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  • The problem with hiring the Missionaries is that while God has blessed them with passion, he has not been as generous with competence (and a lot of classes were missed to play hacky-sack in the quad).

    Faking it « Planning the Day 2010

  • But the idea of Missionaries bringing their own ideas about Jews into their translations does not strike me as at all implausible.

    languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.' 2005

  • To these repeated and earnest applications the Missionaries were the more disposed to listen, as it had been discovered, not many years after the establishment of the Mission in 1771, that that part of the coast on which, by the encouragement of the British government, the first settlement was made, was very thinly inhabited, and that the aim of the

    Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh Undertaken to Explore the Coast, and Visit the Esquimaux in That Unknown Region George Kmoch

  • Earlier this year the church said a religious order called the Missionaries of Charity, After 85 years of helping the needy on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside the convent of the Franciscan Sisters of Atonement is closing its doors on Monday.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • I have read a review in the "Quarterly," by Southey, on the Missionaries, which is most masterly.

    The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

  • The New Medical "Missionaries" - Grooming the Next Generation of Global Health Workers Michael McBane and Brian Day on the future of health care in Canada

    New England Journal of Medicine 2009

  • Steve Wetzel, who posted the statement originally on a website called Missionaries to the Unborn, said there was some confusion, because some people sent e-mails supporting Kopp believing he was innocent and being railroaded by the government and were later shocked when he confessed to the crime.

    ABP News 2009

  • "Missionaries" what is the 10th or the 2nd or any other amendment to the Constitution and they stammer and stumble.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • "Missionaries" what is the 10th or the 2nd or any other amendment to the Constitution and they stammer and stumble.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Missionaries who went into the Five Points, the poorest neighborhood in New York City, believed the Irish there to be so degraded that they dragged down the African Americans around them.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

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