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  • Quinquennial rather than annual or triennial elections of corporate board members should be considered.

    Schumer's Shareholder Bill Misses the Mark Martin Lipton 2009

  • Council members are elected every five years at the Quinquennial

    Pugwash Conferences - Nobel Lecture 1995

  • There is just a possibility that Delany was not permitted back the following year, but was still considered to have fulfilled the necessary requirements or at least Harvard preferred to permit him to act on this assumption, though he was left out of the Quinquennial Catalogues of Harvard graduates.

    Writing Black History Sterling, Dorothy 1970

  • The trouble is that his name does not appear in the Quinquennial Catalogues of Harvard graduates in the compilations of 1636-1905, 1915, or 1930.

    An Exchange on Black History Breeden, James P. 1970

  • Sciences de Belgique, the Quinquennial Prize (1931-1935) for

    Corneille Heymans - Biography 1965

  • [975] (544) M. ANNAEUS LUCANUS, a native of Corduba [976], first tried the powers of his genius in an encomium on Nero, at the Quinquennial games.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • This view is very fully borne out by the 'Reports of the Norwegian Prefects for the Quinquennial

    The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

  • The Quinquennial re - union of all the societies was about to be held, and the special feature of this festivity was always an oration.

    The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929

  • The Quinquennial reunion of all the societies was about to be held, and the special feature of this festivity was always an oration.

    The Story of a Pioneer 1915

  • Quinquennial representative meetings of the Clergy of France for the purpose of apportioning the financial burdens laid upon the Church by the kings of France, and incidentally for other ecclesiastical purposes — the Assemblies of the French Clergy (Assembl ‚ es du Clerg ‚ de France) had a financial origin, to which, for that matter, may be traced the inception and establishment of all deliberative assemblies.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

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