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  • Where are your colleagues?†   (source)
  • I could be his colleague.†   (source)
  • He was even generous enough to give each colleague one of his cigarettes back and light it for him.†   (source)
  • "No," replied the clerk, "he is a colleague."†   (source)
  • Your spleen had ruptured, probably—and fortunately for you—a delayed rupture, because you had signs of early hemorrhage into your abdominal cavity My colleagues from the general surgery unit had to perform an emergency splenectomy.†   (source)
  • None of his colleagues listened.†   (source)
  • I'm sure my colleagues will want to enter into the spirit of the occasion!†   (source)
  • Two years after he sweated over the grill in Bullhead, his colleagues at the golden arches don't recall much about Chris McCandless.†   (source)
  • Although I am on your side in this matter, my colleagues are unconvinced.†   (source)
  • A few months later, six of his colleagues received news that they had been awarded Fulbrights.†   (source)
  • First, she was afraid to be discovered by her colleagues.†   (source)
  • Just the day before I'd been having a conversation with a colleague in the security field about this topic.†   (source)
  • Andrey and Emile both looked to their colleague in surprise.†   (source)
  • It is also, or perhaps primarily, a measure of how much we learn through our friends, colleagues, and mentors.†   (source)
  • These are two of my colleagues.†   (source)
  • Their colleague had been killed just lays earlier.†   (source)
  • Clearly, he and his colleague were still available.†   (source)
  • This morning I spoke with a colleague who was called to the Shewall home.†   (source)
  • When your colleague falls ill and you do not.†   (source)
  • Although his female colleagues insisted the gray only accentuated his bookish appeal, Langdon knew better.†   (source)
  • We didn't have much to compare our fellow citizens with, only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people.†   (source)
  • Or pole-danced for their business colleagues, I thought, remembering my interviews at the Job Center.†   (source)
  • While he wrestled with the moral pros and cons of doing just that, one of his colleagues beat him to it.†   (source)
  • Thirty years later, nearly all of Watson and Crick's scientific colleagues were engaged in another sort of enterprise entirely.†   (source)
  • I was thrilled when Fritz and his colleague, Kimber Liponi, won a local Emmy for their work.†   (source)
  • The soldiers never brought back their dead colleagues.†   (source)
  • And my new colleague—Ms.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she looks at the eyes of her older colleagues and wonders what they did when the electricity was out, when there were no candles, when the rain came through the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Sometimes on Saturday evenings some of Dad's colleagues would visit.†   (source)
  • On his own, his colleague was having difficulty restraining her.†   (source)
  • Your colleagues.†   (source)
  • He heard voices downstairs—the loud sounds of his father and his colleagues speaking six different languages and laughing delightedly over the oh-so-American holiday to come.†   (source)
  • Neither she nor her colleague treated me like I was special or damaged in some way.†   (source)
  • " 'Colleagues,' I'll say, 'I would like to introduce to you a new species, the Incredibly Deadly Viper, which I found in the southwest forest of—my God!†   (source)
  • It is not for me to tell again all the graphic details my colleagues and I witnessed and reported to the authorities so many years ago.†   (source)
  • Kashmiri pencil cups are bought for Ashoke to give to his colleagues at the university.†   (source)
  • This is my colleague, Q. Q, this is Gus.†   (source)
  • ," Janson whispered, his eyes wide with horror as he stared at his colleague.†   (source)
  • He enlisted the support of some of his students and colleagues from Oklahoma.†   (source)
  • The point is that I am now a perfectly safe penguin, and my colleague here is rapidly running out of limbs!†   (source)
  • Probably not —no more than he would be likely to call his old office to see what was happening, though certainly he would be thinking of his ex-colleagues in midtown and wondering how all the bean counters and pencil-pushers (as he referred to his co-workers) were faring at 101 Park.†   (source)
  • Dawson and his colleague Stefania Mambelli prepared a graph that showed roughly how much of the carbon in the various McDonald's menu items came from corn.†   (source)
  • Since my colleagues and I can come to no consensus, it has been agreed that we will let the victors decide.†   (source)
  • One of your colleagues gave us this information just before he died.†   (source)
  • A newspaper colleague plugged into the Mexican government helped me get a letter from the personal assistant to Mexico's president.†   (source)
  • I had my colleagues check to be absolutely certain.†   (source)
  • Cautious looks from his colleagues at any party where alcohol was served, even wine.†   (source)
  • Of course, she and her colleagues had also claimed that the Iraqis didn't have anti-aircraft weapons.†   (source)
  • Sitting in his office, Aubrey Rubenstein talked easily, as a black colleague sat nearby eavesdropping with awe at the macabre conversation that unfolded between this elderly white man and myself.†   (source)
  • My colleagues in medical school accused me of cynicism but they had no idea.†   (source)
  • Yet Kai Jing and his colleagues still went to the quarry, and this made me crazy with anxiety.†   (source)
  • 's colleagues helped her catalogue every aspect of the Tombs.†   (source)
  • She and her colleague, Julia Huckabee, also white, had no interest in God, or in football, or in the vast majority of East Memphis defined by both.†   (source)
  • The rest of us, somehow, had managed to show Instructor Reno and his colleagues we were indeed fit and qualified enough to attempt BUD/S training.†   (source)
  • Only after the exposition had Burnham and his colleagues learned of the anguished letters describing daughters who had come to the city and then fallen silent.†   (source)
  • Some of my more political colleagues may tell you yes, that every work is either part of the socialproblem or part of the solution (they'll give it to you with rather more subtlety than that, but that's the gist).†   (source)
  • If I found myself alone in a room with a woman colleague, I would wonder, What would Karen think of this i f she were watching from a closed-circuit camera?†   (source)
  • Colleagues!†   (source)
  • Over the years that followed, many of the men and women on his team became my colleagues and friends.†   (source)
  • My colleagues stand ready.†   (source)
  • Going out with a colleague.†   (source)
  • Her voice sounds irritated and impatient, like some of Dad's tenured colleagues at school who Dad says are just counting the days till retirement.†   (source)
  • He was a visiting lecturer on living icons and seemed embarrassed by what he'd gleaned so far from his colleagues in popular culture.†   (source)
  • His colleague smiled, but then rose with a sigh, laboriously put on his jacket, and signed to Elinor to follow him.†   (source)
  • Take everything, her colleagues had advised Margaret Kochamma in concerned voices, you never know, which was their way of saying to a colleague traveling to the Heart of Darkness that: (a) Anything Can Happen To Anyone.†   (source)
  • And of course, in Lord Darlington's days, when ladies and gentlemen would often visit for many days on end, it was possible to develop a good understanding with visiting colleagues.†   (source)
  • Another former student who became a colleague is Caitlin Kelleher.†   (source)
  • One of the broadcasters who had been called up came in to say goodbye to his colleagues and show off his uniform.†   (source)
  • My mother, our friends, colleagues at work.†   (source)
  • More of a colleague, really.†   (source)
  • Dear Colleagues: As I am sure you are well aware, the April 5 municipal elections will have voters—for the second time—casting ballots on the school budget.†   (source)
  • I mention my predicament to a colleague named Tom Cur-wen, who has been the Times' assistant book editor and later became editor of the Outdoors section.†   (source)
  • Yet I have seen them do such dreadful things that their more bestial colleagues seem gentle in comparison.†   (source)
  • He was in conflict with everything: his renovating spirit, his maniacal sense of civic duty, his slow humor in a land of immortal pranksters--everything, in fact, that constituted his most estimable virtues provoked the resentment of his older colleagues and the sly jokes of the younger ones.†   (source)
  • In answer to his colleagues at school he wrote: "Any philosophic explanation of Quality is going to be both false and true precisely because it is a philosophic explanation.†   (source)
  • I was still moping about my solitary birthday a few days later when Jim To1pin, my old colleague who had broken Marley of his jumping habit, called unexpectedly and asked if I wanted to grab a beer the next night, a Saturday.†   (source)
  • Mr. Gudmundsson here, my esteemed colleague for the defense, asked you earlier to imagine a scenario at sea in which one man seeks to kill another in a premeditated fashion.†   (source)
  • A mere bagatelle, dear colleague.†   (source)
  • Neither did they have respect for women, who, although not their colleagues, so to speak, nevertheless deceived their husbands—regularly or irregularly, it made no difference.†   (source)
  • Nadia hefted two laptop computers in their carrying cases and her floor's flat-screen TV, but in the end she did not take the TV because it would have been difficult to load onto her motorcycle, and passed it instead to a somber-faced colleague who thanked her politely.†   (source)
  • My colleagues will no doubt hang me metaphorically, but I say let them hang.†   (source)
  • Haitian colleagues of Farmer's had insisted on this.†   (source)
  • It began by chance, all because a former journalist colleague, now a PR flunky at the county council, wanted to impress his new girlfriend.†   (source)
  • Dewey and his colleague K.B.I. Agent Clarence Duntz stood waiting for a free table in the Trail Room.†   (source)
  • Lewis's colleagues at Sterling College had presented papers on the relative push an education could provide, or universal health care, or job satisfaction.†   (source)
  • But Moody treated him with all the respect due to a colleague, and they worked together happily with the Iranian students.†   (source)
  • These men were not only uncomfortable because I was a colleague brought low, but because I was an ordinary man being punished for his beliefs.†   (source)
  • "A little while longer," she chirped, and resumed her conversation with her colleague, gesturing with her hands.†   (source)
  • His colleague agreed, of course.†   (source)
  • When Monet failed to show up for work, his colleagues began to wonder about him, and eventually they went to his bungalow to see if he was all right.†   (source)
  • Concerned that her foreign-sounding name might draw unwelcome attention from locals, Luma's colleagues at the Mountaineer gave her an innocuous nickname: Liz.†   (source)
  • "I called Bentley before we left," he said, naming his colleague, an obstetrician.†   (source)
  • Otto's unmarried colleagues looked around the room, trying to single out the recently divorced sister they'd heard so much about.†   (source)
  • At the office Christmas party, colleagues would introduce him to their wives not as "the head of the public research group" (which he was) but as "the guy who brings in the bagels."†   (source)
  • I needed money to pay my huge ongoing legal fees, so I worked with the clients my hipster colleagues found unsexy and unpalatable—big telecom, big petrochemicals, and big shadowy holding companies.†   (source)
  • It was still early in his stewardship of the Party, and he depended on a loose coalition of colleagues—not friends, these men did not make friends.†   (source)
  • What had made battle interesting over the years was not his opponents but his colleagues.†   (source)
  • He developed a global network of allies in the field, and in 1985 published a landmark article along with Deborah Maine, a colleague, in The Lancet, the British journal that has been at the forefront of global health issues.†   (source)
  • Cole looked down at her colleague.†   (source)
  • Heath Vance leans heavily on the story of a German colleague whose father's family had lost almost everything toward the end of World War II.†   (source)
  • I swear to love ChairmanMao, love the Communist Party, love my country, love my people and love my fellow colleagues.†   (source)
  • Passing over the Dasu bridge, in a long, dusty line of crawling vehicles, Mortenson saw the Kohistani who had offered him a cigarette and his colleagues pumping their fists in the air and firing their automatic weapons wildly.†   (source)
  • "This is Oscar Vazquez," Durbin told his colleagues.†   (source)
  • Smith and his colleagues foresaw that the islands would be in the Pacific; the enemy, Japan.†   (source)
  • When your colleague-in-blood arises" — he meant Mr. Crepsley — "you're free to spend the night with him if he so desires.†   (source)
  • This brings me headlines, and is a source of great embarrassment to my French colleagues, who can now be sent into a coughing fit by the mere mention of Chinese food.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Scheisskopf responded with a knowing smile to the queries of his colleagues.†   (source)
  • Gibson before she turns to chat with a colleague who's just wandered in from a neighboring classroom.†   (source)
  • I suppose she has to look good in front of her colleagues.†   (source)
  • Ghosh was silent for a long time, then he said, "We imagine we know everything there is to know about our colleagues, but really how little we know."†   (source)
  • "It's time," she said, glancing at a colleague offscreen.†   (source)
  • When you are a professor in a university, you must persuade your colleagues not to have long faculty meetings.†   (source)
  • He did not want to be around his colleagues at that moment.†   (source)
  • I ve called a dozen colleagues— not idiots, mind you-and not one of them has heard of a silent sleep brain.†   (source)
  • They stopped socializing with non-Arab/Muslim colleagues and neighbors.†   (source)
  • …blocking of his entire thalamic rine, frosting it over like the freezing unit of a refrigerator, thus shattering his autonomous nervous system and rocking the big brick-laying creampuff with extreme hyperspasmic muscular tremors which dropped him dead on the extreme tip of his coccyx, which, in turn, produced a sharp traumatic reaction in his sphincter nerve and muscle, and then, my dear colleague, they swept him up, sprinkled him with quicklime and rolled him away in a barrow.†   (source)
  • As he spoke, two of his colleagues began to take apart, with great care, the small crate they had brought ashore with them.†   (source)
  • En route to Cambridge from Philadelphia, he had been quite specific in assuring the New York Provincial Congress that "every exertion of my worthy colleagues and myself will be equally extended to the reestablishment of peace and harmony between the mother country and the colonies."†   (source)
  • Most of my colleagues came from the journalism schools of Alabama and Auburn, not Harvard and Yale.†   (source)
  • But in light of our former colleague's somewhat gross remarks, I'd like to study him.†   (source)
  • "And I can tell you that by then I felt myself lucky to be paid at all," he added, for he had had colleagues driven destitute by lordly defaulters.†   (source)
  • Being on your own for a few weeks didn't justify this level of sympathy and so he suspected his colleagues sensed in him some deeper loss.†   (source)
  • A former colleague.†   (source)
  • I would only have to tell them a lie–pretend to be a Seeker, tell them my colleagues were tracking me right now, bluster and threaten.†   (source)
  • The Taoiseach and I will meet again next spring in London, with key ministerial colleagues, to give this the necessary impetus and agenda, and will thereafter meet at least once a year to review progress.†   (source)
  • This is no small matter, and I have already informed my colleagues.†   (source)
  • I'd always had to work so hard to keep my mother's interest, wresting it away from her work, her colleagues, her students, my brother.†   (source)
  • Whenever a madman's been elected, his colleagues restrain him until his year has run its course.†   (source)
  • Khrushchev personally ordered thousands of murders and authorized the killing of some of his own friends and colleagues.†   (source)
  • He was young; his movements and voice had that swift, sharp clarity which belongs to competence; among his aged, corrupt, favor-ridden and pull-created colleagues, he had managed to achieve the rank of elite of the political press, by means and in the role of a last, irresistible spark of ability.†   (source)
  • Sheidlower and his colleagues force themselves to read magazines whose interest is, to put it mildly, highly specialized, because this is where new words will initially appear.†   (source)
  • His colleagues on the faculty were mostly conservative but their conservatism possessed no fervor.†   (source)
  • "As a friend and a colleague," Mrs. Nightwing replies.†   (source)
  • I and my colleagues are trying to communicate with them.†   (source)
  • But wanted to let you know I'm going out to dinner with a colleague.†   (source)
  • I let her think that I and my colleagues went to a company and covertly observed a warehouse or laboratory or retail floor, then exposed all the cheats and criminals.†   (source)
  • My colleagues would probably be greatly offended that a humanist crossed the windbreak into their field, and would bark like dogs until I crossed back.†   (source)
  • "My colleagues ask, 'How are you, Atta?'†   (source)
  • Hisham knew that they were lying and started asking his colleagues in the other departments.†   (source)
  • I am not complaining that it forced on my colleague and myself—Prof stopped to smile—a most informal method of travel.†   (source)
  • If she were delayed, her colleagues and family would assume the worst.†   (source)
  • So he'd called three colleagues he knew personally.†   (source)
  • Can you imagine him a colleague of yours?†   (source)
  • He sent me to a colleague who examined me.†   (source)
  • After taking my case history, he asked me to wait while he consulted with some of his colleagues by phone as to the best method of darkening my skin.†   (source)
  • "As our distinguished colleague will have told you," said Professor Chance, Dean of the University of New Athens, "our main purpose is to keep the minds of our people alert, and to enable them to realize all their potentialities.†   (source)
  • Presently the bodies sank; and stayed where they were till the early '50's, when Tony Jaguar, who'd been a corporal in an Italian outfit attached to the German force at Lago di Pieta and knew7 about what was at the bottom, decided along with some colleagues to see what he could salvage.†   (source)
  • Among his colleagues he was considered something of a dandy, though not absurdly so; his considerable academic reputation was a safeguard against ridicule.†   (source)
  • How well we succeeded, and whether possession of the world's likeness does indeed provide its custodians with a greater measure of control over its functions, are questions my former colleagues still debate as the music grows more shrill and you can't see the maps for the pins.†   (source)
  • The prosecutor looked at his colleagues and committed a little shrug, as though to say, "Need we waste more time on this clod?"†   (source)
  • It wasn't long before they were ahead of our rabbi; he brought a colleague in.†   (source)
  • With the wife of a colleague, a fellow Senator unfortunately--concerning whom I prefer to say no more.†   (source)
  • In the full view of his colleagues he was transformed from a man honorably put aside to a resentful, drunken wreck—and all within a few months.†   (source)
  • The only people to whom Yurii Andreievich now felt close were his wife, her father, and two or three of his colleagues, modest rank-and-file workers, who did not indulge in grandiloquent phrases.†   (source)
  • An office colleague, qualified in law, with a big future in the firm—and in Daisy's affections.†   (source)
  • I am grateful for this opportunity to come here tonight at the invitation of the leadership to reason with my friends, to give them my views and to visit with my former colleagues.†   (source)
  • We enjoy the comradeship and approval of our friends and colleagues.†   (source)
  • He sat down at the table with his colleague again.   (source)
    colleague = fellow worker
  • "He'll stay all night," he said to his colleague.   (source)
  • Langdon's colleagues often joked that his place looked more like an anthropology museum than a home.†   (source)
  • If it were not for the fact that I never speak ill of my colleagues —†   (source)
  • One of your colleagues thinks I have an authority problem.†   (source)
  • "The Dark Mark!" he panted, almost trampling Winky as he turned inquiringly to his colleagues.†   (source)
  • You said you and your colleagues needed a residence, a guesthouse, as it is called these days.†   (source)
  • The Council guy, Silenus, turned to his colleagues and muttered something.†   (source)
  • None of your colleagues has been able to give me any information as to your whereabouts.†   (source)
  • Not like our colleagues at the Saunders Trust.†   (source)
  • A literal tourist trap, one of Langdon's befuddled colleagues had called it.†   (source)
  • When some of his close colleagues would visit, he would say to them, "Listen, I have to pee.†   (source)
  • We just saw him Friday," one of his father's colleagues says.†   (source)
  • In fact, one of my colleagues would tell people: "Go to Randy if you want black-and-white advice.†   (source)
  • Emile ladled the soup into two of the cups and waited for his colleagues to sample it.†   (source)
  • "With our Christian colleagues going off to war, it's up to us to keep the businesses going.†   (source)
  • Like many of his colleagues who had given their lives in earnest to God, Galloway was weary.†   (source)
  • They lowered him by rope to colleagues waiting below.†   (source)
  • The guy laughs, shakes his head, hollers back to his colleagues inside the warehouse.†   (source)
  • However, he had the sense never to try and charm me as he charmed so many of my colleagues.†   (source)
  • He answers the same questions from his colleagues.†   (source)
  • In letters, Gey and some of his colleagues began referring to the cells as his "precious babies."†   (source)
  • We are colleagues, so naturally we will use first names.†   (source)
  • He's been in cop mode since his colleagues arrived.†   (source)
  • Lockhart stared around at his stony-faced colleagues.†   (source)
  • Colleagues who tried to talk to her seldom got a response and soon gave up.†   (source)
  • My colleagues accuse me of cynicism, but I am simply a victim of poetry.†   (source)
  • Farmer's Haitian friends and colleagues scolded him.†   (source)
  • Ericsson and his colleagues then compared amateur pianists with professional pianists.†   (source)
  • Two of my sister Regina's colleagues had died when a building collapsed in Koszykova Street.†   (source)
  • Fires are an old-fashioned rarity for Chavez and his colleagues.†   (source)
  • He had first heard it over dinner with some colleagues at Dunster House in Cambridge.†   (source)
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