How To Use Quarters In A Sentence

  • The AWPL, however, features eight-minute quarters providing 32 total minutes of game play and a little more lactic build-up, leg burn, and lung fatigue for the athletes.
  • After a day of collecting ones and fives and nickels and quarters, it strangely looked like a lot of money.
  • Urban guerrillas detonated a car bomb in front of the company's headquarters.
  • The Bedroom In The Sky is three-quarters windowed and the last window blocked off with a hardboard offcut insulated, floored, plasterboarded, plumbed and wired. April 1st, 2007
  • an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters
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  • This multiplication of coverage is cunningly designed to bamboozle the party media minders who sit in party headquarters with stop watches timing their contributions to ensure balance.
  • In some quarters the touching belief that financial services companies will reward loyalty persists. Times, Sunday Times
  • That this dog and White Fang should come together was inevitable, and for a week the anticipated fight was the mainspring of conversation in certain quarters of the town. Reign of Hate
  • Selig said relocation of the team is subject to certain contingencies, including a formal vote (three-quarters needed) of ownership at the next owners meetings Nov. 17-18 in Chicago. USATODAY.com - Selig confirms Expos' move
  • This was especially worrying given that three quarters of those surveyed claimed to have experienced rudeness in the preceding year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sadly, because we found our wine so late, and things have been hectic with a sick 9-month old here at the LENNDEVOURS world headquarters there wasn't time for a full-fledge review, meaning that I didn't taste it blind or even pull my notebook out. Wine Blogging Wednesday
  • Oh, these professionals!" ingeminated Captain Pond again, eyeing the breach and the dismantled married quarters. Merry-Garden and Other Stories
  • From almost two hundred field offices, more than two thousand special agents teletyped all new data daily to Headquarters in Washington, where an army of clerks indexed it for easy retrieval.
  • I got out all my change, and put it on the counter: two pennies, two nickels, two quarters.
  • It should certainly have administrative headquarters worthy of the sobriquet.
  • Instead, the headquarters are situated in a squat, brick building which seems rather unglamorous for the world of radio.
  • Mares which are in the ambivalent early stages of estrus or which are mistakenly in diestrus pose a clear safety threat in close quarters. TheHorse.com News
  • French warplanes based in Italy report to NATO's command headquarters in Naples while aircraft flying sorties off the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle report directly to French military commanders in Paris. Political Gridlock at NATO
  • Astounded, I continued to adjust the hydroscope to a range incredible, turning the screw to focus at a mile and a half, at two miles, at two and a quarter, a half, three-quarters, three miles, three miles and a quarter -- click! Police!!!
  • The army headquarters is on the other side of the square, in a former colonial mansion.
  • The debut in spring 2006 of HBO's television series, Big Love, which featured a fictional and in some ways likeable polygamous family in Utah, propelled polygamy to the front pages of American newspapers and put the idea of legalized polygamy "in play" in some surprising quarters. Elizabeth Marquardt: Get Ready for Group Marriage
  • the Mainland," while North Island, where three-quarters of the population lives, is also called "Pig Island," partly for the wild pigs that Cook brought during a visit and that still roam in KOLO - HomePage - Headlines
  • It consisted of three stories and a large basement which contained servants quarters, pantries, laundry, cellars etc.
  • Once properly tagged and escorted, the visitor passes the initial checkpoint and walks along a corridor into the Headquarters Building lobby.
  • Other indicators suggest growth will continue at around 0.5 per cent during the next two quarters. Times, Sunday Times
  • Three parts" means three-quarters of a pint, and "skilly" is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water. The People of the Abyss
  • The same rates should control annual broadleaves (velvetleaf, lambs-quarters, pigweeds, mustards) less than 6 inches tall.
  • Already a number of people have been in touch with the station headquarters in Ballyhaunis acknowledging the service.
  • He used this distraction to swipe at the dog's hind quarters.
  • They brandished frontal bones, the dismembered quarters of kids and goats; they struck the bronze cantharus, they tossed the silver obba up aloft. Widdershins
  • All staff, from Stilwell to the summer interns who answered phones and restocked supply shelves, were assembled and scattered among the desks in the largest space in the headquarters, where partitions had been removed to give them an unobstructed view of their candidate. O: A Presidential Novel
  • Nearly three-quarters of staff took part in voluntary charitable activities during work time last year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Divide the cake into quarters and share it equally.
  • cramped quarters
  • The brotherly spirit of science, which unites into one family all its votaries of whatever grade,and however widely dispersed throughout the different quarters of the globe. 
  • The other bedrooms are located on the other side of the lower level beneath the master bedroom quarters.
  • The Tokyo market was slightly lower, weighed by the Bank of Japan's tankan survey for December, which showed that sentiment among big manufact urers deteriorated for the first time in seven quarters, although the outcome was slightly better than economists' expectations. Asia Mostly Down; Tankan Hurts Japan
  • But the same urchins along the walk from the strip back up the rise toward the quarters, the same characterless sleep.
  • By the time the army headquarters and the correspondents had moved up to Feng-hwang-Cheng, Jack had sent nineteen articles and hundreds of pictures to Hearst, but had no idea whether any had reached San Francisco. Jack London: A War Correspondent
  • The quarters of a small animal were wrapped in a leather sack and tied to a tree's branch.
  • But he told us one felt the motion there, more than anywhere else, in a storm; which must be some consolation to the "middies" who have to work for years before they can ever hope for such luxurious quarters. Set in Silver
  • Then pound the liver to a paste, add a tablespoonful of salt, a saltspoonful of white pepper; add three quarters of a pound of clarified butter; pound well together and pass through a wire sieve; put into pots; smooth over the top with a knife, then pour over hot clarified butter or lard and keep in a cool place. My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec
  • Usftl games are typically played on Sunday mornings on regulation football fields with 12-minute quarters.
  • Republic Day was also celebrated at all sub division/tehsil/block headquarters of the district. Patriotism & gaiety marked the 61st Republic Day celebrations at Leh & Kargil of Ladakh division
  • Spoon the mixture into six small buttered heatproof pots, until three-quarters full. Times, Sunday Times
  • The particular hill on which they were, out-jutted from the regular line of the range, so that the sweep of their vision extended over three-quarters of the circle. Chapter XVI
  • Three-quarters of the world's population live in conditions that people in the West would find intolerable.
  • More than three-quarters (77%) admitted they spend less than 5 minutes reading each resume; 56% devote less than 60 seconds to each one.
  • Log onto the official Iditarod Web site iditarod.com, read the Idita-Rider rules on bidding, and mail or fax your completed form to the Iditarod headquarters. How To Buy & Sell just about Everything
  • In some areas up to three quarters of surgeries shut on weekday afternoons. Times, Sunday Times
  • The forequarters of the beast, the shoulders and lower legs, the parts worked the hardest, are best for stewing. Times, Sunday Times
  • In some quarters there has been some recrudescence of the _Shakti_ cultus, with its often obscene and horrible rites, and the unnatural depravity which was so marked a feature in the case of the band of young Brahmans who conspired to murder Mr. Jackson at Nasik represents a form of erotomania which is certainly much more common amongst Hindu political fanatics than amongst Hindus in general. Indian Unrest
  • Then I left the mosk and began to promenade the quarters and the streets until Arabian nights. English
  • Our new headquarters, nearer to the Boche depot, consisted simply of a deep stairless shaft with a 40 degrees slope. Pushed and the Return Push
  • It first branched out into cosmetics and perfumes in 1990 and in 1994 moved its headquarters for those businesses to New York.
  • Anheuser has posted double-digit profit gains for 20 straight quarters, while its nearest competitors, Coors and Miller, have flatlined.
  • The dining hall went past my quarters towards the southern side of the building.
  • Early this morning, Sprint was notified by the Overland Park Police of a non-specific bomb threat against Sprint World Headquarters.
  • They were settled into a den in the ape and monkey pavilion, which will be their quarters during six months of quarantine. Times, Sunday Times
  • pukka quarters with a swarm of servants
  • Flights in close quarters can also lead to back pain, swollen ankles, leg cramps and psychological distress.
  • But what we do now know is that there endures, in many apparently civilised quarters, a simmering rage of misogyny and mistrust. Times, Sunday Times
  • Clinicians sought improved usability and flexibility, whereas national headquarters prioritised business and executive functions such as accurate coding and reimbursement.
  • Moscow, and when they caught sight of its burned ruins no one swore to be avenged on the French, but they thought about their next pay, their next quarters, of Matreshka the vivandiere, and like matters. War and Peace
  • Falling profits in the second and third quarters of 2002 seemed to substantiate the Fed's concern.
  • It has three-quarters of an acre of land, but a refurb is required. Times, Sunday Times
  • It aims also to establish straightforward and honest dealings among the catteries and to do away with the humbuggery which prevails in some quarters about the sales and valuation of high-bred cats. Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others
  • The necessary constitutional changes would require approval by a three-quarters majority in the 70-seat Assembly.
  • About three quarters of both groups lived in owner occupied or council housing.
  • The three-quarters of Montrealers without university degrees can be excused for feeling like deadbeats.
  • He established guards for his artillery trains and directed that a liaison orderly be sent from each battery to brigade headquarters.
  • Lou, behind us, they have floodlit the almost destroyed remains of the front of the U.N. headquarters.
  • Two-thirds of this group got over three-quarters of their income from state benefits and only 7 percent had any earnings from employment.
  • In Greek myth, the Big Dipper asterism represents the hindquarters and tail of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear.
  • During a visit to the Gendarmerie Headquarters, a man whose face was maculated with blood, both hands tied in the back, was seen being marched across the base escorted by two Gendarmes. Cambodia: UN Memorandum re Executions
  • Dogs bred to have exaggerated angulation in the hindquarters, extreme pelvic slope, or are poorly muscled, poorly angulated, and narrow in the hips seem more predisposed.
  • Two-thirds of this group got over three-quarters of their income from state benefits and only 7 percent had any earnings from employment.
  • In the first quarters of four games entering last weekend, Rose made just three of 24 shots.
  • Three quarters of the band want to do it, the other one 's undecided. Times, Sunday Times
  • Paul McErlane/European Pressphoto Agency Election posters are seen outside the headquarters in Castlebar as the Irish general election begins in County Mayo, Ireland. Ireland Heads to the Polls
  • The Count rallied his forces in Bechafen where the constant stream of refugees meant lean rations and poor quarters for all.
  • The Eastern Columbia Building 1930 was designed by Claud Beelman, became the headquarters of the Eastern & Columbia Outfitting companies, and is absolutely stunning. Tamie Adaya: Los Angeles: Art Deco Mecca
  • The fireboat company quarters was splintered. Smithsonian
  • Information they gathered was sent back to platoon headquarters by runner and radioed from the village to Company headquarters.
  • The 1827 restrikes are well known because of the rarity of issues for the year, and were most likely surreptitiously made in the late 1850s, some with rusted dies and some overstruck on older quarters (a piece struck on an 1806 quarter is known). Capped Bust Quarter, Large Size, 1815-1828 : Coin Guide
  • Then they returned to Dunyazad and displayed her in the fifth dress and in the sixth, which was green, when she surpassed with her loveliness the fair of the four quarters of the world and outvied, with the brightness of her countenance, the full moon at rising tide; for she was even as saith of her the poet in these couplets122: — The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Calling all Ghosts PETE, BOB AND JUPITER sat round the desk in Head - quarters, devouring the sandwiches Jupiter had brought. The Mystery of The Stuttering Parrot
  • The Buddhists endured subfreezing temperatures to hold the rite at Jogye Temple, the headquarters of the Jogye Order, South Korea's largest Buddhist sect. Buddhists pray for animals killed to halt disease outbreak
  • But it was an intimate kitchen, with close quarters, and as far as I was concerned, the comradery was all the better. Jeremy Elias: Death by Dinner Rush
  • It failed for three consecutive quarters to hit the Government target which promises patients treatment within 18 weeks of referral. The Sun
  • There were paper balls and bells that concertinaed flat for storage, but when opened were in quarters of red and blue and yellow; the paper was barely more substantial than tissue and the decorations were easily torn. Irish Blogs
  • The plans have already come in for fierce criticism in many quarters of the country.
  • The gifts can be anything from a roll of quarters at the laundromat to an inspirational knick-knack that is guaranteed to spark a smile. 'Secret Agent L' Unmasks Identity To Further Charity Work
  • We coordinate the reports from the overseas divisions, and send them on to headquarters in Athens.
  • The demand for quarters, seldom refused to a vanquished foe was at once found to be in vain. Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
  • (b) From packing and crating facility to quarters, when a portion of the property, after being packed and crated, is to be joined with the remainder of the property. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10053
  • Boxed beef - precut quarters of the animal that are sliced further into steaks by grocers - would be the company's staple.
  • We were left with an open bottle of champagne three-quarters full.
  • I can happily watch Grahame in anything, so I decided to sit there and watch this oater while going through my morning routine (in the end, I ended up watching roughly three quarters). 2009 August : Scrubbles.net
  • Dawson drew up her list after a poll for laundry experts Beckmann found almost three quarters of women now opt for "nude" underwear - which means they have "nothing to hide".
  • It breeds more trouble, more neglect, more idleness, more rascality, more stealing, & more lieing up in the quarters & more everything that is wrong on a plantation than all else put together . . . A Renegade History of the United States
  • When they are fully ripe gather them, and they can be ground in a gridder, or if that is not convenient, mash them in a trough; then press them well, putting three-quarters of a pound or a pound of sugar to the gallon; in this every one is to be governed by his own taste. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • They summer in Newmarket, England, and make their winter quarters here, in Dubai. All the Sheikh’s Horses
  • Like all the cabins in the Lowlies' quarters, this was a single-storey building with one main room and annexes to serve as bedrooms.
  • The organization has its headquarters in Brussels.
  • The internet might be slow on the ship and crew quarters are often small so you can't take much stuff and you'll probably be sharing a room. Times, Sunday Times
  • The property is situated on approximately three quarters of an acre of mature garden.
  • Places (we often called them that instead of farms) that I knew about all had either stairs or backstairs to the servants quarters, so I was quite surprised to see that at Beamish ladders had been the order of the day.
  • The main headquarters was in Fayetteville, where my banker friend George Shelton agreed to be campaign chairman and F. H. Martin, a young lawyer I played basketball with, signed on as treasurer.
  • On Monday afternoon, the living quarters on the flotel sat empty. 'Flotels' Await Oil Spill Cleanup Workers On Gulf
  • Reach of stride of the foreleg is dependent upon correct angulation, musculation and ligamentation of the forequarters, together with correct width of chest and construction of rib cage.
  • The bank has its headquarters in Pairs.
  • The difference in weight distribution between forequarters and hindquarters is due to the weight of the head and neck.
  • This was some achievement, since my office was on the fifth floor of the World Bank's headquarters.
  • The farmers staged a noisy but peaceful protest outside the headquarters of the organization.
  • They made contact with headquarters by radio.
  • Fill with stones until three-quarters full then top up with gravel and a layer of very gritty compost on top, about 3in deep.
  • A small explosive device was set off outside the UN headquarters today.
  • None of the team's assets, including its Milton Keynes headquarters, is mortgaged to banks or creditors, and the 300 staff are skilled and committed.
  • Using a sharp knife cut each pear into quarters from the top down. Curtis Stone Shares Biggest Loser-Inspired Dessert Recipe
  • Presidential hopeful Senator Clinton speaks at the Iowa Democratic headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa.
  • Scored the winner against Belgium in the first knockout round and another in the quarters. The Sun
  • The headquarters had been infiltrated by enemy spies.
  • In some sceptical quarters of England's northeast this building was symbolic of a waste of money that could otherwise have been spent on hospitals.
  • The 40 sheep were kept by a common shepherd with the common herd, were taken every day to the downs and brought back every night to be folded on the arable fields, the rule being to fold 1,000 sheep on a 'tenantry' acre (three-quarters of a statute acre) every night. [ A Short History of English Agriculture
  • The brotherly spirit of science, which unites into one family all its votaries of whatever grade,and however widely dispersed throughout the different quarters of the globe. 
  • Send this document to the regimental headquarters this afternoon.
  • Nexon to get updated on other content that will be added to it, including "Evy," the mage character, who wields a quarterstaff (that can be modified to become a giant scythe) and the power of Source-engine-powered sorcery. GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
  • Cats should not be picked up by the scruff of the neck; instead, support the cats hindquarters in one hand and use the other to support its chest.
  • Agatha used the intercom to buzz what she called ‘servant headquarters’ and ordered two maids to come down.
  • Pretty quickly, I worked out that we were at the headquarters of military intelligence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then Herb, Junior, had taken his bow and arrow and wounded one of the beasts in the hindquarters.
  • One targeted the intelligence service headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which is led by Massoud Barzani, president of the semiautonomous northern Kurdish region. Bombs Kill 8 in Kurdish City
  • Calais alone received 26000 quarters of grain and 2000 head of cattle in the fourteen years between 1347 and 1361.
  • Recovery in Europe poses a dilemma zz Varying pace mars progress By Emma Ross-Thomas and Gabi Thesing by Aoife White The Associated PressUpdated: 09/14/2009 07: 17: 53 AM PDT European Union Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Joaquin Almunia speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in ... WN.com - Business News
  • The headquarters ordered them to retire their troops from the front.
  • The US government has frozen assets worth three-quarters of a million dollars.
  • Similar protests were held in other towns, where the party and regional authority's headquarters were besieged by angry demonstrators.
  • About three-quarters of the total, depending on the source of the starch, is in the form of amylopectin; this consists of short, interconnected chains making up a many-branched mass comprising thousands of sugar units.
  • Author Roy Rob and his wife, Jaki, used the age-old technique of cordwood masonry to construct the main living quarters and outbuildings on their homestead in West Chazy, New York.
  • Chester also had the usual components of a legionary fortress, including a headquarters building (principia), smart houses for the commander (praetorium) and senior officers, amphitheatre, stone defensive walls and a main baths building (thermae), not to mention a large harbour and a bridge crossing the River Dee. Archive 2009-06-01
  • That is so despite a few tracks that may not invite hallelujah's from certain quarters.
  • But I did have a few leftover cruzeiro notes from the previous trip, for I was living, socializing, and eating with the Army and in the U.S. expediter's quarters.
  • Although the condition in which the folks found the business at the end of the day often sent them into a swivet, the places did turn a nice profit, two and three quarters at a time.
  • He was well aware that he was still considered a child, although he had moved out of the zenana apartments into the mardana quarters—the male half of the household. Shadow Princess
  • Occasionally, for my benefit, she would recall sanctimonious preachers who would dismiss three quarters of the world's people as ignorant heathens doomed to spend the afterlife in eternal damnation ¾ and who in the next breath would insist that the earth and the heavens had been created in seven days, all geologic and astrophysical evidence to the contrary. Greg Barrett: Obama's speech bridges the Abrahamic faiths
  • At Hunts Point, five men unload the truck and send the sides of beef to two holding rooms—one for hindquarters and one for forequarters—via a long zip line on four rails. Where's the Beef? A Steak Makes a Long Journey
  • I should, to be sure, turn away my head if I should hear you tick, and mark the quarters of hours; but the buzz and whiz of a good large life-endangerer would be music to mine ears. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
  • The expedition constructed winter quarters, consisting of an enclosed stockade and barracks.
  • The company has been hovering around profitability for a couple of quarters, and the cuts should give it an extra nudge toward the black.
  • Exceed estimated defray, want to report headquarters to examine and approve.
  • It failed for three consecutive quarters to hit the Government target which promises patients treatment within 18 weeks of referral. The Sun
  • Careful to avoid making too much noise as I crept up the creaky stairs, I made my way to the one area of the flat that I'd not yet been: Tristan's quarters.
  • The centre of the site shows the headquarters building which underwent several rebuilds.
  • Ruth Ellen Brosseau apparently agreed to have her name stand for election because a friend in NDP headquarters asked her to. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Urban guerrillas detonated a car bomb in front of the company's headquarters.
  • The 7th Army had its headquarters in Karlsruhe, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Baden, and was commanded by Colonel General Josias von Heeringen. Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
  • We landed about a hundred feet from the headquarters ten, sinking into the grass up to the cargo deck.
  • More than three-quarters said it was important to be allowed to personalize their workspace while almost half complained about a lack of privacy.
  • As it is, rearward visibility with the hood up is minimal with no rear three-quarters vision whatsoever.
  • We would each require our own personal quarters to retreat to, but there would be spacious, communal areas. Times, Sunday Times
  • The pack began to dominate in set pieces, and supply their nimble three-quarters with ample, quality ball.
  • The organization has its headquarters in Brussels.
  • The company is to relocate its headquarters in theMidlands.
  • He dropped sixty-one cents (two quarters, a dime, and a penny) into the cup by the one-legged Vietnam vet.
  • The counterblow of the right wing of the Western Front carried out according to Directive No.3 of the Main Headquarters failed to produce expected results.
  • Group profits slumped by 40 percent to £16.9 million last year, of which houses contributed three-quarters and development, a quarter.
  • It began to provide leisure facilities for its members, including rooms in the Queen Street headquarters for people who played bagatelle, billiards and ‘who wished to indulge in the doubtful activity of smoking’.
  • There was outrage in some quarters, but most critics and viewers acknowledged the film as a masterpiece. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mars, slow-moving below Leo's hindquarters, doubles in brightness from mag 0.2 to -0.6 as its distance plummets from 156 million to 119 million km and its diameter swells to 12 arcsec. Starwatch: The January night sky
  • With its green fields and fresh air, Ribchester is an unlikely base for a new internet-based company headquarters.
  • The horse was reluctant to enter the stalls but came through with a storming late run to edge out Touch of the Blues by three-quarters of a length with Century City third.
  • The Police Headquarters was a huge building, aglow with fluorescent lights that changed from pale blue to electric green.
  • The brotherly spirit of science, which unites into one family all its votaries of whatever grade,and however widely dispersed throughout the different quarters of the globe. 
  • As you enter a nondescript building at Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond, Washington, you are met with enough cutting edge technology to make any gadgeteer gleeful. Rita Braver: Future Shock?
  • So, one beautiful September morning I left Srinagar, the capital of J&K, wangling a ride with an Army Signals major in his jeep proceeding to Leh as a part of an Army convoy, the then district headquarters of Ladakh. Kargil - as I remember it
  • He had in fact suggested several times that it might be necessary to pay blackmail to silence the burglars who broke into party headquarters.
  • The Count rallied his forces in Bechafen where the constant stream of refugees meant lean rations and poor quarters for all.
  • People often count change by grouping pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, a tendency indicating that, without practice, working memory can deal with only one item at a time.
  • One small, elegant granite-faced structure, formerly the headquarters of a respected brokerage, had been turned into a soda dispensary.
  • The bottom level below the bluffs along the riverside is the seat of the river shipping business, and has as well the usual fringe of low quarters; it is paved, and there is a broad public landing fronted by floating docks, wharf-boats, etc. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado
  • Stiff and unpracticed, Szpilman manages to reprise Chopin's Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor, whereupon the officer stows him in an attic directly above German headquarters and feeds him.
  • The members of the Military Council are convening an extraordinary meeting at its headquarters at eight o'clock tomorrow morning. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
  • The day after the launch, Mara is sitting in the party's opulent election campaign headquarters in the National Treasury Building.
  • The estate consists of a main house, servants' quarters, a garage, stables and 100 acres of woods.
  • In Mughal India, she was considered past the age of desirability—there were creatures in the zenana who had been banished to its farthest quarters because of this, no longer presented to her Bapa as choices for a night. Shadow Princess
  • In many quarters there was a clamour for "practical" studies, and the old classical course was decried as useless, or merely ornamental; its very foundation, the theory of mental or formal discipline, well expressed in the term gymnasium for classical schools in Germany, has been vigorously assailed, but not disproved. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • The city's original good intention was to improve local living standards by pulling down the city's old quarters and setting up new ones.
  • To the right of the manor stood some small buildings that were probably used as servants quarters, again made of bluestone.
  • A curtain, easily attached by hooks between the centerboard-case and the roof, at night screened Mrs. Hastings 'sleeping quarters. CHAPTER XI
  • Mr. Steel, the first outsider to run Wachovia, also held an employee pep rally in the atrium of Wachovia's headquarters, an experience that left him "invigorated," he said. New Chief Plots Wachovia Overhaul
  • You can watch aircraft take off or land at close quarters.
  • He sent a coded message to CIA headquarters.
  • For about three quarters of a mile before it runs into Smynge so, the river Guden broadens out and is up to a hundred yards wide.
  • It was the council administrative headquarters and the police station.
  • The bank has its headquarters in Paris.
  • instead these clapboard houses made me think of the slave quarters of 19th century cotton plantations across America's southern states.
  • This headquarters is rapidly deployable with the capability to meet any mission and fulfill the requirements of the joint force commander.
  • Mr. Ostrowski, who grew up and studied not far from Bertelsmann's headquarters in Gütersloh, joined Bertelsmann shortly after his studies and climbed up the management ranks in one of its stodgiest divisions: its payment and support services arm, Arvato AG, which he expanded into an international business. Bertelsmann Chief Steps Down
  • From 1945, the town became a model socialist town, complete with industrial zones, living quarters named Friendship III, and statues of Lenin.

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