Examples of using Was one thing in English and their translations into Russian
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Killing Braithwaite was one thing- the private secretary had been a blackmailer-
Taking action to deny those rights was one thing, but simply arguing against them was another.
Reuter emphasized that"the object of an obligation was one thing and its purpose was another.
Taking the library was one thing, but Cassandra… when Excalibur healed her,
Statistics, he noted, was one thing, but the political will to close the gap was equally important.
Mr. WANG Xuexian said that the practice was one thing, but a general comment was another.
Homme stated that preparing Post Pop Depression was one thing that helped him cope with the aftermath of the November 2015 attack at the Bataclan.
The readers, the young readers, if there was one thing they hated, it was war,
It was one thing when we talked to him, listened to his fatherly advice,
While the adoption of the Act was one thing, its application was another,
The fourth preambular and first operative paragraphs were contradictory: it was one thing to integrate LDC issues into the work of the intergovernmental machinery, and quite another to create a new body.
Yet to reason thus, in cold blood, was one thing, and it was quite another to look across a table-top
Instincts are one thing, evidence is another.
But it's one thing to announce this and it's another thing to pass this road.
Life is one thing, death another.
Sending a motorcyclist is one thing, but this.
The fights are one thing, but the sex.
It's one thing to cheat on Mom.
Head slaps are one thing, but… don't you think I have suffered enough, Bishop?
But it is one thing to proclaim, to realize is another.