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  • The "Agrégation" is a competitive examination for teaching posts in high schools.

    Claude Cohen-Tannoudji - Autobiography 1998

  • Indeed, I have found that it is usually in unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the charm to an investi - gation.

    Sole Music 2010

  • I sent the house-maid for the police and put the investi - gation into their hands at once.

    Sole Music 2010

  • Work on Mes Aynak ( "Little copper well") has proceeded at a rapid pace since it began in May, because the archaeologists — 16 Afghans and two Frenchmen from DAFA (D é l é gation Arch é ologique Fran ç aise en Afghanistan) — are racing against time.

    Rescuing Afghanistan's Buddhist History 2010

  • In Oak Park, Ill., the Unitarian congre-gation of Unity Temple, with help from Landmarks Illinois, is working to save their deteriorating 1905 church designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, his first building made of poured concrete.

    A Sacred Mission 2007

  • In Oak Park, Ill., the Unitarian congre-gation of Unity Temple, with help from Landmarks Illinois, is working to save their deteriorating 1905 church designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, his first building made of poured concrete.

    A Sacred Mission 2007

  • Does he lay every-body that knows him under obli-gation?

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Forgive me; but when your friends are so good as to think me incapable of returning ingratitude for obli-gation, I hope I shall not be classed, by their beloved daughter, among the lowest of mankind.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • I can't imagine going to a priest to discuss a tubal li-gation but hey, the "free and responsible search for truth and meaning" sometimes leads far from our sanctuaries.

    Philocrites: When is a Unitarian more Catholic than the Pope? 2005

  • The Vaakos were monitoring not only the interro-gation within the grotto, but the questioning from without.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

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