On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The office was of logs, four rooms, each heated by an iron stove.

Moreover, as long as the weapon was carried openly, the sheriff's office had made no previous issue of it.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

A lamp burned inside, but Brannon, peering through the window, saw that the office was empty.

During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

At Stettin the university-educated artist, who had studied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and clerk in the office of the Stalag commander.

He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

Carl, who was stationed in Appleton, Wisconsin, organizing for the Social Democrats, was in Berger's office and made it his business to escort Paula to the streetcar.

Outside the office windows, twenty-four stories above Wall Street, a light rain was falling.

Rob Roy was self-appointed to accompany the President to his office every morning.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

After Quiney was elected bailiff in September, 1601, without Greville's approval, Greene wrote him that Coke had promised to be of counsel for Stratford and had advised `` that the office of bayly may be exercised as it is taken upon you, ( Sr. Edwardes his consent not beinge hadd to the swearinge of you ) ''.

When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

He found Elizabeth in the parlor and asked her to make sure everything was in order in the residential hall, and then to take charge of the office while the party was here.

But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.

Then a full-time planning office will be established in Rome to work with a five-member Georgia Tech research staff for development of an area planning and industrial development program.

Later he assumed the office of rector in Cæsarea, the former seat of R. Hoshaya I, and established himself at the so-called Kenishta Maradta ( Insurrectionary Synagogue ; Yer.

To remedy this and to restore the old established chancery style, the Pope selected out of the many then living Abbreviators seventy, and formed them into a college of prelates, and decreed that their office should be perpetual, that certain emoluments should be attached to it, and granted certain privileges to the possessors of the same.

In Ireland the oath was imposed of state office holders, teachers and lawyers, and on clergy of the established church in from 1703, the following year it was on all Irish voters and from 1709 it can be demanded from any adult male by a magistrate.

It was known as Anderson Station until the post office was established in November 1855 and the government changed the name of the station from “ Anderson ” to “ Andersonville ” in order to avoid confusion with the post office in Anderson, South Carolina.

It established in England the office of the Secretary of State for India through whom the Parliament would exercise its rule, along with a Council of India to aid him.

It also established the office of the Governor-General of India along with an Executive Council in India, which consisted of high officials of the British Government.

In 1995, Costa Rica established a consular office in Havana.

In 1870, a central post office was established at Bala Hissar in Kabul and a post office in the capital of each province.

The 1957 act for the first time established a permanent civil rights office inside the Justice Department and a Civil Rights Commission to hear testimony about abuses of voting rights.

Thenceforth the great abbeys and episcopal seats that Saint Boniface and his successors had established in southwestern Germany had a monopoly on temporal office in Franconia, on a par with the counts of lands further west.

de Klerk is also chairman of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organisation he established after retiring from office.

He also established an office to compile and validate estate records with the aim of reasserting central control.

The office of Governor was established by the first New York State Constitution in 1777 to coincide with the calendar year.

The brothers ' new household released a statementcomplete with their own cyphers at the topannouncing that they have established their own office at nearby St. James's Palace to look after their public, military and charitable activities.

It established its head office at Millbank in London in 1928.

* 1775 – The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.

The movement gained strength and support in the northeastern jungles and established firm footing when Cambodia's leader Prince Sihanouk was removed from office during a military coup in 1970.

Doe quickly established good relations with the United States, especially after U. S. President Ronald Reagan took office in 1981.

In addition, St-Laurent modernized and established new social and industrial policies for the country during his time in the prime minister's office.

The office was established by the UN General Assembly on 20 December 1993 in the wake of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights.

After Mikhail Gorbachev took the office of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985, he began a series of political reforms that were resisted by many established members of the Communist Party.

The office is not established by any constitution or law but exists only as per long-established convention, which stipulates that the monarch must appoint as prime minister the person most likely to command the confidence of the House of Commons ; this individual is typically the leader of the political party or coalition of parties that holds the largest number of seats in that chamber.