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Pere


Definition:

  • (n.) A peer.

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  • (1) Likud warned: “Peres will divide Jerusalem.” Arab states feared that his dream of a borderless Middle East spelled Israeli economic colonialism by stealth.
  • (2) A state memorial event will be held at the Knesset on Monday morning , addressed by the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, Peres and Sharon's sons Gilad and Omri.
  • (3) Statements by Kerry, Israeli president Shimon Peres and Arab League representatives on Wednesday and Thursday indicated that significant progress had been made.
  • (4) But the heart of the visit will be an address to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, and meetings with the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and President Shimon Peres.
  • (5) Israel's outgoing president, Shimon Peres, and his successor, Reuven Rivlin, promised in a joint editorial published in Yedioth Ahronoth, the country's best-selling newspaper, on Monday that there would be no cover-up in the investigation of Abu Khdeir's death.
  • (6) His office said Peres received a pacemaker last week.
  • (7) In 1986, while serving as prime minister and foreign minister, Peres held negotiations that led to the London agreement, the ultimately futile peace accord that included Israeli-Jordanian cooperation in administrating the West Bank.
  • (8) He especially welcomed Peres, reappointed Labour leader after Barak's resignation.
  • (9) Peres was discharged from hospital last week after suffering a heart attack.
  • (10) Shimon Peres, president of Israel, praised Mandela as "a builder of bridges of peace and dialogue who paid a heavy personal price for his struggle in the years he spent in prison and fighting for his people".
  • (11) His many detractors said that Peres simply had no choice.
  • (12) A spokesman said: “The president will participate in the funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres.
  • (13) Yet many Palestinians blamed Peres for saddling them with inferior terms in the Paris economic deal of 1994.
  • (14) The outpouring of support displayed the domestic political capital Erdogan gained from his performance at the Swiss resort, where he told Peres: "When it comes to killing, you know very well how to kill."
  • (15) Though he conceded that Arab leaders saw his creation, Israel’s secret Dimona plant in the Negev Desert, as “a worrisome fuzzy deterrent”, Peres the politician enjoyed creating such deliberate ambiguities.
  • (16) Support for Peres evaporated when successive bomb attacks killed dozens in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and talks with Syria came to naught.
  • (17) But by feting two cynical politicians who have sought to harness religious feelings for their own agendas, as Abbas is doing now with the furore over the Jerusalem mosques and Peres did nearly 40 years ago – when, as defence minister, he authorised the first settlements in the West Bank, in the hope the settlers would support him against his rival Yitzhak Rabin – the pope helped perpetuate the myth.
  • (18) Releasing the new images of the potential witness, DCI Chris Le Pere, who is in charge of the investigation, said: “We are appealing for this man to come forward so we can speak to him to establish if he can assist with our inquiries, or if we can eliminate this strand of the investigation.
  • (19) A 1-0 Costa Rica success resonates as much to this day with Scotland’s followers as Archie Gemmill’s 1978 wonder-goal against Holland or David Narey’s spectacular toe-poke past Brazil’s Waldir Peres four years later in Spain.
  • (20) By standing down, he avoided splitting the rightist vote and thus allowed Netanyahu to narrowly beat the prime minister Peres.

Were


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To wear. See 3d Wear.
  • (n.) A weir. See Weir.
  • (v. t.) To guard; to protect.
  • () The imperfect indicative plural, and imperfect subjunctive singular and plural, of the verb be. See Be.
  • (n.) A man.
  • (n.) A fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man's life; weregild.

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