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  • That, at least, is what I took away from my sister Abbe's death, the death of Elizabeth Edwards, and the lives lived under daily attack from the merciless ideologies that render us no better than the reflexively cold and unsparing impulses that seek only to conquer and profit.

    Steven Weber: Elizabeth Edwards: A Lesson Steven Weber 2010

  • That, at least, is what I took away from my sister Abbe's death, the death of Elizabeth Edwards, and the lives lived under daily attack from the merciless ideologies that render us no better than the reflexively cold and unsparing impulses that seek only to conquer and profit.

    Steven Weber: Elizabeth Edwards: A Lesson Steven Weber 2010

  • According to the laws of classical optics, the accuracy of the microscope depends on both the wave length and the aperture angle; Abbe's criterium for its

    The Uncertainty Principle Hilgevoord, Jan 2006

  • Of course, Park's meddling also turned up the fact that Abbe's Campaign Manager, Daniel Tamm voted in the 20th Senate Race when he lives in the 21st District.

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

  • Their father, Abbe's ex-husband, picked them up from school but instead of taking them home he took them to Costa Rica where they lived in secret for almost seven years.

    CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2004 2004

  • It is said that the Duc de Mazarin said, on the Abbe's first Mass, "The Abbe Dubois is gone to his first communion;" meaning that he had never before taken the communion in all his life.

    The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

  • ROBINSON: He's doing a great job, but on the other side, it's not really Abbe's fault.

    CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2001 2001

  • And I guarantee you that Abbe's tried to tell Condit what to say and do.

    CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2001 2001

  • KING: Nancy, how about Abbe's, though, explanation, which did not come out last night, that Mrs. Levy asked him about a number of people -- not a great number, but a number of people she was involved with, and that he was trying to spare her that?

    CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2001 2001

  • If there is anything which detracts from the Abbe's good sense it is his extreme pride; it is a weak side upon which he may always be successfully attacked.

    The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

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