.
Not only do the Americans constantly draw upon the treasures of English literature, but it may be said with truth that they find the literature of England growing on their own soil.
Such persons may be ready to admit, as a general principle, that the public authority ought not to interfere in private concerns; but, by an exception to that rule, each of them craves for its assistance in the particular concern on which he is engaged, and seeks to draw upon the influence of the government for his own benefit, though he would restrict it on all other occasions.
In his 'History of Hertfordshire' (published in 1700), Sir Henry Chauncey, Sergeant-at-Law, exclaims: "But now these mechanicks, ambitious of rule and government, often educate their sons in these seminaries of law, whereby they overstock the profession, and so make it contemptible, whilst the gentry, not sensible of the mischief they draw upon themselves, but also upon the nation, prefer them in their business before their own children, whom they bereave of their employment, formerly designed for their support, qualifying their servants, by the profit of this profession, to purchase their estates, and by this means make them their lords and masters, whilst they lessen the trade of the kingdom, and cause a scarcity of husbandmen, workmen, artificers, and servants in the nation.
His friends conceived hopes from the moderation which he on all occasions expressed, that he was really a Protestant in his heart, and that upon the death of his mother, he would not scruple to declare his sentiments, notwithstanding the reproaches he might incur from the Popish party, and the public observation it would draw upon him.
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