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  • And his colleagues and subordinates would see with surprise and distress that he, the brilliant and subtle judge, was becoming confused and making mistakes.   (source)
    colleagues = fellow workers -- especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law
  • Where are your colleagues?†   (source)
  • His colleague will back him up.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • None of his colleagues listened.†   (source)
  • This whole question of choice between objectives has been a cause for idle speculation on my part the last few nights, and I have even gone as far as discussing it with my colleagues.†   (source)
  • A colleague bought our fourteen room-size Persian rugs for $1,300— and sold one of them for $15,000 a few months later.†   (source)
  • Many of those retirees were my colleagues back at the university, but somehow I just can't mix with them.†   (source)
  • Just the day before I'd been having a conversation with a colleague in the security field about this topic.†   (source)
  • And the two men might have left it at that, but as Osip turned to join his colleague at the door, the Count was struck by a notion.†   (source)
  • It is also, or perhaps primarily, a measure of how much we learn through our friends, colleagues, and mentors.†   (source)
  • Paul learned that she had gone to the girls' high school, and after leaving, had spent two years keeping house for a widowed colleague of her father's and looking after his children.†   (source)
  • Their colleague had been killed just lays earlier.†   (source)
  • Clearly, he and his colleague were still available.†   (source)
  • When your colleague falls ill and you do not.†   (source)
  • Or pole-danced for their business colleagues, I thought, remembering my interviews at the Job Center.†   (source)
  • This morning I spoke with a colleague who was called to the Shewall home.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • While he wrestled with the moral pros and cons of doing just that, one of his colleagues beat him to it.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • My new colleague's name is Eleanor Pribst, and I would love to read what Jane Austen might have written about her.†   (source)
  • "You little ...," Janson whispered, his eyes wide with horror as he stared at his colleague.†   (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)
  • On his own, his colleague was having difficulty restraining her.†   (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)
  • Your colleagues.†   (source)
  • This is my colleague, Q. Q, this is Gus.†   (source)
  • Sometimes on Saturday evenings some of Dad's colleagues would visit.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The point is that I am now a perfectly safe penguin, and my colleague here is rapidly running out of limbs!†   (source)
  • I was thrilled when Fritz and his colleague, Kimber Liponi, won a local Emmy for their work.†   (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)
  • He enlisted the support of some of his students and colleagues from Oklahoma.†   (source)
  • A newspaper colleague plugged into the Mexican government helped me get a letter from the personal assistant to Mexico's president.†   (source)
  • Since my colleagues and I can come to no consensus, it has been agreed that we will let the victors decide.†   (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)
  • Her eyes narrowed and she'd whisper furiously to herself, like she was discussing with an invisible colleague what punishment was awful enough for you.†   (source)
  • His colleague smiled, but then rose with a sigh, laboriously put on his jacket, and signed to Elinor to follow him.†   (source)
  • The soldiers never brought back their dead colleagues.†   (source)
  • s colleagues helped her catalogue every aspect of the Tombs.†   (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)
  • More of a colleague, really.†   (source)
  • One of the broadcasters who had been called up came in to say goodbye to his colleagues and show off his uniform.†   (source)
  • Kashmiri pencil cups are bought for Ashoke to give to his colleagues at the university.†   (source)
  • Your mother was part of this.... 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)
  • Another former student who became a colleague is Caitlin Kelleher.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Colleagues!†   (source)
  • My colleagues in medical school accused me of cynicism but they had no idea.†   (source)
  • Cautious looks from his colleagues at any party where alcohol was served, even wine.†   (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)
  • He looked at his colleague.†   (source)
  • Of course, she and her colleagues had also claimed that the Iraqis didn't have anti-aircraft weapons.†   (source)
  • A mere bagatelle, dear colleague.†   (source)
  • Like that time we went to a party thrown by a colleague of Tom's, and I was very drunk, but we'd had a good night.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I swear to love ChairmanMao, love the Communist Party, love my country, love my people and love my fellow colleagues.†   (source)
  • Going out with a colleague.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Neither she nor her colleague treated me like I was special or damaged in some way.†   (source)
  • Now and then she overheard her colleagues' whispers: "I don't understand why she's giving up," or, "She's still young and attractive."†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I had my colleagues check to be absolutely certain.†   (source)
  • Yet Kai Jing and his colleagues still went to the quarry, and this made me crazy with anxiety.†   (source)
  • My colleagues will no doubt hang me metaphorically, but I say let them hang.†   (source)
  • Over the years that followed, many of the men and women on his team became my colleagues and friends.†   (source)
  • More nervous than on his wedding day, her family filling one side of the church, and on the other just a handful of his colleagues.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Otto's unmarried colleagues looked around the room, trying to single out the recently divorced sister they'd heard so much about.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I suppose she has to look good in front of her colleagues.†   (source)
  • Dewey and his colleague K.B.I. Agent Clarence Duntz stood waiting for a free table in the Trail Room.†   (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)
  • Gibson before she turns to chat with a colleague who's just wandered in from a neighboring classroom.†   (source)
  • What had made battle interesting over the years was not his opponents but his colleagues.†   (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)
  • His colleague agreed, of course.†   (source)
  • Yet I have seen them do such dreadful things that their more bestial colleagues seem gentle in comparison.†   (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)
  • Haitian colleagues of Farmer's had insisted on this.†   (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)
  • Lieutenant Scheisskopf responded with a knowing smile to the queries of his colleagues.†   (source)
  • Most of my colleagues came from the journalism schools of Alabama and Auburn, not Harvard and Yale.†   (source)
  • This is no small matter, and I have already informed my colleagues.†   (source)
  • But Moody treated him with all the respect due to a colleague, and they worked together happily with the Iranian students.†   (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)
  • What counsel did your colleague offer to this traitor blood of mine?†   (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)
  • So Dumas left and went outside where he and a colleague waited hopefully for the possible sighting of a black Rolls-Royce.†   (source)
  • Khrushchev personally ordered thousands of murders and authorized the killing of some of his own friends and colleagues.†   (source)
  • "It's time," she said, glancing at a colleague offscreen.†   (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)
  • "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)
  • Smith and his colleagues foresaw that the islands would be in the Pacific; the enemy, Japan.†   (source)
  • Thomas wondered if the man's trust of his colleagues had kept his own suspicions at bay until now.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • ....and Johnson hit Jeffries at an angle of 45 degrees from his lower left lateral incisor, producing an instantaneous 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)
  • Why hadn't he followed his colleague?†   (source)
  • "As a friend and a colleague," Mrs. Nightwing replies.†   (source)
  • I and my colleagues are trying to communicate with them.†   (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)
  • I am not complaining that it forced on my colleague and myself—Prof stopped to smile—a most informal method of travel.†   (source)
  • But wanted to let you know I'm going out to dinner with a colleague.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Another time I visited a former colleague dying of cancer in a local hospice.†   (source)
  • One of your colleagues gave us this information just before he died.†   (source)
  • "This is Oscar Vazquez," Durbin told his colleagues.†   (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)
  • A former colleague.†   (source)
  • Cole looked down at her colleague.†   (source)
  • When you are a professor in a university, you must persuade your colleagues not to have long faculty meetings.†   (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)
  • Hisham knew that they were lying and started asking his colleagues in the other departments.†   (source)
  • Can you imagine him a colleague of yours?†   (source)
  • So he'd called three colleagues he knew personally.†   (source)
  • My colleagues ask, 'How are you, Atta?'†   (source)
  • He had told his colleagues and his wife that he was striking out on his own, a risky move in Northern Virginia's crowded tech world.†   (source)
  • He sent me to a colleague who examined me.†   (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)
  • His colleagues on the faculty were mostly conservative but their conservatism possessed no fervor.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It wasn't long before they were ahead of our rabbi; he brought a colleague in.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Among his colleagues he was considered something of a dandy, though not absurdly so; his considerable academic reputation was a safeguard against ridicule.†   (source)
  • With the wife of a colleague, a fellow Senator unfortunately—concerning whom I prefer to say no more.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Grant's colleagues saw him as radical in his conception of dinosaur behavior.†   (source)
    colleagues = fellow workers -- especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law
  • At conventions, there were still colleagues who did not speak to one another.†   (source)
  • My colleagues and I determined several years ago, that it was possible to clone the DNA of an extinct animal, and to grow it.†   (source)
  • Not to you, or to your colleagues.†   (source)
  • Langdon's colleagues often joked that his place looked more like an anthropology museum than a home.†   (source)
  • "The Dark Mark!" he panted, almost trampling Winky as he turned inquiringly to his colleagues.†   (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)
  • You said you and your colleagues needed a residence, a guesthouse, as it is called these days.†   (source)
  • One of your colleagues thinks I have an authority problem.†   (source)
  • A literal tourist trap, one of Langdon's befuddled colleagues had called it.†   (source)
  • Although I am on your side in this matter, my colleagues are unconvinced.†   (source)
  • When some of his close colleagues would visit, he would say to them, "Listen, I have to pee.†   (source)
  • It has been a delight to read notes from former students and colleagues.†   (source)
  • But Bargh and his colleagues were wrong.†   (source)
  • It was the only reason, Lacy decided, she'd agreed to go out with Alex's colleagues this evening.†   (source)
  • They lowered him by rope to colleagues waiting below.†   (source)
  • Could it be, for example, that Jennings is just more expressive in general than his colleagues?†   (source)
  • The schoolchildren and your colleagues love you.†   (source)
  • The guy laughs, shakes his head, hollers back to his colleagues inside the warehouse.†   (source)
  • "May we ask what you're really doing here?" one of Ye's colleagues asked.†   (source)
  • However, he had the sense never to try and charm me as he charmed so many of my colleagues.†   (source)
  • He's been in cop mode since his colleagues arrived.†   (source)
  • My colleagues accuse me of cynicism, but I am simply a victim of poetry.†   (source)
  • Not like our colleagues at the Saunders Trust.†   (source)
  • He answers the same questions from his colleagues.†   (source)
  • We just saw him Friday," one of his father's colleagues says.†   (source)
  • But he continued showing up at the lab and writing letters to his colleagues.†   (source)
  • Lockhart stared around at his stony-faced colleagues.†   (source)
  • Almost all my musician colleagues went, and urged me to go with them.†   (source)
  • You're 100 percent loyal to your colleagues.†   (source)
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