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  • In a sharp break with the [Council on Foreign Relation's] own traditions, Bush is being allowed to speak — for 50 minutes — then leave without taking any questions.

    Think Progress » No questions: 2005

  • Relation's Act. Foreign Affairs spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa said Zimbabwean authorities gave their assurance to SA high commissioner to

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • These include the right to strike without fear of dismissal as outlined in the constitution, the Labour's Relation's Act, Basic

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • She said the Labour Relation's Act allowed for workers to go on

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Industrial Relation's Act which sparked civil unrest and was bitterly criticized by both Swaziland's business and unions.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Again in Christmas Stories the narrator of the "Poor Relation's Story" who lived in a lodging in the Clapham Road, tells how, amongst other things, he used to sit in Garraway's Coffee House in the city to pass away the time until it was time to dine, afterwards returning to his lodgings in the evening.

    The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick"; with Some Observations on Their Other Associations, Bertram Waldrom Matz 1895

  • Ffrom thence I came to Redbridge, thence to Buckland in the new forest in all 20 mile; ffrom Buckland wch was a Relation's house – Sr Robt Smiths – its a mile to Limington a seaport town – it has some few small shipps belongs to it and some Little trade, but ye Greatest trade is by their Salterns.

    Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

  • -- A Lady, with a real Title, whose female Indiscretions had occasion'd her Family to abandon her, being willing, in her Distress, to make an honest Penny of what Beauty she had left, desired to be admitted as an Actress; when before she could receive our Answer, a Gentleman (probably by her Relation's Permission) advis'd us not to entertain her, for Reasons easy to be guess'd.

    An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

  • The Relation's ingenuity in contriving to give away whatever plums were given to her was quite amazing, and she generally managed to

    Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books 1885

  • I received your kind note yesterday morning with the truest gratification, for I _am_ the writer of "The Child's Story" as well as of "The Poor Relation's."

    The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 Charles Dickens 1841

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