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It is a term suggested by Peter T. Daniels to replace the common terms " consonantary ", " consonantal alphabet " or " syllabary " to refer to the family of scripts called West Semitic.
* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.
Thus, in an agent-focused account, such as one that Peter Railton outlines, the actor might be concerned with the general welfare, but the actor is more concerned with the immediate welfare of herself and her friends and family.
In 1954, when Camilla was nine, the family moved back to Saint Peter, because of seven-year-old Nan's poor health.
" In many portraits ( particularly those painted by Peter Fendi ) he was portrayed as the patriarch of a loving family, surrounded by his children and grandchildren.
In his book, Tarzan, My Father, Johnny Weissmuller Jr. stated that although rumors of Peter Weissmüller living to " a ripe old age, remarrying along the way and spawning a large brood of little Weissmüllers " were reported, no one in the family was aware of his ultimate fate.
Peter W. Edbury, on the other hand, argues that William, as well as the thirteenth-century authors who continued William's chronicle in French and were allied to Raymond's supporters in the Ibelin family, cannot be considered impartial.
As a boy, the young Peter Wimsey was, to the great distress of his father, strongly attached to an old, smelly poacher living at the edge of the family estate.
As a footnote, Lord Peter Wimsey has also been included by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer as a member of the Wold Newton family ; and Laurie R. King's detective character Mary Russell meets up with Lord Peter at a party in the novel A Letter of Mary.
Anbessa Tefera and Peter Unseth consider the poorly attested Shabo language to be Nilo-Saharan, though unclassified within the family due to lack of data ; Dimmendaal considers it to be a language isolate on current evidence.
He was elected — probably handpicked — by Marozia from the Tusculani family, as a stop-gap measure until her own son John was ready to assume the chair of Saint Peter.
Members of the O ' Malley family include Kevin and Brian O ' Malley, who are the sons of former Dodgers owner Peter O ' Malley and grandsons of Walter O ' Malley, the owner who moved the Dodgers west from Brooklyn after the 1957 season.
It was Okolnichi Peter Andreevich Tolstoy who decided the family fortune by casting his lot with the party of Peter the Great.
The family was originally seated in Row 19, in seats C, D, and E ; however, Peter placed the call to his father from seat 30E.
The business, now in its 3rd generation was started by Eric, then passed down the family to Michael and then to Peter Jackson.
The precise number of children in the family was historically contentious: the commentary on 30 May in the Acta Sanctorum, for example, initially states that they were nine, before describing Peter as the tenth child.
With Peter II's attachment to Prince Ivan Dolgorukov, and with two of their family members on the Supreme State Council, they had the leverage for a successful coup.
Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity.
In June 1975, Cutler, together with Dick Hustvedt and Peter Lippman, were appointed the technical project leaders for the software project, code-named Starlet, to develop a totally new operating system for the Star family of processors.
He was descended from the Jansen ( a. k. a. Johnson ) family of New Amsterdam, and included among his ancestors the Huguenot Jacques Cortelyou, who laid out the first town plan of New Amsterdam for Peter Stuyvesant.

Peter and proved
His performance proved unpopular with fans of the series, who criticised him for taking over the role from actor Peter Graves and playing the character as one of the villains.
In retaliation, Fell leased the university's bible printing to three rogue Stationers, Moses Pitt, Peter Parker, and Thomas Guy, whose sharp commercial instincts proved vital to fomenting Oxford's bible trade.
The Battle of Narva proved a grave setback for Peter the Great, but the shift of Charles XII's army to the Polish-Saxon threat soon afterwards, instead of pursuing Peter, provided the latter with an opportunity to recover and gain ground in the Baltic provinces.
Alfonso's involvement in the affairs of Languedoc, which would cost the life of his successor, Peter II of Aragon, for the moment proved highly beneficial, strengthening Aragonese trade and stimulating emigration from the north to colonise the newly reconquered lands in Aragon.
This result can be proved more directly, as for example in notes by Peter Shor.
Styling of this little car was by Peter Kirwan-Taylor ( better known for his work with Colin Chapman of Lotus cars ), but it proved to be too heavy for the diminutive engine to endow it with adequate performance.
From here one descends into the " Platonica ", a construction at the rear of the basilica that was long believed to have been the temporary resting place for Peter and Paul, but was in fact ( as proved by excavation ) a tomb for the martyr Quirinus, bishop of Sescia in Pannonia, whose remains were brought here in the 5th century.
Although the Johnson family had a history of Jacobitism, William Johnson's uncle Peter Warren was raised as a Protestant to enable him to pursue a career in the British Royal Navy, which proved to be highly successful and lucrative.
By now the show had proved a hit, and several notable stars appeared in later productions, including Leslie Phillips, Miranda Richardson, Lionel Jeffries, Nicholas Parsons, Peter Capaldi, Kate Bush, Richard Vernon, Ruby Wax, Graham Crowden, Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Elvis Costello, and Benjamin Zephaniah ( as a Rastafarian police van driver ) and several musical acts, particularly from the Bad News series which was also aided by Queen guitarist Brian May, such as Def Leppard and Marillion.
Farr's design Young America ( USA-36 ) proved faster than the other American sailed yachts, but was unsuccessful in defending the Cup in the 1995 Finals, losing 0-5 to a Davidson designed Black Magic of New Zealand, led by the late Sir Peter Blake.
Peter and Ben were told by Trainer that Ben was the real Peter Parker, and Peter was the clone ( which later proved to be a lie ).
It was initially proved by Hermann Weyl, with his student Fritz Peter, in the setting of a compact topological group G.
In 482 the Greek Church of Alexandria passed to Peter III, who proved to be a miaphysite, despite the condemnation of this christological opinion at the Council of Chalcedon.
" By At World's End, Peter Travers felt it proved " there can indeed be too much of a good thing.
This proved important for some-neither New Zealand First nor United would have entered parliament if not for Winston Peters and Peter Dunne retaining their seats.
Working for the newspaper has proved to be an effective apprenticeship for many prominent journalists at the onset of their careers, including Gary Bushell the brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens.
His £ 300, 000 record signing Peter Swan proved to be a disaster as the player had an awful relationship with both his teammates and the fans.
Despite this the season proved popular with its young audience who watched in large numbers, even denting the figures for the popular BBC magazine programme, " Blue Peter ".
No Republican had served as governor of Alabama since David Peter Lewis vacated the office in 1874, and George Wallace's organization proved insurmountable despite an early poll that placed Martin within range of victory.
On the ice, Peter proved to be both consistent and productive.

Peter and wonderful
Peter Fluck, a creator of the show, commented, " Louise Gold always did the Queen and the mannerisms and facial expressions she put into it were wonderful.
Peter of course declines after May's insistence that MJ has a " wonderful personality ".
A running gag occurred when Peter ( and on one occasion, Harry as well ) shuddered every time " wonderful personality " was used in reference to Mary Jane due to the fact it is usually believed that someone who is described with a " wonderful personality " means they are hideous in appearance.
Composer Peter Eötvös explains: " In the opera version, I put less emphasis on the political line than Kushner ... I rather focus on the passionate relationships, on the highly dramatic suspense of the wonderful text, on the permanently uncertain state of the visions.
Thus, the novel Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, will not be classified as fantasy, but in the wonderful ( specifically in the fantasy ), but its film adaptation by Peter Jackson will be classified as fantasy.
In the 1970s Peter Hall wrote " what a wonderful play it would be if – as Coward must have wanted – all those love affairs were about homosexuals ".
In Australia there are also many wonderful musicians who play the theatre organ, with Margaret Hall, Wendy Hambly, Peter Carroll-Held, David Johnston, Bill Schumacher, Tony Fenelon, John Giacchi, Paul Fitzgerald, John Atwell, Robert Wetherall and Chris McPhee being among the most prolific.
However, it is the opinion of Lord Peter ’ s mother, the Dowager Duchess that " It ’ s that wonderful man of his who keeps him in order ... so intelligent ... a perfect autocrat.
Wolfson called the unions a " wonderful step forward ," but not enough .< ref name = Freiberg033001 > Peter Freiberg, Wolfson leaves Lambda to focus on freedom-to-marry work, March 30, 2001, Washington Blade, via Freedom to Marry's Geocities website.

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