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James

James is a male given name. James is working on a report. James is a surname.

James

a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri a river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads United States pragmatic philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910) writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916) (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513) the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625) United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882) the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701) a New Testament book attributed to Saint James the Apostle

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Simple sentences

James had a great fear of making mistakes in class and being reprimanded.
Henry James was an American by birth.
We elected James chairman.
I had a call from James out of the blue.
My name is James, but please call me Jim.
He called his son James.
James Madison hated the idea.
Who's your favorite James Bond?
James Bond is not an actor.
James Cook was a British explorer.
Once there was an unfortunate forgetful guy named James who used to confuse Mary with Maria all the time. For that, Maria hated him with every fibre of her being.
I can't understand why James always finds fault with his wife.
That young actor is a James Dean.
He named his son James.
James Cameron created a new way to make movies.
I have seen James recently.
I have recently seen James.
James Monroe easily won the election.

Movie subtitles

Shut the door so James Franco can't get out.
Whoa, James Franco!
Come on, James Franco, come on.
James Franco is gone!
Look, I got to go find James Franco.
Stop looking for James Franco and get back here.
I was out putting up flyers for James Franco, and when I came home.
COOPER: Barry, stop looking for James Franco and get back here.
James Franco!
Canicide is not murder, Ms. James.
Miss James made a discovery that could have some bearing on this case.
That's very good, Miss James.
This is my associate, Miss Rebecca James.
Miss James.
James, Rolls-Royce, the maker!
Step on it, James.
Hurry up, old james, you'll be late for the office.
Four different directors were slated at various times to handle the production, before James Whale was set.
In 1933, James Whale, who had known Una from the London stage, invited her and Merle to act in his Invisible Man.
For many years, she appeared in many memorable Hollywood films, including James Whale's sequel to Frankenstein, the 1935 Bride of Frankenstein.
Obviously, director James Whale didn't think it was too rich.
Two years earlier, James Whale, when he died, had left a bequest to the actress.
The negative was then developed. After the entire film was finished shooting, Fulton and his crew, along with director James Whale, began the special process work.
The Invisible Man was the last of five pictures Arthur Edeson photographed with James Whale.
Whale's biographer, James Curtis, many years ago interviewed Ted Kent, the film editor on nine of the director's films, including The Invisible Man.
When director James Cameron selected the 86-year-old Gloria for a leading role in Titanic in 1996, yet another phase of her careers began.
In addition to Gardner and Florey, James Whale was to be on the project at different times.
Frye was in six of James Whale's films.
Oh, my God, James!
I'll take the sample back to Miss James, - get her to analyze it at the morgue. - Thank you.
Of course, James.

News and current affairs

The central human character, Will Rodman (played by James Franco), is a scientist seeking a cure for Alzheimer's disease who experiments on apes.
But, with the possible exception of Thailand in 1997, the IMF's long-time resident historian, James Boughton, finds little evidence for that view in internal documents.
Perhaps no individual has done more to raise the alarm - earning deserved credit for many successes and understanding all too clearly the remaining shortcomings - than James Wolfensohn, the outgoing President of the World Bank.
This date also happens to coincide with James Watt's design of the steam engine in 1784.
Industri bahan bakar fosil mengeluarkan uang dalam jumlah besar untuk kampanye anggota Kongres seperti Senator Mitch McConnell dan Senator James Inhofe.
The Quartet's special envoy, James Wolfensohn, has proposed that donors assist the Palestinian people without violating anti-terrorism laws that prohibit funds from being sent directly to Hamas.
That is how America's founders, such as James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, envisioned that things would work.
James Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank, has announced his intention to leave, and the search is on for a new head of the world's most important multilateral organization promoting development.
As nearly always happens, Phelps's choice of vocation came after meeting an important professor, in this case the Harvard economist James Nelson.
But Phelps chose Yale, where he came into direct contact with James Tobin and Thomas Schelling.
In this sense, as the historian Harold James has noted, mutualization turned out to be dynamite, not cement, for the new US federation.
Here, then, is an idea (part of A Modest Proposal for Resolving the Euro Crisis, co-authored by Stuart Holland, and James K. Galbraith) aimed at re-calibrating the rules, enhancing their spirit, and addressing the underlying economic problem.
Instead of a development strategy, there was simply an expansion of the anti-corruption agenda initiated by his predecessor, James Wolfensohn.
After reading literature by some of the world's leading experts on innovation - Clayton Christensen, Henry Chesbrough, John Kao, James Andrew, and Harold Sirkin - I was fascinated, but, alas, also frustrated.
James Memusi, an accountant, grows mushrooms in a spare bedroom, selling them to nearby hotels and supermarkets.
Hamilton argued - against James Madison and Thomas Jefferson - that the debts accumulated by the states during the War of Independence should be assumed by the federation.
Until the eruption of the current scandal, the youngest of Murdoch's three children from his second marriage, James, was generally believed to stand the greatest chance of succeeding his father.
This time, the massacre site was a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, where accused shooter James Holmes murdered and injured dozens of moviegoers.
Martin Baily and James Manyika recently pointed out that we have seen this movie before.
The Dutch model was exported to Britain in 1688, along with the political revolution that deposed the Catholic James II and put the Dutch Protestant William of Orange on the English throne.
That is why he warned the cop, Sgt. James Crowley, a veteran of the Cambridge police force, not to mess with him.
The success that US President George W. Bush and his special envoy, former Secretary of State James Baker, had in getting Iraq's foreign debts canceled or rescheduled shows what can be done when a policy is backed by political will.

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