"In place" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that is an intergovernmental organization may participate in the vote, in place of its Member States, with a number of votes equal to the number of its Member States which are party to this Treaty. No such intergovernmental organization shall participate in the vote if any one of its Member States exercises its right to ...
— Supplementary Copyright Statutes • Library of Congress. Copyright Office.
... let me drink their health. [He takes the glass; LIPOCHKA and LAZAR stand up] Live as you think best—you're reasonable beings. But so that you won't find life a bore, the house and shops go to you, Lazar, in place of dowry, and I'll ...
— Plays • Alexander Ostrovsky
... held away from it, although it was evident that some of the monkeys got more or less severely pricked during the process. I also observed that those monkeys who were actually engaged in the construction of the scherm laid the bunches of thorns in place with elaborate care and, as it appeared to me, with quite ...
— Through Veld and Forest - An African Story • Harry Collingwood
... Bat kol (lit., "daughter of a voice" or "daughter-voice"), "a small voice," "sound," "resonance," not "echo," as it is often translated. The expression bat kol was used in place of the longer one bat kol min ha-shamayim, which is "a heavenly or divine voice which proclaims God's will or judgment, His deeds, and His commandments to individuals or to number of persons, to rulers, countries, and even to whole nations." This celestial voice was a ...
— Pirke Avot - Sayings of the Jewish Fathers • Traditional Text
... conflicts with the law of God, and demand obedience to his own in preference to God's. There is no other possible way in which he could place himself in the position assigned in the prophecy. But this is simply to change the law of God; and if he can cause this change to be adopted by the people in place of the original enactment, then he, the law-changer, is above God, the law-maker. And this is the very work that Daniel said he should think ...
— The United States in the Light of Prophecy • Uriah Smith
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