Sentences with phrase «confederate ask»

In a separate study in a more «real - world» setting, the researcher had an attractive male confederate ask 600 young women, all of whom were walking alone in a shopping mall, for their phone number.

During the conversation, the confederate asked two key questions: (1) «Do you have a number I could text you at?

Specifically, when the confederate asked for a phone number in front of a flower shop, he successfully got a number 24 % of the time, compared to a 15.5 % success rate near the cake store and an 11.5 % success rate near the shoe store.

Not exact matches

He once wrote this when asked about building Confederate monuments at Civil War historic sites: «I think it wiser moreover not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavoured to obliterate the marks of civil strife and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered.»

He instead asked the Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, for a truce to collect the wounded and dead.

I realize I'm not supposed to get in the political arena as a football coach, but if anybody were ever to ask me about that damn Confederate flag, I would say we need to get rid of it.

A state agency has been asked to determine the costs of removing Confederate monuments from state property and find alternative spots for their placement, Cooper said.

On Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Andrew Cuomo tweeted that he also asked acting U.S. Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy to rename Fort Hamilton Army Base streets with Confederate monikers.

While Cuomo has stood up for keeping the statue of Columbus on 59th Street in place, he has asked the U.S. Army to rename two streets on a Brooklyn military base currently honoring two to Confederate Army generals.

During a White House dinner, Lincoln takes Stevens aside and asks him to tone down his talk of redistributing Confederate wealth to freed slaves.

One Confederate major, after trying for twelve hours to decipher a message containing an error, actually rode his horse around the Union formations on the battlefield to reach the the general who had sent the message and ask him in person what he was trying to say.

In reality, the stranger was part of the experiment (a confederate) and asked standard questions and provided standard answers.

However, the confederate didn't just make his requests at any old place in the mall; he specifically asked for phone numbers either in front of a flower store, a cake store, or a women's shoe store.

After a few minutes of discussion, the researcher returned and asked the participant and confederate to wait a few minutes while the researcher printed more questionnaires.