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It also uses the longest mass transit-only bridge, the Skybridge, to cross the Fraser River.
In the 2010 movie Extraordinary Measures, Dr. Robert Stonehill ( Harrison Ford ) uses the phrase during his conversation with John Crowley ( Brendan Fraser ) referring to chance of approval for sibling trial ( a clinical trial ) of an enzyme developed for treatment of Pompe ; John Crowley's two kids are suffering from Pompe.
The dialect of the Lower Lillooet people uses the name Ucwalmícwts as St ’ át ’ imcets properly means " the language of the people of Sat ’, i. e. the Upper Lillooet of the Fraser River.
When relatives of Comanche captives demand that Army Major Fraser ( John McIntire ) free them, he uses a combination of army pressure and high pay to get the reluctant McCabe to take on the job of ransoming any he can find.
* Claire Fraser, a medical practitioner and principal character in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series of novels, often uses maggots for debridement of necrotic tissue in her patients ' wounds.

Fraser and them
Fraser indicated that the Opposition's decision to defer the appropriation bills, rather than defeating them, was a tactical decision, since then the bills would remain in the control of the Senate and could be passed at any time.
The dryland area inland from the Cascade Range and Coast Mountains is very different from the terrain and climate of the Coast, and comprises the Columbia, Fraser and Thompson Plateaus and mountain ranges contained within them.
There are fines for feeding Fraser Island's dingo population or leaving food or rubbish which may attract them.
A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.
On 22 October 1975, Hugh and Antonia Fraser, together with Caroline Kennedy, who was visiting them at their Holland Park home, in Kensington, west London, were almost blown up by an IRA car bomb placed under the wheels of his Jaguar, which had been triggered to go off at 9 am when he left the house ; the bomb exploded killing a noted cancer researcher, Gordon Hamilton-Fairley.
He and his wife, who died in October 2002 at the age of 96, had eight children, among them the writers Lady Antonia Fraser, Lady Rachel Billington, Lady Judith Kazantzis, diplomat Sir Michael Pakenham and Thomas Pakenham ( the 8th Earl of Longford ).
The Longfords had eight children, among them the writers Lady Antonia Fraser, Lady Rachel Billington, and Thomas Pakenham.
An example of the usage of this word is as follows: "... Thomas Fraser, Gregor Van Iveren and John Schaver having some time since been Confirmed by the Committee of the County of Albany for being Persons disaffected to the Cause of America and whose going at large may be dangerous to the State, Ordered Thereupon that a Mittimus be made out to keep them confined till such time as they be discharged by the Board or any other three of the Commissioners.
The band explained that Four-Calendar Café was a response to the turmoil that had engulfed them in the intervening years, with Guthrie entering rehab and quitting alcohol and drugs, and Fraser undergoing psychotherapy.
Elizabeth Fraser provided guest vocals on Future Sound of London's single " Lifeforms " ( 1993 ), vocals for three songs on Massive Attack's Mezzanine in 1998 ( as well as touring with them several times ), and for other musical projects and groups.
Although the light infantry broke, General Fraser was trying to rally them, encouraging his men to hold their positions when Benedict Arnold arrived.
The lyrics of vocalist Elizabeth Fraser are more intelligible ; many of them concern her newborn daughter Lucy Belle.
Fraser proved adept at establishing friendly relations with the tribes he met, being careful to have them send word to tribes downstream of his impending arrival and good intentions.
This enabled the carving of the many immense jade boulders which line the banks and bed of the Fraser and Bridge Rivers, which were on the one hand immovable and on the other would shatter or striate if blasting was used to break them.
A half-century later, one of them ( George MacDonald Fraser, later author of the Flashman novels, then a nineteen-year-old lance corporal ) recalled :" But the biggest boost to morale was the burly man who came to talk to the assembled battalion … it was unforgettable.
*( 1 ) Elizabeth, daughter of George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly and Elizabeth Keith, by whom he had two daughters, one of them Elizabeth Stewart, wife of Hugh Fraser, 5th Baron Lovat ( this union led to descent of James Monroe, 5th President of the U. S. A .), Robert Stewart, 6th Earl of Lennox and James Stewart, Earl of Arran ; and
When Japan entered the war, Fraser had to choose between recalling New Zealand's forces to the Pacific ( as Australia had done ) or keeping them in the Middle East ( as Winston Churchill requested ).
Fraser was made a lance corporal four times, but was reduced to private three times for minor offences, one of them losing a tea urn.
He was told by General Fraser and Luc de la Corne, the agent leading the Native Americans, that such an act would cause the defection of all the Native Americans and might cause them to take revenge as they went back north.
The numbering of the Scottish Lordship used by Clan Fraser differs from the legal numbering in that it ignores the attainder of 1747 — 1854, with the result that the 16th Lord is termed by them " 18th Lord Lovat ".
Boka has captured many writers of travels from England, Germany and France, among them: Padget, Lamb, Fraser, Gilles Verne and Pierre Loti.
Fraser also left church government in the hands of Lisu elders ; very little imprint was made on them that had a home church character, other than the tremendous prayer support the Fraser organised back in England for the Lisu and his work.
He has seven siblings, among them Lady Antonia Fraser, a writer who was married to playwright Harold Pinter ; Lady Rachel Billington, also a writer and married to director Kevin Billington ; Judith Kazantzis, a poet ; and Kevin Pakenham, who currently works in the City of London.

Fraser and make
Thinking it unlikely that Kerr would grant the election without supply, Fraser warned Whitlam that the Governor-General might make up his own mind about the matter.
By that time Fraser, confident of victory, was content to sit back, avoid specifics and make no mistakes.
Jean's first husband's neurotic sister Penny ( Moyra Fraser ), who always calls Jean " Poor Jean ", and her dentist husband, Stephen ( Paul Chapman ), who once accidentally declined the OBE, also make many appearances.
When he failed to make any headway against Whitlam, Fraser mounted a second challenge, and Snedden was deposed in March 1975, becoming the first leader of the Liberal Party not to gain the Prime Ministership.
Another recurring gag is Fraser standing guard motionlessly in front of the Canadian consulate, while a passerby attempts to make him move or speak.
In addition, through the several trades that brought in Fraser Clair, Shayne Fryia, and goaltender David Chant as well as the great play of rookie Jan Platil the Colts looked to make a deep run into the playoffs the following season.
2005 was the first year that the Spirit failed to make the playoffs, but nonetheless they had a good season, finishing with the 2nd best record in the league behind Quebec and drawing over 100, 000 fans to Fraser Field for the second consecutive season.
When Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser called a snap election in February 1983, it was Button who told Hayden that he must resign immediately to make way for Bob Hawke.
High School teams Fraser, De La Salle, Chippewa, and Ford High II make GLSC their home rink.
" Of Dirk Bogarde, Fraser wrote, " Dirk's life with Forwood had been so respectable, their love for each other so profound and so enduring, it would have been a glorious day for the pursuit of understanding and the promotion of tolerance if he had screwed up the courage ... to make one dignified allusion to his true nature.

Fraser and Henry
However since the release of Antonia Fraser The Wives of Henry VIII in 1994, and David Starkey's 2004 book on the six wives, Catherine's first husband has been identified as Sir Edward Borough.
: Two weeks in every 18, the ' variety puzzle ' in the Sunday edition is a cryptic crossword, usually by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, Richard Silvestri, or Fraser Simpson.
Those original homes were built by Robert Baird, John Black, John Burke, Hyrum Cook, John Dickson, Robert Fraser, William Graham, David Lewis, Gilbert Marchant, Alfred Nebeker, William Partridge, William Simmons, George Taggart, Henry Tucker, Franklin Turnbow, Lemuel Willis, W. W. Willis and George Harston.
* Don " Sugarcane " Harris, Randy Resnick, Aynsley Dunbar, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser ( Free ), Chris Mercer, Henry Lowther, Johnny Almond and Jon Mark ( later of Mark-Almond ).
* Fraser, Antonia, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, ISBN 0-7493-1409-5
** Alexander Fraser ( proprietor ), John MacGillivray, Robert Henry, Louis Versailles, Charles Messier, Pierre Hurteau ;
He marticulated in 1869 at Edinburgh University, where he made a special study of classics under Professors William Young Sellar and J. S. Blackie, while he began to study philosophy under Professor Campbell Fraser, in whose class and in that of Professor Henry Calderwood ( on moral philosophy ) he gained the highest prizes.
* 1884 / 85 Edward Henry Fraser
George Orwell, in reply to a letter from Philip Rahv requesting names of possible contributors for PR, offered the following: Alex Comfort, Henry Treece, Alun Lewis, William Rogers, G. S. Fraser, Roy Fuller, Kathleen Raine, who all contributed to Poetry London.
Garel-Jones was portrayed by Hugh Fraser in the 2004 BBC production of The Alan Clark Diaries, and by Guy Henry in 2009's Margaret.
These included James Earle Fraser, Frances Grimes, Henry Hering, Charles Keck, Mary Lawrence, Frederick MacMonnies, Philip Martiny, Helen Mears, Robert Paine, Alexander Phimister Proctor, Louis Saint-Gaudens, Elsie Ward and Adolph Alexander Weinman.
Too Late the Hero is a 1970 Anglo-American war film directed by Robert Aldrich, and starring Michael Caine, Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Ken Takakura, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen, Lance Percival, Ronald Fraser, Harry Andrews and Percy Herbert.
Famous non-Japanese buried at Aoyama Reien include the British minister plenipotentiary Hugh Fraser who died in the post in 1894, Captain Francis Brinkley, Guido Verbeck, Henry Spencer Palmer, Edoardo Chiossone, Joseph Heco, Julius Scriba and several others.
He was mentored by the Iroquois chiefs George Henry Martin Johnson and John Fraser, whom he met while visiting the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation.
On 5 December 1919, Captain Cedric E. Howell and Lieutenant George Henry Fraser left London in a Martinsyde Type A Mk. I ( G-EAMR ) aircraft.
Entomologists who left a mark include William Stephen Atkinson ( 1820 – 1876 ), E. Brunetti ( 1862 – 1927 ), Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher ( 1878 – 1950 ), Sir George Hampson ( 1860 – 1936 ), H. E. Andrewes ( 1863 – 1950 ), G. M. Henry ( 1891 – 1983 ), Colonel C. T. Bingham ( 1848 – 1908 ), William Monad Crawford ( 1872 – 1941 ), W. H. Evans ( 1876 – 1956 ), Michael Lloyd Ferrar, F. C. Fraser ( 1880 – 1963 ), Harold Maxwell-Lefroy ( 1877 – 1925 ), Frederic Moore ( 1830 – 1907 ), Samarendra Maulik ( 1881 – 1950 ), Lionel de Nicéville ( 1852 – 1901 ), Ronald A. Senior-White ( 1891 – 1954 ), Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson ( 1840 – 1890 ) and Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ).
Notman's reputation and business grew over the next three decades, the first Canadian photographer with an international reputation, and he operated his business as a partnership with other noted Canadian artists, initially John Arthur Fraser and then Henry Sandham, whom he also mentored.
After a short residence at Heidelberg ( 1871 ), where he began his study of German philosophy, he returned to Edinburgh as assistant first to Henry Calderwood and later to A. Campbell Fraser ; he joined the staff of the Encyclopædia Britannica ( 9th edition ) ( 1874 ) and studied widely in the Advocates ' Library.
At the time, Henry Bell-Irving went so far as to contended that the Fraser fishery was "' practically a thing of the past.
* Antonia Fraser, The Wives of Henry VIII, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992, ISBN 0-394-58538-0
Plans to create a National Seashore were complicated when, in October 1968, Tom, Henry, and Andrew Carnegie sold three thousand acres of the island to a developer named Charles Fraser, who had developed part of Hilton Head, SC with a commitment to preserving its biodiversity and beauty.
Famous non-Japanese buried at Aoyama Reien include the British minister plenipotentiary Hugh Fraser who died in the post in 1894, Captain Francis Brinkley, Guido Verbeck, Henry Spencer Palmer, Edoardo Chiossone, Joseph Heco, Edwin Dun, Mary True and several others.

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