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Strengths are in ...
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Our greatest strengths are in formal mathematical demography, economic demography, and population theory.
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Her greatest strengths lie in her ability to quickly analyze complex organizational histories and challenging business conditions, while helping her senior executive clients to develop targeted implementation strategies, coach their own leadership teams, and cultivate a culture to achieve strategic change.
Do are in and lie in mean the same thing?
Our greatest strengths are in formal mathematical demography, economic demography, and population theory.
http://www.preparingceos.com/the-authors.aspx
Her greatest strengths lie in her ability to quickly analyze complex organizational histories and challenging business conditions, while helping her senior executive clients to develop targeted implementation strategies, coach their own leadership teams, and cultivate a culture to achieve strategic change.
Do are in and lie in mean the same thing?
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Hi, yes Clive
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The meaning is roughly the same, but they are not interchangeable in actual usage. For example, you could not put "lie" in the first example and "are" in the second and have complete equivalence. "Lie in" has a more pithy and personal flavor to it, and would tend to be used, for effect, when describing a person - the other meanings of the word "lie", lay down, fib, etc., cannot be entirely sep
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Her greatest strengths lie in her ability to. . .
I strongly disagree with the last post. No educated person is going to associate the expression 'lie in' here with those other meanings. As written here, it is stylish and elegant English.
Her greatest strengths lie in her ability to. . .
I strongly disagree with the last post. No educated person is going to associate the expression 'lie in' here with those other meanings. As written here, it is stylish and elegant English.
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