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venerable

ve nuh ruh buhl

  • s  impressive by reason of age
    a venerable sage with white hair and beard
  • s  profoundly honored

  • The car was introduced in 1955 as a replacement to the venerable TD and was itself replaced by the MGB in 1962.
  • The fingernails of his venerable right hand were six inches long.
  • The venerable, and I do mean venerable, Morgan Motor Company of Malvern, Warwickshire, has been making cars the old fashioned way since it was radical and high-tech.
News & Articles

  • The GOP Dilemma Over the Voting Rights Act
    In January, the Supreme Court heard the case of an Alabama county that wanted to change the venerable 1965 Voting Rights Act. On behalf of the government, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli argued that the act has worked well and meets constitutional muster. But swing-voting Justice Anthony Kennedy seemed skeptical about the Voting Rights Act. "Well, the Marshall Plan was very good, too," quipped ...
    June 19, 2013 - National Journal via Yahoo! News
  • Human Rights Hero Awarded at Event Hosted by Church of Scientology of Milan
    The Venerable Tenzin Bagdro, Tibetan monk and champion of Tibetan independence, was recognized with an Association for Human Rights and Tolerance Italy Human Rights Hero Award at a conference hosted by the Church of Scientology of Milan. (PRWeb June 18, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/ChurchofScientology/Humanrights/prweb10846226.htm
    June 18, 2013 - PRWeb
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    The venerable Catlaunch needed every inch of the Beulah Park stretch to come back and put his nose on the wire first in the $50,000 Sydney Gendelman Memorial Handicap on Sunday.
    June 17, 2013 - Daily Racing Form
Quotes

  • Barack Obama in Press Herald
    President Obama said the Senate "has lost a venerable institution, and America has lost a voice of principle and reason."
  • Igor Judge in BBC News
    Sir Igor said: "On 21 July 2005, London came within a vanishingly short breath of wholesale murder by terrorists. The explanation why the date will not be twinned in the annals of its venerable history with the murderous outrage perpetrated on 7...
  • José Saraiva Martins in Times Online
    She refused to repudiate her alarming position in the Supreme Court that the federal government can ban core political speech if it dislikes the speaker, including speech with a long and venerable history in our country, like political... Mitch McConnell http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEZA1ca3PJ7nNpSJFQIuI8CQ4eMWw Leagle.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.leagle.com/unsecure/news.do%3Ffeed%3Dyellowbrix%26storyid%3D146975496&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH-JxLxXf4WI84AfhoPd31cOkEh0A Jul 2, 2010 107439 140907 venerate Today, we venerate his body, opening a particularly intense period of pilgrimage," Cardinal Saraiva Martins said.

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