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buy and seat
I'd just drive to a theater, buy myself a ticket, sit in the seat and read the program, and then get into the play completely.
Somerset tried to buy his brother off with a barony, an appointment to the Lord Admiralship, and a seat on the Privy Council — but Thomas was bent on scheming for power.
Many millions of people in India believe that " statues of " the god Ganesh drink milk and people in Taiwan buy airplane seat tickets for the " statue of " the goddess Matsu to visit her mainland Chinese home.
Now you can buy seats to go in the cargo area, but these are much safer as they have five-point seat belts.
Yarborough denounced Bush as an extremist to the right of that year's GOP nominee for president Barry M. Goldwater and as a rich easterner and a carpetbagger trying to buy a Senate seat.
After flying out of the box from the back seat of Emily's convertible, the bill floats around town, and is picked up by a homeless man who uses it to buy groceries.
He subsequently found the finance to buy a seat with Scuderia Finotto driving their Brabham at his home grand prix in 1974, and although he failed to qualify, this led to a contract with Surtees for the last two races of the season.
The Commission complained and Belgium offered to sell the building to them at a reduced rate ( the rent was already half ) but as the political question of a permanent seat had not been decided the Commission was not in a position to buy.
One of the other Englishmen wants to buy her horse, and she agrees provided he gives her a seat in his carriage.
A personal seat license, or PSL, gives the holder the right to buy season tickets for a certain seat in a stadium.
* Personal seat license, also known as a charter seat license, gives the holder the right to buy season tickets for a certain seat in a stadium
When his old friend George Howell lost his seat in Parliament in 1895 and fell ill, Applegarth and the TUC raised a £ 1650 testimonial to buy him an annuity.
Unbeknownst to his interlocutors, Grewal was recording the conversations, a fact that he revealed to the public on the evening of May 18, where Grewal publicly accused the Liberals of trying to buy his vote with offers of a cabinet or a diplomatic post for himself and a senate seat for his wife.
This causes a minor political scandal when it becomes known, for it appears to many people that Palliser has used his great influence and wealth to buy a seat in Parliament for a supporter.
:: So pull up a seat, and buy me one neat

buy and advance
She convinced Macmillan to buy it and Bach received a $ 2, 000 advance.
This allowed anyone with advance knowledge to buy in debt and sell at an immediate profit, and allowed Harley to bring further financial supporters into the scheme, such as James Bateman and Theodore Janssen.
High barriers to entry such as large upfront investment, notably named sunk costs, requirements in infrastructure and exclusive agreements with distributors, customers, and wholesalers ensure that it will be difficult for any new competitors to enter the market, and that if any do, the trust will have ample advance warning and time in which to either buy the competitor out, or engage in its own research and return to predatory pricing long enough to force the competitor out of business.
The emigrants were led by Jannes van de Luijster, a wealthy landowner who sold his holdings in the Netherlands to advance money for the members to pay their debts and buy passage to America.
The two chief items of the ministerial parliamentary program were the extension of the new Education Act to London and the Irish Land Purchase Act, by which the British exchequer would advance the capital for enabling tenants in Ireland to buy land.
This is in contrast to some open-end funds which are only available for buying and selling at the close of business each day, at the calculated NAV, and for which orders must be placed in advance, before the NAV is known, and by simple buy or sell orders.
The Allied armies succeeded in conquering the southern part of Italy but by early October had come up against the Volturno Line, the first of two lines ( the next being the Barbara Line ) used to delay the Allied advance to buy time to prepare the most formidable defensive positions which formed the Winter Line.
JIT implicitly assumes a level of input price stability that obviates the need to buy parts in advance of price rises.
* Tokyo: 7 hours 30 minutes ( night bus ), 7, 900 yen ( buy tickets in advance )
Still, the advance allowed Barnes to buy a new apartment on Rue Saint-Romain, where she lived with Thelma Wood starting in September 1927.
It would be Rupert Murdoch, who described cable and satellite television as being " the most important single advance since Caxton invented the printing press " and saw it as the ideal way into making his definitive breakthrough into the British television industry, who would buy the shares ( through his News International conglomerate ) for the symbolic price of £ 1 plus outstanding debts.
The most important secret is that the confectioneries do not make them in advance every respectful cake shop makes pączki the night before the Poles reach the shops to buy them.
Two lines, the Volturno Line and the Barbara Line, were used to delay the Allied advance so as to buy time to prepare the most formidable defensive positions, which formed the Winter Line-the collective name for the Gustav Line and two associated defensive lines on the west of the Apennine Mountains, the Bernhardt Line and the Hitler Line.
He wants his pay in advance in order to buy a present for the Abbess.
Nearly all American mass transit networks operating on the honor system expect their users to buy tickets immediately before use ; regular riders can avoid that inconvenience by buying period passes in advance ( often from the same machines that sell daily or one-time tickets ).
Buyers often use the diplomas to claim academic credentials for use in securing employment ( e. g., a schoolteacher may buy a degree from a diploma mill in order to advance to superintendent ).
Fandango is a corporation in the United States that sells movie tickets to more than 16, 000 screens by telephone ( 1-800-FANDANGO ) and Internet ( www. fandango. com ), enabling customers to buy tickets in advance and avoid lines at the movie theater.
The General's purpose was to buy minutes of delay with human lives, and one survivor spoke afterward that he expected the advance to result in " death or wounds to single one of the attackers.
By the end of the 15th century, the advance of printing made books more affordable and much of the emerging middle-class could afford to buy a printed book of hours.
A Warrior would need a certain amount of Gold to advance battle-levels and would also use the gold to buy items, or even grandiose extras such as a Castle or Fortress!
The other reason to buy a ticket online in advance is to reserve a particular class of service on a particular train on a particular day.
Meanwhile, Bagradian recovers from his grief to form guerrilla bands to disrupt the Ottoman advance and buy more time.
First she convinces Betty to accept an advance on her salary so that she can buy clothes that complement her figure better.

buy and is
The property sales assistance program is designed to assist small business concerns that may wish to buy property offered for sale by the Federal Government.
It's best to buy them fresh from a dealer who is working to improve them.
All framing in Hotei is one-inch mahogany which, in the dressed state you buy it, is about the 13/16-inch thickness specified in the drawings.
When surplus land is not expensive to buy or to keep up, it is usually better to buy it than to buy so small an acreage that the development of adjoining properties might impair the residential value of the farm.
`` All right, you bastards '', I said, `` the great actor is about to buy a drink ''.
What to buy for adult and child readers, for lovers of fiction and nonfiction, for a clientele whose wants are incredibly diversified, when your budget is pitifully small??
Arbitrage tends to reduce price discrimination by encouraging people to buy an item where the price is low and resell it where the price is high ( as long as the buyers are not prohibited from reselling and the transaction costs of buying, holding and reselling are small relative to the difference in prices in the different markets ).
The strategy is to buy or build 2 aircraft carriers ( 40, 000 tonnes ), 4 LHD ( 20, 000 tonnes ), 30 escort ships, 15 submarines, 5 nuclear submarines and 62 ( patrol ships ).
* Indivisibility of certain goods: If a person wants to buy a certain amount of another's goods, but only has for payment one indivisible unit of another good which is worth more than what the person wants to obtain, a barter transaction cannot occur.
Either she has sold herself into slavery for debt, or she is with a lover who demands money in order to give her up, because Hosea has to buy her back.
It is because they have done so that England is the place where people can do more what they please than in any other country in the world ... It is this practice of allowing one set of people to dictate to another set of people what they shall do, what they shall think, what they shall drink, when they shall go to bed, what they shall buy, and where they shall buy it, what wages they shall get and how they shall spend them, against which the Liberal party have always protested.
Jefferson's earnings reputedly enabled him to buy a car and employ chauffeurs ( although there is debate over the reliability of this as well ); he was given a Ford car " worth over $ 700 " by Mayo Williams, Paramount's connection with the black community.
If a house or car is above a certain value, the bankrupt can buy the interest back from the estate in order to keep the asset.

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