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You possess too much candour and benevolence not to make allowance, and to forgive the various emotions of my mind, which you have witnessed in this, to me, unhappy conferrence.
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Jeff Jarvis should be outraged at the conferrence producer who offered him a reduced attendee fee for his role as a speaker, instead of a fully comped pass.
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All of the pseudo-science crack-smokery presented at that conferrence has been thoroughly debunked elsewhere.
Report on the 2005 Mega Creation Conference, Part Two - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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After his budget speech, Mufamadi told a news conferrence the province deeply regretted the hardships caused by unpaid pensions during the recent campaign to clean up the provincial payroll.
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It was a bid of Shu [u] zen, the mark of the conferrence of position as _koshimoto_ in his household.
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The Society of St. Vincent de Paul was probably the earliest lay orgainzation established in new Zealand, a conferrence formed at Christchurch in July, 1867, by the Rev.Fr. Chasteagner, S.M., being the first founded in Australasia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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This unexpected circumstance caused the worthy Bench of Magistrates to pause a little; they retired to consult, and held a private conferrence with Mr. Maule, the solicitor to the Crown, who was sent down to conduct the prosecution for the Attorney General.
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 Henry Hunt 1804
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The result of this conferrence was, that the charge of High Treason was abandoned, and we were to be held to bail for
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 Henry Hunt 1804
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The Earl of Leicester, who had the affair of the precedency much at heart, had another conferrence on that subject with Grotius, of which the latter gives an account to the High Chancellor, July 26, 1637.
The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Burigny, Jean L De 1754
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Of our conferrence I need not tell you the effect; it surely may be forgiven me, if on this occasion I forgot the decency of common forms.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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