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  • Arts and Sciences - will permit students to apply up to two approved credits earned at institutions other than Yale, which include summer study abroad programs, as well as four credits from a term abroad.

    Yale Daily News: Latest Issue 2009

  • "For certain kinds of movies, you are going have an easier time finding money overseas," he says, adding that winning Cannes 'top film prize in 1989 with "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" helped establish his name abroad.

    A Director Tries 'Guerrilla' Financing 2008

  • "For certain kinds of movies, you are going have an easier time finding money overseas," he says, adding that winning Cannes 'top film prize in 1989 with "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" helped establish his name abroad.

    A Director Tries 'Guerrilla' Financing 2008

  • Shanghai author and former junkie Mian Mian maintains that the ban in China on her two novels about sex, drugs and despair helped make her name abroad.

    China's Glasnost 2007

  • I want not a woman whom the world claims, and shouts her name abroad.

    Violets and Other Tales Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905

  • Thus the two great species which to-day are furnishing ninety-nine hundredths of the strawberries of commerce and of the garden, both in this country and abroad, came from America, the Fragaria Chilensis reaching our Eastern States by the way of Europe, and in the form of the improved and cultivated varieties that have won a name abroad.

    Success with Small Fruits Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • He is young, exceedingly handsome, so high-born that he is received as an equal in the houses of the titled abroad.

    An Original Belle Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • Professor Eva Syková, director of the Institute of Experimental Medicine AV ČR, says Holý has a chance to become the prize winner, but the academy must do the maximum to promote his name abroad.

    Prague Monitor 2008

  • I had intended -- when I took up my pen to-day -- to write on quite another form of this modern folly, this eternal struggle upward into circles for which the struggler is fitted neither by his birth nor his education; the above was to have been but a preface to the matter I had in mind, viz., "social climbers," those scourges of modern society, the people whom no rebuffs will discourage and no cold shoulder chill, whose efforts have done so much to make our countrymen a byword abroad.

    Worldly Ways and Byways Eliot Gregory 1884

  • As such, when it comes to drone warfare, it is especially crucial to be vigilant in demanding transparency, so that the public knows what the government is doing in its name abroad.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Response from ACLU’s Jonathan Manes on Drones and US Forces 2010

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