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  • The statement from the State Council, China's ca binet, also said the government aims to speed up a trial reform of a "real estate tax" now being carried out in some cities.

    Asian Stocks Mixed V. Phani Kumar 2010

  • Our Andrew Rasiej told Information Week's K.C. Jones that it remains to be seen whether the C.O job will be a C.binet-level post, a special assistantship, or a position slotted into the White House hierarchy under the C.ief of Staff.

    Daily Digest: Working to Catch the Presidential Ear Scola, Nancy 2008

  • Rather, I am pretending to snort up the delicious leftover powdered sugar from a binet in New Orleans.

    Archive 2005-06-01 Michelle Collins 2005

  • W. Parker, Lord Palmerston, &c. but official approval somewhat grudging joins Lord Derby's C.binet as Postmaster-General applies for command in the Baltic under Sir C. Napier refusal controversy with Sir James Graham

    Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir Lady Biddulph of Ledbury

  • C.binet; and, with the approval of Silas Wright, the former President urged Benjamin F. Butler for secretary of state, or Azariah C. F.agg for secretary of the treasury.

    A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

  • Tyler's C.binet and remained on terms of political intimacy with Weed; but, of all men, John C. Spencer was the least likely to do so.

    A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

  • These plans were frequently gone over with General Scott, and finally submitted to and approved by the President at the White House, his C.binet, General Scott and staffs, and others, of whom General John C. Fremont was one.

    General Scott Wright, Gen Marcus J 1893

  • The Queen now asked whether Lord John proposed a modification of his own C.binet, to which Lord John replied, None, except perhaps an exchange of Office between Sir C. Wood and Sir F.

    The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860

  • The C.binet were sustained by the opinion of Attorney-General John C. C.ittenden, and they also under his advice claimed the right to review the President's nominations before they were sent to the Senate.

    Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853

  • Then, as to the enervating effects of aristocracy, and noble effeminacy, I have seen ten times as much of it among your counter-jumpers and dealers in bob binet, as I have seen in the sons of dukes and princes; and, in my later days, circumstances have brought me much in contact with many of these last.

    Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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