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  • With her encouragement, I began to speak at Chapman and other venues.†   (source)
  • She longed to have someone else's past, to be someone else, like hearty Fiona with her unstained life stretching ahead, and her affectionate, sprawling family, whose dogs and cats had Latin names, whose home was a famous venue for artistic Chelsea people.†   (source)
  • They'd been made to perform obscene contortions in unlikely venues, such as pet shops.†   (source)
  • This might not be the best venue for it.†   (source)
  • They would have preferred the sorts of venues their American friends choose, the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens or the Metropolitan Club or the Boat House in Central Park.†   (source)
  • They milled about in a circular area several hundred feet across that was bordered by what had apparently once been shops and restaurants and entertainment venues.†   (source)
  • The venue was an old theater that used to show movies.†   (source)
  • Doleman has moved to the other side of the field, in search of a better venue to practice his black art.†   (source)
  • The Great Hall was in the Enlightenment, and when they entered the venue, a 3,500-seat cavern appointed in warm woods and brushed steel, it was loud with anticipation.†   (source)
  • Being stranded on a life raft in the Pacific is a perfect venue for a hacker.†   (source)
  • He said your talk involved symbolism in the architecture of our nation's capital—it sounds absolutely perfect for the venue."†   (source)
  • The conference began on a rainy morning during the last week of March 1923 in the somewhat unlikely setting of the drawing room - a venue chosen to accommodate the 'off the record' nature of many of the attendances.†   (source)
  • The Germans filmed performances of operetta at the Femina cinema in Leszno Street, and the symphony concerts conducted by Marian Neuteich given at the same venue once a week.†   (source)
  • We cross San Pedro and turn left on Crocker, with Mr. Ayers emptying his registry of every musician, athlete and music venue he can think of.†   (source)
  • Change of venue doesn't mean anything anymore—twenty-four-hour cable, Internet, the whole world is your venue.†   (source)
  • He was not intimidated by his change of venue.†   (source)
  • But Berger happens to be married to the artist Greger Beckman, a minor celebrity who has done a lot of terrible things in public venues.†   (source)
  • As you know, it's unusual for our firm to host such an event in venues other than our own, but in this case, Mr. Levinson didn't leave us much choice.†   (source)
  • "You mean," Shultz slyly said, "you saw no reason for the court on its own motion to grant a change of venue?"†   (source)
  • Why did kids always fall apart in venues where you would be duly measured for your actions?†   (source)
  • But Tito's shooting, the cancellation of practices that followed, and the change of practice venues had prevented the new version of Kanue and Mandela's team from getting into anything like a groove.†   (source)
  • Lately, since his father died, he had been playing more at informal venues as well as concert halls: he'd pick up a guitar and play in bars or restaurants, classical pieces but also more popular works that he had always, in the past, disdained.†   (source)
  • At least then, we had some say in the dates, and the venues.†   (source)
  • He would rather be at the racetrack but is cheerful enough in this kind of company whatever the venue.†   (source)
  • This resulted in The Adam Brown Story (vvww. nralifeofduty. tv/patriot —profiles/video/a-tribute-to-adam-brown, www.fearlessnavyseal.com), a documentary that was set to debut in April 2011 at the NRA Convention and annual meeting in Pittsburgh, the same venue where I was going to speak about ODA 574.†   (source)
  • That winter, when Mortenson gave his slide show in Portland and San Francisco, event organizers had to turn hundreds of people away from packed venues.†   (source)
  • "Spinning a decent slant on the fact that you're here instead of on the East Coast preparing for Harvard was difficult enough, but we consoled ourselves with the fact that vampyres can attain money and power and success, and we expected you to excel in this"—she paused and grimaced distastefully—"rather unusual venue.†   (source)
  • We grilled McBride about the venue — how the victims might have ended up in the men's room and what security was like at the Hall of Fame.†   (source)
  • And he rings off, without mentioning a venue.†   (source)
  • All I get to see is the hotel and the venue and the blur of the countryside from the window of a tour bus.†   (source)
  • But he has requested a change of venue.†   (source)
  • He grew up looking for a fight and usually finding one, but he chose the moment and the venue to ensure that his dad was unlikely to learn of it.†   (source)
  • Old men with ringworm in their beards limp dusty lanes to gather like bony dogs at the god-lined square where the king's justice is dispensed; to nod like crows at slips of the tongue by which a horse is lost, or delicate mistakes of venue through which murderers run free.†   (source)
  • "Shall we take this conversation to a more appropriate venue?" a smooth voice whispered menacingly.†   (source)
  • Last night, the right-wing zealot General Ted Walker spoke at the same venue, delivering a rousing anti-UN speech that was attended by the man who once tried to kill him: Lee Harvey Oswald.†   (source)
  • Lunch would have been a great venue for what I've got in mind.†   (source)
  • A date had been set, and a venue for the reception.†   (source)
  • During a change-of-venue hearing three weeks earlier, Maynard had suddenly told the judge I wasn't doing my job.†   (source)
  • Sorry for the crowding but I think this is the appropriate venue.†   (source)
  • We asked for a change of venue due to pre-trial publicity.
  • His petition for a change of venue was likewise rejected.†   (source)
  • And in that venue I suppose a certain lack of experience is to be tolerated, or even expected.†   (source)
  • It was all exciting, but she was experiencing something unusual as she made her way to the venue.†   (source)
  • Number one: We have not been able to get a change of venue.†   (source)
  • A historic venue with fine acoustics—which also happens to be in the 8th…†   (source)
  • Chestnut and Boynton presented their change-of-venue motion.†   (source)
  • "The defendant's motion to change venue is granted," the judge ruled.†   (source)
  • The change of venue was disastrous for Walter.†   (source)
  • Woolf stopped off at a betting venue and bought a ticket on Seabiscuit, to win.†   (source)
  • A very hot embrace, too, with no apparent concern about the public venue.†   (source)
  • He went methodically from one venue where he'd been bullied to the next, right?'†   (source)
  • A twisted killer had struck in the city's most celebrated venue.†   (source)
  • Jake said, "Judge, I'd like to renew my motion for a change of venue.†   (source)
  • Damn, I'm not sure if this is the right venue.†   (source)
  • The judge also granted our motion to change venue.†   (source)
  • The next suitable venue was the Massachusetts Handicap on June 29.†   (source)
  • "There's never been a change of venue in a will contest in Mississippi.†   (source)
  • Why do you think I wanted that change of venue so bad?†   (source)
  • Jesus, Maynard, we just got a change of venue.†   (source)
  • With two strikes—no change of venue, no jury consultant—†   (source)
  • He mentioned perhaps requesting a change of venue for the trial.†   (source)
  • This is also the reason we filed a motion demanding a change of venue.†   (source)
  • Judge Atlee took a sip and said, "File your motion to change venue if you wish.†   (source)
  • Then they filed a motion requesting a change of venue to another, "fairer" county.†   (source)
  • "Neither do I." "Prather was saying this morning that they might try and change venue.†   (source)
  • You still plan to lobby Atlee for a change of venue?†   (source)
  • Jake stood and said, "In that case, Your Honor, perhaps we should consider a change of venue."†   (source)
  • One to change venue, the other for a continuance.†   (source)
  • He leaned in lower and said, "I still have to file a motion to change venue.†   (source)
  • He was a Jew, and if there was one place he was destined to exist, it was a basement or any other such hidden venue of survival.†   (source)
  • I did my homework, checked the location of the disabled parking, rang the venue beforehand to assess the best way to get Will's chair to his seat.†   (source)
  • His ability not to apologize for glaring mistakes would have served him well in another venue, perhaps politics; it has taught us never to complain about any problem in the house, lest my father decide to fix it.†   (source)
  • Wednesday might be ideal: the last show would have played the night before, so the circus would in all likelihood have pulled out before midday and moved on to its next venue before the vampire could awake and discover the theft.†   (source)
  • Tanner began: "Amy used her clues to force my client to go to these various venues, where she'd left evidence—Hannibal, his father's house—so he'd incriminate himself.†   (source)
  • Crazy in love, the two talked about running off to get hitched right then, but reconsidered, deciding to marry at his next training venue and live together there until he was deployed.†   (source)
  • So, on the morning the filming of Glory began at Mercer House, Sonny Seiler went into superior court and asked for a change of venue.†   (source)
  • First, the Count observed that when the guests appeared at the dinner, virtually all were surprised by the venue.†   (source)
  • They have changed the venue!†   (source)
  • Alabama courts had almost never reversed a conviction because the trial judge had refused to change venue.†   (source)
  • Having begun attending the Boyarsky's daily meeting in the summer of 1953, in April of 1954 the Bishop had switched the venue from Emile's office to his own, on the grounds that the activity in the kitchen was proving a distraction.†   (source)
  • I argued that there was prosecutorial misconduct, racially discriminatory jury selection, and an improper change of venue.†   (source)
  • Given what he'd heard from other death row prisoners about all-white juries, Walter worried about the venue change as well.†   (source)
  • In high-profile cases, it's fairly standard for defense lawyers to file a motion to change venue—to move the case from the county where the crime took place to a different county where there is less pretrial publicity and sentiment to convict.†   (source)
  • But it also could be that she likes us and we get a meeting and before the summer's out we're in a bigger place, bigger venue, bigger town.†   (source)
  • He'd ended up quitting Juilliard so he could hit the road as a concert pianist and found himself playing in rinky-dirk venues to audiences that barely filled the first couple of rows.†   (source)
  • The president and Mrs. Lincoln are known to be fond of the theater and prone to making their public appearances in such a venue.†   (source)
  • "Doesn't he want a larger venue?†   (source)
  • Unlike the McLeansville venue, this arena was indoors, which meant it was probably used for everything from basketball games to concerts.†   (source)
  • The day's events had altered Joe's perception of everything, so it seemed he was looking at the world through a pair of peculiar glasses won in a game of chance on the midway of a mysterious carnival that traveled from venue to venue in whisper-quiet black trains, spectacles with the power not to distort the world but to reveal a secret dimension that was enigmatic, cold, and fearsome.†   (source)
  • There was a groovy café, the Java Monkey, a bar specializing in European beer called the Brick Store Pub, and an old-school bohemian music venue called Eddie's Attic.†   (source)
  • Shultz," he said, as though the name was a prolonged hiss, "the court cannot on its own grant a change of venue.†   (source)
  • Soon, much sooner than I ever could've imagined, we were playing these enormous venues: arenas and stadiums, to more than fifteen thousand fans.†   (source)
  • At these venues, there are just so many people, and so much sound, that it's almost impossible to differentiate a specific voice.†   (source)
  • The advisability of requesting a change of venue was discussed, but as the elderly Mr. Fleming warned his client, "It wouldn't matter where in Kansas the trial was held.†   (source)
  • The only venue where he did feel comfortable was in a world of his own creation-computer games where Peter was not only comfortable'he was God.'†   (source)
  • According to Hickock, the "hostile atmosphere" in Garden City had made it impossible to empanel an unbiased jury, and therefore a change of venue should have been granted.†   (source)
  • …their clients had been unjustly convicted because legal counsel had not been appointed them until after they had confessed and had waived preliminary hearings; and because they were not competently represented at their trial, were convicted with the help of evidence seized without a search warrant (the shotgun and knife taken from the Hickock home), were not granted a change of venue even though the environs of the trial had been "saturated" with publicity prejudicial to the accused.†   (source)
  • Explaining why he had not applied for a change of venue, he said, "I felt that since the Reverend Cowan, the minister of the Methodist church, and a man of substance here, a man of high standing, as well as many other ministers here, had expressed themselves against capital punishment, that at least the leaven had been cast in the area, and there were likely more people here inclined to be lenient in the matter of the penalty than perhaps in other parts of the state.†   (source)
  • With no one present to argue for a change of venue or removal of the judge, those motions were denied.†   (source)
  • He said, "Judge, if you think every person in Ford County has an opinion, then I'll file a motion to change venue."†   (source)
  • Jake had no choice but to request a change of venue, which Atlee would probably deny, but at the very least it would give them a strong argument on appeal.†   (source)
  • Jake was slightly optimistic he could have a chat with Judge Atlee, perhaps another late Friday afternoon meeting on the porch with whiskey sours, and after the edge was knocked off he could broach the notion of a delay or change of venue.†   (source)
  • A change of venue is of no value now.†   (source)
  • The venue for its first convention had not yet been chosen, but humankind could be certain that the speakers whom it would hear there would come armed with arguments.†   (source)
  • It would probably be better to ask for a change of venue so as to nullify the force of such a prejudice.†   (source)
  • Might it not, by brisk, legal moves now—and even in the face of this rising public sentiment, or because of it,—be possible to ask for a change of venue—or time to develop new evidence in which case a trial might not occur before Mr. Mason was out of office.†   (source)
  • I am in your way, you are in mine—fine, then, we shall find some appropriate venue for the settlement of our little differences.†   (source)
  • And, no doubt, via change of venue, motions, appeals, etc., they might and no doubt would be able to delay and eventually effect an ultimate verdict of something less than death, if such were the wish of the head of this very important family.†   (source)
  • And thereafter the best that Belknap and Jephson could do was to appear before Oberwaltzer, a Democrat, who owed his appointment to a previous governor, to argue for a change of venue, on the ground that by no possible stretch of the imagination could any twelve men residing in Cataraqui County be found who, owing to the public and private statements of Mason, were not already vitally opposed to Clyde and so convinced of his guilt that before ever such a jury could be addressed by a…†   (source)
  • "That, my dear, you must ask the doctor," he replied, and again making an evident effort to be affectionate, he said with his lips only (his words clearly did not correspond to his thoughts): "Merci, chere amie, d'etre venue."†   (source)
  • How they change the venue when it's not what they like.†   (source)
  • But, to change the venue to the Bulgar and the Basque, have you made up your mind whether you like or dislike women in male habiliments?†   (source)
  • After all, hang it, they had their eleven and more humdrum months of it and merited a radical change of venue after the grind of city life in the summertime for choice when dame Nature is at her spectacular best constituting nothing short of a new lease of life.†   (source)
  • Now, by the salt wave of the Mediterraneum, a sweet touch, a quick venue of wit! snip, snap, quick and home!†   (source)
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