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When he dropped by the court to observe proceedings earlier this week, shareholders approached him to express gratitude.

As the great day approached, there was more singing in the slave section than usual. It was lively and lasted later into the night.

The latter is at the heart of all knowledge, even if it could only have been approached through know-how.

A policeman approached Jimmy and told him he ought to have gone along a side street as Jumbo was holding up the traffic.

And with stronger possible justification: Miss Bhutto's killer is alleged to have approached to within 20 yards of her car, carrying a gun.

She could feel that there was no warm, sympathetic friendship back of the easy merriment with which many approached her.

Rathbone declined to comment on whether any other potential suitors had approached the company.

I approached the house, as you know, on foot, and with my mind entirely free from all impressions.

He approached, met her eyes and said, "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. "

Sometimes, as he approached his house, he would be so deep in thought that he'd walk right past his door.

He said as much to Tesla as they approached an intersection midway along the corridor. "I-I'll wait for you here-you know, s-stand guard. "

As the winter approached he realized that his hearing was no better, and that it was likely to get worse, and he might end up totally deaf.

No one approached him, but he glanced furtively to and fro as he made for the street entrance.

"Let me see an arrest warrant signed by the state attorney, " she said as she approached us.

Early on the team approached a number of big chip manufacturers. Engineers there did not always greet their presentations warmly.

However, she said she was later approached by the detective constable, who said he was disappointed in her.

Tommy Dillon, who had joined the choir, came singing up the stairs and down the corridor, his chant growing louder as he approached room F.

Silas had never been here, but he felt a rising sense of refuge and asylum ashe approached the building on foot.

He tossed his head with delight at the sight of her, and approached slowly to the place where she stood, a little in front of the mirror.

Within moments, Binti Jua, a female gorilla, approached, picked up the unconscious boy, and cradled him in her arms.

An attractive woman is often approached several times a day by men who are interested.

When she approached the gate of the noisy town, Lizette shut her eyes and took off the hat long enough to put on the scarf.

Night approached, and with it a storm.

As I approached the glow from the dark I found myself at the back of two men, talking.

The Liverpool manager said the defender will be approached with a new deal once rebuilding efforts and possibly a takeover are complete.

I only bought him a cup of coffee and passed on a handful of names and numbers when he approached me about this project some five years ago.

He describes how a stranger, a man in his mid forties, approached him in the market asking if he knew of any marriageable girls.

As the lunch hour approached, the proprietor asked me to vacate the table for four because he wanted it to be free for a lunch party.

His mother, Concepcion, 35, says she noticed something was wrong as Junrey approached the age of two but no doctor was able to help.

Loki approached the skilful dwarves and negotiated for a fine head of golden hair in exchange for a life of servitude to the dwarfs.

As we approached the house, we found a man going out of it.

The CEO of Wool Partners, Iain Abercrombie, said the company had been approached to support the fee and given it due consideration.

Harvard scholar once told me that today's China is best approached with ambivalence, and that seems about right to me.

I remember being approached by an elderly woman , her eyes raw with tears .

"I dropped out of school at an early age, " he said, as he approached his fishing boat on a cold November morning.

Accordingly, a woman with a child in her arms approached the tree, carrying root vegetables and two fish in her hands.

When he was approached, he lifted his face and confronted his questioner with a pair of huge brown eyes that gave nothing away.

Impelled by some sort of fascination, I approached the sepulchre to see what it was and why such a thing stood alone in such a place.

Others thought we approached board discussions in a slightly different way and that this was a good thing.

As he approached me, with a greeting and a smile, I looked for a dragger under his cloak, but to no avail.

I thought I saw a 1000-dollar bill, but as I approached, I realized it was just a piece of paper.

Witnesses said the participants, mostly young men, approached in a "very orderly fashion" .

As the NBA draft approached, the grim truth about Yao Ming's(notes) broken left foot hung like an anvil over the Houston Rockets.

One middle-aged couple approached a very attractive female cadet and asked her to pose for a picture.

One frog approached the winner and asked him where he could get so much strength to climb this long way up to the top.

When the train approached racing, leaving no time for the criminal to cross the rails, he had to stop, only to be caught by the policemen.

I saw she was on the phone as I approached and expected to wait a minute or two.

As with the novels she discusses, Brandon might have approached these diaries with a more critical eye.

When a woman only established eye contact with a man, she was approached 20% of the time.

As one man approached and looked at the media crews, he stopped in his tracks and said aloud, "What happened, did someone die? "

Ms. Whitman was first approached about becoming CEO a few weeks ago, a person familiar with the matter said.

As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus acted as if he were going farther.

So not approached any other woman, this does not seem to homosexual characteristics!

At lASt, AS midday approached with its stifling heat, something floating on the surface of the water caught his eye.

When she had finished, Father Mabeuf approached her with tears in his eyes, and laid his hand on her brow.

as the word approached English the design on the fabric moved from fine embroidery to a pattern woven into a cheaper cloth.

But as she approached, farming instruments, like pitchforks and shovels, started flying out of his head toward her.

Eventually an old school friend approached him and invited him home to meet his wife and two-year-old daughter.

After the hearing, a lawmaker and a staffer both approached Soros and asked him to autograph their copies of his book.

As the servant and Rebekah approached, Isaac looked up and peered into the distance to see if he knew who was coming.

Before that, he repeatedly approached higher authorities to appeal a legal case in which he tried to sue the company for unfair wages.

There I was, as the final examination approached, with a note book about two inches thick, filled with lecture notes.

An hour later an elderly doctor in his sixties with snow white hair, sapphire blue eyes, and a fatherly demeanor approached me.

After an hour of gathering his courage, he approached her and asked, "Would you mind if I chatted with you for a while? "

Here's How You Know When A Woman Is Ready To Be Approached.

It was a cold night in Washington, D. C. , and I was heading back to the hotel when a man approached me.

As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven , Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.

It approached, lying down in the front door, I shook its claws, as if heard it said: "No, I would also like to sit here at the moment. "

Soon a group of Israeli soldiers approached. "They came and banged on the door and told everyone to leave the house, " he said.

And as it approached, a gale of social media messages swirled, as New Yorkers "flocked" together, trying to make sense of events.

But London did give him a sense of the tone in which politics might be approached.

The programme approached 20 charities but found only two willing to disclose how much they paid their chuggers for each new donor.

First the owner approached, holding a large glossy game-bird as if asking me to stroke it before I ordered it to eat.

After a week of this affair with the call girl, Luca was approached by Bruno Tattaglia, manager of the nightclub.

He approached the microphone, but blinded by the sun's glare on the snow-covered Capitol grounds, he was unable to read it.

Then some word was sent around, and a foreman, in an apron and shirt sleeves, the latter rolled up to his shoulders, approached.

He told me that the way I approached problems was as effective as any methods he'd observed.

I was trembling at the unexpected sight of him, and could not control my voice, so I approached in silence.

One morning as the expert approached and beckoned for him to hold out his hand, he was about to blurt out that he could go on no longer.

Through approached zero degree, this time in circumstance big end of summer should not be able to see.

He waited until she was on her own away from the stall and approached her asking to go out for a drink sometime.

As the date for his Chicago trial approached, he began to re-embrace his homeland.

Charles Koch seems to have approached both business and politics with the deliberation of an engineer.

Eye witnesses said the participants, mostly young men, approached in a "very orderly fashion" .

The fierce figure that approached him in the field was more terrifying than expected, however, and he suddenly had thoughts of fleeing.

Gimmerton was an unsubstantial name in her ears; the chapel, the only building she had approached or entered, except her own home.

"I won the big prize, " Finch said as he approached the guard in the front of the building.

Okoye stressed to his agents that he didn't want to miss any time, but said he got a bit concerned as the start of camp approached.

but the cabin-boy approached, and when her sisters dived down he thought it was only the foam of the sea which he saw.

When a coastguard vessel approached, the ship tried to escape, and was detained after a more than six-hour chase.

When a coastguard vessel approached, the ship tried to escape, and was detained after a more than six-hour chase.

As the Winter Solstice approached, with its long cold nights and short days, many people feared the sun would not return.

In chapters 27 and 28, Luke recorded a major detour in Paul's life as he approached the last few years of his ministry.

Mr. Hall wasn't sure he was allowed to do that as well, but he approached some of the administrative staffers to ask for help.

There was an air of festivity as they approached the playground, which was hung with bunting and balloons.

The enemy through a powerful army, the sunset, the enemy approached the walls. , I had nowhere to run.

I approached and saw, as if graven in brass relief upon the white surface, the figure of a gigantic cat.

In specular reflection, light rays bounce off the surface of an object at the same relative angle that they approached it.

Palantir said it had been approached by Hunton & Williams, a century-old firm with ties to the Republican Party and the defense industry.

She said that someone had seen me fall and ran to help me, the person had also said that he had seen a man run away as he approached.

He said he had never been approached by the Crown Prosecution Service or the police.

At last he cleared his throat, got to his feet, walked around the little table, and approached the portrait of Ariana.

I had never been spontaneously approached by a publisher and such condescension rather turned my head.

The company is approached by an American publisher with the suggestion of a merger .

He says that several women in the congregation who had not approached him for help did reach out to the counselor.

And yes it was hard, in the beginning, but then as few people approached me, I began to relax.

It added that it had approached some of these companies about royalty payments but did not intend to sue all of them.

Steward, who did not know where he was, eventually approached a policeman at a petrol station and asked for help late Wednesday.

The last shareholder was vanishing through the door, when he approached his uncle.

She also had a horror of being buried alive and begged me to ensure that she was completely "gone" before any undertaker approached.

He hopelessly approached the corner of the cottage and surprisingly found a water pump.

She approached the casket and after leaning her face against the cold glass for a moment was gently led to a seat near her daughter.

He stared at her somberly as she approached him.

As he approached the house, he saw no golden windows but instead a place in bad need of painting surrounded by a broked-down fence.

the pilot again changed the course of the boat , which rapidly approached the island , and was soon within fifty paces of it.

I began to reject, to renounce, to set aside what I had gathered and little by little I approached my goal.

The cold winter has passed by, spring approached I did not know? Ispring in where? But I knew that, it certainly can quietly approach.

She also acknowledged that she had been approached by a local Republican candidate who asked her to go public, but she declined to name him.

As Cape Town approached there was an argument and a scuffle in the corridor, and my heart sank.

One middle-aged couple approached a very attractive female cadetasked her to pose for a picture.

I had just quit my job and started a new company, and I approached David at an author signing for an earlier edition of this book.

While she was fetching the water her husband approached the dusty horseman and inquired eagerly for news from the front.

She approached the marquee , fanning herself with her handkerchief , but with exultation sparkling in her round eyes .

As he rose and approached the witness stand, Pritchett's eyes appeared to gleam behind his rimless glasses.

Mr. Tong said he had been approached about buying the floor earlier, but didn't think the owner was serious about a sale.

"Welfare dependency" is usually approached from the perspective of the New Right, using this notion to attack the welfare state regime.

They were tear-gassed when they approached parliament as it was being debated, to try to deliver a document criticising its content.

LONDON (Reuters) - Bus and rail group Stagecoach confirmed on Sunday it had approached rival National Express about a possible merger.

Europa in Greek mythology was a beautiful princess carried away by Zeus, who approached her in the form of a white bull.

After her burial I approached the Pastor and made a deal with him.

The little girl clung to her mother when the stranger approached them.

He longed to reunite with her, so he approached Jupiter, king of the gods, and beseeched him to grant Psyche immortality.

I approached the verge of despair; a remnant of self-respect was all that intervened between me and the gulf.

He learned to brace himself as he approached her for what was almost certain to follow.

However, big international banks, including Citibank and HSBC, said they had not even been approached about transferring the funds.

Certain things must be known, and the influence of these ascertained before subsequent steps in the solution process can be approached.

Our students approached us about a year ago , saying that we needed to improve our email and collaboration services .

She was making sand castles with her little sister when a photographer for Madison Models approached her.

The eagerness in his manner tightened abruptly into formality as several people approached him to say good-bye.

They were all on visas when he approached them about his side business.

Howard Stern was originally approached to make a quick voice cameo in the film, however his agent talked him out of it.

ALL twelve of us left the ship and approached the doors carefully, One was a little open.

But we did have to pause for a while in between, when the resumption of sovereignty approached, followed by the Asian financial crisis.

Today's 'civilisation-state' has been approached in something of the same spirit.

In 1999, the Sun approached him with a story sold to them by a former Boyzone security guard, alleging the singer was gay.

approach He opened the car door for her as she approached . . .

We'd had our first totally virtual set on the last film, so we approached this one with a bit more confidence.

As we approached the dock, a Japanese journalist leaned from the boat toward the surf to snap a few last shots.

Next, an older man approached the podium, picked up a ceramic tea mug from the front row, and hurled it, missing Zhang.

As he approached the house, he saw no golden windows but instead a place with in bad need of a painting surrounded by a broken down fence.

The Zetas have long predicted, since the start of ZetaTalk in 1995, that food shortages would loom as the time of the pole shift approached.

An elderly woman told police that a man approached her while she was sitting outside her apartment and put her toes in his mouth.

As he approached the entrance, Henry turned to his friends with a whoop of triumph.

Companies are already reaching out to bloggers. One-third of bloggers have been approached to be brand advocates.

But when Wooden approached him in the playground and asked his name, he immediately answered, "Patrick. "

It was Sunday. I had one last patient to see. I approached her room in a hurry and stood at the doorway.

As she approached her chair, the carton wobbled, and there was a scratching noise.

You will no doubt be approached by not a few persons on your way to the advisors chambers.

Fortuna freelanced for a number of years, until Jabba the Hutt approached him to smuggle spice on contract for a healthy commission.

Yet amid all that, 2007 is the year that domestic paper supply approached balance in the face of declining demand.

The aim was not to imitate their styles, but to understand how they thought, what their problems were, and how they approached them.

He added that a number of early viewers of the movie, including Yates's daughters, had approached him to say: You didn't mess it up.

When she was waked up, suddenly she found a snake in the bush, and it Approached to her.

But as the stand-off wore on, armed police approached the coach and began to smash windows and the glass front door.

The way they played in the last series, the way they approached these two days leading up to this game, these guys are going to play.

My advice to academics if they get approached by some City spiv is to say, 'Son, there's the door. '

I approached her around a week ago, just prior to the London bombings for a message.

They approached the mirror until they bumped into it with their snout, and then checked to see what was behind the mirror.

He approached the bank with a request for a loan .

The other thing I felt was that armrests had never really been properly approached.

As well as base salary hikes, banks are once more offering guaranteed bonuses to staff approached with lucrative offers by rivals.

An Ass and a Cock were in a straw-yard together when a Lion, desperate from hunger, approached the spot.

They approached me with an offer that I could not refuse.

Jewelry designer Jeanine Payer was showing her wares in a boutique in Portland, Ore. , recently when a woman approached her.

How much creative control did you have over your character (rumour has it that Tom Cruise was originally approached to play the part)?

Gently and gently, youth slowly approached me, like a breeze flowing sleeve, let me grow slowly unconsciously.

So the king, surrounded by his countries, approached Diogenes and said, "I am Alexander the Great. "

'The Arab League should be approached to pay for that war, ' Republican Sen. Richard Lugar told reporters just before hostilities began.

Earlier this year, two officers approached me as I was exiting Tokyo Station and asked to see an ID and the contents of my purse.

The man approached her and suddenly he took out a dagger, "Give me your purse! "

A few other men approached the wreckage and ''put a coat over my head so I wouldn't be able to identify anybody, '' Talbot said.

I approached Golf Digest (a well known golf magazine) and was able to strike a deal where our program was marketed using their name.

Then, Mara knowing what the Buddha thought by use of his own mind, approached the Buddha and urged him to exercise rulership righteously.

She approached Lockhart's desk, a piece of paper clutched tightly in her hand, Harry and Ron right behind her.

A few days later, the wily retiree approached them again as they drummed their way down the street.

Thus the cosmos cannot be a necessary form of existence; and so it has to be approached by a posteriori investigation.

But as the number of jumpers approached double digits, latent self-reproach began to boil over.

As my partners and I approached the bunker, I pulled a small blue velvet satchel out of my golf bag.

One of them approached me in a weak English, and offered to make friends with me.

I first approached Murray to ask him about the climate change impact of a cappuccino.

It is reported, 16 have two speedboats approached the Misurata port, one of them near the time of the NATO warships will soon disappear.

Apparently undeterred by this, a local teacher approached me to vent his frustration, asking me what I thought about China and Tibet.

she listened to them for a minute as she approached the cart , then tossed in the prunes.

Ernesto approached him at the refreshment table. "When I told you to dance. I meant with a partner, " his friend teased him.

As the two men approached each other the younger one thrust out his new diploma and shouted, "Educated, by God. "

The turtles saw them, approached them from the front, then shut their eyes so they were completely carapaced and ate them filaments and all.

Not really. I feel somewhat like an inverse tangent function that's approached an asymptote.

The law of supply and demand, he once wrote, was the nearest social science approached to the laws that governed the universe.

Despite increased business in the United States, PW approached the prospect of a permanent American office with caution and conservatism.

That he had been approached before the 2067 'Miss', in the knowledge of syphilis to his wife again.

Sir Paul McCartney reminded me that the first record company the Beatles approached rejected them as a band no-one would want to listen to.

There is an idea to take out abruptly: approached to see if it!

As in Chicago, she was seized with stage fright as the very first entrance of the ballet approached, but later she recovered.

The diaphragmatic repair should be approached through a laparotomy due to the high incidence of simultaneous intra-abdominal organ injury.

The soldier drove the woodsman away, threatening him with dire consequences if he ever approached the maiden again.

While he was at the university, he was determined to be the No. 1 in his class, but he approached this goal step by step.

Thus thinking, I approached the old man and struck up a short conversation with him.

Nor would such a discussion happen unless the Rio board approached Chinalco, having accepted some shareholders' complaints.

The overall situation looked hopeful as I approached my senior year as long as I could make as much money as I had the previous summer.

Mr. Rudolf, 50, said he was first approached by the Singapore government 15 years ago, when he was still director of Art Basel.

As I approached on foot, I would often see their heads peeking over the top of the wall.

A man in the corner approached me for a match.

Even before Karl approached, southern Mexico was already contending with one of its wettest seasons on record.

Nick, Tommy Costello, and I were all on cars at the time, and approached the Monte from different angles.

It might be a stretch to think that chores will ever be fun, but they certainly can be bearable if approached in the right way.

"Is there anything in the paper? " he said, as we approached the end of our silent meal.

In this regard, the proper use of condoms is an issue that needs to be addressed and approached on more than one occasion as well.

I approached her and had a little conversation with her and my friends.

She used to get into a state as exams approached.

Comrade Wang and his friend, conversing earnestly together, ceased as you approached.

As the American civil war approached, they widened their options and began moving north to New York, where they established their bank.

Things got interesting when he approached the front door.

Brahms found that ideas came effortless only when he approached a state of deep daydreaming.

I approached cautiously and touched her shoulder. "Mother? " I said. "What's happened? "

Gail's father, David, whom I had not yet met personally, approached our decision with a father-knows-best attitude.

Eventually your concrete mind and your abstract, higher mind are linked, and the next stream of consciousness can be approached and crossed.

He argues instead that aging is a disease -- one that can be cured if it's approached as "an engineering problem. "

And if that weren't enough to ruin my day, A young boy out of breath approached me, all tired from play.

She screamed her lungs out for half a minute until Sammy approached her pull bar again.

A friend of mine approached me recently, concerned that her boyfriend was wanting to spice things up in the bedroom a bit *wink wink*.

Liveris declined to comment on whether he has been approached, and said he remains firmly entrenched in Dow.

I felt my breathing gradually creeping toward hyperventilation as I approached the door.

A woman approached me, mouth breathing out white gas, soft voice asked me: " the child, your family? "

The fascinated penguins approached Mr Schultz each day as he hiked from a helicopter base camp to the main Emperor rookery.

Out on a walk, if approached by a stranger, the pup cowers and hides behind his owner.

As the child's temperature approached 27 degrees with still no sign of life, the atmosphere in the emergency room grew increasingly tense.

They said they would be convinced the pheromones worked if one of them was approached by more men at the speed-dating event.

He had already been feeling anxious as the time of the speech approached.

Yet the cynicism with which Beijing has approached this task has surprised even long-standing residents.

As they approached it, they saw to their surprise a large crowd jostling outside the doors, trying to get in.

Finally stop the tears, he approached me in tears and could not talk, Zhuanzhuan in glasses, broke down in tears.

A pair of smartly dressed women approached the store and said to each other: "Oh God, isn't it sad? "

She had an imperious manner about her which she maintained even when approached by Dementors.

As the time for my parents' fiftieth anniversary approached, my brothers and I met to plan the party .

Approached you, Jack bowl bowls, nourishing the soul of the dead, the flowers in the spring season the wind again.

She heard her mother's voice, and approached slowly through the forest.

21 August: As rebel forces approached Tripoli, he said: "We will fight to the last drop of blood. We will never give up. "

Life, love, two-timing, forgive, marriage, friendship, when facing imminent approached 30-year-old adult life, what he might choose?

It was not until I approached her that I noticed she was clutching my . 45 caliber handgun in a death grip.

He is approached by the Game Warden who asks him for his fishing license.