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  • She is the premier of Ontario, Canada.
    premier = head of a government
  • Max stood speechless as the report went on to detail the ministers, presidents, and premiers who were dead or missing.†   (source)
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  • The Count shifted his aim from the Bishop to the portrait of Stalin and shot the former Premier between the eyes.†   (source)
  • She and staff attorney Kristen Nelson, a Harvard Law grad who had worked at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, the nation's premier public defender office, met with Marsha repeatedly.†   (source)
  • Your Premier Area badge?†   (source)
  • I was covering Wimbledon, the world's premier tennis competition and one of the few events I go to where the crowd never boos and no one is drunk in the parking lot.†   (source)
  • That, I had come to realize, was the premier sign of masculinity and maturity, a settled conviction, born of experience, that these rituals would and should be catered to.†   (source)
  • I say I want to be picked up in front of Century 21 Premier Realty on the corner of Truxton and A Street.†   (source)
  • First came the premier of British Columbia, Gordon Campbell.†   (source)
  • After we passed through Caretta, we reached a fork in the road at a little place called Premier, where there was an old run-down whitewashed brick building called the Spaghetti House.†   (source)
  • She gazed up at the gleaming piece of art—a three-dimensional code standing silently at the heart of one of the nation's premier intelligence agencies—and she wondered if it would ever give up its final secret.†   (source)
  • *It came as no surprise to me that during her senior year with the Yak Symphony Orchestra, Candy performed in the European premier of the modern opera Mass by the gifted Leonard Bernstein.†   (source)
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  • WHEN I EMERGED from prison, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the head of the Inkatha Freedom Party and the chief minister of KwaZulu, was one of the premier players on the South African political stage.†   (source)
  • If cheating to lose is sport's premier sin, and if sumo wrestling is the premier sport of a great nation, cheating to lose couldn't possibly exist in sumo.†   (source)
  • I considered the prestige value of cutting the head off one of your enemy's premier advisors and compared it to the drawbacks of an all-out war.†   (source)
  • The track was offering a $50,000 purse for the inaugural Hollywood Gold Cup, a ten-furlong race that promised to become one of the sport's premier events.†   (source)
  • DEVGRU SEALS are also one of the United States' premier Special Missions Units, capable of executing top-secret missions anywhere in the world.†   (source)
  • Do you know anyone who may dislike Chairman Mao or Premier Zhou?†   (source)
  • It gives them the unique culture of pride that makes the Marines the world's premier warrior force.†   (source)
  • Now it's one of the premier programs in the state.†   (source)
  • Luckily, Link managed to sneak over to Earl Petty's house to watch MTV, or Who Shot Lincoln would never have become Jackson High's premier—and by premier, I mean only—rock band.†   (source)
  • Ron Kreet was telling the president that he had a call with the Russian premier in two minutes.†   (source)
  • A vice premier of the People's Republic was killed in a private massacre in Kowloon.†   (source)
  • The busy Rue de Richelieu was one of the most fashionable streets and the Hotel de Valois, at 17 Rue de Richelieu, a premier residence.†   (source)
  • President Kennedy receives Premier Khrushchev's letter just before 11:00 P.M. on October 24.†   (source)
  • He also anticipated that his store would become the premier place in New York City to find the finest in British and European fashions, fixture's, and notions.†   (source)
  • He was that Dr. Chan who was then Senator from Great China and also Great China's long-time number-one boy in Lunar Authority—and, much later, Vice-Chairman and Premier, shortly before his assassin.†   (source)
  • The Australian Grand Prix at that time was the premier motor race of the Southern Hemisphere, and it had been decided to advance the date of the race that year from November to August the 17th.†   (source)
  • You stay here and I'll go and get us all Premier Area badges.†   (source)
  • "Then I'm afraid you should have bought a Premier Area badge."†   (source)
  • This restaurant is for Premier badge holders only.†   (source)
  • Kill a Governor for the murder of a Vice-Premier?†   (source)
  • But what you're suggesting is morally reprehensible!" the premier said.†   (source)
  • 'This man is the Vice-Premier of the People's Republic, successor to the Chairman himself.'†   (source)
  • It started with a Vice-Premier of China in the Tsim Sha Tsui and four other men.†   (source)
  • The Vice-Premier, an old revolutionary and veteran of Mao's Long March, was especially vocal.†   (source)
  • He was the Vice-Premier of the People's Republic.'†   (source)
  • After all, what was the Vice-Premier doing in Kowloon, to begin with?†   (source)
  • This knowledge moved underground, resurfacing in Renaissance Europe, where, according to most accounts, it was entrusted to an elite group of scientists within the walls of Europe's premier scientific think tank—the Royal Society of London—enigmatically nicknamed the Invisible College.†   (source)
  • Without a word of orchestration, the head of the table was left to Bulganin, Khrushchev, Malenkov, Mikoyan, Molotov, and Voroshilov—the six most eminent members of the Party— with the two center seats reserved for Premier Malenkov and General Secretary Khrushchev.†   (source)
  • In England, the eligibility date is September 1, and in the football association's premier league at one point in the 1990s, there were 288 players born between September and November and only 136 players born between June and August.†   (source)
  • So, when everyone began to resume their places, Malenkov found himself stranded behind Khrushchev and Malyshev; and as the Premier of the Communist Party waited awkwardly for them to finish their conversation so that he could reclaim his seat, no one at the table even batted an eye.†   (source)
  • Much to the relief of the West, it seemed in the aftermath of the funeral that the man most likely to prevail was the progressive internationalist and outspoken critic of nuclear arms, Malenkov—because, like Stalin, he was appointed as both Premier of the Party and General Secretary of the Central Committee.†   (source)
  • They looked warm and cozy, and I guessed that was the Premier Area, listed next to some stratospheric price on the board in the ticket kiosk.†   (source)
  • So ten days later, Party Premier Malenkov was forced to pass his chairmanship of the Secretariat to the conservative Khrushchev, setting the stage for a duumvirate of antagonists—a delicate balance of authority between two men of contrary views and ambiguous alliances, which would keep the world guessing for a few years to come.†   (source)
  • How much is a Premier Area badge?†   (source)
  • Only Premier badge holders.†   (source)
  • Premier Vice-President†   (source)
  • Many things may be done in the name of Russian interests and without the premier's knowledge, but in this day and age not in the areas you describe.†   (source)
  • It was during our busy end-of-year exam preparation time, in January 1976, that the premier of China, Zhou Enlai, died.†   (source)
  • As the leading petty officer, he headed a twelve-man SEAL unit tasked with creating a premier maritime fighting force from the ranks of Colombia's marines.†   (source)
  • The Santa Anita Handicap, with its giant purse and world-class athletes, competing in what was rapidly becoming the nation's most heavily attended sport, became one of the premier radio events of the year.†   (source)
  • Fact: The Russian premier had canceled a trip to the Ukraine due to pressing matters connected with Russia's energy crisis.†   (source)
  • At forty-six, roughly the same age as Kennedy, Walter Cronkite is considered the nation's premier television newsman.†   (source)
  • The Soviet intelligence officer on that screen is General Rodchenko, second in command of the KGB and close adviser to the premier of the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • After a few hours of almost unbearable anticipation, the moment arrived: Chairman Mao, Madame Mao and the rest of the Gang of Four, the premier of China, Zhou Enlai, and many other central government leaders, appeared on the podium of the Gate of Heavenly Peace.†   (source)
  • In Moscow, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, fearing that Kennedy's popularity would lead to an erosion of support in East Berlin, quickly flew to that divided city to reassert his nation's claims.†   (source)
  • Fortier stood and faced France's leading men: the premier, Boisverte, who had just objected; President Gaetan, who was a weasel and would ultimately capitulate; Du Braeck, the minister of defense, who was the most valuable to Fortier; and the head of the secret police, the Surete', Chombarde, who was the only one without round eyes at the moment.†   (source)
  • His thoughts returned to the enigmatic Santos, the premier conduit in Carlos's army, the most trusted satellite in the Jackal's orbit, a man whose French might have been formed at the Sorbonne, yet Santos was a Latin American.†   (source)
  • Lastly, and most extraordinary, the PRC's Vice-Premier was murdered in Kowloon when no one in Peking knew he was there.†   (source)
  • He says the Premier of Bulgaria eats herring for breakfast.†   (source)
  • His bell could be heard ringing and his voice upraised: "Premier service.†   (source)
  • Premier d iner-First service.†   (source)
  • Amazingly many-sided fellow, the kind, one feels, that Jowett would have tipped for a future premier.†   (source)
  • "Oh, did you see the Premier?" exclaimed Anne at once.†   (source)
  • "Well, he never got to be Premier on account of his looks," said Marilla.†   (source)
  • They could take the premier now, instead of the little entresol of the hotel which they occupied.†   (source)
  • Who's the premier of Austro-Hungary?†   (source)
  • The poor Chancellor was not long in removing himself from this dangerous vicinity; nor did the commission waste time in giving the royal assent to the work of the slavish Parliament, and appointing the morrow for the beheading of the premier peer of England, the luckless Duke of Norfolk.†   (source)
  • He must, one thinks, be the jeune premier; for it is not in reason to suppose that a second such attractive male figure should appear in one story.†   (source)
  • It was a January the Premier came, to address his loyal supporters and such of his nonsupporters as chose to be present at the monster mass meeting held in Charlottetown.†   (source)
  • Most of the Avonlea people were on Premier's side of politics; hence on the night of the meeting nearly all the men and a goodly proportion of the women had gone to town thirty miles away.†   (source)
  • Marilla had a sneaking interest in politics herself, and as she thought it might be her only chance to see a real live Premier, she promptly took it, leaving Anne and Matthew to keep house until her return the following day.†   (source)
  • At first glance it might not seem that the decision of a certain Canadian Premier to include Prince Edward Island in a political tour could have much or anything to do with the fortunes of little Anne Shirley at Green Gables.†   (source)
  • It is true that every new premier and every new government, coming in because they had upheld a certain thing as necessary to be done, were no sooner come in than they applied their utmost faculties to discovering How not to do it.†   (source)
  • Ah, what a high and noble appreciation of Gentlewomanhood there must have been in Vanity Fair, when that revered and august being was invested, by the universal acclaim of the refined and educated portion of this empire, with the title of Premier Gentilhomme of his Kingdom.†   (source)
  • There was a Madame de Raudon, who certainly had a matinee musicale at Wildbad, accompanied by Herr Spoff, premier pianist to the Hospodar of Wallachia, and my little friend Mr. Eaves, who knew everybody and had travelled everywhere, always used to declare that he was at Strasburg in the year 1830, when a certain Madame Rebecque made her appearance in the opera of the Dame Blanche, giving occasion to a furious row in the theatre there.†   (source)
  • Her (the lady's) eyes, dark, large, looked at Stephen, about to smile about something to be admired, Lafayette of Westmoreland street, Dublin's premier photographic artist, being responsible for the esthetic execution.†   (source)
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