(n.) A license for absence from a college or a religious house.
(n.) A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
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Expat
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(1) I joined the march of flags initiated by a Swedish expat here in Kiev.
(2) Last week the International Consortium of British Pensioners (ICBP), which represents expat campaigning groups in Australia and Canada, launched its new Pension Justice website , aimed at highlighting their plight.
(3) "All those vuvuzuelas must be interfering with Cha Bum-Kun's ability to remote control his robot creation - er, son - Cha Du-ri," suggests Angela K, a South Korean expat in the US.
(4) Expat Greeks, he insisted, were showing "mass support for the efforts of Golden Dawn, not just in Germany but wherever there are diaspora Greeks".
(5) They’re profoundly resourceful.” An estimated 20,000 expats live in Lakeside during the winter high season – half of them American, half Canadian – attracted by the spring-like climate, charming villages and cheap property and healthcare.
(6) The Mail says: “It’s the bloody-minded Brussels bureaucracy, not her, that is bargaining with family lives and happiness.” Because, of course, she is “pushing hard for a deal that upholds the rights of all expats”.
(7) Expats allegedly involved in Reza Barati murder not returned to PNG, court told Read more Kirriwom will reopen the case on 30 November, when the court next sits on Manus Island.
(8) The expats, who include Annette Carson, 69, who now lives in South Africa, claimed the government was guilty of unlawful discrimination.
(9) For Vona is here to woo the estimated 50,000 Hungarian expats living in the UK, more than half of whom live in London and the south-east of England.
(10) This shop caters mainly for expats, but a new, bigger City Shop has now opened in downtown Shanghai to lure in Chinese shoppers.
(11) Scotland is a paradise on paper,” says one expat Scot who has been based in London for the past few years.
(12) Nadim Shehadi, associate fellow at Chatham House, said: "When Bashar al-Assad came to power there was optimism among the expats that there was going to be a change from his father, so they started to engage with him and they won some concessions.
(13) It is still Syrian expats – individuals – who are providing the funding by and large," said a Syrian businessman who has helped fund the opposition since the uprising began 22 months ago.
(14) On Monday, Hollingworth turned 100 and, fittingly for one of the most legendary war reporters of the 20th century, the occasion was marked in style at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong, the expat watering hole of which she has been the doyenne for more than two decades.
(15) They’re like the sort of expat communities JG Ballard writes about: airless and sanitised pockets of a home country in a foreign land.
(16) Because of the extraterritorial reach in the Drip bill, it requires foreign internet service providers, who may be providing webmail services to British citizens (think of the expats living in Spain or Florida and using national ISPs for example), to store data about those British citizens in data or storage centres outside the jurisdiction of the UK Data Protection and other relevant Acts,” Davis told the Guardian.
(17) International schools are opening in order to meet the rapidly growing needs of expat families whose careers are based overseas, yet who want their children to have access to a UK-style education.
(18) "Islamist violence directed at expat workers in the extractive industries is an increasing concern, not just in Libya but across north Africa ," said Duncan Bullivant, chief executive of British security firm Henderson Risk.
(19) I think it will be another kick for a country with an already waning economy, I think a lot of expat businesses are already a bit sick of the UAE's red tape.
(20) The group had been leading a campaign to overturn rules which they say result in 540,000 expat pensioners receiving lower state pensions than their counterparts residing in Britain and some other countries.