The trouble with golf as a hobby is that it ---- too much of one’s time.

The Council of Europe, the continent’s oldest political organization, was ---- in 1949 to defend, among other things, human rights and the rule of law.

Every community in the world recognizes certain activities as crimes, and has developed its own way of ---- them.

The term “geography” ---- the English language in the 16th century from Latin and ultimately Greek, at the time when European navigators were beginning to explore Africa and the New World.

Out of the work of the great thinkers of the seventeenth century was developed a new outlook on the world, and it was this outlook which ---- the decay of the belief in witchcraft and other superstitions.

In his fiction William Faulkner uses a complex literary style that seems to ---- his intricate themes of good and evil.

As a family we are used to moving from one part of the country to another, and we usually --- - pretty quickly in each new home

They telephoned from the library to say that they had found the book I was looking for, but it ---- to be the wrong edition.

If this business goes on in such an awful way, it will ---- hundreds of unemployed.

The visitors were taken to the airport, and there they were ---- by the assistant manager.