How To Use Chief In A Sentence
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The Chief Inspector has suggested a complete overhaul of the good book, reducing it to a pacier 250 pages, a greater focus on “Floods and brimstone and other cool stuff” and a possible rewrite by Dan Brown to “Sex the whole thing up a bit.”
Archive 2008-10-01
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The Etihad chief has taken charge of just two friendlies and still does not have all his squad together.
The Sun
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No, just stylish, insists G.O.D. founder and chief executive Douglas Young.
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The commander-in-chief was given 36 hours to secure a withdrawal of his troops from the combat zone.
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Relations with the regulatory agencies are coordinated by the Chief Financial Officer.
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He claimed that the Chief of the USAR at the time, told him that he didn't need to re-enlist (he had only accrued two good years for retirement in the 4 years he was back on the books) and to keep singing for the troops.
Heroes or Villains?
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Other handy bits and pieces like plasters, handkerchief, aftersun and a needle and thread can also come in handy, and don't take up too much room.
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Made chiefly from riveted stainless steel and copper sheeting, these free-standing works are occasionally complemented with wood.
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The sonnet's chief English importers were Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 - 42) and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1515 - 47), who had generally translated their Italian originals not only into English but into a different shape of sonnet.
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Since the anito is the cause of all bodily afflictions the chief function of the person who battles for the health of the afflicted is that of the exorcist, rather than that of the therapeutist.
The Bontoc Igorot
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This fact confirms the connection which we find, notwithstanding the difference of fracture and of specific gravity between the saussurite and the siliceous basis of the porphyrschiefer, which is the phonolite
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
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Those who had struck it rich wore black woollen trousers and Napoleon boots, and sported silk sashes and gaily coloured kerchiefs.
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While he was chief inspector of schools parents could be sure that they had a powerful champion of high standards.
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The ascension to the throne of a chief or headperson is hereditary.
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Thus the various ritual capacities of North Mekeo chiefs and sorcerers typify the sort of interpersonal agency implicit in Melanesian personal partibility.
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Daddy was obliterated and the Chief reigned supreme!
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A big Chinaman, remarkably evil-looking, with his head swathed in a yellow silk handkerchief and face badly pock-marked, planted a pike-pole on the
White and Yellow
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Even the chief civil authority of the town was deterred from sallying forth by a remembrance of a predecessor in the provostship who had been buried in a stable mixen all but his head, to the detriment of his clothes and the still greater and more lasting hurt to his dignity.
Patsy
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Machiavelli was a chief target of the philoso - phes because he preached an amoralistic selfishness which promoted despotic arbitrariness.
MACHIAVELLISM
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But the slave, perceiving that the zamorin seemed inclined to deal favourably with them, went to the cady or chief priest of the Mahometans, and told him all that he had said to the zamorin, adding that the two Christians had disclosed all their secrets to the Portuguese.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
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One of the chief reasons for removing old, oil and gas wells from south Louisiana's lakes and bayous is that those areas are vulnerable to storms and hurricanes, and any collapse in structures could threaten the public, Lopez said.
Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Removes Defunct Oil Wells But Hazards Remain
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The so-called psyche or butterfly is generated from caterpillars which grow on green leaves, chiefly leaves of the raphanus, which some call crambe or cabbage.
The History of Animals
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It chiefly differs in the croup being blue instead of snow-white; but as Mr. Blyth informs me, the tint varies, being sometimes albescent.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
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All the territory of an administrative chiefdom is technically held by the paramount chief.
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Kenneth Lay, Enron's chairman, has acted as George W. Bush's chief financial supporter and key backer since the latter went into politics.
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The woman wiped her sweaty face with a bright red handkerchief and bobbed her head in the direction of the coopery.
City of Glory
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He is reportedly dissatisified with the performance of U.S. regional military commanders-in-chief.
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The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.
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Tuesday, rose from humble beginnings as a peasant herdboy through stages as a teacher, political prisoner and guerrilla chieftain.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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There were, Pfeiffer said, several unresolved issues with the long-term omnibus bill, chief among them policy riders that would alter previously passed legislation and compromise executive powers.
In Budget Negotiations, White House Throws A Curve Ball On Omnibus Bill
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This usage proceeded, in part, from the notion of consanguinity between every member of a clan, even of the lowest degree, to his chieftain, and the affability and courtesy with which the head was in the habit of treating those over whom he ruled.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
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They were primarily portraitists, but Thomas is now chiefly remembered for his dramatic Boadicea monument at Westminster Bridge, London, showing the fearsome warrior queen in her chariot.
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Rail chiefs launched an inquiry after two quarry trains were derailed on the same day.
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One chief executive had to talk to 62 different people to change a cancer treatment protocol.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your CNS is the Master Control Centre, the CEO, the Commander in Chief, the Big Kuhuna, The Master Communicator and the Grand Pooh-Bah all rolled into one!
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fey" -- at least so our chief engineer remarked to me, and he has some reputation among the Celtic portion of our crew as a seer and expounder of omens.
The Captain of the Polestar
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As well as pollinating the orchids, the bees are the chief pollinators of canopy trees.
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This done with expedition, like men skilful in such mischief, as they took their cockboat to go aboard their own ship, it was overwhelmed in the sea, and certain of these men there drowned; the rest were preserved even by those silly souls whom they had before spoiled, who saved and delivered them aboard the _Swallow_.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
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That's what Dan Kim, chief executive of Red Mango Inc., a frozen yogurt franchise in Dallas, did while trying to name the flavors of his frozen yogurt and iced tea drinks.
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They lived under nine independent caciques or chiefs, and possessed a simple religion devoid of rites and ceremonies, but with a belief in a supreme being, and the immortality of the soul.
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Ben Bradlee, the longtime Washington Post editor, is a vice president at the newspaper and former Washington bureau chief of NEWSWEEK.
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The Chief of Navy, VADM Chris Ritchie, said he was determined to eliminate the use of prohibited drugs in the navy.
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As former chief fire officer, Pat Forkan, recalls, his ability behind the wheel was unmatched.
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Chief among the grievances I identify as providing primary justifying grounds for secession are these: persistent and serious violations of individual human rights and past unredressed unjust seizure of territory.
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She usually wore a dress of dark gray stuff, with immense pockets, a black silk neckerchief folded over her shoulders, a white tamboured muslin cap, with a black ribbon passed two or three times round the crown.
Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
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Quills were the chief writing implement from the 6 th century AD until the advent of steel pens in the mid 19 th century.
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The most common bird of prey is the kestrel, which feeds chiefly on rodents such as mice and voles but will occasionally take small birds, beetles, small frogs, etc.
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Normally, my chief though was to bath quickly and leave.
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Bureau chief Small chided me for using the word screw on the air, which had elicited complaints from the Bible Belt.
Staying Tuned
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Although fruits added to jellies in the way just described are chiefly for decorative effect, they do add very greatly to the pleasure of eating them; but jellied fruits, as distinguished from _fruits in jelly_, are a delicious mode of eating fruit, and where it is in abundance afford a pleasant variety.
Choice Cookery
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The cavalry were too numerous to be maintained solely by the king; rather, each of the seven great town-chiefs had to support, in his own sector of the capital, ten noble warriors and their entourages.
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Eh, Brother, don't you mean any and all capitalist running dogs are smelly, of which the Noble House and the House of Chen are chief and dung heavy?" he said banteringly.
Noble House
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In fact, the Chief would most likely overrule me if I tried to lay one.
SNOWJOB
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Left, the company's chairman Philippe Varin, right, and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi posed for photographs with a Peugeot 508 during the signing of an agreement in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, Sept. 1.
India's Auto Hub, Gujarat
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The chief appeared with a dramatic parting of tent-flaps.
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Tourism chiefs said a short fuse was used because of high winds.
The Sun
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EUROPEAN football chiefs are heading for war.
The Sun
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The largest siderostat in the world is the Paris 50-inch refractor, which formed the chief attraction of the Palais d'Optique at the Exhibition of 1900.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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The state's intentions, of using the entire coastline for desalination, were revealed when chief minister Ashok Chavan recently instructed officials to explore the idea of allotting land to private parties for setting up desalination plants on design, build, operate and transfer basis.
Daily News & Analysis
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Here's a story of mischief and mayhem to brighten up your Monday morning lecture.
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For when we come to God, then we believe no more, but rather see with our eyes face to face how He is; yet for all that love remains still; so that love may be called the chiefest, because she endureth forever.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin
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The group consists of every woman officer in South Yorkshire Police from the rank of inspector to our highest ranking female officer, which at the moment is chief superintendent.
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It is argued that the chiefs need accommodation befitting their ranks and of reasonable size because their jobs entail some requirements to entertain foreign dignitaries.
Times, Sunday Times
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On Navy Day July 27, 2008 the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky spoke of a revival of Russian naval power over the next decade and declared that the navy would add six carrier battle groups to its complement of warships.
News on www.kyivpost.com
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In France Zola was the dominant practitioner of naturalism in prose fiction and the chief exponent of its doctrines.
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Not only was Mihailović collaborating with the enemy, Donovan also knew that Tito was convinced the Chetnik chief had fed the Nazis information to try to have him assassinated three months earlier.
Wild Bill Donovan
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He announced his retirement as chief executive of the company.
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These "Observations" were the first of a series of volumes by Gilpin on the scenery of Great Britain, composed in a poetic and somewhat over-luxuriant style, illustrated by drawings in aquatinta, and all described on the title page as "Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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In April 1899, a coaling station was built in Pago Pago harbor by the U. S. Navy, and in February 1900, a deed of cession was negotiated with Tutuila chiefs by Naval Commander B.F. Tilley.
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Acetic acid is the chief active ingredient in vinegar.
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vintner" and "peddler" of his objurgations, and meekly whispers into his ear with the air of a conspirator reporting a plot to his chief.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
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In Ireland the justiciar was the king's chief representative in the 13th cent. until superseded by the king's lieutenant, the lord deputy, and the lord-lieutenant.
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In Tang Hall, 524 people signed objecting letters, and 72 protest letters were fired off to city chiefs.
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Petit de la Croix, a Paris, 1710, in 12mo.; a work of ten years’ labor, chiefly drawn from the Persian writers, among whom Nisavi, the secretary of Sultan Gelaleddin, has the merit and prejudices of
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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And it is the treachery of his appetite which inveigles him into the mischief, which cheats, and abuses, and by deceitful overtures trapans him into a perpetual calamity.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
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Last week, a bronze-skinned buckaroo, with a flashing red neckerchief above his blue shirt, with shining leather chaparejos and crimson saddle-blanket, dashed up from a Western skyline on a snorting, piebald cow-pony.
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It's likely the two sides had trouble seeing eye-to-eye on long-term potash prices, and decided to instead negotiate smaller shipments over shorter time frames, said Ravi Sood, chief executive officer of Lawrence Asset Management in Toronto.
Market News
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The amount obtained by auctioning the paintings will be contributed to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund.
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We were also greeted by a large man in rumpled chef's whites and a rakish black beret, a handkerchief knotted jauntily around his neck.
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Chiefdoms are marked by a motley of villages dotted around them.
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The chief constable applied for an order of mandamus directing the justice to rehear the case.
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Sir Robert Smirke in 1807 put up work which consisted chiefly of panelling, which was affixed to the easternmost wall of the feretory.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
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The Ministry of Home Affairs, also look and rethink over the existing involvement, efficiency, effectivity and also carrying and delivery capacity of chief district officer, who are the chief of district security system, to encounter the state of occlusion.
Nepal: Disappearing Security in Occlusion
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He hit back by suggesting that the row over who should be the country's new intelligence chief was endangering its security.
Times, Sunday Times
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Andy Anson, 2018's chief executive, is described as assiduous about keeping the board informed.
Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk
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He pulled a grimy handkerchief from his pocket and let fly with a wet honk into the rag, then he looked at them with bleary eyes.
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The government decision to back out has also been met with widespread criticism by civic chiefs.
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She rubbed my arm comfortingly with a small twinkle of mischief that I had seen somewhere else.
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Even as home prices continued to fall industrywide and the number of new houses under construction kept sinking, Paul Saville , the chief executive of NVR Inc., received total 2010 compensation valued at nearly $31 million, according to NVR's proxy statement.
NVR Pays Top Dollar
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This week, at a meeting attended by government ministers, provincial governors, traditional chiefs, health experts, the commander of the Zimbabwe's defence forces, diplomats and the media, the government announced what it called a nationwide blitz to control, cure and eliminate the disease.
Caroline Gluck: A National Blitz to Control Cholera in Zimbabwe
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The chief artery conveying blood to the lungs is the _pulmonary artery_.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
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And their chief gripe about the town?
Times, Sunday Times
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He was introducing himself to the town council as the new Chief Inspector for the area.
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Presumably, the chief harm to others in torturing animals that are the property of the torturer is psychic.
More Fun With Libertarian Animal Rights
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For the southeastern district, assistant, thirty-six hundred Southeastern dollars; second assistant, three thousand dollars; deputy district attorney, such compensation as shall be fixed by the district attorney, with the approval of the chief justice of the superior court.
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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The winners of the heats run in the chief race.
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Chief bootlicker is Matt and his other boy bloggers.
Matthew Yglesias » Stupak’s Strange Views on Human Life
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Accornero, a 24-year law enforcement veteran, was appointed chief in 1994.
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Bob Hoffman, the endangered species branch chief for NOAA's Southeast regional office, told the Huffington Post on Wednesday that the burns had been temporarily curtailed because of high seas, and that when they resume, NOAA will now make sure each "burn team" -- made up of two shrimp boats hauling booms and an "igniter" boat -- includes a trained observer who will be able to rescue turtles before they are incinerated.
Gulf Oil Spill: The Plight of the Sea Turtles
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The chief justice of the United States serves as judge. If two-thirds of the senators find the president guilty, he can be removed from office.
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Stokton, a fishmonger, Thomas Yong, a saddler, and Robert Jakes, a shearman — all of whom had more than once been convicted of perjury, and on that account been struck off inquests — had contrived to get themselves replaced on the panel, and had been the chief movers in the recent actions against the late mayor and other officers of the city.
London and the Kingdom - Volume I
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Yes, it's my handkerchief.
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We had a high opinion of his mechanical genius, and generally held that the Chief ‘knew something bad of him,’ and on pain of divulgence enforced Phil to be his bondsman.
Reprinted Pieces
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North American deciduous tree (Ulmus americana) having double serrate leaves and winged fruits. It is grown chiefly as an ornamental shade tree but often dies from Dutch elm disease.
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Now, 11 years later, he was the Chief Commissioner of the hill State of Manipur, and had willy-nilly to depute election officers and to supervise the polling and the counting.
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Chiefs and headmen are important figures both in villages and nationally, although they are forbidden to be active in party politics.
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Since there's little danger of hypothermia when the water temperature is 80 degrees, your chief sartorial concern is not offending other boaters.
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Omi, "grandee", title, applied to chiefs of conquest, and to subjects holding court office; higher than muraji; inferior title in Temmu's peerage
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
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Benin's chief of army staff, Fernard Amoussou, said one of the plane's two black boxes was found.
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They strongly urge the assorted presidents, prime ministers and corporate chieftains to come without their staffs and guards.
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The United States is one of the few democracies that does not allow its citizens to elect their national chief executive directly.
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The chief limitation on the number of fossil species studied was the rarity in museum collections of skulls with complete dentition, especially incisors.
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As a result, Sheffield health chiefs are planning to ask the next two to three years' intake of prospective students to get vaccinated.
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The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli).
The Heirloom City
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Chief among those experts is Lyn Abra, who milked funnel-webs for their venom for three decades, first for Sutherland's research and then for commercial antivenin production.
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Sutton's police chief has pledged to make the borough the safest in London by waging war on career criminals and drug traders.
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They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi's blood pressure.
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Mrs Pankhurst was one of the chief protagonists of women's rights.
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The chief witness was allowed to leave the town only after lodging a sworn statement with the police.
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But it will strike fear into the hearts of unions and town hall chiefs.
The Sun
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The shop and cafe were once a thriving business and despite a recent upturn in fortunes, a three-year period of losses have led to charity chiefs deciding it is no longer financially viable.
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handed her his pristine white handkerchief
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It must be confessed, however, that certain influences darkened the style even before it had reached maturity; chief among these was a gloomy hierarchical splendour, and a ritual rigidity, which to-day we yet refer to, quite properly, as Byzantinism.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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According to the Charter, the president is chief of the armed forces.
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He turned, mischief in his eyes, and pitched it at her head.
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He is coughing green slime into a handkerchief and the penny drops.
Times, Sunday Times
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Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger asked about Google's role in this freemium world; 40 % of the traffic to its sites comes from Google.
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We were surprised today to learn that Mayor Bloomberg dismissed his hand-picked Schools Chancellor, Cathie Black, after 97 infelicitous days as chief of New York City's school system.
Henry J. Stern: Black Thursday
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There are only a handful of entrepreneurs who doted on Steve Jobs as publicly as Masayoshi Son , the founder and chief executive of Japan's Internet and mobile carrier Softbank Corp. In the last few years, Mr. Son has compared the late Apple CEO to Leonardo da Vinci and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, while labeling him a "genius" and a "god.
Softbank Founder Masayoshi Son: The 'Next Steve Jobs'?
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The best course in dealing with both countries is to limit their wherewithal for strategic mischief.
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Then again, there are those who reckon that's a load of old tosh and who would love nothing more than to be a fly on the wall next time BT's chiefs get together.
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But he was not to enjoy himself long, for the duck was telling all her neighbours about the ill-usage her little one had received; and the mischief-making little wagtail thought as he had seen the lanky bird eating what he called the kingfisher's fishes, he would go and tell, and then sit on the bank and see the quarrel there would be; for he considered that the heron had no more business to take the fish out of the pond than the toad had to catch flies.
Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn
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Yes, sir," Captain Blake said, and watched his commander-in-chief smile arctically.
Beyond the Sunrise
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The ruling of the Lord Chief Justice that a book written with pure intention and meant to convey useful knowledge might yet be obscene, drew from me a pamphlet entitled, “Is the Bible Indictable?”, in which I showed that the Bible came clearly within the judge's ruling.
Autobiographical Sketches
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The Prime Minister's press chief returned from Washington yesterday amid unprecedented speculation he was going to resign.
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The witch doctor's eyes were well blackened, and his temper none of the best; for he quarrelled with the chief over the possession of Wertz's rifle, and took more than his share of the part-sack of beans.
WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS
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This brilliant wheel, justly called a splendor, is attached to a conical cap on the head of the dancer, held by a ribbon or kerchief tied under the chin.
Did You Know? Quetzal Dancers in Puebla, Mexico
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It was a memorable innings, although he will remember it chiefly for the five runs he did not make rather than the 95 he did.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there is still room for considerable mischief by those who oppose the rush to negotiating glory in Clinton's final days.
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In short, our forty-fourth chief executive sought to end America's two-and-a-third centuries as a truly exceptional nation-more patriotic, more dynamic, more enterprising and freer than any other-to turn the republic into a kind of enervated satellite of Western Europe.
Forbes.com: News
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A hush descended on the crowd as the village chief began to speak.
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Shield: Or, a diminished bordure Vert, on a chief indented Azure, two fleurs-de-lis of the first.
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Chiefly, such activities were processional - arrivals of ambassadors and potentates, with plebeian doings relegated to the wings.
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The Chief Archivist will also arrange for independent audits of record-keeping in Government offices.
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He picked through cards and dice and handkerchiefs until he found three ropes of unequal lengths.
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But best of all was the pool: where most villas boast pocket-handkerchief paddling pools, here was a pool in which to do solitary laps before breakfast, while staring out over miles of burnt-umber fields.
Sleeping with the Finzi-Continis: Sicily's Madonie mountains
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An Asian plant (Vigna radiata ) in the pea family, widely cultivated for its edible seeds and pods. It is the chief source of bean sprouts.
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He had no executive experience—Washington was a former commander-in-chief and plantation owner; Jefferson was getting valuable training as chief wirepuller of an opposition party.
America's First Dynasty
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The former chief of the judiciary and close ally of Khamenei, Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi, was quoted Monday in Iranian newspapers as calling the postelection rifts a "family dispute" that can be worked out through dialogue.
Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
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The title of chief was largely a matter of prestige, as authority was exercised by the consensus of those of high status, who would act as arbiters in dispute resolution.
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Chief executive and chief financial officer resign.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other useful pieces of kit include a piece of red cloth or handkerchief to tie to the top of your aerial to aid rescuers.
Times, Sunday Times
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They met the chief of Rousse's regional directorate of the interior on Friday.
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In technical terms, the new chief executive is entitled to be granted an option to buy ordinary shares.
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This is partly because the office of mayor is chiefly one of influence rather than power.
Times, Sunday Times
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He told the chief officer to haul the ship off four points.
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In former times local headmen functioned as war chiefs, but paramount chiefs over various local communities were absent.
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When the first gaming casino was established on a reserve, a SWAT team took the chief away in chains.
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He was set free and rehabilitated as chief engineer.
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Art has always been a chief means of Christian evangelism and catechesis.
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It is the word magnus; the Scotchman makes of it his mac, which designates the chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the great Callumore [41]; slang turns it into meck and later le meg, that is to say, God.
Les Misérables
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Smiling residents stroll along a cozy, old-fashioned street; the police chief stops and chats with passing motorists.
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Government chiefs are worried that the refugee problem might spill over from neighboring countries.
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As a little girl I used to watch my aunt embroider pillow-covers, handkerchiefs, dupattas, baby-dresses, you name it.
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The chief prosecutor said he had seen no sign of torture in his visits with the defendants.
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The evidence in chief of the complainant was given at trial in the form of a video of her interview in the police station.
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Huang, the chief of the institute of national policy, holds a press conference to announce their research result: The latest carbon-reducing principle and the analysis of its feasibility.
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His disposition is said to be most amiable and genial, and his affability endeared him especially to his own countrymen, by whom he was called alii lokomaikai, "the kind chief.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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On March 11, 2009, Scott S. Reuben, former chief of acute pain at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Mass., revealed that data for 21 studies he had authored for the efficacy of the drug along with others such as celecoxib had been fabricated in order to augment the analgesic effects of thedrugs.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The AMA Open to Medical Marijuana Research
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She spoke the rude French of the fishing villages, where the language lives chiefly as a baragouin, mingled often with words and forms belonging to many other tongues.
Chita: a Memory of Last Island
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The election chiefs also propose to do away with voting precincts.
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But the major issue on the lips of many motorists, that of dualling the road, is not being addressed by Highways Agency chiefs.
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We're getting a reprieve from inflation," said Edward Yardeni, president and chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research Inc. in New York, who will speak at the conference and who devised the term "bond vigilantes" to describe the power financial markets can wield over governments.
BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
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Walsingham assigns assistant secretary and chief intelligencer John Shakespeare to investigate the scheme and quickly concludes the Drake plot is tied to the murder of a relative of the Queen Lady Blanche Howard, whose corpse mutilated with numerous stabbings was found in a London fire.
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Proof that they had sought and received permission from the general chief of staff was brushed aside.
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I have been in relation successively with the English and American evacuant and alterative practice, in which calomel and antimony figured so largely that, as you may see in Dr. Jackson's last "Letter," Dr. Holyoke, a good representative of sterling old-fashioned medical art, counted them with opium and Peruvian bark as his chief remedies; with the moderately expectant practice of Louis; the blood-letting "coup sur coup" of Bouillaud; the contra-stimulant method of Rasori and his followers; the anti-irritant system of Broussais, with its leeching and gum-water; I have heard from our own students of the simple opium practice of the renowned German teacher, Oppolzer; and now I find the medical community brought round by the revolving cycle of opinion to that same old plan of treatment which John Brown taught in Edinburgh in the last quarter of the last century, and Miner and Tully fiercely advocated among ourselves in the early years of the present.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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Each spring, corporate America's preeminent chieftains offer sage counsel to eager university graduates across the nation.
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The chiefs left the ship displeased at what they called stingy conduct in the captain, as they were accustomed to receive trifling presents from the traders on the coast.
Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River
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The chief source of the arsenic of commerce is arsenical pyrites, or mispickel, which contains about 45 per cent. of arsenic (As).
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
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Company after company dashed into the blazing "fireproof" building, urged by the hoarse profanity of the chief.
The Poisoned Pen
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Mr Cross will assume the role of Chief Executive with a team of four directors.
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While his peers were busy making mischief and thinking about the opposite sex, he became withdrawn.
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The monks were chiefly responsible for preserving this teaching, since it was largely directed to them.
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Paul, the parliament's clerk and chief executive, is convener of the SPBE board.
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Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! Bob Marley
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Tayside health chiefs admit they are struggling to find enough dentists to treat all the children who need care.
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He took a handkerchief from his pocket.
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There was mischief brewing among these hot-headed, short-spoken salts, but Captain Foley changed the subject to discuss the new ships which were being built in the French ports.
Rodney stone
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Then there's another police chief, suspicious of the veteran cop's dubious tactics on the job.
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The reflections and soliloquies of Artamène recur; but a not unimportant, although subordinate, new character appears -- not as the first example, but as the foremost representative, in the novel, of the great figure of the "confidante" -- in Martésie, Mandane's chief maid of honour.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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He's my chief o 'staff ... and just guess - "he poked me in the chest" - who I've been moving heaven and earth to have as my intelligence bimbashi!
Watershed
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Back at the station the Chief Inspector returned the call.
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The chief constable herself has been touring the county telling people their police have been underfunded for years and the only way forward is more cash.
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Day-break from mischief of what He did make from mischief of moon eclipse-showing and from mischief of witches on cord-knots blowing and from mischief of envier when envying.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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And the new Boro chief reckons if bosses cannot take the heat they should go FISHING instead!
The Sun
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Members of Congress and senior administrators are moved by considerations other than the carrots and sticks available to a chief executive.
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Such appeals were virtually impossible before an order in April 1996 by now-Chief of Naval Operations Adm.
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On the flyleaf were his initials R.D., the letters of the handkerchief, and underneath C.D. freshly written.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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With regard to the sinfonie concertante there appears to be a hitch, and I believe that some unseen mischief is at work.
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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My objection to his high heels was that he would do himself a mischief if he had to bale out!
