How To Use Tier In A Sentence

Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
Parmentier offers us a level of detail and balance of voices not found on any other recordings.
Her boyfriend was watching in the audience as well which made it even naughtier. The Sun
Aides hovered round like royal courtiers before he made a fleeting appearance climbing on board the City of Chicago. Times, Sunday Times
The top tier is him and him alone. Times, Sunday Times

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At the other end of the social scale were the king and a tiny group of powerful men, all of them rentiers who lived in style on the revenues of their great estates.
The athletics track was dug out after the Games and a new tier of seats dug in. Times, Sunday Times
The U.S. economy is operating with a massive amount of slack" or unutilized resources such as workers and manufacturing capacity says Sal Guatieri, an economist at Toronto-based BMO Capital Markets. Canada Bank Shift Signals Strong Recovery
Space is the final frontier for us to explore.
Poitiers, dedicated to the queen of Clothaire I. -- who afterwards took the veil, and was distinguished for her piety -- there is shown on a white marble slab a well-defined footmark, which is called "Le pas de Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
The fugitive slave problem on the southeastern frontier dated back to the colonial period.
The frontier ran roughly north-westwards from London into the north-west midlands; Guthrum was to withdraw with his troops behind this line, where he was to be recognized as king of an independent kingdom.
The Heathrow stamp impacted on one of the emptier pages of her worn, blue passport.
It also questioned the fairness of two-tier charging structures in some schemes in which members ceasing to make new contributions were charged higher fees than active members. Times, Sunday Times
Inspection" means that the Frontier Health and Quarantine Organ( hereinafter referred to as the" Health and Quarantine Organ") carries out medical inspection and sanitary inspection.
Overeating and drunkenness both violated social moral codes, although the latter appears to have been a much weightier transgression: intoxication is frequently listed among the serious crimes — "pleasurable living," adultery, theft — mentioned by Sahagún's informants. 47 Indigenous drinking practices also shocked Spaniards who had their own ideals of moderation when it came to alcohol consumption, a topic that we look at in Chapter 4. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Cottier and Company have converted into a place of princely but peaceful splendor.
He wanted to restore the elegant dovecote, which has 880 nesting boxes in 16 tiers, and turn it into a versatile glass-and-steel living space with a glazed extension, without losing the integrity of the original building.
You're one of the bloodthirstier women writers I know. Cat V. Monkey - Last Tango In Paris
Si ello fuera el caso, el gerente general de una empresa podría ser acusado si un trabajador suyo cometiera, de forma aislada, un crimen. Global Voices in English » Peru: Ex-President Fujimori Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
He had assumed that of the two sisters she was the practical one, the heartier, the more robust. THE OTHER DEVIL'S NAME
It's kind of an open concept, like a half covered, tiered, outdoor auditorium.
Most premium programmers offer a variety of multiplex channels on digital tiers to rotate their movie libraries, at no extra cost to the operator.
Gutierrez, who was recently ranked as the ninth best prospect in the Rangers system by Baseball America, tested positive for the amphetamine adderall, which is used to treated Attention Deficit Disorder. Texas Rangers
It has a core tier one ratio of 10.4 per cent. Times, Sunday Times
Judge Benson, unbudging in his view that justice had been done in the case of United States v. Leonard Peltier, refused to order a new trial, and once again (in 1984) his ruling was appealed before the circuit court. United States v. Leonard Peltier
The lost projects, an inevitable consequence of life at the artier end of architecture. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the reports will have been written, if not by the refuseniks, but the next tier of management.
I give more credit to the nameless women who settled the frontier and thus earned the right to vote in western states.
I'm interested in expanding the frontiers of real-world liberty, not spinning Utopias.
The screw driver is mightier than the sword, hey, Dink?" called the irrepressible Roy, as Dinky hurried away into the darkness. Tom Slade with the Colors
During fasting, since the body is not busy with gastric processes and since the body is literally emptier, hollower, I believe the nada practices can be even more effective. Kazim Ali: Practicing Yoga on the Mountain of God
Forget clunky mobiles and oversized tablets - wearable technology is the next frontier. Times, Sunday Times
The metropolitan grouping reflects urban areas and a fully functioning tiered health care system with ready access to tertiary care.
But adults say they believe there are tastier burgers elsewhere, a disturbing fact when Census Bureau trends show an aging population.
In a world of shifting boundaries, vanishing borders, and proliferating frontiers, security is even more difficult to achieve.
You know how it is when to stay feels like an eternity of misery, even with the promise of a multi-tiered orchid-bestrewn imported from the UK chocolate wedding cake? June 2005
We have always said that our story is like the story of the frontier towns and the hinterland outposts.
Ever the courtier alert to the slightest imperfections in his outward mien, the Earl is accustomed to checking his physical appearance in the glass.
I thought so -- extemporaneous invention was, after all, my mtier too. THE CALLIGRAPHER
For those interested in yeastier brews, Bambino offers a small selection of beers from the U.S., Luxist
Some have long disputed the very idea of a frontier of ‘free land’ because of the presence of the numerous Indian peoples whose subjugation was required by the nation's westward march.
You won't find a prettier village anywhere in England.
Wenger, however, prefers to invest in promise rather than experience, and at this juncture the consequence of a persistent collective callowness is that while his club may have a waiting list of 40,000 for their season tickets, the empty seats in the middle and upper tiers last night spoke of the dissatisfaction of those among their supporters who do not subscribe to the doctrine of keeping the faith through thick and thin. Arsenal fizzle out after early promise – just like last season | Richard Williams
The frontier has been an active source for American folktales dealing with characters such as Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, and Mike Fink.
Leave that ratty plasterwork to get rattier. Times, Sunday Times
Payments were made instead to courtiers to influence the queen's choice.
Put Lady Gaga in anything -- flesh-colored bra, black bustier, meat dress, artillery-undie extravaganza -- and it doesn t matter. A Newsstand Smash
There are typically nine to 14 criaderas in a solera system although some manzanilla sherries can be made from as many as 19 tiers.
He surrounded himself with witty courtiers and kept many beautiful mistresses.
Goboto retorts that its resident population is smaller and that its visitors are thirstier. A GOBOTO NIGHT
Legend by then had fructified Chapman (1774-1845), a footloose (and footsore) son of a Bunker Hill veteran, into a mythic, apple-spreading American nomad of the lonesome frontier. A Pro-Growth Strategy
To many people, John XXIII was the Kennedy pope, and Vatican II was his Camelot a glorious, Roman Catholic version of the New Deal and the New Frontier that would move Catholicism from the medieval past into a rosy future of social equality, in which mass would be celebrated in the vernacular, nuns' habits would be modernized, and the popemobile would replace the traditional gestatorial chair as a form of papal transportation. Philocrites: May 2005 Archives
It's not just about texture though: not only does meat cooked on the bone tend to be more flavourful, but, in marked contrast to much modern pork, that around the ribs is marbled with fat, which means it's always succulent – even more so with spare ribs, the larger, meatier kind most familiar to us as the obligatory meat element of Mixed Starter number 2. How to cook perfect barbecue ribs
As an actor, Poitier was quite effective in his understated, quietly confident way.
In the first half of the fifteenth century, Gutierre Diaz de Gámez wrote an account of the deeds of his lord don Pero Nino, count of Buelna.
The fugitive slave problem on the southeastern frontier dated back to the colonial period.
Buy yourself the swankiest, most outrageous, most indulgent party outfit you can lay your hands on—such as Dolce & Gabbana lace bustier gown £2,690, Net-a-Porter —and go to the party safe in the knowledge that you will be wearing the most amazing outfit there. The Perfect Party Outfit
What she finds particularly galling is the tea partiers 'oft-repeated revolutionary cry of taxation without representation, despite the election of a president on the highest voter turnout since 1968. Three books on the Tea Party, reviewed by Steven Levingston
Dentro de los planes que tiene para mejorar su calidad de vida, esta la compra de un tanque de almacen de agua potale, debido a que el vital liquido no abastece en la zona y amenaza a la producción por la sequía, ella solicita un prestamo para la compra de materiales fertilizantes e insumos vegetativos que aporten un mejor mantenimientos agronomo a sus tierras y garantizen un crecimiento óptimo a la cosecha, esta inyección de capital a futuro le favorecera, para el establecimiento de 1 cuarto de manzana de piña, que le ayudara economicamente a la incursion en nuevos rubros y el mejoramiento continuo de sus niveles de vida. Kiva Loans
Boone led about thirty axmen through the wilderness to clear a path, which eventually became a route to the new frontier and was called the Wilderness Road. History of American Women
My biga and soaker sat in my fridge for 3 days -- you don't need to wait 3 days, 12 hours is the minimum, but I figured that the longer it sat, the tastier it would be, and I knew I wanted to serve the bread with a lamb stew I would be making (and will be sharing with you). Archive 2008-10-01
I took off the bustier and got dressed, grabbing all the clothes I tried on and was going to buy. Real wifeys
What an experience it was; I was smellier than a yak and dirtier than the local kids, worried that MAD wouldn't allow me home.
Transnational links were shattered by closing frontiers and the tide of nationalist sentiment sweeping through society.
Warehouses at the frontier between the two countries fill up with sacks of rice and flour.
Everyone turned to see who had spoken, and there in the corner stood an elderly courtier, one of the king's most trusted advisers.
She was a seven-foot-tall, 480-pound frontierswoman from the Utah Territory who could shoot and drink like a man and bend nails with her tongue.
From this latter practice arose their name — CONDOTTIERI; a term formidable all over Italy, for a period, which concluded in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, but of which it is not so easy to ascertain the commencement. The Mysteries of Udolpho
Today, the frontier of private enterprise is the halo of communications satellites in geostationary orbit 24,000 miles above our planet. Google Offers $20 Million X Prize to Put Robot on Moon | Impact Lab
Rome lay too far from the vulnerable frontiers; Constantinople occupied a position about equidistant from the Germans on the lower Danube and the Persians on the Euphrates. Early European History
Of course, there is the issue of letting sleeping dogs lie, because once you start down this path only insanity awaits, because inevitable questions arise as to what on earth chardron, nattier, parma, and Sahara actually looked like. Archive 2009-05-01
Tremain's novel is altogether jauntier, more various and energetic than these quotations imply.
Xaviers could fit himself to the dignity and formal habiliments of state; Yet in the fringed deerskin of frontier garb, he was fleeter on the warpath than the Indians who fled before him; and he could outride and outshoot -- and, it is said, outswear -- the best and the worst of the men who followed him. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground
The tone of the Liverpool manager's conversations with Javier Mascherano appears to have been somewhat frostier, however. Liverpool relief after Fernando Torres says he wants to stay
Someone who is seeing this feistier side of you for the first time could fall in love with you. The Sun
Had they at the _dogana_ discovered the trick and telephoned from the frontier? Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
The submicroscopic domain , inhabited by elementary particles, is probably the most fundamental frontier of physics.
Unless we wish to end up with a two-tier system, the literati and the illiterati, then there seems to be a need for the education system to change the philosophy of the last decade or so, and return to an emphasis on literacy.
Swinging from the rope portiere, slathering the pomade upon my beardless face, and all manner of the metaphysical ick in my oversized cuspidors! Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0
I mean, this was still virgin territory, there were no tube lines running to this part of the frontier.
Lewis found his métier in the new popularity of the film noir.
It is true that mormaers are found inland, but an analogy may be made with Carolingian border officials ‘margrave’ and ‘marquis’ which became titles for members of the nobility far away from a frontier.
I'm reminded of the first Christian legislators, who didn't quickly abolish the tolerant Roman laws regarding practices which didn't conform to the natural law, or which were actually contrary to it, such as concubinage and slavery," Cardinal Cottier wrote. CathNews
Hadn't the Russians decided that Siberia-the old barless prison state of the czars and early Communists-was a more practical frontier than the moon? If the Stars are Gods
Over this long weekend in Melbourne I've been researching Indian mid-tier (50-1000 employees skewed towards 5yrs+ comp sci education/experience), good at open source, B2C, web2: Not the big BPO/B2B focused Satyams, Wipros and Tatas, or the elance $1000 dodgey script dudes. How Will the Indians Fare at The Web 2.0 World Cup Cricket ?
Permet de mettre la quantit exacte de mortier sur la table vibrante selon l'paisseur de la tuile fabriquer. Chapter 4
Curtis earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in 1958's "The Defiant Ones, " playing an escaped racist convict chained to a black prisoner, portrayed by Sidney Poitier.
Areas that do not take the unitary path will be expected to find new ways of working within the two-tier system. Times, Sunday Times
Phillips likes to write allusive portraits peppered with images he can wrap his warm, grainy voice around, like the slowly-rolling Far End of the Night or the feistier Calamity Jane.
Moreover the chancellor of the exchequer saw before him an inevitable addition of ten millions of pounds sterling to his budget, the only avowable reason for which was the rectification of the Canadian frontier. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII
Initially, they will all choose different efficient portfolios on the frontier according to their risk return preferences.
He used the corset look to great effect, particularly when he paired a white crocodile bustier with a black silk chiffon petal skirt and a rose silk faille bustier with a black silk chiffon lace inset skirt.
I feel that the design is a bit 'weightier' than I might have hoped for, but it is still an attractive car. Wheels
The dangerous frontier counties, or marches, had special governors- graf, margrave, or markherzog; Roland of Roncesvalles, for example, was governor of the Breton march. Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814
The bride wore a duchess satin gown - by Christiana Cature - with a detached train and bow detail, and a two-tier veil.
We need to see films about women at the top tier. Times, Sunday Times
May 12, 2008, a magnitude about 8.0 large earthquake has taken place in Wenchuan County at Sichuan Province,China. In spite of the big earthquake, we will not shake the resolve and even bigger rain, we poured immortal love. Without frontiers, Chinese people's love spread in the disaster.
-- But she has head that the devil is black; and having a mind to make one of me, brays together, in the mortar of her wild fancy, twenty chimney-sweepers, in order to make one sootier than ordinary rise out of the dirty mass. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
Frontiers which have held for over forty years are no longer sacred.
We have some incredible French Canadian tourtière to serve tonight as well.
He has replaced the entire top management tier, although some of the appointments have come from within. Times, Sunday Times
You know when your waiter at a restaurant tells you that you look like somebody really famous, and you're always secretly terrified they're going to say it's Gary Busey or a "heftier" version of Macauley Culkin? Archive 2009-09-01
Although players such as Brooking will not likely be moving anywhere, the second tier of available backers is no group of slouches.
The green on the twelfth has two very definite tiers and the pin was on the upper one.
My Silesian cousin, who now lives in Germany, told me to use stock instead of boiling water – well, yes, this is tastier, but I consider it western decadence. Family life
On the lower tier to the left of the tach is a needle that swings up and down between blue at the top and green at the bottom to let the driver know when the battery is expending power or getting a regenerative charge. Mississauga News
They lived in a town close to the frontier.
His conception of a restrained aristocratic manliness is as applicable to the potentially hubristic - or tyrannical - prince as it is to the courtier.
Angus beef is claimed to be more reliably marbled, fattier and juicier than that of competing breeds.
But Bird's acting being an old-fashioned actor--manager which is a much meatier role. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton
This is sometimes known as a classical or two-tier tax system. Principles of Corporate Finance
Wall is a tremendously challenging artist, as his stuff essentially mocks both the Cartier-Bresson 'Decisive Moment' as self-glorifying bushwa, and the Modernist painters' photography-induced flight from Realism as cowardice. Kenneth Hite's Journal
But the Turkish border with Greece introspection Frontier Province Edirne is that this wall may be no effect.
It is also true that several novelists, such as Carpentier and Fuentes, delight in weaving elaborate, formal patterns.
If the curtain is dirtier , usable dishcloth dips in the scour that leave cleans some of Wen Shuirong, hartshorn of usable also a few is brushed.
He once famously warned the Government that British television was being turned into a two-tier system: ‘Telly for the nobs and telly for the slobs’.
You can even make your own treats with a two-hour chocolatier experience. The Sun
he worked at the frontier of brain science
The pursuit of eating raw food has become a religion of the nuttier kind.
This month and next, we will look at a simple web-based address book and appointment calendar that demonstrate this three-tier approach.
We thank B. Pelletier for fruitful discussions on the origin of the shallow submarine shelf, and G. Wadge and S. J. Day for their careful reviews.
In the following chapters I survey this unified bionic frontier.
There is also a feed method is relatively high - end system on the frontier.
In chantries unrehearsed we'd wow the votarists and serenade the friary to panting ecstasies while summoned to kingly chambers we branked the troubadours, turning the sovereign mind to heaven, the courtiers left speechless with neglect... Strange Bedfellows
If, improbably, he had thought that private affairs could have first attention and public business be left to aestivate the summer through, developments on the frontier soon would have aroused him. Washington
Vast estates that had been managed by monasteries as endowments for religion and charity were impropriated to swell the wealth of courtiers and favorites; and the commons, where the poor man once had his right of pasture, were taken away, and, under forms of law, enclosed distributively within the domains of the adjacent landholders. Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings
In the frontier-land, fences and stockades announce intentions rather than mark realities.
I've noticed a few women friends starting to dress very prettily and femininely, wearing more skirts and makeup in prettier (less drab) colors. 18th and 19th Century Country Women
I also seem to have a perpetual mild toothache, ever since my new dentist, a Romanian who obviously learned her métier under the Ceausescu regime, attempted to fill a molar as if she were loading a mortar.
Two decades later, a particularly interesting group of compounds made from carbon monoxide - the carbonyls - were discovered by the French chemist Paul Sabatier.
When you mix Asia's rapidly spreading affluence with the region's cultural affinity for brand-name luxury goods, you have a mouthwatering recipe for Richemont, owner of such well-known lines as Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry, Piaget watches, Montblanc pens and Alfred Dunhill leather goods. To make good stock decisions, consider a global perspective
Once sensors detect a target, preferably a tank or armored personnel cartier, the submunition fires an explosive projectile into the top of the target.
He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel, more ferocious, and more intelligent. The Outcast
The pretext to begin circulating Perry's name for a presidential run will be easily established, and the Tea Partiers that he energized with his irresponsible talk of secession will slowly turn pragmatic and confront the question of who can win in 2012. James Moore: Yo, America. It's Texas. We Got Another One for Ya!
I anticipate the burning of our sea ports, havoc of our frontiers, household insurgency, with a long train of et ceteras, which is enough for a man to have met once in his life. Letters
There is also a third tier of parish councils, with minimal powers.
Except for the fiddle at a dance or a melodeon at home, frontier music, in its cultural aspects, was largely confined to amateur bands with plenty of oompah. THE AMERICAN WEST
THELMA GUTIERREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Armed with listing sheets and info on comparable properties, these buyers filled two boldly titled buss eager to find a deal among the hundreds of foreclosed properties in Stockton, California. CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2008
I prepared the tofu by slicing it and browning it in the toaster oven first - the texture is much "meatier" and less watery that way. Undefined
Their preference for negotiations was the result of a keen appreciation that American citizens had caused much of the trouble on the frontiers and that the rest of the country was reluctant to raise and support the forces needed to restrain frontiersmen or fight Native peoples. Between War and Peace
For a condottiere in particular, the delicate balance of war and peace was essential for the prosperity of the lands and people under his protection, as well as the artists and scholars supported at his court. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
Several days might be profitably spent by the antiquarian in investigating the contents of the different tiers of galleries; while the geologist would find matter for interesting speculation in the partial intrusion of the older lithoid tufa here and there into the softer and more recent volcanic deposits in which the passages are excavated, and in which numerous decomposing crystals of leucite may be observed. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
He represents the Fiend passing up through the market, and chuckling as he listens to the strange oaths of cobbler, maltman, tailor, courtier, and minstrel. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
Alaskans see themselves as rugged individualists living in the last frontier.
The false cenotaph in the public upper chamber was in white marble, the color of freshly drawn milk, inlaid profusely with stylized flowers in tiers—a lapis lazuli blue, a jasper red, a bloodstone black, an agate and sard brown, a carnelian orange, a chlorite and jade green, and a yellow limestone. Shadow Princess
The French adventurers, however, seem always to have restricted the word "boucanier" to its proper signification, that of a hunter and curer of meat; and when they developed into corsairs, by a curious contrast they adopted an English name and called themselves "filibustiers," which is merely the French sailor's way of pronouncing the English word "freebooter." [ The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
I have ordered them not of chintz, but moreen, which is against your taste, and hardly according to my own; but the latter article proved on enquiry to be far the thriftier as well as the most comfortable; and therefore the best adapted for our purpose. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Another table design consisted of two-tiered crystal candelabras overflowing with white trumpet calla lilies and crystal embellishments. My Fair Wedding
the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania
The Pan con Tomate was your standard bread appetizer, but made a delicious accompaniment to the cheese and olives, which are a bit too intense without meatier companion.
The courtiers, having entered brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts.
Jemanden mit einem Schuh zu schlagen oder ihm die Schuhsohle zu zeigen und ihn einen Hund zu nennen - ein Tier, das im Nahen Osten als unrein gilt - das sind in der arabischen Welt die vielleicht schlimmsten Arten, einen Menschen zu beleidigen." thanks Karim Wednesday, December 31, 2008
The ministrations of Dr. Stickney had not been available, and the two mothers had survived because they had the constitutions of frontierswomen rather than because they had the benefit of the nursing of the termagant who was Jerry Tompkins's wife. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
I can understand sowing confusion in Ancelstierre to facilitate an attack across the Wall. ABHORSEN
In some of his paintings it is as if he has been to hell and back, a reporter from the frontier of purgatory.
Our road was along the line of the Kuban, the river separating Russia from Circassia; for though the Emperor includes the latter country among "all the Russias," the frontier is as distinctly traced as that of Persia or China. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
All of the Royal Dancers and some of the courtiers would be participating, the courtiers as a kind of untrained, minimally-moving background to the Dancers, all two hundred of them, who were schooled from the time they were five and performed until they were deemed too old to be decorative. The White Gryphon
What does he see as the next frontier for technological moonshots?
I could scent familiar, ancient perfumes, traces of mustier smells. The Dreamthief's Daughter
Remember the jauntier days when that angel of death, Jessica Fletcher, traveled the land and thwarted homicidal maniacs on Murder, She Wrote? TV needs more sleuths of a certain age | EW.com
And, so saying, I merely went from carte to tierce, and as he recovered wildly and parried widely I returned to carte, took the opening, and drove home heart-high and through and through. Chapter 11
Because such a four-tiered system is still in the future, I can only prophesy its appearance.
Several vendors have released products introducing the concept of a mid-tier application server to the screen-scraping market.
Can't we just all agree that women are far more cattier than men....and leave it at that ? "Women don't decide elections because they're not rational political actors... [T]hey vote on impulse, and on elusive factors such as personality."
Their mickle honors lay there low in death; the courtiers all had grief and drearihead. The Nibelungenlied
Murals of the durbars and processions depict courtiers in their buttoned up coats and white trousers standing in neat rows like stick figures.
They were young men with horn-rimmed glasses and bow ties and even younger women with long braids, some serious and others smiling, but all appearing woefully unprepared for life on China's harsh northwestern frontier.
They are spottier birds than their elegant parents. Times, Sunday Times
101.6 The term "subcontract" means any agreement of any kind (whether in the form of a letter of intent, purchase order, or otherwise) pursuant to which work, supplies, or services required for the performance of a prime contractor were furnished by a subcontractor (including a materialman) to a prime contractor of higher tier subcontractor of any agency at any time during the statutory period. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9786
The anecdotic history of John Gabriel Borkman is even scantier than that of Little Eyolf. John Gabriel Borkman
But behind the pearls and pillbox hats was a different Jackie - cattier, cruder, no less admiring of her husband but much more realistic and blunt about the political world they inhabited. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
An influential minority report by Derek Senior advocated a map involving solely two-tier regional authorities, 35 in number.
One user took full advantage of this deal while adding an extra tier to the stack. Times, Sunday Times
The opposite of victims, second wave feminists audaciously did something and, in the frontier spirit of American self-reliance, claimed responsibility for their own lives and happiness. Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: Remember When Liberals Were Feminists?
It was possible to feel the antagonism and hatred of the two sets of guards facing each other across the frontier.
They lose their yellow beak and are slightly spottier birds in winter. Times, Sunday Times
And it lives in the designs of Issey Miyake, the playful visionary whose métier is making clothes.
It had now assimilated a very large number of patterns, sipping at - the assorted radiances that surrounded it, and in the process discovering that some were far" "tastier"? Starchild Omnibus
Wrangham -- a college acquaintance of mine, -- an admirer of me, and a pitier of my principles; -- one to George Augustus Pollen, Esq.; one to Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
This tradition persisted even after the dissolution of the military frontier in 1881.
The cake was the real showstopper: two-tiered and dense with chocolate mousse and ganache.
Mike Luckovich showed east and west arguing, "sword mightier" -- "pen is. CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2006
The word impertinent has appeared in 12 New York Times articles in the past year, including on May 4 in "Hermès Is Selling Its Stake in Gaultier's Fashion House," by Suzy Menkes and David Jolly: NYT > Home Page
It is variously a fabulous technical challenge, an extension of the American frontier and the locus for sundry Utopias.
Consider the ceremony of the weighing of the emperor, with all those flamboyantly robed courtiers arranged in strictly hierarchical order around the man-sized scales.
They were also outsiders in royal courts where courtiers did everything possible to sideline and ostracise them.
Insofar as the two halves are extricable, Tiersen's contribution is more compelling.
Such in all times has been the rise and decline of fashion; and the absurd mimicry of the _citizens_, even of the lowest classes, to their very ruin, in straining to rival the _newest fashion_, has mortified and galled the courtier. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
Ltd is a professional foreign trade company holding the rights of general trade and frontier trade authorized by the National Department of Commercial Affairs.
The meals were tastier than I'd anticipated: fresh fruit, vegetables, bagels and sandwiches for breakfast and lunch; burritos, stews, stir-fries and spaghetti for dinner.
On the front line of the expanding frontier is an elite of extremely powerful families, closely allied with local politicians.
Well, anecdotal experiences from my own life have shown me that some people are in fact "tastier" to mosquitos than others. How the mosquitos of Smyrna were fond of tender dilettante skin back in 1764
Their reward was a seat in the top tier of this towering stadium, so high up that they needed binoculars, but what the hell. Times, Sunday Times
Regenerative medicine is one of the frontiers in biomedical and clinical research.
It is still my home… It is true that it is still a difficult area, what is called in French a quartier difficile.
Next, a layer of claylike substance that Alejos refers to as tierra blanca (white earth) or pasta blanca (white paste) is applied. A Family Tradition: The Pineapple Pottery Of Hilario Alejos Madrigal
The gossip is usually more salacious, the stories downright dirtier and they tend to spend more money on wine.
The courtiers joke and idle and cross their legs in the lacquered wood waiting rooms. Times, Sunday Times

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