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Speaker Ian Sinclair chose to resume normal business dress during his brief term in 1998.
A brief period of lull followed as the 1st Commando Brigade prepared to resume operations and on 13 February they were relieved in Linne by No. 46 Royal Marine Commando and went back to Maasbrecht for a rest.
After a brief return to the gold standard between 1928 and 1936, the currency was allowed to resume its slide, until in 1959 it was worth less than 2. 5 % of its 1934 value.
After the battles, Benbow returned to Deptford to resume his duties as master attendant, spending a brief period at Portsmouth Dockyard helping to oversee repairs to the fleet.
In his brief tenure as president, Quadros made moves to resume relations with some communist countries.
That year, following a brief tour opening for The Clash before irritable college audiences impatient for the main act, Chilton stopped touring regularly with the group to resume his increasingly minimalist solo touring and recording career.
* Cultural Heritage site, includes a brief resume
Nana's short life on film is told in 12 brief episodes each preceded by a written resume.
The applicant must submit the following requirements: original manuscripts consisting of at least 3-5 short stories, or 3-5 one-act plays, or 7-10 poems ( stories, plays, and poems in English are preferred ); a cover letter addressed to the Director ; a diskette containing the various submitted literary works encoded in Microsoft Word ; a recommendation letter from a renowned writer or literature teacher ; two 2x2 pictures ; and a brief biodata or resume.

brief and hardly
His monologues popularized several catchphrases, notably " Well, I'll be a dirty bird " ( spoken by the Kathy Bates character in the 1990 film Misery ), " You don't hardly get those any more " and " Well then there now " ( spoken by the James Dean character during a brief imitation of Gobel in the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause ).
After an awkward meeting between Amy and Newman's wife at the party, she and Oscar go to a bar, but Amy leaves in frustration after she nearly kisses him, prompting a brief argument between her and Oscar where Oscar states that her relationship with Newman has no future, with the only reason they haven't argued after over a year being that Newman doesn't care enough to fight with her, while Amy counters that Oscar is hardly in a position to give her advice on romance, having simply been playing it safe by spending time with her as he hasn't been on a date since she met him.
The character is hardly featured in Ruth Plumly Thompson's Oz books thereafter, limited to brief mentions in The Gnome King of Oz ( conversing with Nick Chopper about the latter's crop of tin cans ) and in The Yellow Knight of Oz ( referred to only as the Lost King, playing checkers with the Soldier with the Green Whiskers ).

brief and does
This retelling by Louis Zara of the brief, anguished life of Stephen Crane -- poet and master novelist at 23, dead at 28 -- is in novelized form but does not abuse its tragic subject.
In a March 2009 brief, the American Dental Association said " the available evidence does not support a connection between oral cancer and alcohol-containing mouthrinse ".
They were often based on the extremely brief account in the Metamorphoses of Ovid ( who does not imply a rape ), though Lorenzo de ' Medici had both a Roman sarcophagus and an antique carved gem of the subject, both with reclining Ledas.
It is faithful to the magazine's general style of cartoon humor, but does not include any of the original characters except for a brief closeup of Alfred E. Neuman's eyes during the opening screens.
Even if a helium flash does occur, the time of very rapid energy release ( on the order of 10 < sup > 8 </ sup > Suns ) is brief, so that the visible outer layers of the star are relatively undisturbed.
He does a brief stint at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, then accepts a position at the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland as a civilian professor of history.
* Very brief, but it does have names for the viola in French, German and Italian.
The Minister said: ' ASIS does have some files, as one would expect in an organisation of that nature, even though its brief extends to activities outside the country rather than inside.
Examples of such environmental modifications include using the bed for sleep or sex only, not for activities such as reading or watching television ; waking up at the same time every morning, including on weekends ; going to bed only when sleepy and when there is a high likelihood that sleep will occur ; leaving the bed and beginning an activity in another location if sleep does not result in a reasonably brief period of time after getting into bed ( commonly ~ 20 min ); reducing the subjective effort and energy expended trying to fall asleep ; avoiding exposure to bright light during nighttime hours, and eliminating daytime naps.
The first large project Wren designed, the Chelsea Hospital ( 1682 – 92 ), does not entirely satisfy the eye in this respect, but met its brief with distinction and such success that even in the 21st century it fulfills its original function.
After a brief fight, Orin discovers that Montini has been working undercover trying to nail Walker and Orin messed it up, and that does not sit well with Montini's musclebound partner Useldinger ( Matthew G. Taylor ).
The brief account given of the teaching of the first two in the list, Simon and Menander, does not state whether or not they defined the number of these archons ; but it is expressly told of the third, Saturninus ( ch.
Pumbaa does a brief Durante impression while singing " Hakuna Matata " in The Lion King.
A novella, Boy in Darkness ( 1956 ), tells the story of a brief adventure by the young Titus away from Gormenghast, although it does not explicitly name the castle.
During June, July, and August, if it does snow, it is usually brief and melts quickly.
Because diamond dust does not always reduce visibility it is often first noticed by the brief flashes caused when the tiny crystals, tumbling through the air, reflect sunlight to your eye.
While she provides a brief Malay glossary as an appendix, it does not cover all the words she uses.
In the prologue to his classic account of the New Deal, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. suggests Felix Frankfurter and his colleagues were the source for the 1933 Banking Act ( along with the Securities Act of 1933 ) in the tradition of “ trust-busting liberalism .” In his later brief description of the 1933 Banking Act, however, Schlesinger does not mention Frankfurter and focuses on the role of the Pecora Investigation and opposition to deposit insurance, including from Roosevelt, in the debate over the legislation.
Frankie does, however, have a brief and troubling encounter with a soldier.
( In the novel, Hari Kumar does not appear, except in brief vignettes, until more than halfway through The Jewel in the Crown.
The character does not appear in the manga, albeit brief mention by Edel.
Despite his brief career, Gwinnett however does hold one claim to fame: his autograph is among the most valuable in the world, a fact used to good effect by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in his short story " Button, Button.
The brief reign of Basiliscus does not seem to have resulted in lasting hatred between Verina and either Zeno or Ariadne.
Ittōsai remembers Musashi from fighting alongside him for a brief moment with Kojirō and Gonnosuke but Musashi does not recall anything, only that Ittōsai is famous for his fighting style.

brief and book
There is also a special 64-page book available, The Beano Special Collectors Edition: 70 Years of Fun, giving a brief history of the comic.
In general, the word breviary may be used to refer to an abridged version of any text or a brief account or summary of some subject, but is primarily used to refer to the Catholic liturgical book.
A comic book or comicbook, also called comic paper or comic magazine ( often shortened to simply comic or comics ) is a magazine made up of " comics "— narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog ( usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book art form ) as well as including brief descriptive prose.
Clement begins the fourth book with a belated explanation of the disorganized nature of the work, and gives a brief description of his aims for the remaining three or four books.
The psychologist Edward B. Titchener in his book 1928 A Textbook of Psychology, explained déjà vu as caused by a person having a brief glimpse of an object or situation, before the brain has completed " constructing " a full conscious perception of the experience.
The Epistle of Jude is a brief book of only a single chapter with 25 verses.
The book contained a brief description of Xanadu, the summer capital of the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
There is a brief epilogue sequence in which the fates of the six only known survivors are shown: Sydney underwent surgery on his kneecap injuries and lives as a horticulturist with his son Seymour, Arthur received an OBE for lifelong service to the theatre and retired to the country, Sebastian wrote a book about the film's events and is currently negotiating the film rights.
* A chapter of Simon Winchester's book Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire ( 1985 ) describes his brief visit to the island.
In this chapter, the March Hare and Hatter of the first book make a brief re-appearance in the guise of " Anglo-Saxon messengers " called " Haigha " and " Hatta " ( i. e. " Hare " and " Hatter "— these names are the only hint given as to their identities other than John Tenniel's illustrations ).
Cromwell ’ s brief instructions establishing the registration system did not specify what sort of register book was to be provided.
In 1971, after seeing Virginia's obituary in The New York Times, four friends formed a company, called Elizabeth Press, and published a children's book titled Yes, Virginia that illustrated the editorial and included a brief history of the main characters.
To the same belong chapters xiii-xv, xvii, and brief parts of other chapters of the fragments which Jean Garnier ( Auctarium ) included under the title, Pentology of Theodoret on the Incarnation as well as three of the five fragments referred by Marius Mercator to the fifth book of some writing of Theodoret.
* 1915: Ceux de Chez Nous ( Those at Home: biographical, home movies ) Among other celebrated persons of the era, there is a brief scene featuring Sarah sitting on a park bench and reading from a book.
Given as a series of linked short stories, the book is also interspersed with brief commentaries on contemporary British politics.
The caprices of Romaica, and the lavish extravagance of Abbad III in his efforts to please her, form the subject of many stories, like a brief tale on the queen Rumayqiyya appears on the book Libro de los ejemplos del Conde Lucanor y de Patronio ( Book of the examples of Count Lucanor and Patronio ), as the tale XXX, De lo que aconteció al rey Abenabed de Sevilla con su mujer, Ramaiquía ( Of What Happened to King Abenabed of Seville with his Wife, Ramaiquía ).
This same book was also the basis for Jimmy a stage musical about Walker that had a brief Broadway run from October 1969 to January 1970, starring Frank Gorshin as Walker and Anita Gillette as Betty Compton.
When the Holy Office drew the Réflexions morales to the attention of Clement XI, he issued the papal brief Universi dominici ( 1708 ), proscribing the book for " savouring of the Jansenist heresy.
Following this, zines enjoyed a brief period of attention from conventional media and a number of zines were collected and published in book form, such as Donna Kossy's Kooks Magazine ( 1988 – 1991 ), published as Kooks ( 1994, Feral House ).
Notably, in the back of the book he offers brief descriptions of long algebraic notation, which he calls that adopted by " Alexandre, Jaenisch, the ' Handbuch ,' and in Germany generally ", and of ICCF numeric notation, which he calls " Koch's Notation ".
In chapter 35 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, the enthroned figure of High provides brief descriptions of 16 ásynjur.
In chapter 35 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High provides brief descriptions of 16 ásynjur.
In chapter 35 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High provides brief descriptions of 16 ásynjur.

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