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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of northwest Portugal north-northeast of Porto. A major ecclesiastical center since the Christian reconquest of the city from the Moors in the 11th century, it is the seat of the archbishop and primate of the Roman Catholic Church in Portugal.

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  • Miguel Ropa/AFP/Getty Images SC Braga's defender from Brazil Moises Pinheiro, left, and forward from Brazil Paulo Cesar, right, jumped for a ball with Partizan's Macedonian defender Aleksandar Lazevski, center, during their match at the Muncipal Stadium in Braga, Portugal.

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  • It took McMichael a moment to transfer Pete Braga from the roster of the living to the ranks of the dead.

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  • Last term Braga shrugged away the challenge of Porto and Sporting Lisbon to emerge as

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  • I’ve gotta wonder if the rumors that Braga is taking a step back from the show next year aren’t more that he has no idea how to get out of this and is leaving it to others to do instead of what he claims – that he feels he’s done the best he can do and doesn’t want to try and top it for fear of tainting what he’s done until now.

    Michael in Nashville 2004

  • I’ve gotta wonder if the rumors that Braga is taking a step back from the show next year aren’t more that he has no idea how to get out of this and is leaving it to others to do instead of what he claims – that he feels he’s done the best he can do and doesn’t want to try and top it for fear of tainting what he’s done until now.

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  • On March 16, I was picked up by Celso Ferreira who drove me from Porto to Braga which is about two hours further north.

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  • O'Conner's on the trail of a shadowy drug lord, "Braga", who employs drivers to transport heroin into the U.S. from Mexico.

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  • When Remy falls behind on his payments, he runs away with a woman (Beth, played by Alice Braga) with more artiforgs, and therefore far more to lose, than Remy.

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  • Brannon Braga talks about his pilot for the SF show Flash Forward, based on the Robert J. Sawyer book of the same name.

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  • The first two seasons were under the leadership of messrs Berman and Braga, who previously had perpetrated ST since Roddenberry's demise.

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