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  • Prior to the ceremony itself, the President-Elect is to part the waters of the Potomac River, and he will then walk to the steps of the Capitol Building, where he is scheduled to cure three specially-provided lepers and resurrect Dick Cheney from the dead.

    Obama Inauguration Schedule Leaked Dungeekin 2009

  • Prior to the ceremony itself, the President-Elect is to part the waters of the Potomac River, and he will then walk to the steps of the Capitol Building, where he is scheduled to cure three specially-provided lepers and resurrect Dick Cheney from the dead.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • I, among many, I hope, would have liked to had more information about how President - Elect is going to go about these changes ...

    Under New Management 2008

  • Until, however, the Royal approbation has been received, the Speaker Elect is not fully in office and this is symbolized by the fact that he is not preceded by the Mace when leaving the House during the interval between his election and the receipt of the Royal approval.

    Summoned to the Bar 1955

  • It sounds easy, but the kicker is that their social setup is feudal-the sixty-six thousand people they call the Elect are actually only free landholders or franklins, and below them there's a huge number of serfs - nobody's ever bothered to count them.

    Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

  • I am predestined; I am the Elect from the Messiah to rule and become the greatest predominating factor in the world.

    The British Navy 1918

  • Now that the President-Elect is transitioniong to be the President of all the people it’s obviously appropriate to take out these attacks.

    Changes at Change.gov: Return of the ‘Agenda’ - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • The AAUW is addressing this issue with a collegiate based program called Elect Her: Campus Women Win.

    Melinda J. Rising: Why Aren't There More Women In Office? Melinda J. Rising 2011

  • The AAUW is addressing this issue with a collegiate based program called Elect Her: Campus Women Win.

    Melinda J. Rising: Why Aren't There More Women In Office? Melinda J. Rising 2011

  • The AAUW is addressing this issue with a collegiate based program called Elect Her: Campus Women Win.

    Melinda J. Rising: Why Aren't There More Women In Office? Melinda J. Rising 2011

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