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How to use chair in a sentence

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Noor yelled, swiveling around from her bureau chair to face her, a mascara wand in her hand.
Finally, how can anyone administer the lethal injection or switch on the electric chair or whatever?
On June 22, the woman was sitting in a chair when they appeared at her living room door, having let themselves in by the back door.
Ever since the big easy chair was reupholstered it's not as comfortable anymore.
After he left, Violette sank into her chair to await her aunt's return and to demand an explanation.
I sat down in a chair in the waiting area while he went and retrieved the proper paperwork.
Each sister had their own cell, furnished with a plank bed and straw mattress, a three legged chair and a wooden cross.
He got up from the table, his chair legs scraping against the ground when he pushed it back.
Seated in the chair facing the mirror, chained to the leg of the table, was Darren Hammer.
He pointed to his guest chair and once she was settled, he resumed his seat behind his desk.
He would occasionally fidget around in his chair restless from his captivity.
He adjusted his position to rest his arm against the chair beside him and motioned toward her.
His son sat in the chair before the desk and leaned forward with his elbows resting on his knees.
Dudson drew up another chair and sat opposite the pilot, as DeVille thoughtfully found an anglepoise light to shine in his eyes.
Jacinta turned away from Brooks, shifting her body in the chair to distance and angle herself physically away from him.
While not well preserved, the elegant carving of the zoomorphic chair displays elongated proportions similar to those seen on the Megiddo ivory.
Joyce moved her chair so that she could see the anchormen's familiar faces and hear their dispassionate voices.
John rescued his coffee from the confusion and leaned back in his chair to admire his son.
On any given day I found him seated in a lawn chair outside the shack, basking in the late afternoon sun.
She took a seat on the white lawn chair and watched the street, busy with the remaining tourists.
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Adam is sitting in a lawn chair in the back yard of his recently purchased house.
Ian, who wasn't in the scene, had perched himself in a lawn chair near the pool, and Adam came up at one point and said he was sort of disturbed.
Johnson, as chair of the Public Works Committee, was instrumental in quickly reporting the bill out of his Committee to the Conference Committee.
Well, I will pray for you and that your heart will continue to be happy in this first new chair of yours.
I always see him in a comfortable chair wearing one of those smoking jackets with quilted lapels.
The only hint that he is 63-years-old is his slow step as he ambles to the witness chair and takes a seat behind the microphone.
You should be able to operate the chair with one hand, removing the tray and positioning your child inside.
In front of each chair lay a jeweled, ruby-encrusted goblet of wine, whose inlaid gemstones shone in the bright lamplight.
Her world collapses when her firm forces her to take first chair defense in a murder case involving a smug yakuza who's obviously guilty.
He took off his long jacket and laid it carefully across the back of the chair and took his boots and glasses off as well.
The lady of the house provides you with a rush-seated chair to sit on, and another on which to rest your legs.
Feye rose from her chair slowly, confusion and a little irritation registering on her face.
They also meet quarterly with the chair and the vice chair of the university's board of regents.
He failed in his application for the chair of algebra and number theory at Uppsala University.
The audience line-ups continue to lengthen every year with spectators wrangling to find a chair in the 500-seat theatre.
There are several arts and crafts lots, notably an unusual mahogany high-backed chair and a oak-plank top, refectory table.
Doctors and nurses ducked out of sight while Klein woozily plopped himself on the edge of a chair in the middle of the room.
Josephine nodded in my direction and I heard the sound of a chair scraping against the wooden floor.
There was quite a pile of copper coloured hair in a ring around the chair when she finished.
Two elegant chair arms add comfort and make this chair ideal for the head or foot of the dining table.
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She scratched and clawed at him but he forced her into a chair and tied her hands behind her back.
She sat down in her chair looking furious and just gave me a sneer and a withering look.
Which is how I once again came to be in the dentist chair that I had been trying to weasel out of, getting my wisdom tooth removed.
In fact, if you are dining there he will lend you a pair of flip-flops to get back to your chair while he heels your soles.
A couch and single-place chair made from leather cushions supported in wooden frames sat before a fireplace with logs and kindling already laid.
Wood floors must be adequately protected from damp and soft timbers can be easily gouged by heels, chair legs and animal claws.
The guy ahead of me reclines his chair so far back into my face, it practically touches my nose.
Since it was first class, they later offered her a plump pillow and a nice blanket as they reclined her chair for her.
Irene, therefore, reclined her chair back, squashing the passengers in the row behind her.
A tilt mechanism causes the seat to rise slightly when the chair reclines, and a lumbar system supports the back.
My back is killing me tonight and my wonderful husband propped me up at the computer chair with some pillows.
I should have mentioned I am wearing a smoking jacket and sitting in a leather wing chair as I dictate this.
The site already has downloaded to her home computer even as she sits in her lounge chair sipping a wine cooler.
The ladder leads to the lifeguard chair he uses for a closer view of the wall-mounted television and to an elevated wine cooler placed nearby.
The idea is perhaps best summed up by another Rushton work featuring a Windsor chair set on a pedestal.
Both of the front bedroom windows were wide open and Nev sat in a chair by the bed.
If I am reappointed as chair of the committee, convening an urgent investigation into how this has happened will be my priority.
He needed a dentist urgently, but a tiger won't hop up on the chair and open wide for the drill.
She was sitting in an elegantly woven wicker chair in front of a large tree in a forest, and her face shone with a smile.
From here on my wicker chair it seems incredible that just short decades ago this garden was a dust-bowl, a sterile desert.
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The presidency of the council and the right to chair and set the agenda for council meetings changes hands every six months.
I may sit and may will for ever that yonder chair come to me, but without the direct agency of my body it must remain where it is.
The first thing we see on stage is the old lady in her rocking chair silhouetted against a window.
I pulled my chair even closer to the desk so I was in reach of the pen and paper along with the notes.
Jane jumped up from her chair and tried to keep Kathleen from reaching Mr. Collins' door, but it was no use.
Stridsman operated his own Web-based trading advisory service in Sweden and was chair of the Swedish Technical Analysts Federation.
She hesitated then sat down in the chair beside him, tucking an afghan over her legs and finding a book to read.
I sat on the green plastic chair covered with five afghans crocheted for him each year for Christmas by my mother.
Move one upholstered chair out of your living room and replace it with something in wicker, rattan, or woven water hyacinth.
He pushed the older man around the fairgrounds all day in a rented rattan chair on wheels.
Lying on a massage table or in an aesthetician's chair is a bit like sitting at the hair salon.
He turned the chair to the desk behind him, picked up a whetstone and a knife, and started to sharpen it.
As part of that effort, Tony backed Earth Day, serving as chair of the April 1970 rally in New York City.
The prologue opened with a stark black, steeply raked stage with just a chair for Swallow.
In February, bundle up and ease into an Adirondack chair among daffodils in the redesigned garden.
Donna comes outside and sits next to me in the Adirondack chair I built for her the year I retired.
On nice days, you can enjoy food and drink while kicking back in an Adirondack chair on the lawn.
There is that same absolutely beautiful girl sitting in a well upholstered chair next to a bassinet.
The notice at the foot of the Grouse Mountain chair lift, warning that there are no easy routes from the top, means what it says.
However, the nursery slopes are also good and there are drag lifts, chair lifts and instructors to make it manageable.
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Why do we stretch to the limits of our stamina and sometimes risk our lives climbing mountains, when chair lifts and gondolas provide comfort?
I went into the office to find the offender, and saw a worried woman crumpled in a chair in the corner, wearing a look of weariness and doubt.
Or, drape attractive throws or quilts on each chair for your guests to wrap around their shoulders to ward off the night air.
Enjoying the peace and quiet of a nice chair is one of life's few pleasures.
I leap up, shoving my chair backwards, and point an accusing finger at him.
How much of the woman's life was spent on that chair watching the world go by?
The room she was in was small to say the least, with a bed, a washstand, a chair and table, and a solitary trunk against the wall.
Samantha and Todd share a compact space that provides a chair and computer station for each of them at a gracefully curved, solid cherry desk.
In our screenings, he always sits in the same corner chair and always looks hopeful, no matter what the movie.
A similar chair should be accorded al-Zawahiri if and when he is ever captured alive.
While 19 percent of the House is female, just one woman will get to chair one of its 20 committees.
Inside, it seemed hopeless, for every chair in sight was occupied, and a dozen men were asleep on the floor.
Hockney painted a portrait of Mr Elliott in 2008, sitting on a chair in a blue t-shirt and blue jeans.
For a large fee, you could be pushed down the boardwalk on a rolling wicker chair by a black worker.
Five months ago, Mercado was visiting a friend and left her chair outside a brownstone apartment.
He climbed down from the chair and squatting on the floor, took the creature into his arms and caressed her.
Still fearful and smarting from the pain, I arrived on time and was led to chair in his office.
I started to squirm in my chair and Jimbo put his hand back on my shoulder to settle me down.
Slouching in her chair she is in defensive mode when describing the age of her latest lover.
At that first meeting, activists elected Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov to be the chair for their society.
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Vaughn sat back in his chair and stretched his arms above his head.
My chair was near the chancel rail, I now turned toward the west end of the church.
He snatched up the thrown chair and crashed it down onto the head of a charging older black man, who crumpled into a heap.
In the press room, an official from the Public Information Office stood on a chair and cheerily gave us the rules.
Sir George Adrian Hayhurst Cadbury, CEO and chairman of the chocolatier, agreed to chair it.
The final section of the show featured a miniature artist's office, with file cabinet, worktable, chair and wastebasket all set out on a funky full-sized work table.
Dropping the sandwich, she shoved her chair back so forcefully that it nearly toppled over and strode over to where Kent was playing on the floor with his action figure.
The threat comes not from some Whitehall johnny-come-lately, nor some politically correct illiterate chair of a focus group, seeking his day in the Sun.
Cruising up the side of the mountain on a chair lift, the cold thin air brought tears to my eyes and I marvelled at the beauty of the peaks, the snow, the trees.
Irritably, he complies, but when the stewardess moves on, he reclines the chair again, muttering balefully under his breath.
Have a glass of Washington wine by the massive river-rock fireplace, or stake out an Adirondack chair by the inn's lake while you wait for your table.
Sink into an Adirondack chair on your private deck overlooking the snow-capped peaks of Oregon's Cascades or cuddle up beside the flickering gas-fired stone hearth.
This lounge chair automatically adjusts to your body, eliminating the strap marks caused by poorer quality models, and comes with a pillow and wooden armrests.
He shapes the chairs by using a chainsaw and a chair maker's adze.
She smiled and walked over to him, casually leaning on the back on his chair and playfully tugging at his shoulder length rat-tail as she looked at the screen.
Then she added a rattan chair and table, a water bowl, and garden art.
I found a programme someone had dropped under my chair and had a read.
The engine, baggage car, coach, and chair car fell into the creek, claiming 96 lives and leaving only two dozen alive.
Choosing their own fabric rather than buying a ready-made drapery also enables homeowners to make coordinating cushions or to cover a chair with the same material.
Her knees were wobbling as she held onto the back of my chair for support.
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Before she could think, Valerie had swung her leg and kicked as hard as she could at the wooden chair Dev sat on, sending him tumbling onto the ground.
The Windsor chair jumped across the Atlantic from England in the early 18th century and has been a comfortable favorite around American tables ever since.
Everyone in the dining hall watched as Nina stood from her chair and stormed off, blonde hair streaming behind her like rays of light rippling across a pond.
A chintz wing chair with salmon in the pattern will play nicely off the wall color, and drapes in a slightly darker salmon will pull the look together.
She glides over to the black chair, and seems to perch on the edge, although the chair seems to be doing it's best to make her recline, and relax.
He decided to stay in the power chair because the seat reclines.
Like recliners, many nineteenth-century rocking chair inventions were directed toward the special needs of the very young, the elderly, and the infirm.
The chair recognized Representative Hochberg to explain the measure.
When she barked, they straightened in the chair and when she raised a brow they commenced rehearsing the wiseacre questions that had been scripted for them.
You can almost see him as a wizened woman, too arthritic to stand over a pot with a spoon, but quite capable of directing from a chair in the corner.
You want to lead this man carefully away from the iPad, and put him on a deck chair somewhere in the sun.
As well as the rectorship, Ruffini held a chair of applied mathematics, a chair of practical medicine and a chair of clinical medicine in the University of Modena.
It was already very late into the night and Rosalind was beginning to doze off in her chair by the window when a sudden knock at the door startled her out of sleep.
Jake almost fell off his chair as the other man's words sank in.
While you recline, this amazing chair does wonderful things to your body and you start feeling all that stiffness disappearing as knotted muscles begin relaxing.
The man reeled back, stumbling over a chair and falling flat on his rear.
There was one single solitary chair per dim chamber, or one dark tapestry to divide a gloomy passageway, allowing regicides easy concealment behind it.
Of course, hoofing your way through a labyrinthian furniture store in search of that perfect chair can also be about as much fun as dental surgery without drugs.
She started buying antiques when a ladder-back chair cost ten dollars.
How many times have I sat there in the outer, or on my lounge chair and watched them so nearly get it together, only to be methodically dismantled in the last twenty minutes?
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She pulled out the costume and looked at the emblem thoughtfully for a minute, then carefully laid it out on another chair next to her front window.
I ditched my office chair a few months ago and have never felt healthier or more productive.
Mark Hyman, MD, best-selling author, and current chair of the Institute of functional Medicine, sees it as anything but quackery.
You might want to look back over some of those 2008 margins before you settle into your easy chair tonight.
Ben extended a lawn chair next to the keyboard and lounged in it.
Adele slumped back into the chair and forced her muscles to go lax.
I was once rewarded for some help with a visit to it, and sat in the electric chair for a moment.
The assumption was that an electric chair death would occur by jolting the heart into stopping.
She then rose from her chair and began writing things on the board.
You should also slightly angle the sitter's chair so that one shoulder is closer to the camera and get the subject to turn their head to face the camera again.
But it really takes paying for a building or endowing a chair to have that kind of privilege.
If you sit all day, consider swapping your desk chair for an exercise ball, or take phone calls pacing around your office.
Nevertheless, it is taken very seriously, and an award of a crown or a chair for poetry is a great honour.
She said he had too cute an okole to park it in a wheel chair where no wahine would ever get to see it again.
The 1917 National Eisteddfod was notable for the award of the chair to the poet Ellis Humphrey Evans, known as Hedd Wyn.
It was then announced that Hedd Wyn had been killed the previous month on the battlefield in Belgium, and the bardic chair was draped in black.
Hitler sat in the same chair in which Marshal Ferdinand Foch had sat when he faced the defeated German representatives.
Caraeff stood on a chair next to the edge of the stage while taking a series of four monochrome pictures of Hendrix burning his guitar.
During the summer season a chair lift takes tourists to and from the pebble beach below.
In some cases, they compromised so that some would have half a chair leg on the rim of a mat.
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The class put a whoopee cushion on the teacher's chair as a practical joke.
In the biomedical sciences, Iran's Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics has a UNESCO chair in biology.
If the victim recovered, the shrines were removed and carried away in a special paper chair or boat for burning.
Thomas, chair of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, to hold no hearings or votes on the bill, and the legislation died.
The chair will then make an estimate of the count on each side and state what he or she believes the result to be.
The committee is chaired by the deputy speaker or the deputy chair of committees.
All the new people want an office close to the President's. You should see them scramble. It's like fighting for a deck chair on the Titanic.
The lower shaft of the furnace has a chair shape with the lower part of the shaft being narrower than the upper.
In keeping with the tradition of the society and to help with identification, the chair wears an academic robe.
The short verse at its base was penned by his close friend Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley who was chair of the memorial committee.
And if Mrs. Garner didn't need me right there in the kitchen, I could get a chair and you and me could set out there while I did the vegetables.
I had just sat down in my favorite easy chair and settled in when the phone rang.
Maury rocked his chair onto its back legs, rubbed his shirted stomach, grinned.
She moved over to a slipper chair and put her head back against a white cushion that lay along the back of the chair against the wall.
She filled the chair of chemistry and toxology in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, and became dean of the faculty.
Russell took his usual chair and the usual trepidatory sip, and was pleasantly surprised.
AoShe is tied up, disabled and disfigured woman hardly able to move the wheel chair given to her by the cartel of conspirators and abdicators.
He was just as polite in his attentions as if the unplaned seat had been a carved chair of graceful shape and pattern.
His Adirondack lawn chair on view with its slatted back reminiscent of picket fences was designed as a cultural icon from America's past.
She'd no sooner compliantly strapped herself into an out-of-the-way plush chair than Takuma Tanabe and an entourage of staff velcroids entered.
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He sat in a wheely chair just inside the door, spinning one way and the other, lifting up his knees to spin faster.
Another way you might approach this is to see if someone on this web site has a beach chair they are not using.
This floating beach chair provides users with an easy transfer from lounging on the beach to floating in the ocean or pool.
Many years ago I bought a velvet chair for half price because it had a biro mark on it.
He does a bit of whomping around in his chair and used to run into a lot of debris from the trees,'' he said.
For others, it might be a desk in the local library or a comfy wing chair at their local coffee house and be accessible to all the family.
Upholstered seating in the collection offers a diverse range of styles, from tufted frames to contemporized wing chair silhouettes.
Arnold Zylberberg sat in the tweed wing chair in his oak-paneled study, intently stuffing Amphora tobacco into his pipe.
Former youth wing chair Sanya-Jeet Thandi, 20, whose parents are Indian, said that the UKIP has descended into a form of racist populism.
A comfortable wing chair with a side table and a wall-mounted 40-inch LCD television complete this space.
Positioned in an elevated chair behind the air traffic controllers, the vantage point gave a commanding view of the airdrome.
This includes the overhead light handles, chair controls, headrest, bracket table, amalgamator controls, and the computer keyboard and mouse.
Montague, who replaced Sue MacGregor as anchorwoman on the BBC's Today programme, will chair this year's CIMA annual conference on 25 November.
Furthermore, she served as regional chair of the YWCAs of New England Council and is a member of the National Association of YWCA Executives.
She made her father sit down in a chair and look at her schoolwork.
There's also a red Routemaster bus, an anglepoise lamp, a polypropylene chair and the famous Penguin Books jacket.
The next highest paid, Raymond Barrette, chair and CEO of White Mountains Insurance Group, got the biggest pay hike.
It is said that the Speaker's chair was placed in front of the chapel's altar.
The chair of the council itself is an honorary position with no real power.
The post of leader was recognised, and leaders typically chair several important committees, but had no special authority.
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He gestured toward the empty chair and the other officers began passing him their kegged beef and ship's biscuit.
Great for indoor or outside use, this blue crochet chair will add a touch of quirkiness to your home.
On Wednesday, HM King Mohammed VI will chair a reception at the Rabat Royal Palace, the ministry said in a statement.
In right of her being president of the Board, she is also the chair of Board meetings.
Impossibly, after the water receded, the cat was found asleep on a chair jammed in a tree.
Each council elects a Provost, or Convenor, to chair meetings of the council and to act as a figurehead for the area.
She was in one of her naughty, gurglesome moods, and bounced on her chair and waved her hands about in her funniest way.
In order to put yourself in the chair of the applauder, you need first to be young and to believe to the speaker.
There was a woman sitting in the endmost chair just across the aisle in line with them.
Granma was in her chair cushioned with egg crating, so she could fall over asleep whenever she wanted and the chair would catch her head.
The chair and table legs diminished as they neared the ground, and were straight and square in all their corners.
He stood up, wasting precious seconds and knocking his chair over as he continued to stare upward through the window at the Crown Vic.
He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.
Or an armless corner chair with slightly flared backs, buttonless tufts and an attached flat cushion?
On rising suddenly from her chair she experienced a brownout and had to sit down again quickly.
His father, grandfather and countless generations before him had obtained a living from chair bodging in the solitude of the beech glades.
She sat stuffed into a small chair and listened with an intense and very blinky sort of concentration.
There are marks where the chair has rubbed against the wall.
Maaximo Riera's elephant chair has been produced using morph metric data to resemble the Asian elephant species.
All I've ever found down my chair is a kirby grip, 46p and half a packet of Monster Munch.
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Yet as well as imperial thrones, the more democratic klismos chair also found its way into the royal residences.
Alastair Scott, chair of Coltness Community Council, North Lanarkshire, has asked police and the local authority to urgently rehouse him.
She is sitting on an ornately carved high-backed chair surrounded with palm-shaped sansevieria plants.
We stayed at the Village Club Odesia Residencia, a purpose-built hotel in the centre of the resort, just 100 metres from the nearest chair lift.
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary were often called upon to chair important public inquiries, such as the Hutton inquiry.
The university has also established a chair of theoretical physics in the name of Peter Higgs.
A chair was, at first, a superintendent of a circuit within the district, but now ministers are appointed exclusively to the role.
The district chair will also be the person to whom churches of other denominations relate ecumenically at regional or national level.
Between 2011 and 2016, Amanda was chair of Ofqual, the qualifications regulator.
Augustine, the ceremonial enthronement chair of the Archbishop of Canterbury, may date from the Norman period.
When George visited Hanover in the summers of 1729, 1732 and 1735, he left his wife to chair the regency council in Britain rather than his son.
This mediaeval chair has a cavity in the base into which the Stone of Scone is fitted for the ceremony.
At the end of a game, the chair umpire also announces the winner of the game and the overall score.
In tournament play, the chair umpire announces the winner of the set and the overall score.
Game points, set points, and match points are not part of official scoring and are not announced by the chair umpire in tournament play.
Anita DeFrantz, chair of the IOC's Women and Sports Commission, suggested that countries be barred if they prevented women from competing.
Aaron perched himself on a wooden folding chair behind a garden of microphones and beamed as he answered questions. Sure, he was disappointed.
Principally, the role of the Presiding Officer is to chair chamber proceedings and the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body.
The group's chair rotates annually among the members and is selected from a different regional grouping of countries.
Gordon Reid, wheel chair Olympic gold medalist in 2016, was a tennis scholar at the university.
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The current chair of the G20 is Germany, which will host the 2017 Summit in Hamburg.
The British and Irish governments agreed that Mitchell would chair an international commission on disarmament of paramilitary groups.
Each council elects a Convener and Depute Convener to chair meetings of the Council and to act as a figurehead for the area.
The civic head and chair of the council is known as the Lord Provost, a position similar to that of mayor in other cities.
The term chair is sometimes used in lieu of chairman, in response to criticisms that using chairman is sexist.
The word chair can refer to the place from which the holder of the office presides, whether on a chair, at a lectern, or elsewhere.
He was unsuccessful in applying for Forbes's recently vacated chair at Edinburgh, the post instead going to Tait.
In 1865 Maxwell resigned the chair at King's College, London, and returned to Glenlair with Katherine.
The ideal position for a back massage for the mother-to-be is to sit astride a chair supported by cushions.
The moderator acts as chair of presbytery meetings and has a casting, but not deliberative, vote.
The current chair of the council is Professor Terence Stephenson and current chief executive and registrar is Charlie Massey.
The work consists of a monoprint of herself sitting on a chair with the stones lined up below the drawing in a vitrine.
Hume failed to gain the chair of philosophy at the University of Glasgow for his religious views, too.
Moore resigned the chair in philosophy in 1939, Wittgenstein was elected, and acquired British citizenship soon afterwards.
Betsey Reed, Her Nibs, was just as witty and quaint as usual, sitting in state in her wheel chair and dominating everything and everybody.
In November 1828 Chalmers was transferred to the chair of theology in Edinburgh.
In 1840 Chalmers was unsuccessful in applying for the chair of divinity at the University of Glasgow.
James Bannerman was appointed to the chair of Apologetics and Pastoral Theology and his The Church of Christ volumes 1 and 2 were widely read.
His duties are to chair meetings of the University Court and to represent student views on that body.
Jon Kelly returned to the producer's chair in 1991 for the album Fellow Hoodlums.
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Suzy is escorted to a smallish study carrel, where she sits down on what may or may not be a noncreaky chair and faces the computer.
A chair at the Lord's table was awarded to the best poet and musician, a tradition that prevails in the modern day National Eisteddfod.
The main function is to chair plenary sessions of the Assembly, to maintain order and to protect the rights of Members.
The town council, which is the parish council, first convened on 1 April 2009, and its chair is the Mayor of Shrewsbury.
This goal led to the creation of the Woodrow Wilson chair of International Politics.
The pencerdd was the top of his profession and a special chair was set aside for him in the court, in an honoured position next to the heir.
In 2004 Neil was appointed chair of the Enterprise and Culture Committee.
The chair of the board is appointed by the BFI's own Board of Governors but requires the consent of the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
Nalbandian was broken in the seventh game and responded by kicking an advertising hoarding that was in front of the chair of line judge Andrew McDougall.
In his study of southeastern Kentucky chair makers, Michael Owen Jones describes production of a chair within the context of the life of the craftsman.
Similarly, I would willingly seat myselfon a well-upholstered chair in a softly lit restaurant, but resist canteen-style refectory tables and benches.
She squirmed in her chair kittenishly and slid into his embrace.
After his turn with the baton he handed it over to conductor Hans Richter and sat in a large arm chair on the corner of the stage for the rest of each concert.
Elm wood is valued for its interlocking grain, and consequent resistance to splitting, with significant uses in wagon wheel hubs, chair seats and coffins.
Father Malachy, a distant cousin, who was parished somewhere in the depths of Co. Monaghan, sat firmly in the chair in the corner, sipping his tea from a china cup.
Engineers will be working from a bosun's chair to remove the hands from the three clock faces to enable them to be cleaned and repainted, and the clock faces to be regilded.
And Dr Jo Hilborne, the Swansea-based deputy chair of the junior doctor's committee, said, 'Fixed rotas are inequitable for everyone and can make life absolutely impossible.
Sellers also became unhappy with his wife's performance, straining their relationship and triggering open arguments during one of which Sellers threw a chair at Ekland.
He was standing on a chair Velcroing red balloons to himself.
Each of the subsequent conferences has been first received in Canterbury Cathedral and addressed by the archbishop from the chair of St Augustine.
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The presiding officer of the assembly does not appoint a chairman of the quasi committee, but remains in the chair himself throughout its proceedings.
In May 2014, the Tennessee General Assembly passed a law allowing the use of the electric chair for death row executions when lethal injection drugs are not available.
The controversy expanded when the Remonstrant theologian Conrad Vorstius was appointed to replace Jacobus Arminius as the theology chair at Leiden.
The presiding officer is chosen by the Speaker of the House and is normally a member of the majority party who does not hold the chair of a standing committee.
This technique is used for camshafts, various types of chair legs.
A call for the regular order asks the chair to restore proper procedure.
In 1968 he served as chair of the Republican Governors Association.
The mayor has no more authority than other city councilors, but is the ceremonial head of the city and chair of the city council and school committee.
The society is supported by a committee, who help coordinate topics, organise and publicise events, ensure a rotating chair and undertake fundraising.
They rose, and the scrunt of Janet's chair on the floor, when she pushed it behind her, sent a thrilling shiver through her body, so tense was her mood.
A matching relaxer chair comes complete with a curved footstool.
Then she told me she would get one of the men to drive me on his golf cart to my truck to get the lawn chair and returned me to our shady spot to watch the air show.
Only London's finest collection of comfortable, thumbable antiquarian books, I thought, as I watched him sink into a chair near the empty fireplace.
Tommy remembered Uncle Johnny standing up from his chair in the snug and settling his titfer on his head, what made him look as if he were a bookie.
Hamed pulls me up off the chair and I am told to take my abaya off.
Some patients may prefer use of a birthing chair or stool, she noted.
So now, instead of peeling vegetables in the kitchen and worrying about my five a day, Lady Muck can recline in her chair and be waited on by a charming young man or lady.
Introduced at Salone del Mobile 2013 in Milan, the Ro chair by Spanish designer Jaime Hayon for the Republic of Fritz Hansen takes the wing chair as a modern comfort zone.
The dining chair and the low, inviting lounge chair are both built up over a classic wire frame, and its bent legs lend it lightness and elegance.
Sculpted by William Calder Marshall, it showed Jenner sitting in a chair in a relaxed pose, and was inaugurated at a ceremony presided over by Prince Albert.

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