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  • Many doctors testified before the Board of Regents and in the media on Southam's behalf, saying they'd been conducting similar research for decades.†   (source)
  • Over in San Gabriel, other cliques were formed such as Thee Regents, The Chancellors, Little Gents, The Intruders and Little Jesters.†   (source)
  • The plan had been to go to Holborn Library on Theobalds Road, but I couldn't face it, so I went to Regent's Park instead.†   (source)
  • Does m'Lord forget that I was his regent-siridar here before?†   (source)
  • She got off in the center of Regent Square.†   (source)
  • The regent Miklos Horthy was forced to ask a leader of the pro-Nazi Nyilas party to form a new government.†   (source)
  • This was the regent who was to become my guardian and benefactor for the next decade.†   (source)
  • Stoking long-standing disputes on the subject, there is news of late, starting with July's decision by the California Board of Regents to end preferential admissions based on race and this fall's demonstrations at the University of California at Berkeley and elsewhere by minority students.†   (source)
  • One Sunday afternoon I followed the crowds to the zoological gardens in Regent's Park.†   (source)
  • She had tried to convince the dwarves to appoint a regent for the duration of the war, but they were as stubborn as stone and had insisted upon carrying out their age-old ceremonies, though doing so meant abandoning the Varden in the middle of their campaign.†   (source)
  • Yet even they were but the deputies of the "regents" in the cities, a very select group of great influence.†   (source)
  • When the "Regent"—a fellow named Thomas-informed John, I thought my husband might faint, an unlikely event for such a man as strong as he.†   (source)
  • And then he remembered the carriages and the finely groomed geldings that threaded through London's Regent Park with tourists during the summer months; he laughed out loud at the comparison.†   (source)
  • Claude said he had been out at Prince Regent Hospital, not far from Bujumbura, and some of the students from the high school in Kibimba were there.†   (source)
  • So I get behind him, trail him to the Regent Hotel.†   (source)
  • Castle and Sons, dressmakers, lies in Regent Street, and this is where we have come to have a dress made for my debut.†   (source)
  • She'd seen it with Rusty at the Regent movie theater that winter, the year it won six Academy Awards.†   (source)
  • Pasquale, to take over as regent for his half-brother Niccolo, the rightful heir and good guy of the play, till he comes of age.†   (source)
  • There was Praed Street with its pornographic bookshops that didn't deal in real pornography; there was the Edgware Road, where the shops and restaurants seemed continually to be changing hands; there were the shops and crowds of Oxford Street and Regent Street.†   (source)
  • Why do the Regents of the world approach?†   (source)
  • When I was woken by the driver, the cab was outside my flat in Regent's Park.†   (source)
  • There's no more Regents or Chancellors or Little Gents.†   (source)
  • I looked him up on the Internet; He's based on Regent Street.†   (source)
  • He is known chiefly as the father of Duke Paul Muad'Dib, the Umma Regent.†   (source)
  • Like Old King Celon when he thought his regent was going to expose him for treason.†   (source)
  • I am Joffrey's regent, and I sent him a royal command!†   (source)
  • An early show at the Regent, then dinner and—if Al wasn't on call—a couple of beers.†   (source)
  • I thought of the lions in the zoo at Regent's Park and mourned for them in their captivity.†   (source)
  • Until then, you are his regent and I am his Hand, and he will marry whomever we tell him to marry.†   (source)
  • To the fervor of the Warrior's Sons and the brilliance of the Queen Regent.†   (source)
  • Grand Maester Pycelle begs the favor of the Lord Regent's presence at once.†   (source)
  • At 5: 02 an obviously disturbed Liang walked rapidly out of the glass doors of the Regent.†   (source)
  • Like the regent, he saw my future role as counselor to Sabata, and he encouraged me to study law.†   (source)
  • They don't like to tell you anything at the Regent.†   (source)
  • The regent rules until the king is of age.†   (source)
  • I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, hesaid, is like a shepherd.†   (source)
  • If men were looking for him, they would flash the name he used at the Regent; it was all they had.†   (source)
  • I will serve as Tommen's regent until he comes of age.†   (source)
  • It would seem that Lord Tywin did not share his plans with our regent, I can't imagine why.†   (source)
  • The news quickly made the rounds and reached the regent's wife.†   (source)
  • 'But your clerk said—' 'He is not the assistant manager of the Regent, sir.†   (source)
  • ...so long as you name me regent as well as Hand and take yourself back to Casterly Rock.†   (source)
  • She reminds you that she is Joffrey's regent.†   (source)
  • She will have the privilege of attending the Queen Regent.†   (source)
  • At first, I was astonished by the vehemence—and candor—with which people criticized the regent.†   (source)
  • Inform Mr Wu Song that Regent Number Five is here and brings him a taipan as worthy as himself.†   (source)
  • "Thank you," said Cersei, thinking, Lord Regent, is it?†   (source)
  • Lastly, King Joffrey and the Queen Regent must renounce all claims to dominion over the north.†   (source)
  • Instead, she said, "I am also the Queen Regent.†   (source)
  • If it please the Lord Regent, I would sleep more soundly if you could lend me some of your guards.†   (source)
  • WHEN I WAS SIXTEEN, the regent decided that it was time that I became a man.†   (source)
  • "I was asked to bring the offer to the Queen Regent," Ser Cleos said as the door shut.†   (source)
  • And does it matter who is regent for little Lord Robert, so long as the Vale remits its taxes?†   (source)
  • The Lord Regent has taken up residence in the Red Keep.†   (source)
  • She was the Queen Regent, had they forgotten that?†   (source)
  • I was pleased that the regent would now have a member of his clan with a university degree.†   (source)
  • His terms, you said ...yet Cersei is Queen Regent.†   (source)
  • Only at the end of the meeting, as the sun was setting, would the regent speak.†   (source)
  • The Grand Maester is a staunch friend to the Queen Regent, and under her personal protection.†   (source)
  • Her Grace the Queen Regent has sent me to command you to release Grand Maester Pycelle.†   (source)
  • Every day I was in and out of the regent's house doing errands.†   (source)
  • Reverend Harris was warm and friendly, and treated the regent with great deference.†   (source)
  • Yet ...your most gracious sister, our Queen Regent, she ...†   (source)
  • During the trip, the regent advised me on my behavior and my future.†   (source)
  • My mother had no choice; one did not turn down such an overture from the regent.†   (source)
  • The regent and his wife No-England brought me up as if I were their own child.†   (source)
  • The regent himself drove me to Engcobo in his majestic Ford V8.†   (source)
  • The regent never told me how to behave, and I observed him and followed his example.†   (source)
  • The regent himself had attended Clarkebury, and Justice had followed him there.†   (source)
  • Before I went up to the university, the regent bought me my first suit.†   (source)
  • My later notions of leadership were profoundly influenced by observing the regent and his court.†   (source)
  • The regent took his religion very seriously.†   (source)
  • The regent was anxious for me to attend Fort Hare and I was gratified to be accepted there.†   (source)
  • A regent has been seated in my place for many years, but if I return there I can raise me an army.†   (source)
  • Lord Regent," said the Owl, stooping down a little and holding its beak near the Dwarf's ear.†   (source)
  • "You had better come and speak to the Lord Regent at once," it said.†   (source)
  • When the Regent struck the ground, Yama fell upon him with his knees and rose again.†   (source)
  • As the Regent stumbled forward, he reversed his blade and struck him in the jaw with its pommel.†   (source)
  • "Hear me, Regents who dwell upon Sumernu," said Yama, taking his Aspect upon him.†   (source)
  • The four Regents drew rein, their hordes at their backs, and Yama faced them.†   (source)
  • The four Regents moved to a position between Yama and Tathagatha.†   (source)
  • This rattled the Board of Regents.†   (source)
  • "My dear Prince Regent," Levana said in a saccharine voice, "may I be the first to offer my condolences on the loss of your father, the good Emperor Rikan.†   (source)
  • All hail his lady mother, Cersei of House Lannister, Queen Regent, Light of the West, and Protector of the Realm.†   (source)
  • The need for deceit was a hitter taste in his mouth, but Ned knew he must tread softly here, must keep his counsel and play the game until he was firmly established as regent.†   (source)
  • In a scathing five-page document filled with exclamation points, he accused Southam and Mandel of fraud and unprofessional conduct, and demanded that the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York revoke their medical licenses.†   (source)
  • Regent Street.†   (source)
  • I took a taxi from Regent's Park, and in the long crawl through central London I thought of those sad inmates of Bedlam who were once a source of general entertainment, and I reflected in a self-pitying way on how I was soon to join their ranks.†   (source)
  • The Regent Street?†   (source)
  • Before the Board of Regents announced its decision, the negative press about Southam's work had gotten the attention of the NIH, which funded his research and required its investigators to get consent for all studies involving humans.†   (source)
  • In the place of the traitor Stannis Baratheon, it is the wish of His Grace that his lady mother, the Queen Regent Cersei Lannister, who has ever been his staunchest support, be seated upon his small council, that she may help him rule wisely and with justice.†   (source)
  • I do hereby command Eddard of House Stark, Lord of Winterfell and Hand of the King, to serve as Lord Regent and Protector of the Realm upon my ...upon my death ...to rule in my ...in my stead, until my son Joffrey does come of age ...†   (source)
  • My uncle Kevan would make a passably good regent if someone pressed the duty on him, but he will never reach for it.†   (source)
  • Even when Tommen had no further need of a regent, the Lady of Casterly Rock would remain a power in the land.†   (source)
  • Or ... "The Queen Regent, to be sure."†   (source)
  • Get to the Regent Hotel in Kowloon.†   (source)
  • The Regent and Sukeena, as John's and my personal representatives, stood forefront to the rows of attendants.†   (source)
  • My sister is Queen Regent.†   (source)
  • The Queen Regent!†   (source)
  • She had very odd ideas of what was worn in Africa and took me to Liberty on Regent Street to buy silk frocks, "for garden parties," and to Brigg in St. James's Street to buy umbrellas and parasols, "to keep the sun from your complexion."†   (source)
  • Upon the news of the disappearance, John and the Regent gathered all thirty-three servants (Laura being the thirty-fourth!)†   (source)
  • He became personally possessed with finding this girl, requesting the Regent to reassign the staff to different locations and conduct the search again.†   (source)
  • He did not check out of the Regent.†   (source)
  • 'It was an error,' said David to the clerk behind the oval marble counter in the centre of the Regent's lobby.†   (source)
  • "Lord Baelish," Lady Waynwood said, "Lysa Tully was Jon Arryn's widow and the mother of his child, and ruled here as his regent.†   (source)
  • I was regent, but a queen is still a woman, and women are weak vessels, easily tempted ...Your High Holiness knows the truth of that.†   (source)
  • He had wired the Regent Hotel in Kowloon from Dulles Airport requesting a room for a week in the name of one James Howard Cruett, the identity on Cactus's refined blue-eyed passport.†   (source)
  • "I am the regent," she reminded him.†   (source)
  • Suddenly his eyes were drawn to the sight of the clerk rushing across the lobby several steps ahead of a middle-aged Oriental, obviously the Regent's assistant manager, Mr Liang.†   (source)
  • The words were grudging, the dip of the chin Mace Tyrell gave the Lord Regent the most cursory of bows.†   (source)
  • "Your Grace is the Queen Regent of the Seven Kingdoms," the man said, "but in The Seven-Pointed Star it is written that as men bow to their lords, and lords to their kings, so kings and queens must bow before the Seven Who Are One."†   (source)
  • In gratitude, and for no additional charge, the contact had given him the name of a Shenzhen banker who could easily steer 'Mr Cruett' to investment possibilities, the said Mr Cruett being still registered at the Regent Hotel in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • The Queen Regent, the King's Hand, and the small council have considered the terms offered by this self-styled King in the North.†   (source)
  • And 'Mr Cruett', escorted by a floor boy, could use a service elevator to the Regent's lower level where there was an exit that led to the New World Centre with its direct access to the pick-up on Salisbury Road.†   (source)
  • Tell the Queen Regent that if she meets my terms, I will sheath this sword, and make an end to the war between us.†   (source)
  • Had he listened, he would be regent today, and there would have been no need for me to claim the throne.†   (source)
  • I am Joffrey's regent, not you, and I say that Myrcella will not be shipped off to this Dornishman the way I was shipped to Robert Baratheon.†   (source)
  • "All rise for Her Grace, Cersei of House Lannister, Queen Regent and Protector of the Realm," the royal steward cried.†   (source)
  • Yet that day on the steps of Baelor's Sept, our godly High Septon and the lawful Queen Regent and your ever-so-knowledgeable servant were as powerless as any cobbler or cooper in the crowd.†   (source)
  • The Queen Regent and her son shall make no claims to taxes, incomes, nor service from my people, and shall free my lords and knights from all oaths of fealty, vows, pledges, debts, and obligations owed to the Iron Throne and the Houses Baratheon and Lannister.†   (source)
  • The Queen Regent.†   (source)
  • But no matter how flagrant the charge, the regent simply listened, not defending himself, showing no emotion at all.†   (source)
  • In talking about Reverend Harris, however, the regent, for the first time, gave me a lecture on how I was to conduct myself.†   (source)
  • Justice, the elder, was his only son and heir to the Great Place, and Nomafu was the regent's daughter.†   (source)
  • The two young men soon learned that Justice's father, the regent, had arranged marriages for each of them.†   (source)
  • He was as popular and beloved as the regent, and the fact that he was the regent's superior in spiritual matters made a strong impression on me.†   (source)
  • If the world of Mqhekezweni revolved around the regent, my smaller world revolved around his two children.†   (source)
  • The regent had often told me, "It is not for you to spend your life mining the white man's gold, never knowing how to write your name.†   (source)
  • As a leader, I have always followed the principles I first saw demonstrated by the regent at the Great Place.†   (source)
  • The regent did not believe insending money to his children at school and I would have had empty pockets had not K. D. shared his allowance with me.†   (source)
  • She was satisfied that although she would miss me, I would have a more advantageous upbringing in the regent's care than in her own.†   (source)
  • The regent and the queen slept in the right-hand rondavel, the queen's sister in the center one, and the left-hand but served as a pantry.†   (source)
  • Shortly after I moved to Mqhekezweni, the regent and his wife moved to the uxande (middle house), which automatically became the Great House.†   (source)
  • But at Mqhekezweni, religion was a part of the fabric of life and I attended church each Sunday along with the regent and his wife.†   (source)
  • The regent had not forgotten that it was due to my father's intervention that he had become acting paramount chief.†   (source)
  • The regent explained that I was being groomed to be a counselor to the king and that he hoped the reverend would take a special interest in me.†   (source)
  • On many occasions, however, the regent would arrange for my mother and sisters to be brought to the Great Place.†   (source)
  • The regent gave me my first pair of boots, a sign of manhood, and that night I polished them anew, even though they were already shiny.†   (source)
  • There were three small rondavels near it: one for the regent's mother, one for visitors, and one shared by Justice and myself.†   (source)
  • The regent was loath to have me visit Qunu, thinking I would regress and fall into bad company back in my old village.†   (source)
  • When I did visit, I sensed that my mother had been briefed by the regent, for she would question me closely as to whom I was playing with.†   (source)
  • These were men of high standing and the regent received them courteously, but not obsequiously; he treated them on equal terms, as they did him.†   (source)
  • Of the chores I did for the regent, the one I enjoyed most was pressing his suits, a job in which I took great pride.†   (source)
  • At the end of the interview, the regent bade me good-bye and handed me a pound note for pocket money, the largest amount of money I had ever possessed.†   (source)
  • The regent said when Sabata was older, he would entrust the future king to Reverend Harris, who would train him as both a Christian and a traditional ruler.†   (source)
  • The guests would gather in the courtyard in front of the regent's house and he would open the meeting by thanking everyone for coming and explaining why he had summoned them.†   (source)
  • This was the Great Place, Mqhekezweni, the provisional capital of Thembuland, the royal residence of Chief Jongintaba Dalindyebo, acting regent of the Thembu people.†   (source)
  • Letters advising these chiefs and headmen of a meeting were dispatched from the regent, and soon the Great Place became alive with important visitors and travelers from all over Thembuland.†   (source)
  • On these occasions, the regent was surrounded by his amaphakathi, a group of councilors of high rank who functioned as the regent's parliament and judiciary.†   (source)
  • We were taken in to Reverend Harris's study, where the regent introduced me and I stood to shake his hand, the first time I had ever shaken hands with a white man.†   (source)
  • Though we were treated alike, our destinies were different: Justice would inherit one of the most powerful chieftainships of the Thembu tribe, while I would inherit whatever the regent, in his generosity, decided to give me.†   (source)
  • At the very end of the council, a praise-singer or poet would deliver a panegyric to the ancient kings, and a mixture of compliments to and satire on the present chiefs, and the audience, led by the regent, would roar with laughter.†   (source)
  • The ceremony was at midday, and we were commanded to stand in a row in a clearing some distance from the river where a crowd of parents and relatives, including the regent, as well as a handful of chiefs and counselors, had gathered.†   (source)
  • Because of the universal respect the regent enjoyed—from both black and white—and the seemingly untempered power that he wielded, I saw chieftaincy as being the very center around which life revolved.†   (source)
  • And instruct my regent, the Dwarf Trumpkin, to give to all these, my shipmates, the rewards I promised them.†   (source)
  • And if I come not again it is my will that the Regent, and Master Cornelius, and Trufflehunter the Badger, and the Lord Drinian choose a King of Narnia with the consent—†   (source)
  • This was not the great magic horn of Narnia, Queen Susan's Horn: he had left that at home for his regent Trumpkin to use if any great need fell upon the land in the King's absence.†   (source)
  • The Regent of the East came before him, bearing a straight blade of silver and a net woven of moonbeams.†   (source)
  • Yama, his Aspect upon him, sheared through the soft metal like butter and laid the flat of his scimitar along the Regent's head, sending him sprawling upon the ground.†   (source)
  • Reaching up behind the Naga Chief's back, Yama caught his left shoulder in his left hand and then moved his right hand behind the Regent's knees, so that he lifted both his legs off the ground while drawing back upon his shoulder.†   (source)
  • They came from all quarters, the four Regents of the world, come down from Mount Sumernu: the Master of the North advanced, followed by his Yakshas, all in gold, mounted on yellow horses, bearing shields that blazed with golden light; the Angel of the South came on, followed by his hosts, the Kumbhandas, mounted upon blue steeds and bearing sapphire shields; from the East rode the Regent whose horsemen carry shields of pearl, and who are clad all in silver; and from the West there came the One whose Nagas mounted blood-red horses, were clad all in red and held before them shields of coral.†   (source)
  • The Regents dismounted.†   (source)
  • They came from all quarters, the four Regents of the world, come down from Mount Sumernu: the Master of the North advanced, followed by his Yakshas, all in gold, mounted on yellow horses, bearing shields that blazed with golden light; the Angel of the South came on, followed by his hosts, the Kumbhandas, mounted upon blue steeds and bearing sapphire shields; from the East rode the Regent whose horsemen carry shields of pearl, and who are clad all in silver; and from the West there came the One whose Nagas mounted blood-red horses, were clad all in red and held before them shields of coral.†   (source)
  • Crammed by Ben, she had passed the regents' college entrance examinations, too.†   (source)
  • If she was able to pass the entrance or regents' examination, she would be permitted to enroll regardless of high school credits.†   (source)
  • Round the walls hung Sir Joshua engravings; in the corner on a pedestal of mottled yellow marble stood the bust of the first Sir James—an eyeless, white man who still presides in the hall of Adrian's house in Regents Park.†   (source)
  • A party was being given that night in Regent's Park for the "Black Birds" who had newly arrived in England.†   (source)
  • As we lurch down Regent Street, and I am flung upon this woman, upon this man, I am not injured, I am not outraged by the collision.†   (source)
  • These broad thoroughfares—Piccadilly South, Piccadilly North, Regent Street and the Haymarket—are sanded paths of victory driven through the jungle.†   (source)
  • 'Here I stand,' said Jinny, 'in the Tube station where everything that is desirable meets—Piccadilly South Side, Piccadilly North Side, Regent Street and the Haymarket.†   (source)
  • The terrible thing happened when the Board of Regents were being shown through the campus.†   (source)
  • Philip took him sometimes to the tavern off Regent Street.†   (source)
  • He knows that among those Illuminati who were Masons there was a regent degree.†   (source)
  • He walked from Westminster to his apartments near Regent's Park, about two.†   (source)
  • To-day Whitehall had been transformed; it would be the turn of Regent Street to-morrow.†   (source)
  • Was it possible that it was Barrymore after all whom we had seen in the cab in Regent Street?†   (source)
  • These charges are: Disloyalty to his dean, his president, his regents and to the State of Winnemac.†   (source)
  • The art of governance—and I like your regent degree, too.†   (source)
  • He discovered that he was going bareheaded down Regent Street.†   (source)
  • Up the street, then, towards Regent's Park.†   (source)
  • He looked at the shops in Regent Street and picked out the articles he could buy for the money.†   (source)
  • She walked slowly along and turned down Air Street and so got through into Regent Street.†   (source)
  • So the elderly nurse knitted over the sleeping baby in Regent's Park.†   (source)
  • Until we got three-quarters down Regent Street.†   (source)
  • He strained; he pushed; he looked; he saw Regent's Park before him.†   (source)
  • Old Mr. Turveydrop had him christened Prince in remembrance of the Prince Regent.†   (source)
  • He was her Europe: her emperor: her allied monarchs and august prince regent.†   (source)
  • Shopping in Regent Street is perfectly splendid.†   (source)
  • Old Mr. Turveydrop adored the Prince Regent on account of his deportment.†   (source)
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