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- proper noun A
British surname ofScandinavian origin.
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Examples
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As the mute sailor Finn, Knaggs' role is basically to stand around looking vaguely creepy, staring off to sea, his face half-obscured by shadows.
The Ghost Ship Ed Howard 2009
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Ellie Knaggs and Helen Gilchrist. 169 The scintillation counter was in the past for both Karlik and Kara-Michailova, as it was for the research groups in Cambridge and Vienna.
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Now it was all Charlie Knaggs could do to stop him going through with his pledge.
An Ordinary Soldier Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm 2008
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Colonel Knaggs gave a nod and a wave to each of us as we swept by.
An Ordinary Soldier Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm 2008
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Arriving at my new home, the HQ of the PRT in Lashkar Gah, I was welcomed by Charlie Knaggs.
An Ordinary Soldier Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm 2008
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I looked forward, squinting as the sun continued its sure climb to my left, and saw Colonel Charlie Knaggs, the head of the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Lash, and Major Al Stocker, his chief of staff, bidding farewell to Paddy.
An Ordinary Soldier Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm 2008
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Colonel Charlie Knaggs had ordered that everyone leaving the PRT base in Lashkar Gah should use it.
An Ordinary Soldier Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm 2008
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The "sugaring drum" referred to is thus described and figured by Dr. - Knaggs; and it will be seen that in its main principle it is similar to my diaphragm bottle, sans cyanide:
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Striking down such insects with a parchment-covered battledore, which Dr. Guard Knaggs considers inflicts the least injury, or impaling them with a triangle of needles stuck in cork, in the manner shown in Fig. 52, or even with a single darning needle, has been recommended, but after a trial I have come to the conclusion that such plans are clumsy in the extreme.
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That a declaration may be an appropriate remedy for both jurisdictional errors and closely analogous defects such as unfairness or breaches of natural justice is shown by such Privy Council and House of Lords decisions as _De Verteuil_ v. _Knaggs_ (1918) A.C. 557, _Pyx
Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster C.A. 95/81 New Zealand. Court of Appeal
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