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  • The Electoral Observation Mission reported that 35 candidates elected to the 102-seat senate are direct heir-apparents to congress-members identified by the courts as linked to paramilitary groups.

    Colombia's Elections: Under the Gun 2010

  • The Electoral Observation Mission reported that 35 candidates elected to the 102-seat senate are direct heir-apparents to congress-members identified by the courts as linked to paramilitary groups.

    Laura Carlsen: Colombia's Elections: Under the Gun 2010

  • I'd guess it's something with Josh's software, rather than the hardware (no problem thataways by all apparents ...).

    Obama: "You've Never Seen Dick Cheney Delighted Before" 2009

  • But, by the third day, it was apparents that Trevor Groth fumbled the sphere.

    CineVegas Film Festival…a desert joke! Trevor Groth fumbles, Staff insult Press & Filmgoers, Honoree Soiree a sham! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008

  • Dorcas no sooner found them, than she assembled three ready writers of the non-apparents; and Sally, and she, and they employed themselves with the utmost diligence, in making extracts, according to former directions, from these cursed letters, for my use.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Note that all three heir apparents are African Americans with LA City Council experience:

    Archive 2006-03-01 2006

  • Three of the top-seeded women face the "heir apparents" today in matches that could give them a bit of a challenge.

    USATODAY.com - Around the French Open 2003

  • That would make Freston and Moonves the heir apparents.

    CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2004 2004

  • En mai de cette anne-ci encore l'quipe japonaise d'ONO Katsuhiko, en collaboration avec des chercheurs franais sont revenus sur l'action de certains flavones apparents la querctine en tant qu'inhibiteurs, de la transcriptage reverse (27), enzsyme mis en cause dans le syndrome de l'imminodficience humaine.

    Chapter 7 1991

  • Eden, Marty, Cappy, and the others regarded the Houston class as interlopers on the base, while their Houston counterparts saw themselves as heir apparents of the very first classes in the pilot training program for women.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

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