How To Use Namesake In A Sentence
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In October, the retailer said it would shut 21% of its namesake North American stores over the next two years, coming to terms with the overextension of its store network before the recession and predictions that U.S. growth will be slow.
Gap's Profit Falls 36%
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It's odd how there's no mention at all of how the terra cotta warriors, the namesakes of the show, came about.
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Philosophy major Wylie Dufresne hopes to dine with founding fathers, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson; compares line cooks to lab researchers; and rejects the term molecular gastronomy to define the cuisine at his Michelin-star namesake restaurant, wd~50.
Louise McCready: Curious Wylie Dufresne Defends the Science of Cooking
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So I knocked off an incredibly quick webpage launching the Campaign For Better Namesakes.
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That being said, though, I think my bodiless namesake hits the nail on the head when he points out that the concept is already overfamiliar, even if this is the character's film debut.
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Like his famous namesake he is proving to be big up front.
The Sun
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The word 'Taino' means noble and in a twist of history the passage of the no-abortion legislation is figuratively a return to the island nation's namesake in its very aspect.
ProLifeBlogs
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Indeed, a sonnet is addressed by this one to a cousin and namesake.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Notre-Dame Cathedral in Senlis is less famous than its namesake in Paris.
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The show's central fixture and namesake is a 22-foot-wide cartographic wonder from 2004 that's divided into four nearly identical white-on-black canvases depicting Calgary, Charleston, Kansas City and Philadelphia as geographic neighbors.
Getting Up Guide: New Yorker's Alex Ross; first ladies of dance
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He is putting together a four-man team, including his son and namesake Tony 0'Reilly Jnr.
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The chorus is so desperate and unhinged it should replace its namesake across the country; a frightened alarum to all that there's trouble around and it's far closer than you think.
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A glutinous, golden buttercup is known as anata, nearly as abundant as its namesake in America.
Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands
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The similarities between the two namesakes are eerie.
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The Namesake is a meandering narrative following Gogol, the American son of Bengali Indians who immigrated to Massachusetts during the 60s.
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Tachos (360-359), his successor, attempted to invade the Syrian territory, but, as a result of rivalries and dissensions between himself and his namesake Tachos, whom he had appointed as regent, he was supplanted by Nectanebo II (358-342), a cousin of Tachos the regent, and took refuge with Artaxerxes II, at whose court he died.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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She was delighted to hear her namesake sweet pea has been grown continuously for more than 60 years.
The Sun
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The air was an ancient Gaelic melody, and the words, which were supposed to be very old, were in the same language; but we subjoin a translation of them, by Secundus Macpherson, Esq. of Glenforgen, which, although submitted to the fetters of English rhythm, we trust will be found nearly as genuine as the version of Ossian by his celebrated namesake.
A Legend of Montrose
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The flowers kept blowing, unaware their namesake had gone, unaware that this was not a day for flowers to grow so prettily bright in the ground.
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Its namesake dish, cuscus alla Trapanese, is a tagine-like couscous served with seafood soup, prawns and monkfish, and its historic center features tightly packed streets that were once surrounded by the casbah walls.
Monique Stringfellow: Sicily's Wild Western Coast
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The title comes not from the company's namesake, Swiss psychoanalytic pioneer Hermann Rorschach and his inkblot test, but from the German word for inkblot, "kleck," which was Rorschach's nickname as a boy because he liked to draw, and from a childhood game he played making up stories based on shapes in inkblots.
Rorschach, putting on its inking cap
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It goes without saying that he loved “his great namesake,” as he calls him, “Robert Burton, of melancholy and merry, of facete and juvenile memory.”
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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That's what your namesake said before he put the comether on Napoleon.
Duty, and other Irish Comedies
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So have I in a couple of places -- now it's a still of Tabu as Ashima playing a tambura in Namesake.
Professor seeks grader, preferably Victorian
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The great wedge of Canadian wilderness between Alaska and British Columbia boasts such mind-stretching sights as massive Mount Logan, which crests at 19,551 feet and extends for 25 miles, and the territory's namesake river, flowing thick with salmon across the border with Alaska to the Bering Sea.
Photo-Op: Yukon Ho
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He is putting together a four-man team, including his son and namesake Tony 0'Reilly Jnr.
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‘I'm not a very good close reader of my own work,’ she demurs when asked to explain the meaning of an incident near the end of The Namesake.
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Ursus, who goes as before to the miller, a namesake of thy dispensator
Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
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HE was; for he stood in a state of abstraction, mentally balancing the Doctor against the lawyers, and the lawyers against the Doctor, and their clients against both, and engaged in feeble attempts to make the thimble and nutmeg – grater (a new idea to him) square with anybody’s system of philosophy; and, in short, bewildering himself as much as ever his great namesake has done with theories and schools.
The Battle of Life
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Benjamin Franklin Bache the grandson of his namesake referred to the short and dumpy Adams in his newspaper, Aurora, as "His Rotundity," whose appearance was so much "sesquipedality of belly.
Gingrich and the History of Negative Campaigns
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The volume is a treasure-chest of nutcases, including poor Delia Bacon, who spent decades of her life, her sanity and a small fortune trying to prove that Shakespeare's works were written by her namesake Francis.
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In a curious irony of history, an epigone frequently becomes better known than his/her illustrious namesake and predecessor.
The other (and greater) Moctezuma I
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Unlike his more famous namesake, this Bill Clinton has little interest in politics.
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Who hopefully wouldn't when she grew up still be the pudge her namesake was!
OUT OF THE ASHES
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As it turned out, the station is well north of its namesake thoroughfare, and its access and egress is via a pedestrian bridge that leads to and from the western side of the tracks.
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Unlike his more famous namesake, this Bill Clinton has little interest in politics.
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If one might judge from his appearance, there was every probability of the coach coming past before Mr. Britain knew where HE was; for he stood in a state of abstraction, mentally balancing the Doctor against the lawyers, and the lawyers against the Doctor, and their clients against both, and engaged in feeble attempts to make the thimble and nutmeg-grater (a new idea to him) square with anybody's system of philosophy; and, in short, bewildering himself as much as ever his great namesake has done with theories and schools.
Battle of Life
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This feature-length documentary explores its namesake, an old form of health care that the authors of this film clearly subscribe to.
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Mr. Booth said he is nervous about stepping into the public with the grant namesake school.
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Unlike their high street namesakes however, fund supermarkets are not always so hot on choice or price.
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The author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake talks about her affinity for "plainness," why she avoids book reviews, and her new collection of short stories.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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He is putting together a four-man team, including his son and namesake Tony 0'Reilly Jnr.
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That city’s namesake contribution to barbecue is the term St. Louis cut, which refers to a particular size 3 pounds or less and butchering technique for a slab of spareribs, the classic ribs for barbecue.
Celebrating Barbecue
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Indeed, a sonnet is addressed by this one to a cousin and namesake.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Indeed, a sonnet is addressed by this one to a cousin and namesake.
The Times Literary Supplement
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That city’s namesake contribution to barbecue is the term St. Louis cut, which refers to a particular size 3 pounds or less and butchering technique for a slab of spareribs, the classic ribs for barbecue.
Celebrating Barbecue
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But talking to their namesakes, they realised that they had much more in common.
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It is not easy to dig into this when my command of the language is rather basic and when there are lots of other people with the same or similar names - such as for instance the Slovak intellectual Ivan Markovič who died in Buchenwald two years after his near namesake was killed on the Bosnian mountainside.
Double Falshood
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We set off, testing our legs beside the Arun Khola that runs celadon green, wide and whispering through its namesake Arun Valley.
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With their papery bark, aromatic leaves, red sap, and rapidly tapering trunks, elephant-trees are as absurd, beautiful, and intriguing as their namesakes.
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Despite the name, it bears little resemblance to its able-bodied namesake.
The Sun
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He's swinging to a hard- driving beat here, big-band-era style, and showing that he is a major jazz vocalist-instrumentalist to compete with his namesakes, Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan.
Both Leading Man and Comic Relief
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Maureen was claiming a namesake with me as she also was called Veronica.
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Drugstore.com, which operates its namesake website as well as Beauty.com, SkinStore.com and VisionDirect.com, posted $456 million in sales last year, making it the eighth-largest e-tailer in the U.S., according to Internet Retailer magazine.
Walgreen to Acquire Drugstore.com for $429 Million
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Blue skies and glorious sunshine greeted the ship's company of HMS Manchester when they exercised the freedom of the namesake city.
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The quartet's leader, and namesake, was born in 1975 in the town of Pazardzhik, in south-west Bulgaria.
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In the typically anonymous world of cyberspace - where parentheses and colons represent emotions and facial expressions - I'd met my namesake.
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Like his famous namesake, young Washington had a brave, adventurous spirit.
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This is of course a fictional roadhouse set somewhere in the northern American wastes but tonight one of its namesakes holds a similar ambience.
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The incubus of legend may have been a wicked sprite driven by uncontrolled lust, but the only thing you'll covet after watching its movie namesake is a pair of cosmetic tweezers and a copy of Demons for Dummies.
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The buttermilk cake - that I opted to bake in a 9 springform and slice into layers rather than bake separately - was divinely tender and fine-crumbed, but held up to a light soaking in it's namesake liqueur overnight.
Like Caffeine - and Booze - for Chocolate
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During their meeting in Caracas, Chávez presented Putin with the so-called Order of the Liberator -- Venezuela's highest honor -- and provided the Russian leader a replica of a sword brandished by South American independence hero Simon BolÃvar, the namesake of Venezuela's socialist-inspired "Bolivarian Revolution.
Nikolas Kozloff: Hugo Chávez's Geopolitical Rivalry Reaching Soaring New Heights
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Unlike their high street namesakes however, fund supermarkets are not always so hot on choice or price.
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But that Was exactly What happened to his equine namesake as he attempted to gallop to further glory.
The Sun
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She's my namesake but we're not related.
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Also in the Stranger: Annie Wagner on The Namesake, "a perfectly subtle story that stiffens with each new visual gimmick," and Michael Atkinson on a sampling of video "elegies" by Alexander Sokurov, "one of the modern age's most restless and uncompromised cinematic powerhouses.
GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 3/19.
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The number of famous namesakes will also raise a smile.
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The tomtit is like its English namesake in shape, but smaller, and with a glossy black head and bright yellow breast.
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
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Reflecting on his lengthy, much lauded literary career, it often amused him to think of his namesake.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elizabeth/Gabriele/Rick - It seems Richard I is as controversial as his namesake!
Count Bohemond, by Alfred Duggan. Book review
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It goes without saying that he loved "his great namesake," as he calls him, "Robert Burton, of melancholy and merry, of facete and juvenile memory.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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` ` The cursed Highland salvages! '' muttered the Captain, half aloud; ` ` what is to become of me, if Gustavus, the namesake of the invincible Lion of the Protestant League, should be lamed among their untenty hands? ''
A Legend of Montrose
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For the time being, he seemed to have been cornered by his namesakes.
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Its namesake dish, cuscus alla Trapanese, is a tagine-like couscous served with seafood soup, prawns and monkfish, and its historic center features tightly packed streets that were once surrounded by the casbah walls.
Monique Stringfellow: Sicily's Wild Western Coast
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During the process of creating and naming the award, several dozen namesakes were considered for this prestigious honor.
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Anthony, while fully deserving his Man Of The Match award, could do with some of his Roman namesake's cunning.
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Reflecting on his lengthy, much lauded literary career, it often amused him to think of his namesake.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like its namesake it has been on the endangered list and, according to a feasibility study released yesterday, it may have unearthed something quite valuable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite the name, it bears little resemblance to its able-bodied namesake.
The Sun
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They're referred to as ‘schoolfellows,’ so it's quite likely they were at Wittenberg (their namesakes appear in the university rosters in the 1500s), but they could have been pre-university schoolfellows.
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Like its namesake it has had a few unlikely wins, but unlike its namesake it pays handsomely.
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They bore at the prow the carved effigy of the namesake, and if the Great Bear, for example, made several very happy voyages by setting out when a certain constellation was in the ascendant, that constellation might become known as the Great Bear's constellation.
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts
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Luck is strong when you are introduced to your namesake.
The Sun
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Please tell me if I am overreaching myself but my namesake is an ancient Celtic-Irish goddess, so I feel an affinity with her.
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The other Munro is in Atholl and lacks the special qualities of its northern namesake - crags, corries, high-level lochans and mind-blowing views.
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But the title acquired by Dandolo runs thus in the chronicle of his namesake, the Doge Andrew Dandolo: "Ducali titulo addidit, 'Quartæ partis, & dimidiæ totius Imperii Romaniæ; Dominator.'
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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Unlike her Biblical namesake, Maria sees very little evidence of God's grace.
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We had with us Frida, a Westfalia campervan of great age but surefooted nimbleness and with the stormy temperament of her namesake, Frida Kahlo, Mexico's first lady of art.
Mazatlan: Tequila, tans and working stiffs
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In January, the University of Pennsylvania's West Coast business campus will decamp from the Folger Building, once home to the namesake coffee company, to the top floor of the Hills Plaza building, former headquarters of the Hills Bros. coffee company.
Business-School Bulletin
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If the hereafter is anything like its filmic namesake, then it will turn out to be glacially slow, eternally boring, and pointless, with seemingly random plot lines aimlessly wandering about the ethereal landscape.
Michael Shermer: The Eternally Boring Hereafter
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Indeed, a sonnet is addressed by this one to a cousin and namesake.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The cursed Highland salvages!" muttered the Captain, half aloud; "what is to become of me, if Gustavus, the namesake of the invincible Lion of the Protestant League, should be lamed among their untenty hands!
A Legend of Montrose
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Hence we have Magpies, Robins and Wrens here which are not related to their European namesakes.
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He decided to brew his own and take on his namesakes.
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We have already received photographs of two schoolgirls called Lily planting their namesake bulbs.
The Sun
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A while back we mentioned what was going on with the other London Bridge and in a similar vein we also like keep an eye on developments in Londons that find themselves flung far away from this, their namesake.
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Does he know that his namesake went to Spain to fight the very men his site believes should be unopposed?
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Snake is a notorious bank robber who, unlike his reptilian namesake, is far from sneaky or subtle.
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Like his famous namesake, young Washington had a brave, adventurous spirit.
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His namesake, his great-uncle Anthony, was an alcoholic who made a small fortune smuggling Canadian whisky during Prohibition.
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Such women now represented the rural Catholic masses; Grace's village god-daughter and namesake in the novel may be Edgeworth's acknowledgement of the more popular nature of Irish song.
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Which shows the difference between the two namesakes - Lisa can't drive.
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Corpus Christi took on their Cambridge namesakes in the annual ‘Corpus Challenge’, and cemented their fifth consecutive victory.
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I mean, just how much of a hero can this guy be to spawn so many namesakes?
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He is putting together a four-man team, including his son and namesake Tony 0'Reilly Jnr.
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Clint works with wood, especially exotic varieties such as zebrawood, with its dramatic stripes reminiscent of the hide of its namesake animal.
Victorville Daily Press :
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In this adventure he set out to find 54 namesakes - ‘One for every card in the deck, including the jokers.’
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Bestowing her name on the childcreating a namesakeestablished an enduring bond that complemented or stood in place of ties of blood or affinal kinship, since a midwife might be a female relative (usually an affine), a nsungukati 80 from a neighboring homestead, or a female member of the staff of a mission or state hospital.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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We got there right at dusk, scrambling breathlessly to the top of the Pyramid of the Sun and catching a few moments of its namesake sinking below the western horizon.
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Harold entertained everyone with impressions of his namesake, Evans.
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They were about three feet tall, with a proportionately stockier body than their terrestrial namesakes.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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She is represented in one of a pair of medallions containing portraits of the newlyweds, and also in the guise of her namesake and principal protectress, St Margaret of Antioch.
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Couched in poised and lucid prose, The Namesake is a an exquisite tale, full of fine and fragile humour.
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Aghazal was the Lambaneish word for the small leaping deer we called gazelle in the High, and indeed she bore some resemblance to her namesake, with her long neck, lustrous eyes, and graceful movements.
Wildfire
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“The cursed Highland salvages!” muttered the Captain, half aloud; “what is to become of me, if Gustavus, the namesake of the invincible Lion of the Protestant League, should be lamed among their untenty hands!”
A Legend of Montrose
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I've already blogged on how easily identity gets confused in systems that don't rely on turning us all into numbers after all: my namesake was refused a credit card.
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Like I said, Rohypnol (the namesake of "roofie") is related to many other commonly-perscribed medications, and it seems order of magnitude more likely that someone who believes they were roofied actually just took a benzo and didn't how poorly they react with alcohol (something that psychiatrists should be more fastidious in mentioning).
Libertarian Blog Place
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The quartet's leader, and namesake, was born in 1975 in the town of Pazardzhik, in south-west Bulgaria.
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This next generation prototype is already living up to its 'Swift' namesake with Suzuki's latest little model spied during skidpan Volkswagen to consider Suzuki alliance
Car Advice | News Blog
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Why should a slideshow account of a comedian's attempts to contact his namesakes be funny?
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Unlike his more famous namesake, this Bill Clinton has little interest in politics.
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Since according to the norms of virilocal marriage, no married adult woman lives in the muti of her father's family (and indeed might live a long distance from her natal home), the creation of a namesake bond with a younger woman presents a way to strengthen existing ties of blood or affinal kinship, and to foster a lifelong relationship of mutual affection and assistance that will, necessarily, stretch across geographic space.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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The incident allowed Yang s teammate and namesake to win the silver medal.
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FLORENCE is not such a far cry from her famous namesake.
The Sun
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Whoever googles 'appel' (Dutch for apple) will not only come across sites in Dutch about the apple, but also search results about the artist Karel Appel and other namesakes.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
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It is one of life's ironies that their namesakes found themselves fighting to defend that country nearly 60 years later at one of the First World War's bloodiest battles.
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And so when I created a perfume in its namesake, I tried to make it perfect too, if this is even possible… I took the most unusual essences, such as boronia, pink lotus, seaweed, moss and cassis, and worked them together to create a watery, transparent, floral-green perfume.
Archive 2007-02-01
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My phone even had a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, but I preferred to use Notifier for its namesake purpose: It "notified" me of news like friends 'status updates, new messages (tweets) on Twitter and RSS news feeds.
App Aims to Up Social Status of Some Basic Cellphones
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A brother, also called Salvador, had died a few months before Dali's birth, and in childhood he came to identify morbidly with his namesake.
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Geographynote: with coastlines in the shape of a baseball bat and ball, the two volcanic islands are separated by a three-km-wide channel called The Narrows; on the southern tip of long, baseball bat-shaped Saint Kitts lies the Great Salt Pond; Nevis Peak sits in the center of its almost circular namesake island and its ball shape complements that of its sister island
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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By 1326, Edward's deposition in favour of his namesake son and heir seemed the only alternative to a mean, oppressive, and unsuccessful regime that engendered civil strife.
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Since according to the norms of virilocal marriage, no married adult woman lives in the muti of her father's family (and indeed might live a long distance from her natal home), the creation of a namesake bond with a younger woman presents a way to strengthen existing ties of blood or affinal kinship, and to foster a lifelong relationship of mutual affection and assistance that will, necessarily, stretch across geographic space.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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The large namesake rock was lodged in midstream, forming the tail of the pool.
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Eva is also a mythic character who is unchaste and unwilling to submit to anyone or any God, in opposition to her Christian namesake.
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Hugh de Nonant, the new bishop of Coventry, one Confessor's Day had begun saying the introit, when his Lincoln namesake lifted up his voice and began the long melic intonation.
Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England
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During their meeting in Caracas, Chávez presented Putin with the so-called Order of the Liberator -- Venezuela's highest honor -- and provided the Russian leader a replica of a sword brandished by South American independence hero Simon Bolívar, the namesake of Venezuela's socialist-inspired "Bolivarian Revolution.
Nikolas Kozloff: Hugo Chávez's Geopolitical Rivalry Reaching Soaring New Heights
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Saint Kitts and Neviswith coastlines in the shape of a baseball bat and ball, the two volcanic islands are separated by a three-km-wide channel called The Narrows; on the southern tip of long, baseball bat-shaped Saint Kitts lies the Great Salt Pond; Nevis Peak sits in the center of its almost circular namesake island and its ball shape complements that of its sister island
Geography-note
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Enter Saphho Ritsos, the Trust operative who, based on her namesake, is intended to be insusceptible to Cankar's irresistible manly charms - the result of him producing "eleven times as many pheromones as ordinary males.
REVIEW: The Crystal Cosmos by Rhys Hughes