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to institute a suit or action at law or to draw up a summons or other initiating writ.
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Yossi Beilin stated on Tuesday that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon may raise eyebrows with his impressive remarks to the AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) conference, but he does not fool us here at home.
Beilin: Sharon Can Fool AIPAC but Not Us
Organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art's Darsie Alexander, the show may still raise eyebrows for its unapologetic positing of slide projection as a medium with its own historical set of technological supports (arising from modes of projection beginning with magic lanterns in the seventeenth century) and procedural conventions (the techniques of successive display emerging from both nineteenth-century chronophotography and modern film).
"Slideshow": Baltimore Museum of Art
There will,of course,be those who raise eyebrows at the anouncement; in some peoples'eyes many aspects of fertility treatment remain taboo.
Susan Lee: Egg-cellent news
We raise eyebrows but acknowledge that this graphic breaking down of barriers between men and women, in this space outside the conventions, helped spread the Word.
Sixth Sunday of Easter: May 16, 2004

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