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  • Gordon Brown is now seriously damaging his colleag...

    "Commentariat vs Bloggertariat" event review - #eiblogger Mark Reckons 2009

  • AMONG1 the orators who have preceded me, and who have touched on the motion of our colleag, Curée, several, anticipating the objections that might be made, have responded with as much talent as amenity.

    Against Setting Up an Emperor 1906

  • We shall not only, says he, avoid having a man too scrupulous in investigating, too subservient to the opinion of the people, Marcus Glabrio, but we shall have this advantage also: Marcus Cæsonius is the judge, the colleag of your accuser, a man of tried and proved experience in the decision of actions.

    I. The First Oration Against Verres 1906

  • You and your colleag, O Dolabella, ought not, indeed, to be angry with me for speaking in defense of the republic.

    VI. The First Oration Against Mark Antony 1906

  • And all these things he did in concert with his colleag.

    VI. The First Oration Against Mark Antony 1906

  • Cnæus Pompeius is excepted and disabled from being elected a colleag of Publius Rullus (for I say nothing of the rest).

    II. In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law 1906

  • They say that your colleag, in this fortune of his, which he himself thinks so good, but which would seem to me more favorable if (not to use any harsh language) he were to imitate the example set him by the consulship of his grandfathers and of his uncle, —they say that he has been exceedingly offended.

    VI. The First Oration Against Mark Antony 1906

  • But this clause was inserted, in order that if the law passed you might not be able to give him a colleag who would be a guardian over him, and a check upon his covetousness.

    II. In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law 1906

  • Some other things that were done were the acts of Dolabella4 alone; but, if his colleag had not been absent, would, I believe, have been done by both of them in concert.

    VI. The First Oration Against Mark Antony 1906

  • Rehman is polite when asked about the silence of her colleag ues in the ruling Pakistan Peoples party on the blasphemy issue.

    The Guardian World News Declan Walsh 2011

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