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A mysterious figure that can be summoned by repeating his name five times while looking in the mirror.
To prevent this, the American State Department summoned the Chilean Ambassador, issued a stern warning to Pinochet, and announced publicly its demand that the plebiscite be held as planned.
He believes that he was summoned to treat bleeding caused by something else.
After parliamentarians were summoned back to work after Christmas in an unprecedented extended winter session, the bill passed the Lok Sabha (the lower house), where the ruling coalition commands a narrow majority.
As a minister I once put pressure on Gazprom over taxes and was summoned to parliament by indignant deputies.
Among the highest-profile defamation-related cases in the Middle East today is that involving Najat Abu Bakr, a member of Palestine’s parliament who has been summoned for interrogation by the attorney-general after leveling corruption accusations against Hussein al-Araj, a cabinet minister with close ties with President Mahmoud Abbas.
Yet French and German statesmen summoned the vision and the will to launch a bold experiment, one that has evolved into a single economy of 500 million people.
As one of the most junior officers in the embassy, I was often summoned as an emergency fourth player for tennis at the Ambassador’s residence.
China has also summoned Indian Ambassador Vijay Gokhale to register a formal protest.
Indeed, Rybkin was told to pretend to be opposed to Yeltsin's policies, but when he did object, Chernomyrdin summoned Rybkin to his office for "clarifications."
Out of power since 1946, Charles de Gaulle was summoned back to the Elysée to lead France out of this quagmire.
Unlike in 2000, many Tibetan refugees in Hungary were summoned for prolonged identity checks at the time of Wen’s visit, effectively keeping them out of the streets.
Summoned back to Bucharest two days later, Stanculescu apparently had second thoughts about his loyalty to the dictator.
He has been summoned three times by a Moscow criminal court to testify in a case against Alexei Ulyukaev, a former minister of economic development.
No low-level Moscow court judge or prosecutor could possibly have summoned Sechin unilaterally.
The king summoned the Thai junta leader and the leader of the protest to his palace in the center of the city, and on live television both men prostrated themselves before him while he demanded an end to the bloodshed.
Its architects were fully aware of this deficiency, but believed that when the need arose, the political will could be summoned to take the next step forward.
When China summoned India’s ambassador in Beijing to the foreign ministry at 2 a.m. for a dressing-down over the Tibetan protests in New Delhi, India meekly acquiesced in the insult.
It was only after Mikhail Gorbachev summoned Yeltsin to Moscow in 1985 that he began to differentiate himself from dozens of other senior party apparatchiks.
Two years after that first democratic parliament was summoned, the Soviet Union collapsed but Russia's peoples did not turn to radicals of either the right or left.
At three p.m. on the day after the vote, Jaruzelski summoned top party officials.
But Paulson did it the wrong way: he summoned the heads of major banks and forced them to take the money he allocated to them.
Suspicions of foul play deepened when the opposition's second-leading figure, Yuliya Tymoshenko, a former deputy prime minister, was summoned by a Moscow prosecutor to answer questions related to charges that years ago she bribed a Russian military officer to benefit the gas firm she headed.
They could be confident, however, that when the time came to correct a deficiency, the necessary political will could be summoned.
Predictably, Bush and the US Congress finally summoned the political will to raise taxes and rein in spending growth at precisely the wrong moment – in 1990, just as the US was entering a recession.
Ironically, Trump has summoned the same Robert Lighthizer, veteran of the Japan trade battles of the 1980s, to lead the charge against China.
That was also the view of UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who, observing the construction of a European central bank, began to ring the alarm bells that summoned a renewed Euroskepticism and, ultimately, Brexit.
A few days later, after Li had sent a warning message to several doctors in a group chat, the 34-year-old doctor was summoned by the police, who forced him to sign a letter confessing to “making false comments” that had “disrupted the social order.”
It can only be done by a Government, which is summoned to it and is brought to it inevitably.
Though Koznyshev's plan, which Levin had not heard to the end – of how a liberated Slavonic world, forty millions strong, should, together with Russia, commence a new epoch in history – interested him very much as something quite new to him, and though he was disturbed by curiosity and anxiety as to why he had been summoned, yet as soon as he had left the drawing-room and was alone, he immediately recollected his thoughts of the morning.
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