| An unwelcome result of these lessons was that my English language abilities began to digress. |
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| Let me digress once more, for the sake of those dear readers who may be Hebraically challenged. |
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| However, I shall not digress via the ugab and the shawm, tempted as I might be. |
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| But barely a freeflowing middle eight's allowed to digress from the tidy, right-on package of political broadsiding that's being delivered. |
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| He can lecture at some length on the origins of the language, and it's only the mention of ventriloquism that prompts him to digress again. |
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| He meanders roughly chronologically through his life but permits himself to digress when an incident or thought spurs a tangential memory. |
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| I'll just digress a little bit, because it's interesting to note that when this monument was constructed, there was no such thing as plywood. |
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| Excursus: Let us digress to ask if you know how to select the correct weight standard. |
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| He talks about the disaster there and gives the impression that it is becoming increasingly worse as they digress. |
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| I digress slightly from the Koksilah River by Kelvin Creek, but Koksilah is also a fish-bearing stream. |
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| Before listing our five concrete recommendations, I will digress for a minute to illustrate the kind of unified effort we believe is necessary. |
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| I do not think the Liberals kept any promise in the 1993 red book, but I digress once again. |
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| We have the opportunity to be proactive, to ensure that we do not let it digress and get much worse. |
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| I digress somewhat from the issue but it will probably occur from time to time. |
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| I just want to digress for a moment and speak about a particular part of my practice that I found very refreshing from the federal government. |
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| Questions were generally asked of each interviewee in a systematic and consistent order, but the interviewees were allowed to digress. |
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| It is not uncommon for debates on controversial issues to digress into the realm of heckling and disrespectful exchanges. |
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| If I can digress for just a minute in that regard, Canada has a major responsibility here. |
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| I would like to digress for one moment just to reinforce what Jonathan said a moment ago. |
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| I will digress for a moment and talk about my experiences and understandings. |
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| Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to digress and touch on the matters of everyday life with which our legislation concerns itself. |
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| In the same manner, the easiest speakers to understand are those who express themselves in simple sentences and do not digress from their point. |
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| I wish I might digress and tell you more... But my tale is sufficiently incondite already. |
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| But I digress, sort of. More interesting than the superficial pay-to-play aspect of this story is what it reveals about the increasing integration of the conservative economy of influence. |
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| What is pathetic are some of these pedantic, professorial, preaching or pseudo-intellectual remarks and then slinking out of the chamber, but I digress. |
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| He was clearheaded when he spoke about the complex details of his business affairs, but he would occasionally digress, often at my invitation, into sour monologues about the British and American governments. |
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| At this point I'd like to digress and share with you a little fact. |
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| Let me digress on this point and explain how conditional sentences work. |
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| Speaking of traditional farming, I want to digress to ask a question. |
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| To begin, I would like to digress a bit and talk about sugar bushes. |
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| Sometimes it is worthy of satire and merits discussion, but I digress. |
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| Let me digress a moment to talk as a Newfoundlander and Labradorian. |
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| If I can digress for a moment, I'd like to briefly mention her earlier films. |
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| In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term. |
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