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  • He thought back to a Radcliffe seminar he had once audited while researching praetorian symbolism.†   (source)
  • In the midst of the controversy, an outside audit of Korean Air's operations was leaked to the public.†   (source)
  • The Fowls had held on to Fowl Manor over the years, surviving war, civil unrest and several tax audits.†   (source)
  • We made a quick audit of our competition.†   (source)
  • One night he told Mom he had to go out of town on a week-long audit for a company over in Moses Lake.†   (source)
  • "The Emperor does wish to audit your books," the Count said.†   (source)
  • It was all about as arousing as a tax audit.†   (source)
  • A thorough audit of the entire corporation would take years.†   (source)
  • Nor do the black-white audit studies predict what might have happened in a job interview.†   (source)
  • While getting his doctorate in history at Georgetown University he had used a little free time to audit some psychology classes.†   (source)
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  • Some can audit someone's taxes in just a blink, Instead their minds are deteriorating with their kind, leaving educators in an ever tightening bind.†   (source)
  • It would be resolved that five tons of powder be sent to Williamsburg; or that British prisoners be moved from New Jersey to Pennsylvania; or that new positions of drum major and fife major be created; or that special commissioners be appointed to audit the accounts of the army of New York.†   (source)
  • Telephone bills recorded all numbers dialled and all bills were submitted for departmental audit.†   (source)
  • We had supposed (if we thought about it at all) that he must have been a corporal or some such who had been let out when he lost his hand and had been fixed up with a soft job teaching a course that didn't have to be passed, or even taught — just audited.†   (source)
  • "A full complement, as it says in the Imperial inventory audited by the Judge of the Change, my Lord," Hawat said.†   (source)
  • She held still for long minutes, her face in that professional calm she had worn the times I had audited her work.†   (source)
  • I'd like five full battalions of Fremen troops before the first CHOAM audit.†   (source)
  • No charges were filed, and an audit turned up nothing untoward.†   (source)
  • Much of the time was spent on the financials and the audit report.†   (source)
  • Carver was dressed in slacks and an open white shirt, his sleeves rolled up as if ready to dig into an audit.†   (source)
  • He told me exactly what he knew, and I could verify each and every word in documents from the audit at SIB.†   (source)
  • The audit detailed instances of flight crews smoking cigarettes on the tarmac during refueling and in the freight area; and when the plane was in the air.†   (source)
  • "Crew read newspapers throughout the flight," the audit stated, "often with newspapers held up in such a way that if a warning light came on, it would not be noticed."†   (source)
  • EPILOGUE: FINAL AUDIT Thursday, November 27–Tuesday, December 30 Millennium's special report on Hans-Erik Wennerström took up all of forty-six pages of the magazine and exploded like a time bomb the last week of November.†   (source)
  • The fixed Swedish assets were unassailable and genuine, available to public scrutiny, balance sheets, and audits.†   (source)
  • Over the years, a series of "audit studies" have tried to measure how people perceive different names.†   (source)
  • Though the audit studies can't be used to truly measure how much a name matters, the California names data can.†   (source)
  • A recent audit discovered that the police in Atlanta were radically underreporting crime since the early 1990s.†   (source)
  • But because the audit studies can't measure the actual life outcomes of the fictitious DeShawn Williams versus Jake Williams, they can't assess the broader impact of a distinctively black name.†   (source)
  • In a typical audit study, a researcher would send two identical (and fake) résumés, one with a traditionally white name and the other with an immigrant or minority-sounding name, to potential employers.†   (source)
  • My accounts, which I can swear to have kept faithfully, I have, indeed, never got audited, still less accepted, still less paid and settled.†   (source)
  • He audited the accounts, as if they were a far more ingenious piece of mechanism than he had ever constructed, and afterwards stood looking at them, weighing his hat over his head by the brims, as if he were absorbed in the contemplation of some wonderful engine.†   (source)
  • It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress of Vienna.†   (source)
  • One advantage of the Secret Service is that it has no worrying audit.†   (source)
  • Now and then Philip with one of the more experienced clerks went out to audit the accounts of some firm: he came to know which of the clients must be treated with respect and which were in low water.†   (source)
  • Tiny audits Lena's accounts occasionally, and invests her money for her; and Lena, apparently, takes care that Tiny doesn't grow too miserly.†   (source)
  • At the same time, another voice, separate from the choir, intoned upon the steps of the chief altar, this melancholy offertory, "~Qui verbum meum audit, et credit ei qui misit me, habet vitam oeternam et in judicium non venit; sed transit a morte im vitam~*."†   (source)
  • On the fourth day the auditing of the marshal's accounts took place at the high table of the marshal of the province.†   (source)
  • Balashev found Davout seated on a barrel in the shed of a peasant's hut, writing—he was auditing accounts.†   (source)
  • Mr. Deane was auditing accounts; but he looked up as Tom entered, and putting out his hand, said, "Well, Tom, nothing fresh the matter at home, I hope?†   (source)
  • They were auditing accounts, and something occurred in the course of their labours which led Oak to say, speaking of Boldwood, "He'll never forget you, ma'am, never."†   (source)
  • They are, however, still further subdivided; and amongst the municipal officers are to be found parish commissioners, who audit the expenses of public worship; different classes of inspectors, some of whom are to direct the citizens in case of fire; tithing-men, listers, haywards, chimney-viewers, fence-viewers to maintain the bounds of property, timber-measurers, and sealers of weights and measures.†   (source)
  • Sviazhsky comically imitated the tearful discourse of the marshal, and observed, addressing Nevyedovsky, that his excellency would have to select another more complicated method of auditing the accounts than tears.†   (source)
  • If you thinkyou have any right to pry into her private affairsI'll tell her you believe those checks are being misappropriated and you want an audit because you dont trust her.†   (source)
  • You have scarce time To steal from spiritual leisure a brief span To keep your earthly audit.†   (source)
  • Your servants ever Have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs, in compt, To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, Still to return your own.†   (source)
  • He took my father grossly, full of bread; With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven?†   (source)
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