Ancestor worship, the chief ritual observance, was directed by local notables. |
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Local elections favor local political notables who are capable of mustering sufficient resources and influence on their own. |
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As the Brexit debate has engulfed the island nation, political and business notables are queuing to take their stance on the issue. |
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His client list includes many professional sports and entertainment notables. |
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A dozen French notables, including the Constable of France, died, together with perhaps 1,500 knights and 4,500 men-at-arms. |
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Tracking down other dead notables often took a fair amount of detective work. |
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He also built a guest house for visiting scientists and hosted such notables as Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and Enrico Fermi. |
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This rule by the generals was wholly unacceptable to the great notables of Afrikanerdom. |
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The council would not be elected, but instead would be endorsed by local meetings of notables. |
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We made it a point to meet some of our Chinese neighbors and local notables. |
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The alliance between the Napoleonic state and the new elite of notables represented the third important feature of Napoleonic Italy. |
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Other notables were Mick, who talked the golf crew through 18 holes of scratch golf. |
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His name was announced at a lunch at the Town Hall on Friday attended by Rochdale's leading notables and businessmen. |
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The problem with this assumption was it ignored the role of local notables and rural communities. |
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Now all the city notables and tribesmen have to build all sorts of new relationships with new foreign peace enforcers. |
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The Lord Mayor and other city notables walk from the Guildhall to St Lawrence Jewry to hear a sermon. |
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The members of the ruling class, formerly citizen-soldiers, became local notables and loyal subjects of the emperor. |
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In 1831 the government forced local notables to serve on temporary boards of health, in order to combat cholera. |
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Differences in wealth produced a class of local notables who relied upon the community for their influence and power. |
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These activities are oriented towards female circumcisers, the population at large and the notables. |
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It is true that the national assembly, and in particular its government ministries, continued to be dominated by wealthy notables, but the landed magnates were in retreat. |
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What was being touted as a low key opening turned into one of the better parties in Pattaya, with all the local notables in attendance and a host of Bangkokians as well. |
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It represented a decisive defeat for the old liberal politics, dominated by local notables, with their traditional methods of patronage and persuasion. |
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At the very least, they attracted donations from local notables. |
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On visitations they spoke mainly to priests, who almost invariably assured them that all was well, and to local notables holding administrative office in parishes. |
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Is she claiming her difference among these respectable bourgeois notables, themselves dressed in black damask with finely scrolled ruffs? |
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On Sunday, the preparatory board met to begin planning a national congress of 1000 notables, politicians, religious leaders and tribal sheikhs to be held in July. |
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So did notables in the long-established liberal Wafd party and the rump of Mr Mubarak's disgraced but still surviving National Democratic Party. |
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Before the election, he appointed a committee of notables who are a mixture of new savvy and safe old guard. |
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Mansa Musa was so wealthy and his country so little known to most Egyptians that his expenditures of gold and his conversations with local notables were recorded in great detail. |
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Many of the dishes are named after local African-American notables. |
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With the approach of the tricentennial of Quebec, some of the city's notables felt that a grandiose celebration was in order. |
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It is trendy these days for spin doctors to help our politicians, sports stars and other notables avoid accepting responsibility for what they do. |
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Most recent notables are the XSS-11 and Global Express missions of DARPA, the DART project of NASA and the ConeXpress mission of The Netherlands. |
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Back in the days when England was embroiled in the Hundred Years' War against France, a family of notables was fashioning its own chapel in the valley of the River Kent. |
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And it's not just the banks that come under pressure from local notables. |
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The stage was the Today programme which, this week, is being guest-edited by various notables. |
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Nearly 60 new Republican notables have signed an amicus brief filed to the Supreme Court today in support of the freedom to marry. |
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But most of the night was given over to a string of celebrities and other notables, some of whom seemed only tenuously connected to Qualcomm. |
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The notables of Rome were thrown into confusion. |
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It seems that the mortgage scheme was simply a way of making local notables participate, albeit in a lesser role, in imperial benevolence. |
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The first three books of The Faerie Queene were duly published in 1590, together with a dedication to her and commendatory sonnets to notables of the court. |
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He prospected in the years before the First World War with such notables as Benny Hollinger, and lent a hand to Harry Oakes when Oakes was just a greenhorn fresh out from England. |
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The traditional hierarchy in the Afar society is composed of a Sultan assisted by a board of the main notables belonging to the different clans, having the supreme authority. |
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He also painted portraits, in which we can see many important people of his time, whether these were personal friends or Czech notables from history, science or the political scene. |
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Thenceforth, the state carried through only minor reforms, none of them on a scale commensurate with the needs felt by the Enlightenment bourgeoisie and notables of the cities and towns. |
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After inspecting a guard of honour, he climbs a podium to greet Hamas's assembled notables, as a loudspeaker blares out an array of titles and praise. |
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During several centuries the administration of our village was ensured by jurats, deputies, notables, all elected or designated, according to the times. |
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But, when Bayezid I abandoned the ghazi tradition and moved into Anatolia, he lost the support of the Turkish notables and their sipahis before his new kapıkulu army was fully established. |
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In their commanding monumentality, both reflected the influence of the Mathurān image of King Kaniṣka and the portrait sculpture of Sāsānian kings and Parthian notables. |
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The paintings of the scientists and the notables of the Renaissance often show them with a hand on an armillary sphere which represented the top of knowledge and wisdom. |
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That has only recently been addressed because notables, egged on by Operation Black Vote and Lenny Henry's demands for more diversity, made a public fuss. |
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Louis went on a celebrity tour with other notables, including fellow boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. |
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Instead the Witenagemot, the assembly of the kingdom's leading notables, would convene after a king's death to select a successor. |
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His mother was assisted by such notables as Christodulus, the Greek emir of Palermo. |
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The court noted that many of Geneva's notables, including Perrin, had breached a law against dancing. |
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Other notables from the Bauhaus weaving workshop include Otti Berger, Margaretha Reichardt, and Benita Otte. |
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Among Keswick notables before the Lake Poets was Sir John Bankes, a leading Royalist during the English Civil War. |
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The ceremony was attended by educationists, notables and other officials of various departments. |
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The benefits of its provincial privileges, the fueros, were widely shared and not merely confined to the local notables. |
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Contemporary Nigeria has a class of traditional notables whose titles are tied to those of its reigning monarchs, the Nigerian traditional rulers. |
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The bezants would be the expression of the redemption of the captives, illustrating the participation of the notables of Cherbourg on the Third Crusade. |
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Afterwards, David and his surviving notables retired to Carlisle. |
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Lott has carefully selected work by authors who demonstrate this standard, including such notables as Homer Hickam, Erin McGraw, and Larry Woiwode. |
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Epochs are built on a magnesiumalloy frame for durability, and feature notables like SF prism glass, prism and lens coating, and locking multistep eye relief. |
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According to Hermassi, all the qaids were appointed by the bey, whereas De Montety describes some of them as tribal notables whose position was ratified by the center. |
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