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  • According to his dossier, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov had been sentenced for high treason.†   (source)
  • A pair of semi-coded dossiers accompanied the photographs.†   (source)
  • Edgar had many enemies-for-life and the way to deal with such people was to compile massive dossiers.†   (source)
  • Soon after ascending to the presidency, he requested thick personal dossiers on each of "The Harvards": those members of the Kennedy administration who had once taken such great delight in taunting him.†   (source)
  • Sir Alistair has already prepared a dossier for you.†   (source)
  • Then with the individual Medusa dossiers, damn it!†   (source)
  • Mike amigo mio, there should be in that file a dossier on me.†   (source)
  • It reminded her that, according to his dossier, Marco Angelini spent a large part of his time in Italy.†   (source)
  • To break the rules for the sake of someone for whom all the rules had been shattered at birth was both pleasurable revenge and the cause of great satisfaction: the pilot's dossier had been copied and compiled, sub rosa and without a trace, in a dozen different departments, and it was carefully bound between gray covers with embossed silver lettering.†   (source)
  • We were in the process of compiling that all-important dossier of shared experiences now.†   (source)
  • Four months ago, the Chinese government accepted our dossier.†   (source)
  • In Zooey, be assured early, we are dealing with the complex, the overlapping, the cloven, and at least two dossier-like paragraphs ought to be got in right here.†   (source)
  • Leamas knew his dossier, knew the photograph on the inside of the cover, the blank, hard face beneath the flaxen hair; knew by heart the story of Mundt's rise to power as second man in the Abteilung and effective head of operations.†   (source)
  • The point that crushed most was that the FBI had supplied a dossier of evidence identifying the lynchers, and the Pearl River County Grand Jury had decided not to look inside it.†   (source)
  • They lifted it, and flung it on one side of the hall where it rolled over, scattering a cascade of letters, dossiers, ink-pots, pens, sealing-wax and documents.†   (source)
  • Every Priory historian and Grail buff had read the Dossiers.   (source)
    dossiers = detailed information files, each about a particular person
  • How does a lowly indent get access to secret Sixer dossier files and company memos?   (source)
    dossier = detailed information about a particular person or subject
  • I pulled a copy of her dossier off the flash drive and attached it to my message as proof.   (source)
    dossier = detailed information about a particular person
  • I found an unlabeled video link at the bottom of her dossier, and when I selected it, a live vidfeed of a small suburban house appeared on my display.   (source)
  • A detailed dossier appeared, containing all of the information the Sixers had collected on me over the past few years.   (source)
  • When it finally passed, I copied the contents of all five dossiers over to my flash drive, then opened the Mission Status folder.   (source)
    dossiers = detailed information files, each about a particular person
  • I sent similar e-mails to Shoto and Aech (minus the postscript), along with copies of their Sixer dossiers.   (source)
    dossiers = detailed information about a particular person
  • No man arrived on Arrakis without a full dossier finding its way into the Fremen strongholds.†   (source)
  • The heading at the top read: Les Dossiers Secrets—Number 4° lm1 249 "What's this?†   (source)
  • Nowhere in that very creative dossier was there the slightest clue of a Washington connection.†   (source)
  • Then obviously not part of the working dossier, but known to your man.†   (source)
  • He has little or no regard for others, his entire dossier is proof of that.†   (source)
  • Do we have a dossier on these guerrillas?†   (source)
  • I have the only copies of these dossiers-there are no others!†   (source)
  • I am not but from my dossier it seems unlikely that the Authority's finks will bother to pick me up.†   (source)
  • We'll examine Sir Alistair's dossier and discuss the plan.†   (source)
  • They passed as spies in their dossiers, but really they were simply ex-POW's.†   (source)
  • The dossier was a deeper form of truth, transcending facts and actuality.†   (source)
  • McAllister hung up and returned to the dossier in front of him, the pencil in his hand.†   (source)
  • Because they don't have the patience to spend hours poring over thousands of resumes and dossiers.†   (source)
  • It's all in the dossier," said David, patting his pack and continuing down the stairs.†   (source)
  • No easy task ...Tell me about her — not the dry facts of a dossier, but the person.†   (source)
  • "There is some in your dossier," said Ms.†   (source)
  • In the endless estuarial mingling of paranoia and control, the dossier was an essential device.†   (source)
  • If there is, he's a hundred and fifty years old and his dossier says thirty-two.†   (source)
  • It was pointless to re-study the dossiers.†   (source)
  • Directives, dossiers, operational progress reports, background materials, all had to go.†   (source)
  • Proof of that fact had been uncovered years ago in Paris's Bibliothèque Nationale in papers that became known as Les Dossiers Secrets.†   (source)
  • Cataloged under Number 4° lm1 249, the Dossiers Secrets had been authenticated by many specialists and incontrovertibly confirmed what historians had suspected for a long time: Priory Grand Masters included Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and, more recently, Jean Cocteau, the famous Parisian artist.†   (source)
  • Please bear in mind that I've only recently been assigned, with full clearance, to Mr Webb's classified dossier.†   (source)
  • Paul Rousseau received a copy of the dossier during a meeting at AIVD headquarters in The Hague, and upon his return to Paris he presented it to Gabriel in a quiet brasserie on the rue de Miromesnil, in the Eighth Arrondissement.†   (source)
  • It was some kind of dossier so far.†   (source)
  • They hadn't shaved it off in the camp because that was the way he looked in the photograph in his dossier.†   (source)
  • I listened a pair of minutes, then asked Mike to prepare a full dossier, following all associational leads.†   (source)
  • Before terminating its surveillance of Margreet Janssen, the AIVD had assembled a dense dossier of watch reports, photographs, e-mails, text messages, and Internet browsing histories, along with secondary files on friends, family members, associates, and fellow travelers in the global jihadist movement.†   (source)
  • You, who were instrumental in building the dossier of the greatest impersonator the international world of terrorism has ever known?†   (source)
  • Say there was a date-a month and a day-that was significant to the mocked dossier-the decoy's dossier.†   (source)
  • Over course of months his File Zebra dossier built up: Male, 34-45, offices south face of Old Dome, usually there 0900-1800 Gr.†   (source)
  • On the second floor was Alpha Group's overflowing Registry— Rousseau preferred old-fashioned paper dossiers to digital files—and the third and fourth floors were the preserve of the agent runners.†   (source)
  • I evaluate personnel files on a daily basis ...and frequently discover errors ...how can you be certain these dossiers are accurate?†   (source)
  • On this table are secretly gathered confidential dossiers of your superiors in each of the departments represented here.†   (source)
  • Could such a man under these circumstances begin to ...believe he's the decoy, assume the characteristics, absorb the mocked dossier to the point where he believes it's him?†   (source)
  • Do you wish your own dossier?†   (source)
  • Where the current of one's need for control met the tide of one's paranoia, this was where the dossier was reciprocally satisfying.†   (source)
  • The Jackal swept away the dossiers from the table and lurched down to the pile of newspapers; he grabbed the deadly automatic weapon from beneath the scattered pages and roared, "Stop!†   (source)
  • They were in the files of course, a number of those involved in planning the event—all catalogued and dossier'd up to their eyeballs and none of them eager to offend the Director.†   (source)
  • They are penalties I'd rather not face without far more thorough evidentiary materials than unsolicited dossiers from unknown sources, conceivably invented by discontented officials below even our levels.†   (source)
  • He said the way things were in Hong Kong these days, if there was such a person he'd have the dossier memorized.'†   (source)
  • Before leaving Paris he had collected the dossiers, and the dossiers behind those dossiers, all seemingly innocuous pages of blank paper in file folders until they were exposed to infrared light, the heat waves bringing up the typewritten script.†   (source)
  • I'm sure there's an extensive dossier on an analyst who made a number of enemies during his tour of duty here.†   (source)
  • And your dossiers.†   (source)
  • In utter disbelief Catherine had demanded substantiation and by 2:15 had twice read the State Department's lengthy and top-secret dossier on Sheng Chou Yang, but she continued to strenuously object as the accuracy could not be verified.†   (source)
  • 'What— Bourne looked over at the body of Sheng Chou Yang, and, in the dim wash of the moonlight, saw the last thing in the world he expected: Sheng's black-bordered dossier, one of the most secret, most explosive documents on earth.†   (source)
  • Inside the house, in the library which had been converted into an office, Undersecretary of State Edward Newington McAllister sat behind a desk, studying the pages of a dossier under the glare of a lamp, making checkmarks in the margins beside certain paragraphs and certain lines.†   (source)
  • Lin Wenzu slammed his fist down on the desk, jarring the nine photographs in front of him and making the attached summaries of their dossiers leap off the surface.†   (source)
  • She stinks and scalds through the very pages of the dossier.†   (source)
  • I have looked up this girl's dossier and am horrified at what I find.†   (source)
  • Your patient's mother, as I learn from the dossier and you might have learned from Glubose, is a good example.†   (source)
  • I am going to Rome with a wonderful dossier and letters of introduction that cover every capital in Europe, and there will be "no small stir" when I get there.†   (source)
  • A parody was immediately put in circulation in the galleries of the court-house, in verses that limped a little:— Maitre Corbeau, sur un dossier perche,[13] Tenait dans son bee une saisie executoire; Maitre Renard, par l'odeur alleche, BOOK FOURTH.†   (source)
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