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• n  a period of sleeplessness
• n  the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
• n  a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe

• Keeping vigil outside Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch for nearly a month, Sheehan became a folksy celebrity: a hero to some and a villain to others.
• One speaker at the vigil was Wyoming's former Senator Alan Simpson, a Republican.
• Ordinary Iranians join candlelit vigil to honor America's dead.

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News & Articles

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• Vigil Health Solutions Reports Revenue/Bookings Growth and Profitable Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year Results
  Vigil Health Solutions Inc. announces the results of operations for the fiscal year and the fourth quarter, ending March 31, 2013.
  June 18, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• Vigil held in protest of immigration reform
  A vigil was held in southwest Albuquerque Monday in protest of immigration reform.
  June 18, 2013 - KOAT Albuquerque
• Vigil to be held for Hartford teen
  A vigil will be held Tuesday for a teen who was shot and killed in Hartford's North End on Sunday night.
  June 18, 2013 - Eyewitness News 3 Hartford

Quotes

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• President Bush in FOXNews
  You soothe the pain and fear of patients, you console families who keep constant vigil over their loved ones, you share the joy of a neurology patient's first recovered words and an amputee's first steps,Bush said at the groundbreaking...
• Pope Benedict XVI in International Herald Tribune
  This is the joy of the Easter Vigil: we are free,Benedict said in his homily. "In the resurrection of Jesus, love has been shown to be stronger than death, stronger than evil."
• Elvis Presley in NEWS.com.au
  It's official - this is the biggest Elvis week and the biggest candlelight vigil ever,Tom Morgan, executive director of Elvis Presley Enterprises said as he opened the ceremonies.