Hints and tips:
...At a closed-door party in a Moscow bar adorned with pink bouquets and gift boxes, guests dressed in varying shades of magenta, sipped rose-flavoured prosecco and took pictures in front of a life-sized doll...
...Sometimes Austen is explicit about the vagaries of obtaining clothing. In 1811 she complained about the cost of having a pelisse made....
...It is unlikely to be fined much more than $1mn, but could face difficulties getting loans, making deals and obtaining or maintaining government contracts....
...Seconds later, Proulx emerges from the big house, dressed in a black-and-aubergine sweatsuit, with black socks underneath brown hiking sandals....
...The disheveled 30-year-old chief executive of crypto exchange FTX sported his signature uniform of shorts and a wrinkled T-shirt onstage opposite an impeccably dressed Alex Rodriguez at the International...
...Two practised workers, dressed like rugged astronauts, pour it into a series of casts and pull out brand new objects....
...He would decide whether further investigation into Mr Bauer’s reported death was necessary after obtaining a copy of the death certificate....
...Obtaining a ticket to Wimbledon requires luck, determination, wealth or privilege....
...Guests — some in frock coats, others dressed as Leo Tolstoy, Rasputin or Chinese emissaries — mixed with rock stars, celebrities and business tycoons....
...She was always impeccably dressed, in a colourful array of outfits, with accompanying brooch and coiffed hair courtesy of “my girl Pearl” — her hairdresser and confidante....
...When Harvard eventually calls on me to deliver its commencement speech, here’s the sort of unbridled optimism it can expect: Graduates — congratulations on obtaining your bachelors degree....
...The Orbáns and Salvinis have been perfectly capable of obtaining and consolidating power without American geniuses of populism.”...
...“My role here is about obtaining medical care for the people who contact us for help.”...
...In an email at the time, Mr Goodman warned Mr Coulson of the risks of obtaining the book from police....
...The result of this Sisyphean approach is that all the pores of the leather surface are filled, thereby obtaining a smooth surface on which light can be properly reflected, instead of the millions of pores...
...Impeccably dressed in clerical black robe and white turban, Hassan Rouhani, the new gentler face of the Islamic republic, has encouraging news to share with visitors....
...It was around midnight when some 30 armed men dressed in black burst into the villa in a well-to-do Rome suburb where Alma Shalabayeva and her young daughter had been living for the past eight months....
...For example, Crisp’s wife, Jennifer, pleaded guilty to obtaining a $1.3m mortgage in 2006 from SunTrust, an Atlanta bank, by falsely stating she had been working for her father’s accounting firm....
...He is softly-spoken and dressed in the subtly-expensive casual wardrobe of the commuter-belt banker....
...We didn’t know anything about the outside world…I learnt that South Korea was a US colony where people dressed like beggars and ate the leftovers of the Americans.”...
...An elegantly dressed, golf-playing Italian, Mr Draghi, 64, has quickly earned a reputation for clear speaking – in contrast to the often convoluted and flowery style of his predecessor, France’s Jean-Claude...
...It also brings sharply into focus the IT manager’s perennial bugbear of obtaining and maintaining complete and accurate data....
...The colonel, dressed in combat fatigues, black headscarf and sandals, said: “If we get Gharyan, it will be a good position. Without it, Gaddafi will be alone.”...
...The staff, dressed in crisp white shirts and black jeans, are serving sophisticated Italian cocktails to a smartly dressed, thirtysomething crowd....
...“Some of these girls,” she says simply, “had trouble obtaining work visas.” That’s one excuse I haven’t heard before....
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