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Meanings of polis in English
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Examples for "officer"
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Talk to the public information officer. Abrams' voice belied his tough talk.
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Chief health officer Brett Sutton said the low case numbers were encouraging.
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However, the league officer in a statement issued this morning said that:
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At least four others including a police officer were injured, officials said.
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Waikato's medical officer of health Felicity Dumble says common sense has prevailed.
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The bank crisis fed the sense of frustration with Bulgaria's political class.
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New Zealand is still the best place to do grass-fed dairy production.
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They fed in threes and fours in the middle of the streets.
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The fed funds effective rate is the Federal Reserve's key policy rate.
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That information would be fed into the district plan, Mr Mendonca said.
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Therefore, copper homeostasis in plant and animal cells must be tightly controlled.
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At current copper prices, experts say the stake is worth far more.
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This growing supply surge has not yet affected the refined copper market.
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The stove was lighted; the water in the copper was steaming slightly.
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However, the data also showed Chinese copper demand dropped, hurting mining stocks.
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Then Jake came along and right away mentioned exactly the right place.
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One said cheekily, ''Tis the only ship Jake 'ere'll ever command, sir!'
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Jake was one of 13 patients given pioneering gene therapy last year.
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Jake heard the others calling to one another; they sounded far away.
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With all his heart, he wanted to believe everything Jake Featherston said.
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The efficiency of the English bobby came to the traveller's rescue, however.
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He had tickled the stout ribs of every bobby in the place.
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We have seen an atlantic liner tied in with a bobby pin.
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The bobby-pin was on the board across the arms of the wheelchair.
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Bobby arrived home with the good news - they had a house.
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The policeman could not explain; neither could the idlers; neither can I.
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A second policeman is said to be in critical condition in hospital.
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Better to have a policeman walk by than stop and ask questions.
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Next morning she reports the theft and a local policeman seemed concerned.
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One policeman died of bullet wounds, among five people injured, authorities said.
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The pig is perhaps the most stubborn and courageous animal in India.
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In vain did they wait, in the hope of recovering the pig.
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You can look far and wide in Harlem without finding pig's feet.
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The rabbit or guinea pig is used for demonstration in the laboratory.
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Have the gravies in separate tureens on either side of the pig.
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The young cop kept shifting his weight from left foot to right.
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MS: I think the most basic responses is a 'cop watch' program.
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I asked the cop to let me go to the ladies' room.
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But Mr Andrews said none of them would cop a financial penalty.
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And who will cop the cost of the thousands of free fares?
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Northern Ireland's chief constable has vowed to bring to justice those responsible.
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The constable was in charge of the knights of the royal household.
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There was no answer but he could sense the constable's presence inside.
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The story begins with a description of the park constable keeping order.
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The next day the young gentleman admitted the truth to the constable.
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The beef brawl with China now has a barley barney on top.
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I'm sorry, for one thing, that I had that barney with Warrigal.
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The man spoke in Portuguese, and Barney replied in the same language.
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Pelosi and House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank piled on Boehner.
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He found Uncle Barney in the act of stirring up the fire.
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The new voluntary reporting system will piggy-back a new brand documentation system.
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Turning automated teller machines into your personal piggy bank is easy-alarminglyeasy.
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They were among the first to be arrested for piggy-backing in Britain.
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He had all the cash he needed from Svavelsjö MC's piggy bank.
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She buys a piggy bank to start saving for a new ukulele.
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Many years ago, I intervened when two thugs attacked a lone policewoman.
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There are reports that a policewoman has been injured in the trouble.
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Another officer searched me; at the same time a policewoman searched Yvonne.
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It all begins with a policewoman being given custody of a motorcycle.
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I explode out the door of the market before the policewoman reacts.
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The walnut-crusher shifts gear into a final grind-into-mush setting: Capital Laundry Services?
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Its crusher was stopped by two -who heard the kitten's cries.
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Knights veteran Jamie Buhrer was also cited for a second-half crusher tackle.
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O crusher of foes, we have told Thee all about that mystery.
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What a crusher of a mother-in-law she'd make, returned the young man.
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If you want to dibble dabble, so be it, but toe the line.
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The dibble is a good instrument to use in dotting bulbs around the turf.
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They're so small, they'll just dibble the snow!
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And she took the dibble again and planted a leek, in her rage for work; while old Mme.
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Another mode of propagation is to take cuttings at midsummer and dibble them into boxes of leaf soil and sand.
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The food service feeds me like the little oinker I am.
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Some men were pigs, and Yountz was evidently an oinker of the highest order.
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Read on to meet this strange and charismatic oinker.
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At least four others including a police officer were injured, officials said.
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You could make up new words and terms-firefighter ,mailcarrier, police officer.
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But the minister said only one police officer in three was working.
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In 1990 he began working as a New York City police officer.
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Occupation: Former police officer turned private detective; peerless solver of mysterious murders.
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Just trying to be officer friendly right now, Webber replies.
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Sears -now owned by KMart -also has left Officer Friendly behind.
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The Chicago Police Department created the Officer Friendly program in 1966.
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Even major police departments can be confused about Officer Friendly.
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For a certain generation, however, Officer Friendly programs built trust between cops and young people.
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The new bill also gives content owners more rights than the old bill.
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He thought he would collect an old bill from Carl, the Swedish painter.
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Frank ran out and reminded Carl of his old bill.
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Whiz came an old bill; then, one after another, a regular fusilade of various utensils.
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Then we went up to the old bill discounter.
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The people, they are such chazzers, all the time gobbling: gobble gobble; they feast on everything that it's in their sight.
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One police agent remained in a serious condition in hospital, sources said.
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He passed for the servant of the police agent who accompanied him.
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The secret police agent stood near the main-hatch, and watched him narrowly.
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After last night-afterthe visit of the police agent-shewas quite hysterical.
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He was certain now that the bald man was a police agent.
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Other organization in Brussels, Belgium.
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Usage of polis in English
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The literary polis was once an oligarchy, it is now a republic.
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After the polis nabbed me that night, Ah stopped doin the deliveries.
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Ah could hardly hear them for the music but the polis were mentioned.
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The polis came over to the window and bent down to look in.
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And if the polis were to grab me, Ah was to say fuck-all.
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The polis trying to do Sean for conspiracy so he'll grass Archie up.
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We're used to the ways o' the polis, and can imitate them fine.
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That's why we've got to hang on to them till the polis comes.
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It wasnay all the batterins he'd gave me and the trouble with the polis.
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Used a' their days wi' sleepin' in coalrees and dunnies and dodgin' the polis.
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Dobson's feared of the polis, and if we can terrify Dobson he'll terrify the rest.
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And if ye get captured by the polis, ye didnay get the stuff off me.
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The polis brought Archie back three days later.
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The polis nodded at each other and went at me like terriers for a few minutes.
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That should keep us goin' till the polis arrive, unless they're comin' wi' the blind carrier.
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And then I am interested in politics but only in the Greek way -polis meaning society.
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