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  • Claro que el hecho de que sean muy delgados resulta elegante pero las tradicionales carcasas negras o grises son realmente aburridas, por eso, la compañía HD Envy ha creado estos originales marcos.

    Wall Mounted Sinks and Cabinets From Sonia 2009

  • Visitors at the recently concluded Salon could sample the fine confections of the everyone from the eminences grises of the craft like Jacques Bellanger, who earned the MOF title nearly three decades ago, and Jean-Paul Hevin, awarded the title three years after Bellanger, to younger MOFs like Franck Kestener from the Lorraine region and Parisian Arnaud Larher, awarded the title by Nicolas Sarkozy in the most recent competition.

    Flora Lazar: For Chocolates, I'll Still Take France 2010

  • Still, these éminences grises--all nonpartisan, without commercial sponsorship or political axes to grind--developed their ideas by sharing their expertise.

    Within the pages of "The Squam Lake Report" getAbstract 2010

  • The series is also subtitled Une fille qui a despiles grises, "A girl with grey wings."

    Archive 2009-02-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • Or then again, maybe all the feverish talk about Gorby reflected nothing more than the predilections of the foreign media, who found Mikhail Gorbachev more culturally comprehensible and personally attractive than the media-shy eminences-grises of the Chinese Politburo and the unknown kids hiding under piles of coats and blankets on the Square.

    THE RISING TIDE OF REBELLION philip j cunningham 2009

  • Visitors at the recently concluded Salon could sample the fine confections of the everyone from the eminences grises of the craft like Jacques Bellanger, who earned the MOF title nearly three decades ago, and Jean-Paul Hevin, awarded the title three years after Bellanger, to younger MOFs like Franck Kestener from the Lorraine region and Parisian Arnaud Larher, awarded the title by Nicolas Sarkozy in the most recent competition.

    Flora Lazar: For Chocolates, I'll Still Take France 2009

  • I too am waiting for the smackdown from the Party eminences grises.

    New York Congresswoman: Hillary's Chances "Pretty Unlikely" 2009

  • The series is also subtitled Une fille qui a despiles grises, "A girl with grey wings."

    Reviews Too Late: Haibane Renmei Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • Seasoned observers of the climate scene, however, will be unsurprised to hear that global warming eminences grises like Sir John Houghton and Michael Mann continued to cite the Wahl and Amman papers....

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Looking Back at the Hockey Stick Thesis: The Bishop Hill Account 2009

  • Or then again, maybe all the feverish talk about Gorby reflected nothing more than the predilections of the foreign media, who found Mikhail Gorbachev more culturally comprehensible and personally attractive than the media-shy eminences-grises of the Chinese Politburo and the unknown kids hiding under piles of coats and blankets on the Square.

    Archive 2009-05-17 philip j cunningham 2009

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