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From the saddlebags, hung on a Hitchcock chair, David took out a good English razor, a present from John Hunter.
At about the time the Marsden enterprise was getting under way, the Vail Light and Lumber Company started construction of a chair stock factory on the site of the present Bennington Co-operative Creamery, intending to use its surplus power for generating electricity.
" These mechanisms present us with novel targets that might form the basis for the development of an entirely new class of antimicrobials ," said Professor Dr. Jorge Galan, senior author of the paper and the Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and chair of the Section of Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale.
The present members of this group are Desmond Tutu, Graça Machel, Kofi Annan, Ela Bhatt, Lakhdar Brahimi, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Jimmy Carter, Mary Robinson, Muhammad Yunus, and Aung San Suu Kyi ( with an empty chair for her ).
The Prime Minister's attendance does not mean that he will chair the committee, despite being the most senior Cabinet member present, though he may choose to do so.
According to Steven R. Weisman, however, in a report published in The New York Times, the then-current chair of the committee emphasized that he was not informed at the time of the details or extent of the present and future raises built into the agreement with Riza.
* H. Scott Bierman, professor of economics, department chair, academic dean, game theory expert, currently President of Beloit College 2009 – present
The IAF chair ( 1996 – present ) is Peter Goldsbury, who is also a Professor of comparative mythology at Hiroshima.
The present chair ( 2010 – 2011 ) of the Society for Low Temperature Biology is Hugh Pritchard.
Robert's Rules provides that " when the chair has called a meeting to order after finding that a quorum is present, the continued presence of a quorum is presumed unless the chair or a member notices that a quorum is no longer present.
" The chair has a duty to declare the absence of a quorum if he notices a quorum is no longer present, " at least before taking any vote or stating the question of any new motion — which he can no longer do except in connection with the permissible proceedings related to the absence of a quorum.
Robert's Rules states that before the chair ( presiding officer ) calls a meeting to order, " it is his duty to determine, although he need not announce, that a quorum is present.
If a quorum is not present, the chair waits until there is one, or until, after a reasonable time, there appears to be no prospect that a quorum will assemble.
When the chair once again ordered the clerk to call the roll to determine if a quorum was present, a majority of members answered to their names.
Reporters present at the execution reported that he went to the electric chair without saying a word.
To signify their protest at what was held to be an arbitrary decision of the chair, 45 % of delegates present, led by the then Secretary of the General Conference, left the Session room.
Rockefeller is the current chair of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation ( 2009 – present ).
The Ceann Comhairle ( chair ) puts the question and TDs ( deputies ) present say the Irish word Tá ( yes ) or Níl ( no ) respectively if they agree or disagree.
Also present is the arched and planed back rail that appears on many subsequent Wegner chairs, including the Wishbone chair below.
* Dr. Eric Wentz is the school's English department chair ( 1998 — present ).
This was 3 years after Merill won a ' liberty award ' from the ACLU, which had to present the award to an empty chair at the time.

present and is
The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.
While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.
Everyone is ready to grant the Persians their history, but almost no one is willing to acknowledge their present.
It is said that, even at the present stage of Southern urbanization, such a city as Atlanta is not distinctly unlike Columbus or Trenton.
This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.
Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.
The beatnik, seceding from a society that is fatally afflicted with a deathward drive, is concerned with his personal salvation in the living present.
For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.
So it is that we relive his opening statement in the first television address with the dramatic immediacy of the present.
The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.
Going back over this ground and analyzing the composition of forces which have created the present scene is one of the tasks undertaken by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, in Santa Barbara.
But however we come, finally, to explain and account for the present, the truth we are trying to expose, right now, is that the makers of constitutions and the designers of institutions find it difficult if not impossible to anticipate the behavior of the host of all their enterprises.
and the laughter and the happiness are even more pronounced when no company is present.
I am assured by experts that the thrust of our present missiles is fully adequate for defense requirements.
Steele's purpose is to present a general defense of his political writing and a resume of the themes which had occupied him in the Englishman ; ;
Undoubtedly one merit of the vast panorama of Gentile conceptions of the Jew unfolded in the present anthology is that it provides a formidable body of material that invites critical examination in terms of reality.
Properly used, the present book is an excellent instrument of enlightenment.
The continuities, contrasts, and similarities discernible when past and present are surveyed together are inexhaustible and the one is often understood through the other.

present and Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth II was present for the official Canada Day ceremonies in Ottawa in 1990, 1992, 1997, and 2010, when more than 100, 000 people attended the ceremonies on Parliament Hill.
Protracted negotiations to arrange a match between his daughter Elizabeth and the Earl of Southhampton did not result in marriage ; in 19 November 1594, six weeks after Southampton turned 21, ' the young Earl of Southampton, refusing the Lady Vere, payeth £ 5000 of present money '.
In 1952, the present Queen, Elizabeth II, ascended to the throne whilst visiting Kenya on her and the Duke of Edinburgh's tour of the British Empire and Commonwealth.
* 23 November 1981: the Moulin Rouge closes for one evening only so as to present its show to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
It was not unheard of for Elizabeth to order over a thousand bottles of French champagnes and wines at any given time to be served at one event and present pineapple at all of her receptions, despite the difficulty of procuring the fruit in such quantities.
She is known to have been present at the funeral of her stepmother Elizabeth Woodville in 1492.
He is the first of only five monarchs to reign in the Kingdom of England or its successor states for 50 years or more, the others being Edward III ( 1327 – 1377 ), George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Victoria ( 1837 – 1901 ) and Elizabeth II ( 1952 – present ).
The present Sovereign's full style and title is " Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith ".
The present monarch's signature is " Elizabeth R ".
Princess Elizabeth was present, and according to John Aylmer, unlike the other women at Edward's court she did not try to emulate the novel French " frounsed, curled and double-curled " hairstyles of Guise's Scottish retinue.
After the choir of the church was destroyed in the sixteenth century, Elizabeth I ordered the removal of the smashed York tombs and created the present monuments to the third Duke and his wife around the altar.
The present duke is the Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II.
It was housed in the front parlor of Elizabeth Holbrook Thomas's home on the same corner where the present library, built in 1973, now stands.
Three of her books are classics in their genre and continue in their popularity to the present: Katherine, the story of Katherine Swynford, the mistress and eventual wife of John of Gaunt, and their children, who were the direct ancestors of the Tudors, Stuarts, and the modern British royal family ; Green Darkness, the story of a modern couple plagued by their past life incarnations ; and The Winthrop Woman about the notorious Elizabeth Fones, niece and daughter-in-law of John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The town of Boswell was first laid out by a man named Charles Moore, but Moore sold the land it occupied to Tippecanoe County-native Elizabeth H. Scott who, with her husband Charles, replatted it in its present form on July 18, 1872.
St Hugh's was founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth ( great-niece of the famous poet William Wordsworth ) to help the growing number of women " who find the charges of the present Halls at Oxford and Cambridge ( even the most moderate ) beyond their means ".
He was friendly with William Guybon Atherstone, who was also a keen geologist and fossil collector and who was present at the discovery of Paranthodon africanus Broom at the farm Dassieklip on the Bushmans River, about half-way between Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth.
Bancroft was present at the death of Queen Elizabeth.
The monarch, at present Elizabeth II, is Sovereign of the order and the serving governor general, currently David Lloyd Johnston, is its Chancellor and Principal Companion.
Like Olivier's film, Loncraine includes several characters in the coronation scene who are not present in the text of 3 Henry VI ; Buckingham ( played by Jim Broadbent ), Richmond ( played by Dominic West ) and Elizabeth Plantagenet ( played by Kate Steavenson-Payne ).
Bly was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in Cochrans Mills, Pennsylvania -- the present day Pittsburgh suburb of South Park Township along Lick Run bordering Jefferson Hills.
He chose to present Queen Elizabeth I for the BBC's series of Great Britons in 2002.
At Woodstock in 1575 he delivered a prose speech before Elizabeth, and was present at a reading of the Pleasant Tale of Hemetes the Hermit, a brief romance, probably written by the queen's host, Sir Henry Lee.
He was present at the siege of Dieppe, fought at Ivry, and was at the siege of Rouen in 1591-92 until he sent on a mission to the court of Queen Elizabeth.

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