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  • Hajjis, those who have done hajj, tell me how pleasurable it was being part of the white-robed crowd from all nations united for a common purpose.

    Terry Kelhawk: American Pilgrims Of All Faiths Terry Kelhawk 2011

  • While explanatory texts are frustratingly short and few, photographs showing the white-robed monks serving meals in the unadorned white-walled refectory, studying in the book-lined scriptorium and making mustard and face cream in their new workhouse convey better than any script the fullness of experience possible in even the sparest settings.

    The Pared Minimum Julie V. Iovine 2011

  • "We reject the fighting in Libya...we strongly reject foreign intervention," declared Abed Abu Hamada , leader of the Megharbah tribe, in a speech to the televised gathering of white-robed elders.

    Gadhafi Stages Event to Show Libyan Tribal Unity Richard Boudreaux 2011

  • Hajjis, those who have done hajj, tell me how pleasurable it was being part of the white-robed crowd from all nations united for a common purpose.

    Terry Kelhawk: American Pilgrims Of All Faiths Terry Kelhawk 2011

  • Any suspension of disbelief about the high-flying white-robed deity is extinguished.

    Isaac Julien's angel of Morecambe Stuart Jeffries 2010

  • The stirring words brought all the members of the white-robed choir behind the president's podium to their feet.

    Obama Offers Message of Hope and Support to Tornado-Damaged Joplin, Missouri 2011

  • In a $5 million spot during last year's Super Bowl, Motorola mimicked Apple's famous "1984" commercial by depicting a lone Xoom-toting yuppie surrounded by white-robed Apple acolytes.

    Ty Fujimura: Why Apple is Doomed Ty Fujimura 2011

  • In a $5 million spot during last year's Super Bowl, Motorola mimicked Apple's famous "1984" commercial by depicting a lone Xoom-toting yuppie surrounded by white-robed Apple acolytes.

    Ty Fujimura: Why Apple is Doomed Ty Fujimura 2011

  • The stirring words brought all the members of the white-robed choir behind the president's podium to their feet.

    Obama Offers Message of Hope and Support to Tornado-Damaged Joplin, Missouri 2011

  • The hymn of praise which we have just sung unites us with the angelic hosts and the Church of every time and place – "the glorious company of the apostles, the noble fellowship of the prophets and the white-robed army of martyrs" – as we give glory to God for the work of our redemption, accomplished in the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

    Pope in the Holy Land: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre 2009

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