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Look After Your Own Harry Abdy Collins , group operations manager for international risk management company Page Group, worked on the ground providing security for large corporations in Egypt.
The Tyranny of Events William Lyons 2011
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"Mumbai was a huge wake up call," says Mr. Abdy Collins, referring to the terror attacks across the city in 2008.
The Tyranny of Events William Lyons 2011
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His father was a wealthy shipowner in his day; but, cursed with Abdy and another son, the old man has lost all his property, his children have deserted him, and he now depends entirely upon the charity of the Zayla chief.
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[16] Abdy, "Journal of a Tour in the United States," III, 62.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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While it later became a capital offence in some of the slave States for a Negro man to cohabit with a white woman, Abdy who toured this country from 1833 to 1834 doubted that such laws were enforced.
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The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Battery (Major Abdy), which was posted on the flat across the river from the show ground, and did splendid service all day.
Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900
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Major Abdy and his men succeeded in sweeping the further slope without loss to our own fighting line.
The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Hadji Daoud's wife was a woman of very bad disposition, and began to manifest her ill-temper towards me the very next day after I entered the house; but my master would not allow her to abuse me, thus sustaining the assurance Abdy-Aga had given me, that his father would be as kind to me as he had been.
The Autobiography of Nicholas Said; a Native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa 1873
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Accordingly, after I had stayed with him about four months, he finally sold me to a young officer, an Aga in the Pacha's army, named Abdy.
The Autobiography of Nicholas Said; a Native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa 1873
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