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  • And this is how, on any given evening, one could hear not one but two families calling for their respective Jeemees.†   (source)
  • 5 minutes, respectively.†   (source)
  • The three were quiet, each lost for a moment in their respective memories of the City of Light.†   (source)
  • When Usha and I graduated, the crew that watched me walk across the stage numbered eighteen, including my cousins Denise and Gail, the daughters, respectively, of Mamaw's brothers David and Pet.†   (source)
  • He turned and looked at the Keepers, who'd started to gather their respective work groups.†   (source)
  • That semester, fourteen of us left our respective corners of the United States and traveled to South Africa.†   (source)
  • One might even argue that if an animal could choose with intelligence, it would opt for living in a zoo, since the major difference between a zoo and the wild is the absence of parasites and enemies and the abundance of food in the first, and their respective abundance and scarcity in the second.†   (source)
  • Harry watched, astounded, as Dumbledore placed the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth keys in their respective locks, reopening the trunk each time, and revealing different contents each time.†   (source)
  • Christina and Will are seventh and ninth, respectively.†   (source)
  • They return to their respective previous positions with PETROCELLI at the podium.†   (source)
  • We stood in silence for a while and slowly started walking to our respective sleeping places, as the curfew was approaching.†   (source)
  • And Katherine has pointed out to me that it's been a long time since she and I have talked about our respective beliefs—the shared and private articles of our faith.†   (source)
  • No one is allowed to leave his respective building with keys, and no one is allowed to leave keys on a desk.†   (source)
  • And so their respective positions, which were to find public expression in the weeks and months to come, and then be pursued as demons in private for many years afterward, were established in these moments by the lake, with Briony's certainty rising whenever her cousin appeared to doubt herself.†   (source)
  • Even Ali's older JV field hockey friends had returned from their respective colleges; they stood in a teary huddle near the door.†   (source)
  • But soon enough they are conversing easily, as they had before, exchanging tales of their respective holidays.†   (source)
  • One night Wix Howard and "Little B o b " Turner, the grandsons of Samuel and William, respectively, played against each other in a game of poker.†   (source)
  • He was met with the disgruntled looks of Torin and four other government officials all sitting at a long table, along with an additional dozen faces peering out from their respective netscreens on the paneled wall before him.†   (source)
  • While the classes separated and moved to their respective areas, I asked my third and fourth graders to go to the back of the church to work on the blackboards.†   (source)
  • You will work in teams to prepare a reception for your respective guests, including a meal, entertainment, and gifts," Silvia explained.†   (source)
  • Neither he nor I had ever imagined we'd be able to talk so openly to a girl or a boy, respectively, about such intimate matters.†   (source)
  • Now, at seventeen, we don't even bother leaving our respective bedrooms until after the boys go home.†   (source)
  • In the hallway I could hear a gaggle of Americans, couples, laughing, saying their loud goodbyes as they parted for their respective rooms: old college friends, jobs in the financial sector, five-plus years of corporate law and Fiona entering first grade in the fall, all's well in Oaklandia, well goodnight then, God we love you guys, a life I might have had myself except I didn't want it.†   (source)
  • Angela had cousins, the MacNamara sisters, Delia and Philomena, married, respectively, to Jimmy Fortune of County Mayo, and Tommy Flynn, of Brooklyn itself.†   (source)
  • Weathers and Namba were unable to walk without being supported by Groom and Beidleman, respectively.†   (source)
  • Patrice and Martin have been commandeered by their father to teach French and mathematics respectively, even though this puts Martin in charge of children older than himself.†   (source)
  • Sarah and Mark both look stricken with fear, both holding their respective knives with white-knuckled grips in their right hands.†   (source)
  • Kassad knew that they had to decide upon a name for the battle so that their respective records would agree.†   (source)
  • Their choice of illness is quite telling: each of them elects to employ a fragile heart as a device to deceive the respective spouse, to be able to construct an elaborate personal fiction based on heart disease, to announce to the world that he or she suffers from a "bad heart."†   (source)
  • Jim and I spooned out what we wanted and we took it to our respective rooms.†   (source)
  • Most sat alone at their respective tables—Sherman Yang for Ares; a girl I did not know for Aphrodite; another girl for Demeter.†   (source)
  • She's surrounded by people: Liz and Sarah; Mike and Fitzy, Shooting Star's rhythm guitarist and bass player, respectively, plus a handful of Portland hipsters who I vaguely recognize.†   (source)
  • I discovered Claude Brown's Manchild In The Promised Land, Eldridge Cleaver's Soul On Ice, and the Autobiography of Malcolm X. I found poetry by Don L. Lee and LeRoi Jones (now known as Haki R. Madhubuti and Amiri Baraka, respectively).†   (source)
  • We went to our respective rooms, wishing to be alone.†   (source)
  • It was all very well to talk about attacking Hekate in her own Shadowrealm, but it was another thing entirely to sit at the entrance to her invisible kingdom and watch the cats and birds arrive, called by their respective mistresses, Bastet and the Morrigan.†   (source)
  • The staff plan would, furthermore, for each of the four resident employees mean a radical altering of our respective customary duties.†   (source)
  • Both quickly headed off to their respective campsites.†   (source)
  • Ben was drowsing with the reins held loosely in one hand when the wagon hit a stone and jarred us both out of our respective reveries.†   (source)
  • But even the C.E.T. delegates betrayed the fiction of that calm as they returned to their respective congregations.†   (source)
  • At the end of each school year the principal and teachers handed out certificates to the one student who had the highest academic achievement in the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades respectively.†   (source)
  • Each of us leaned against the wall beside our respective doors as our wives screamed and moaned away.†   (source)
  • The Acropolis was crowded with tourists milling about in their respective groups.†   (source)
  • Our respective roommates didn't care.†   (source)
  • These were, respectively, the nickname of former President Aristide and the year in which, judging from all the posters and graffiti I had seen around Cange, he would be reelected.†   (source)
  • The reporters had what they needed and headed back to their respective newsrooms.†   (source)
  • Both Eti and the Man with No Face intently maintain their respective poses.†   (source)
  • Roran and Katrina extended their left and right arms, respectively, and did as he instructed.†   (source)
  • We eventually wrote separate letters to our respective organizations in the general section advocating the idea of unity.†   (source)
  • On weekdays, their parents left their respective apartments not long after dawn for their long commutes to work.†   (source)
  • It's been a concern of mine for awhile that we've been getting too serious, and since I've been gone I've been thinking hard about our respective needs and whether our relationship is capable of filling them.†   (source)
  • Later, when he reflected on their respective plans, he was struck by the realization that of the two of them, she was more in charge of her own destiny than he was.†   (source)
  • Two of the most potent social campaigns of the past half-century were the civil rights movement and the feminist movement, which demonized discrimination against blacks and women, respectively.†   (source)
  • Then he marked them with their respective names so that all he had to do was read the inscription in order to identify them.†   (source)
  • Jae and I retreated to our respective cells.†   (source)
  • "Captain Carstairs, Captain Hunter, and Commander Barclay—they are, respectively, Invincible's commanding officer, my fleet operations officer, and my fleet intelligence officer."†   (source)
  • She had read them Walter Scott's Ivanhoe when Jeff and Johnny were six and seven, respectively.†   (source)
  • Saida and I brought it back to our school and became vice president and president, respectively.†   (source)
  • Both women shared the request with their respective church congregations, who promised more donations.†   (source)
  • Mayhap the day will come when it and you will learn their respective places.†   (source)
  • I made my first, but not my last, joke about our respective majors.†   (source)
  • "The twins will be called Jaime and Nicolas, respectively," she added.†   (source)
  • When the jar feeding the inside of his elbow was just about empty, the jar on the floor was just about full, and the two were simply uncoupled from their respective hoses and reversed quickly so that the liquid could be dripped right back into him.†   (source)
  • Their differences boiled down to their respective positions on the cheer squad.†   (source)
  • They knew each other through their respective books, and were soon talking excitedly.†   (source)
  • I stood, riveted, as the inmates spilled out of their respective cells like poison.†   (source)
  • There was almost a fistfight, and the two students were kept apart with difficulty by members of their respective sides.†   (source)
  • After the teams were announced, all the players stood on their respective baselines.†   (source)
  • New orders from his Excellency are read to the respective regiments every morning after prayers.†   (source)
  • "Must be their respective climates," offered the psychiatrist, smiling.†   (source)
  • Some of my teammates from Green Team were already packing their gear and deploying as brand-new assaulters with their respective squadrons.†   (source)
  • They came together, propositioned, bargained, and slowly worked out the consummation of their respective desires.†   (source)
  • One by one we jumped out of our respective rooms, fell about eight feet, then snapped our wings open and got some uplift.†   (source)
  • Everyone had been brought up to date by their respective advisors.†   (source)
  • In October of 1985, Dad, Mom, and my siblings (Christy, Katie, Robby, and Peter, who were nine, seven, four, and one respectively) left Florida for the Philippines.†   (source)
  • As they contended for rule of the city, the factions became known as the tigers and elephants, respectively.†   (source)
  • Caroline and John are Lyric and Lark, respectively.†   (source)
  • Blythe and Kate, the respective girlfriends of Kirk and Matt, were at a table together sharing a plate of pallid-looking nachos.†   (source)
  • I did not see him, so I began to tease the R. Company freshmen who were already lined like bottles in their respective squads.†   (source)
  • We were to be shipped out to our respective fronts in a matter of days, each of us assigned as medical assistants to bases that would serve the forward units.†   (source)
  • The difference between officers and enlisted men was smaller for Union soldiers: 78 percent of officers and 61 percent of enlisted men expressed patriotism; 49 and 36 percent, respectively, advanced various ideological themes, including opposition to slavery.†   (source)
  • The stairway, though, with the newel posts running clean through the hand-cut openings in the treads, and those pocket doors that glided almost silently into their respective walls: those were Junior's.†   (source)
  • Baz and Kurt are at the drums and keyboard, respectively.†   (source)
  • The same thing as if the State legislatures violated their respective constitutional authorities.†   (source)
  • The two crews immediately drew weapons and faced off, though each remained on its respective ship.†   (source)
  • Stalls and pens had been constructed there, and the mare, mules, hogs, and sheep loitered in their respective areas.†   (source)
  • The two eldest Glass boys, Seymour and Buddy, had moved into it in 1929, at the respective ages of twelve and ten, and had vacated it when they were twenty-three and twenty-one.†   (source)
  • He'd lost two partners in the MidEast Area of Operations, one in the Sandbox and one in the Rockpile, respectively.†   (source)
  • I knew they named their twin daughters after their respective grandmothers, Francine and Delilah.†   (source)
  • Each name had been affixed on small cards by the orderly Yetta and attached to the respective doors, and with motive no more suspect than my usual rapacious curiosity I had late the night before, tiptoed about the floors and copied the names down.†   (source)
  • In the midst of this—while PERCY and MARTHA reappear with a tray of food and a chair, respectively—JAMES comes down from the house with ANNIE'S suitcase, and stands viewing the room and her quizzically; ANNIE halts abruptly under his eyes, embarrassed, then seizes the suitcase from his hand, explaining herself brightly.†   (source)
  • The school toilets were in the boys' and girls' respective basements.†   (source)
  • They have been cheering on their respective friends, clapping in rhythm.†   (source)
  • Everyone volunteered, though, and the night was finally divided into three shifts, Barthelme, Frank, and Andy, respectively.†   (source)
  • After a few experimental dabs and smudges, the children settled down to their respective works of art.†   (source)
  • But this game, in their respective positions and with rules enforced by the stick, struck Galiullin as unsporting and mean.†   (source)
  • Each was a legend in his own lifetime—and occupying respectively the strategic border states of Missouri and Texas, it was inevitable that the choice that each would make as the country slowly drifted apart would affect the nature and outcome of the general struggle.†   (source)
  • Miss Hope Roberta Baxter, sixteen months, and Master Grant Roderick Throxton, thirteen months, stopped what they were doing, which was, respectively, slapping and crying.†   (source)
  • Timothy could not lift the veil, and the two other boys were busy being ten and eight years old, respectively.†   (source)
  • These are the things we are supposed to rejoice in the most, respectively.†   (source)
  • We walk at the same pace toward our respective doors.†   (source)
  • They'd known each other for some time through their respective fathers.†   (source)
  • Before they went into their respective homes, Rudy stopped a moment and said, "Goodbye, Saumensch."†   (source)
  • They also carved out their own respective roles in the social world.†   (source)
  • At last the three of them admitted defeat and withdrew to their respective bodies.†   (source)
  • If I group them by their respective paragraphs, they spell out three words.†   (source)
  • I suppose that some of our differences stem from our respective upbringings.†   (source)
  • We rinse out the used cans and empty bottles and put them in their respective bins.†   (source)
  • Percy and Jason climbed on their respective horses.†   (source)
  • Even their subsequent respective husbands have been understanding.†   (source)
  • Narheim, the commander of the dwarves, and Garzhvog were both with their respective troops.†   (source)
  • Now, when I instruct you to, I want you to open the doors and step inside your respective rooms.†   (source)
  • We were shown to our respective cells and locked down.†   (source)
  • Exchange for exchange, like walking across a bridge with our respective prisoners in tow.†   (source)
  • We understand each other as well as our respective responsibilities, so let me recapitulate.†   (source)
  • The construction and carpentry shops were led by Mr. King and Mr. Thomas, respectively.†   (source)
  • The two burst into laughter and disappeared into their respective stalls.†   (source)
  • As the lighted giants stepped closer and closer, Minho and Harriet spoke to their respective groups, moving them around, positioning them, their shouts and commands torn away by the wind before Thomas could hear anything.†   (source)
  • He, his brother, and their respective wives had moved into a big two-story home three houses down across the street from us.†   (source)
  • Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism each have founder figures—Muhammad, Jesus, and the Buddha, respectively.†   (source)
  • Het Masteen said, "I thought it had been agreed that we would tell our respective stories after the dinner hour."†   (source)
  • Transmission times at the 2,800 MHz, 12,000 MHz, and 22,000 MHz channels are 1,183 minutes, 224 minutes, and 132 minutes respectively.†   (source)
  • One morning, my roommate and I were in our tight five-by-eight room, sitting on our respective wooden chairs, shining our shoes.†   (source)
  • They both knew that they would end up in bed together, and in less than a week they realised this conviction without telling their respective partners.†   (source)
  • This was years later, in 1968, the year after Suleiman's mother died, and also the year both Mr. Bashiri and his brother became fathers, boys they had named, respectively, Idris and Timur.†   (source)
  • They return to their respective tables and the JUDGE nods to the COURT STENOGRAPHER, who straightens up, ready to take down the day's proceedings.†   (source)
  • He wonders how his parents had done it, leaving their respective families behind, seeing them so seldom, dwelling unconnected, in a perpetual state of expectation, of longing.†   (source)
  • Our reason for instituting such meetings was simple: we had found that our respective lives were often so busy, several days could go by without our having an opportunity to exchange even the most basic of information.†   (source)
  • With the mail clerk's departure, Emile and Andrey looked down at their respective envelopes in wonder.†   (source)
  • I don't think he took any notice of the steel bands girdling her hips, or the four-inch bolts that penetrated her feet and were welded to their respective nuts under the stage.†   (source)
  • Schoening and Beidleman, barely able to speak, told the Russian where to find the five clients who'd remained behind out in the elements and then collapsed in their respective tents, utterly spent.†   (source)
  • Before they proceeded to their respective homes, Rudy's voice reached over and handed Liesel the truth.†   (source)
  • Listening closely, the Count could hear the brushing of respective teeth, the opening of drawers, and the donning of pajamas.†   (source)
  • They had firm plans to join forces and attempt Manaslu-a difficult 26,781-foot peak in central Nepal-immediately after guiding their respective clients up Everest in 1996.†   (source)
  • The book is broken up into eight chapters, corresponding to eight years that had a decisive impact on our respective lives.†   (source)
  • Indeed, although one could not see out far that day on account of the encroaching mist, and the daylight too was rapidly fading by this stage, obliging Miss Kenton to hold her needlework up to the last of it, I remember our often breaking off from our respective activities simply to gaze out at the views around us.†   (source)
  • Translator's Note: this is the Chinese term for the work behind "596" and "Test No. 6," the successful tests for China's first fission and fusion nuclear bombs, respectively.†   (source)
  • She decides to send a card to each of them, shifting the respective name to the top of the card: to her husband's apartment in Cleveland, to Gogol in New York, adding Maxine's name, too.†   (source)
  • With the rumble of the brand-new Metro underfoot, they pause before three of the great windows at TsUM, the Central Universal Department Store, which respectively showcase a pyramid of hats, a pyramid of watches, and a pyramid of high-heeled shoes.†   (source)
  • At first, they entertained thoughts of sharing the fruit at their respective homes, but there was considerable danger in that.†   (source)
  • Ashima's pet name is Monu, Ashoke's is Mithu, and even as adults, these are the names by which they are known in their respective families, the names by which they are adored and scolded and missed and loved.†   (source)
  • Last issue, in "A New, Powerful Radiation Source Within the Solar System," Dr. Harry Peterson of Mount Wilson Observatory published a set of data accidentally obtained while observing Jupiter's precession on June 12 and July 2, during which strong electromagnetic radiation was detected, lasting 81 seconds and 76 seconds, respectively.†   (source)
  • And if the plan to fix lines had been intentionally abandoned, there would have been no reason for Lopsang and Ang Dorje to depart with the 300 feet of rope that each Slier a carried when they p set out from Camp Four at the front of their respective teams.†   (source)
  • The Saturday of the wedding they pack suitcases, rent a car, and drive down to New Jersey, separating only when they get to the hotel, where they are claimed one last time by their respective families.†   (source)
  • They were married seven years later, settled in Seattle, and had two children, Andy and Katie Rose (who were nine and five, respectively, when Scott went to Everest in 1996).†   (source)
  • Ascending the stairs to my room I passed a large four-color poster titled "Himalayan Trilogy," depicting Everest, K2, and Lhotse-the planet's highest, second highest, and fourth-highest mountains, respectively Superimposed against the images of these peaks, the poster showed a grinning, bearded man in full alpine regalia.†   (source)
  • He recognizes a few familiar faces tonight: Edith and Colin, who teach sociology at Princeton and Yale, respectively, and Louise and Blake, both Ph.D. candidates, like Moushumi, at NYU.†   (source)
  • He hit the brakes, swerving slightly, as two other cups crashed against the back door and sunroof, respectively.†   (source)
  • Had his contribution as a member of Congress been only that of casting the two Virginians in their respective, fateful roles, his service to the American cause would have been very great.†   (source)
  • Kirsten and I were always being told by photographers that while we had pretty faces, we were too plump or too short, respectively, to get serious print work.†   (source)
  • Two of the others in his platoon, Matt and Kevin—Mad Dog and K-Man, respectively—were with them, and the training of the corps kicked in.†   (source)
  • The two of them lingered in their respective positions while the sun declined before them, the birds sang their evening songs, and the air grew cool and moist.†   (source)
  • Little Walder quartered the twin towers of Frey with the brindled boar of his grandmother's House and the plowman of his mother's: Crakehall and Darry, respectively.†   (source)
  • Lincoln himself urged the legislature to convene during a visit to Richmond the previous week, saying that "the prominent and influential men of their respective counties should come together and undo their own work."†   (source)
  • Nix and Valya offered names of counties and baronies and their respective rulers, but it was nothing more than random snippets they'd overheard from the goblins or others on the emerging trade roads.†   (source)
  • They were decorated with the logos of the civil service union HTF and the Christian Democratic Party, respectively.†   (source)
  • The Fifth and Fourth Cohorts regrouped while the Second and Third acted as riot police, shoving centaurs and cynocepbali and two-headed men back into their respective camps.†   (source)
  • Instead, in my mind, it would all come down to one class and its respective rules and theorems, dragging down my GPA and me with it.†   (source)
  • Seventy-three Americans, forty-six French, thirty-nine and twenty-four Australians and British respectively, and an estimated fifty white male contacts recruited from neutrals in Hanoi and trained in the field-most of them we never knew.†   (source)
  • Whenever Sumner was over, everyone came out of their respective hiding places: my mother from the kitchen, my father from in front of the TV, all of us migrating towards his voice and laughter, or whatever it was that made everyone want to be around him.†   (source)
  • Smalljon Umber and Robin Flint sat near Robb, to the other side of Fair Walda and Alyx, respectively.†   (source)
  • Hengorot immediately burst into commotion as the men dashed from their seats and scrambled to join the assembling groups of their respective tribes.†   (source)
  • When they were younger and on vacation together, or away on business, sharing a suite or taking adjoining rooms and keeping the connecting door open so they could talk from their respective beds well into the night, Edgar sometimes managed to angle the mirrors in such a way that he could catch a glimpse—by taking the free-standing antique in an old inn, the cheval glass, for example, and simply moving it to another part of the floor, or opening the medicine cabinet to a certain…†   (source)
  • His tranquility was soon disrupted when a herd of unruly children dashed through the garden of a nearby house, shrieking with delight at their game of Catch-the-Cat, followed by a number of adults intent on snaring their respective charges.†   (source)
  • Even under those circumstances Aureliano and Fernanda did not share their solitude, but both continued living on their own, cleaning their respective rooms while the cobwebs fell like snow on the rose bushes, carpeted the beams, cushioned the walls.†   (source)
  • Right after stopping thechampionship bout, the angry teacher had ended school early and sent word to the fighters' respective families.†   (source)
  • With only a third grade and grade school education, respectively, Grampy and Granny had nothing to offer their ten children but God, love, and a roof over their head.†   (source)
  • Disregard for a moment the contrary examples of Steve Forbes, Michael Huffington, and especially Thomas Golisano, who over the course of three gubernatorial elections in New York spent $93 million of his own money and won 4 percent, 8 percent, and 14 percent, respectively, of the vote.†   (source)
  • Would we have ended up like Uncle Ted and Aunt Olivia—bitter, divorced, financially insolvent, and living in Cleveland and Reno, respectively?†   (source)
  • IN MARCH, after much negotiation within our respective parties, we scheduled our first face-to-face meeting with Mr. de Klerk and the government.†   (source)
  • These were some of the thoughts Christian mulled over as he convalesced in Coronado while Adam, Austin (who was also assigned to SEAL Team FOUR), and most of the other graduates headed to Fort Benning, Georgia, for three weeks of airborne training before checking in at their respective teams.†   (source)
  • As the Monterrey Industrial team set their sights on Louisville, Kentucky, the cities of New York, Chicago and San Francisco also prepared to receive Little Leaguers for their respective regional tournaments.†   (source)
  • We don't know how much each of these men were responsible for their respective governments, or if the people gave them the authority.†   (source)
  • He explained about their respective disabilities, and he spent some time describing their personalities and what it had been like to study under them.†   (source)
  • Newt knew Bolivar and Mr. Gus were just insulting one another to pass the time, but it still made him nervous when they did it, particularly late in the day, when they had both been hitting their respective jugs for several hours.†   (source)
  • On a Shabbat or festival morning, the members of each sect could be seen walking to their respective synagogues, dressed in their particular garb, eager to pray with their particular rabbi and forget the tumult of the week and the hungry grabbing for money which they needed to feed their large families during the seemingly endless Depression.†   (source)
  • We'd taken to meeting there sometimes in the evening, between our respective homework and work schedules, if only for a few moments.†   (source)
  • At night, we stayed up late talking, from our respective beds, because even now, every night seemed closer to the night that could be our last.†   (source)
  • He approached the leading limousine; the flags of Great Britain and the People's Republic were displayed respectively on the right and left, indicating that England was the host, China the guest.†   (source)
  • The photo session went swiftly, interrupted by Cactus's reshaping his eyebrows with a toothbrush and a spray for the three separate shots and changing shirts and jackets — Cactus had a wardrobe worthy of a costume supply house — and wearing in turn two pairs of glasses — tortoiseshell and steel-rimmed — which altered his hazel eyes respectively to blue and brown.†   (source)
  • The two of them soon sank into their respective dreams, which mingled in strange and wonderful ways, for their minds remained linked even then.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was just that school was out, we weren't riding together, and we were both busy with our respective jobs, where things hadn't slowed down, even after Christmas.†   (source)
  • The rest of us have had the benefit of many years leading our respective forces, or watching others lead.†   (source)
  • His system was reduced to coordinating a series of individual actions which in one master stroke covering the whole nation would liquidate the functionaries of the regime along with their respective families, especially the children, in order to exterminate Conservatism at its roots.†   (source)
  • Their respective tribes had been warring for many years, as long as any living member of either group could remember.†   (source)
  • After fending off scores of questions from Orrin about his stay among the elves, Eragon found himself smiling and nodding politely as one earl after another paraded past, each of whom insisted on shaking his hand, telling him what an honor it was to meet a Rider, and inviting him to their respective estates.†   (source)
  • The President may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective officers.†   (source)
  • They had arrived from all over the world: ancient crones in wheelchairs, welldressed men and women, and handfuls of college students wearing the sweatshirts of their respective universities.†   (source)
  • They moved on then from tactics to logistics, and here the debate became far more acrimonious as the Council of Elders argued with Orrin's advisers over the distribution of responsibilities between the Varden and Surda: who should pay for this or that, provide rations for laborers who worked for both groups, manage the provisions for their respective warriors, and how numerous other related subjects should be dealt with.†   (source)
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