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proh kyoor

  • v  get by special effort
    He procured extra cigarettes even though they were rationed
  • v  arrange for sexual partners for others

  • In fact, many of the flashiest benefits these new walk-away companies advertise are ones homeowners can procure on their own.
  • The company was once asked, for instance, to procure a dozen albino peacocks for Jennifer Lopez's birthday.
  • Lingerie boutiques are proliferating in the big cities, and last month's Sex Culture Festival in the southern city of Guangzhou attracted more than 50,000 people eager to procure .
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  • Stephen Harper in Reuters
    I'm very happy to inform you ...... that the Indian government has successfully procured the personal items gifted by the father of our nation, Mahatma Gandhi. We have been able to procure them through the services of an Indian who was in touch... Ambika Soni http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambika_Soni&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHqgp9Lc-lxKN8YSH7Q3Ab1gO17Gg International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/06/arts/AS-India-Gandhi-Auction.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGWUyQIZQQzGXyRJgzH5j_wRepZ5A Mar 6, 2009 77743 104811 procure It concerns me that we have a regime with both an ideology that is obviously evil, combined with a desire to procure technology to act on that ideology," Harper said. "My government is a very strong supporter of the state of Israel and...
  • Lewis Scooter Libby in New York Times
    The court filing said that Mr. Libby said "he understood that he was to tell Miller, among other things, that a key judgment of the NIE held that Iraq was 'vigorously trying to procure' uranium."

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