The waiter bowed respectively as he proffered the glass bottle, still beaded with perspiration from the ice bucket. |
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Dawson reaches for a Danish pastry from the basket proffered to him by his publishers. |
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Theories were suggested, opinions were proffered, heads of channels pontificated. |
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Jack rummaged in his pocket, produced a fifty pence piece and proffered it in his open palm. |
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As described on line, the symptoms are as vague and all-encompassing as the advice proffered in newspaper horoscopes. |
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For them, the millenary celebrations proffered an avenue to the rebuilding of the cultural self-confidence needed to continue ruling the empire. |
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These and other strange omens are proffered as signs that the hour is nigh. |
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In the sestet we hear his revealingly equivocal reply to the proffered charge of aloofness. |
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Weeks of training on the quarterdeck had firmed the muscles, but minds were too easily seduced by the proffered friendship. |
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The girl gave a polite shake of the head declining the tea, but took the proffered chair. |
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Mrs Nokes proffered a hand, and the fierce rivals shook tersely before leaving the stage. |
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He worked the room slowly and patiently, autographing the flags, the rosettes, even proffered napkins. |
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She rose, proffered a courteous and gentle abrazo, a quick peck on each of my cheeks, and merged into the evening. |
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In 1986 Her Majesty agreed to comply with the advice proffered to her by the Lords regarding abeyant peerages. |
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As long as they don't flagrantly violate good taste, magazines should run whatever ads are proffered. |
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Donor governments, including Australia and the US, proffered their keen interest and were eager to hear details. |
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The ravenousness with which riders snatched proffered drinks on exiting each new purgatory and sent them towards open mouths was telling. |
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Others proffered a small gift, from nail polish to Hot Wheels to an electric toothbrush. |
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A few weeks ago Boeing publically rejected the latest olive branch, if I can call it that, proffered by Airbus. |
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At the end of the colloquy, Zwingli and Bucer proffered their hands in fellowship to Luther, who refused their offering. |
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We have, in fact, enough ideas lying around us and proffered to us to build a dozen utopias, but they are a hodgepodge of undigested thoughts. |
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Extremely diverging opinions are proffered as to the substance of the directive's provision. |
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The first, proffered by Mr Garrette, is that the type of leaders that firms want are not those traditionally associated with business schools. |
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Again, there is no precise allegation of the existence of such a risk, and there is no evidence proffered in support of it. |
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The Commission may decide to hear the witnesses proffered by the parties and even evaluate evidence in situ. |
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That being said, many constructive criticisms and suggestions for improvement and additions were proffered by participants. |
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Mr. Barghouti also said that the interrogators proffered death threats against him and his son. |
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Absorbing and using what is proffered is not compulsory, but is a function of the reader's will to learn. |
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Repeated requests for inclusive dialogue proffered by NLD and various other political representatives also remain unheeded. |
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This section of the report is instructive in the ways in which such proffered justifications can be analyzed and, for the most part, rejected. |
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More recent research on this topic proffered the notion that certain mortuary districts, composed of mounds or cemeteries, functioned as trade fair locations. |
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The barbarians come, not wielding a rubber chicken, but on bended knee with a proffered rose. |
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Cutting across these lines, there is the question of how to interpret the assertion, proffered by the Rebbe himself, that a rebbe is the Essence and Being of God. |
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Indeed, the real problem, one might say, was the campaign's susceptibility to mau-mauing and aggressively proffered free-advice from pundits and other Democrats. |
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The two Congressional leadership options, proffered by the major parties, are John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi. |
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Sitting in his North Side office, he proffered old-fashioned, even quaint, ideas to gain influence. |
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Unlike Graham Greene in adulterous mode, he proffered no moonbeams from the larger casuistical lunacy. |
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For example, where fresh evidence is proffered, it will be examined to see whether it is reasonably capable of belief, having regard to all of the circumstances. |
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Contemporary psychodynamic scholars and practitioners have recently proffered another nosology, the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual. |
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Participants also proffered that a pan-African approach to information is necessary, especially given the devastating impact of small arms trafficking and other problems that don't respect borders. |
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Hors d'oeuvres, refreshments and an invitation to all EBU colleagues was proffered by Bjørn Erichsen and his team who inaugurated their new offices in style. |
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Providing helpful, strategic or tactical criticism is one thing, but all too often the farcical cries of question period are now proffered as legitimate advice on war and conflict. |
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The IPCC ignored the advice proffered but the fact that the Home Office felt it could take such a step creates its own difficulties and conflicts. |
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In the present case, no evidence to that effect has even been proffered. |
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Even when we tried to draw on the wisdom of three deeply experienced men who proffered policies that would put the issue beyond ugly politics, that too failed. |
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Yet within the new proffered maximum sustainable yield model, we still have this flawed overlapping of the TAC quota system with the fishing effort system. |
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Because Appendix G is not a consensus FAO document, and has not been formally proffered by that body, it neither requires nor warrants further consideration by the Standing Committee. |
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The Office of Legal Affairs proffered advice on the relevancy of jurisdiction, which was primarily that of the State in which the crime had been committed. |
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The members of this circle must be able to understand with their current level of knowledge of the subject in question the meaning of the information in the form in which it is proffered. |
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Recoiling slightly from a proffered skewer of ox hearts at a reception in a Lima country club – who would want to chow down on this most visceral and recognisable of organs? |
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Many natural languages have been proffered as candidates for a global lingua franca. |
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Several explanations have been proffered for this damaging behavior. |
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But the steely ayatollahs, Caring more for power than dollars— Not that they would close their palms To the faithful's proffered alms— Knew that they would lose control If they let reform unroll. |
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The spurious excuses proffered by some, and attempts to impose conditions in order to subvert this objective, are not compatible with regional realities. |
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This means barriers are proffered instead of solutions. |
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However, Stewart proffered a more moderate approach to realism and his theory of perception emphasized the utility of the senses. |
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An aged crone, with chin almost touching nose, hospitably held out her hand, the young monk self-consciously proffered his bowl and a generous helping of tea and tsampa was ladled in. |
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During the 1960s and 70s, China continued to turn her back on the economic system proffered by capitalism, despite Japan's impressive growth during the same period. |
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She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze, dazed by her own behaviour. |
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The government has by the evidence it has proffered to the committee, to the Commons and to the public, met any reasonable standard of proof required to justify legislation which would regulate the conduct of human affairs. |
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These have been proffered to a select group of financial institutions whose collapse was feared to imperil the overall workings of the world financial system. |
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The service completed, Father Kinlough straddled the plank and rested his back against the ladder the better to enjoy the cigarette a shaftman proffered him. |
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The second Canticle was written in 1952, between Billy Budd and Gloriana, on the theme of Abraham's obedience to Divine Authority in the proffered sacrifice of his son Isaac. |
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It is inevitably the bad coins proffered, good ones retained. |
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And a large scissors is proffered for you to cut the meat into bite-size pieces when it's ready or, if you wish, the waitperson will do it for you. |
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They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by the Athenians. |
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