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  • You go catch all the Sajid Mirs you ' ve got in Pakistan, match the voice transcript, and you ' ve got your guy.

    Mumbai-Attack Amol Sharma 2010

  • With their mission accomplished, the two Mirs headed back to the surface.

    The Arctic Oil Rush Shoumatoff, Alex 2008

  • SHAHED SADULLAH, EDITOR, THE NEWS: Well, I think one of the reasons is that you know, people in the electronic media, the journalists whose faces appear on the electronic media, are the big names like, you know, the Kamran Hans (ph) and the Hameed Mirs (ph) and so on and so forth.

    CNN Transcript May 18, 2007 2007

  • About the middle of the 18th century the present dynasty of Mirs established its footing in the place of the old one which had become extinct.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • The American men-of-war left Mirs Bay (opposite to Hong-Kong Island) on April 27, under the command of Commodore Dewey, and on the way made

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • [192] Mirs Bay has _since_ become British, being included in the extended Kowloon Concession on the mainland of China opposite

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • On April 23 Major-General Black, the officer administering the Colony, issued a proclamation of neutrality, and Commodore Dewey withdrew his fleet from British waters to Mirs Bay, [192] at that time within Chinese jurisdiction.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • In 1898, finding that Hongkong was still within the range of modern cannon in Chinese waters seven miles away, England calmly took 400 square miles of additional territory, including Mirs and Deep Bays.

    New Forces in Old China : An Inevitable Awakening 1904

  • After a brief rendezvous for tuning up at Mirs Bay near Hongkong on the Chinese coast, Dewey steered straight for Subig Bay in the Philippines, where he expected to meet his opponent.

    The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power Carl Russell Fish 1904

  • Obliged at once to leave the neutral port of Hong-Kong, and on April 27th to quit Mirs Bay as well, he steamed for Manila.

    History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880

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