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  • Serbian Officers and Functionaries 'Families, which included relief work for Serbian students stranded in Switzerland and Serbian boy prisoners of war.

    Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

  • Functionaries of the state quickly realized that they faced a serious challenge from the African population and that the government needed physically to suppress the protests as quickly as possible and to reestablish ideological order by explaining to itself and to others what had happened.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • Functionaries with the CEAS contend that, without the lirio extraction program, there would be 14,000 hectares of lirio covering the lake's surface today instead of the 7,600 hectares covering the lake's surface as of February 20th (satellite images on that date indicate that lirio covered 6.6% of the lake's surface at that point in time).

    Fish Kill at Lake Chapala 2005

  • Functionaries of what Meredith Willson called "massteria" (The Music Man), they schmear fear and a chilling effect throughout broadcasting's artistic community, management and advertisers, while impeding the Freedom of Expression guaranteed by the Constitution to both communicator and receiver.

    OH, GROW UP, AMERICA 2006

  • Functionaries, escorts attached to each of the Assembly delegations, security personnel, maintenance workers&the Thelasian government was huge, obviously.

    Rosetta Stern, Dave 2006

  • Functionaries of the radical right-wing NPD have already applauded him.

    Meanwhile in Germany Helen 2005

  • Cockney sportsmen, — The degrading of high Moorish Functionaries. —

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • Cockney sportsmen, — The degrading of high Moorish Functionaries. —

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • Functionaries and support staff sit at chairs that are pushed back against the wall; they follow proceedings on a large master screen that hangs on one end wall.

    Whispers Of Betrayal Dobbs, Michael, 1948- 2000

  • Functionaries from a number of government offices weaved among them.

    Mirage Tiedemann, Mark W. 2000

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