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  • UEM Chief Executive Izzaddin Idris defended the planned buyout by saying that Plus, which is the fifth largest expressway operator in the world, is a key national asset and that UEM will build on Plus 's track record for its international growth plans.

    Plus Expressways Receives Bid Ankur Relia 2010

  • Idris is one of those go-to actors,” notes Silver who previously worked with the actor on “RocknRolla” and “The Reaping.”

    34 High Resolution Photos from The Losers | /Film 2010

  • Immediately on our departure, I was delighted to find a change in Idris, which I fondly hoped prognosticated the happiest results.

    III.3 1826

  • The word Idris j fays D'Herbelot, is derived from Dersj which in Arabic fignifies fludy, meditation.

    Collectanea de rebus hibernicis .. 1786

  • Besides the aforementioned Ocean’s Eleven, jaded movie fans will have snarky fun identifying the derivations – a Die Hardnod here, a Fireflyswipe there – while taking in Idris Elba’s menacing cool and Saldana’slithesomebody.

    Review: The Losers « Screaming Blue Reviews 2010

  • Imam al-Sháfi’í Mohammed bin Idris (of whom Allah accept!):

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But this paled when compared to what happened on Number 103, forty miles to the west, subsequently called the Idris field.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • But this paled when compared to what happened on Number 103, forty miles to the west, subsequently called the Idris field.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • He identified this sage with the prophet called Idris in the Koran and Enoch in the Bible.

    ANC Today 2008

  • The perturbed and passion-tossed waves of thought subsided, leaving only the heavy swell that kept right on without any outward manifestation of its disturbance, till it should break on the remote shore towards which I rapidly advanced: — “It is true that I am sick,” I said, “and your society, my Idris is my only medicine; come, and sit beside me.”

    The Last Man 2003

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