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In the sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, Luke receives extensive Jedi training from the elderly ( and only surviving ) Jedi Master Yoda ( Frank Oz ), even as he learns that Vader is in fact his father, former Jedi Anakin Skywalker.
Sidney, Arthur's friend and member of the team, receives the visit of his former wife Sandy with his alleged son Seymour ( Seymour comically resembles Sidney very much ).
Soon Marianne receives a curt letter enclosing their former correspondence and love tokens, including a lock of her hair and informing her of his engagement to a young lady of large fortune.
After putting an end to the tense situation, the two arrive on Bandomeer, where Qui-Gon receives a letter signed by his former apprentice, Xanatos.
When Nick lays hands on him he receives a jolt of tremendous psychic energy ; the former partner immediately dies.
It receives the Lackawanna River southwest of Scranton and turns sharply to the southwest, flowing through the former anthracite industrial heartland in the mountain ridges of northeastern Pennsylvania, past Wilkes-Barre, Nanticoke, Berwick, Bloomsburg, and Danville.
The band is run by Terry Whittingham, a former Band Master for the Queen's Royal Highlanders, and is always lead by the Senior Drum Major who, along with the pupil Band Captain, receives ceremonial buttons after being appointed.
* 日本前首相吉田茂訪華 Secretary General Chang receives former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshida in 1964
In geology, chott or shebka ( of the former the spelling is French, it is pronounced, and sometimes spelled, shott ; from Arabic šaṭṭ شط " bank, coast ", from a root šṭṭ " exceed, deviate ") is a dry ( salt ) lake in the Saharan area of Africa that stays dry in the summer, but receives some water in the winter.
In November 2009, he gave a lengthy interview to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in which he complained about what he considers to be inadequate treatment he receives in Germany as a former great.
Soon after, Garibaldi receives ultraviolet orders to apprehend or kill Dr. Everett Jacobs, former physician for vice president Clark, who is speculated to be traveling to Babylon 5.
Regarding the number of gifts, KCNA claimed that former leader Kim Il-sung receives " 2, 910 a year, 243 a month, and 8 a day.
This earth impoundment of the Watauga River receives two important tributaries, the Elk River and Roan Creek, whose former valley of bottom land forms a very large embayment of Watauga Lake.
Dick Morris ( who also receives a co-writing credit ), appears frequently, and features exclusive interviews with various political figures of the time, including David Frum, Georgia Democratic Senator Zell Miller, pundit Ann Coulter, and former Democratic New York City mayor Ed Koch.
Where the former receives direct control of the vehicle the latter will become the vehicle.
As former First Lady Clinton receives Secret Service protection, as does her husband, who would, presumably, occasionally accompany her on official trips.
It government contends that the tax may be laid when earnings " are received by the stockholder ," whereas he has received none ; that the profits are " distributed by means of a stock dividend ," although a stock dividend distributes no profits ; that under the Act of 1916 " the tax is on the stockholder's share in corporate earnings ," when in truth a stockholder has no such share, and receives none in a stock dividend ; that " the profits are segregated from his former capital, and he has a separate certificate representing his invested profits or gains ," whereas there has been no segregation of profits, nor has he any separate certificate representing a personal gain, since the certificates, new and old, are alike in what they represent — a capital interest in the entire concerns of the corporation.
* October 31-Canadian National Railway receives authorization to operate the former New York Central Railroad ( NYC ) lines in Ottawa, Ontario, to reach industries that were originally served by NYC.
Bennett is regarded as one of the biggest disappointments in NFL history and receives animosity from his former city.
Broke, whom O ' Brian makes a cousin to his protagonist Captain Jack Aubrey, is favorably portrayed as a character in the former work, and receives prominent mention in the second.
*" Requiem ": While the Sliders relax in a garden waiting for the next slide, Rembrandt receives a message in his mind from former slider Wade.
He is always waiting for a call to be restored to his former position as a high-ranking general in Kabul, which he eventually receives at the end of the novel, after the fall of the Taliban.
Junichiro Koizumi, a former prime minister, to precede Shinzo Abe is a conservative in the foreign policy arena, and receives support from the neoconservative legislators, but is not himself considered a neoconservative.
Suffolk County comptroller and former state assemblyman Joseph Sawicki ( a Republican ) has called for a separation of Long Island from the rest of the state, saying that the region, one of the wealthiest in the state, receives only $ 5. 2 billion in state payments and pays $ 8. 1 billion in taxes to the state.

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He saw Sweden as a country of smug and narrow provincialism, indifferent to the heroic spirit of its former glory.
However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.
For here if anywhere in contemporary literature is a major effort to counterbalance Existentialism and restore some of its former lustre to the tarnished image of the species Man, or, as Malraux himself puts it, `` to make men conscious of the grandeur they ignore in themselves ''.
Upon such hearing, the Commission may affirm, modify, or revise its former action with respect to such claim, including a denial or reduction in the amount theretofore allowed with respect to such claim.
The operations of its other plant in Rochdale and Leesona's former operations in Manchester were transferred to a recently acquired plant in the adjoining town of Heywood.
In virtually every case the transferor corporation is liquidated, and its former stockholders either own outright, or have a continuing stock interest in, the assets which gave rise to the tax.
At last count, sixteen former Rhodes Scholars ( see box on page 13 ) had been appointed to the Administration, second in number only to its Harvard graduates.
The old Belasco Theater, over which many people had grown sentimental, was only a shell of its former self after arduous years as a USO Center.
Cyrillic is one of the most widely used modern alphabetic scripts, and is notable for its use in Slavic languages and also for other languages within the former Soviet Union.
At the same time, Angola has promoted the revival of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries ( CPLP ) as a forum for cultural exchange and expanding ties with Portugal ( its former ruler ) and Brazil ( which shares many cultural affinities with Angola ) in particular.
As the Ottoman Empire further fragmented during the Balkan Wars, much of the non-Christian populations of its former possessions, mainly the Balkan Muslims, flocked to Anatolia and were resettled in various locations, mostly in formerly Christian villages throughout Anatolia.
Later, rapid social change and the dissipation of British cultural hegemony over its former colonies contributed to disputes over the role of women, the parameters of marriage and divorce, and the practice of contraception and abortion.
The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.
In 1951 the English High School asked its former students for permission to re-establish the name " Alumni " for a rugby team.
Armenia is the second most densely populated of the former Soviet republics because of its small size.
According to Peter Heather, Theodoric's former governor Theudis was implicated in Amalaric's murder, " and was certainly its prime beneficiary.
Others say that he " raised the see of York from its former rustic state ".
Altogether, the boule was responsible for a great portion of the administration of the state, but was granted relatively little latitude for initiative ; the boule's control over policy was executed in its probouleutic, rather than its executive function ; in the former, it prepared measures for deliberation by the assembly, in the latter, it merely executed the wishes of the assembly.
Euboea and Megara both revolted, and while the former was restored to its status as a tributary ally, the latter was a permanent loss.
NANPA's utilised codes report will indicate ' UA ' ( unassignable ) for valid test prefixes ; if a formerly ' UA ' code newly appears on the available list or becomes an active exchange, any former test numbers from its time as a reserved prefix are presumable as invalid and deprecated.
Jeff Moorad, a former sports agent, joined the partnership, and was named the team's CEO ; becoming its primary public face.
While this went on MCP renamed itself to MCP CHIP but ran into problems with the German computer magazine CHIP, and had to return to its former name.
An alternate explanation of the red fox's gains involves the gray wolf: Historically, it has kept red fox numbers down, but as the wolf has been hunted to near extinction in much of its former range, the red fox population has grown larger, and it has taken over the niche of top predator.

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