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We regarded the document as belonging to her brother.
Now listen to me, children. You must be civil and kind to everyone, and never say a cross word to anyone, and never touch a crumb belonging to anyone else.
The Japanese Dentists Association affair is an incident concerning secret donations from the Japanese Dentists Association to Diet members belonging to the LDP.
The investigations began last year with the confiscation of computer files belonging to a man from Magdeburg, Germany.
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The only person present not belonging to the household was Torarin and his gaze kept returning to the iron-clad chest at the foot of the four-poster bed.
A team of German miners belonging to a special rescue squad came from Westphalia to join up with the French rescuers.
However, I'm glad of this opportunity of returning something belonging to you.
I want to crawl to her feet, whimper to be forgiven. for loving me, for needing her more than my own life. for belonging to her more than my own soul.
To me. you are belonging.
That was the body of some unknown woman, unclaimed, belonging nowhere.
There's a Packard belonging to them washing around in the surf off Lido Pier.
Why should Niles pawn a cigarette case belonging to him?
I listened at the door and overheard him say something about a bloodstained dress belonging to her.
If I capture the Natividad, she will be a prize belonging to my king.
Breaking news we just learned that the jewels belonging to the Maharani of Sakahldar have vanished.
When I refused, you mentioned something. about a letter belonging to my wife.
There are a few things belonging to Mrs. Wendice at the police station.
Here is something belonging to you.
And that I can't bear the thought of you belonging to someone else?
You may join the others belonging to my uncle. and henceforth you may take your orders from him.
Apparently, they found a parcel of clothes belonging to a soldier.
He's a veritable still, belonging to the Borgias!
To me you are belonging.
All I'm interested in is 42,004 dollars and 85 cents belonging to the express company I work for and not another cussed thing on earth.
Two belonging to the duke, three to the marquise.
It was a trick to avoid the responsibility of belonging to someone.
But according to Mr. Forsythe's contract with God. if anyone belonging to Brigadoon leaves. the enchantment will be broken for all.
In season two, Derek's goal is really to find that place of having a sense of family again and belonging.
But I think Derek's ultimate goal is just to find that place of having a sense of family again and belonging.
Here are the small objects belonging to the family.
The same Emile Winkleman, beard and all, vanishes from the charity hospital. And with him, a magnificent sum of money belonging to the state.
I will break something belonging to the company. Hello?
Yes, yes, yes! To me. you are belonging.
The bullet is from a gun belonging to Victor.
Made from a recipe belonging to our family and only used on special occasions.
She loves you. And she wanted you to take away something belonging to her.
And that I can never stand, really, belonging to someone.
Nearness, belonging, fulfilment.
Your Excellencies, citizens, the Senate I have the honour of belonging to.
News and current affairs
Besieged by Communists or Islamists, people feel a sense of belonging.
Belonging to a particular cultural group is merely a pretext for battles between the winners and losers of globalization.
They share a feeling of being dispossessed by foreigners, of losing their sense of national, social, or religious belonging.
Most of these fatwas have a violent streak that the Saudi establishment is quick to dismiss as belonging to the Middle Ages.
For them, national identity should be abandoned in favor of a European identity, even if the feeling of belonging to Europe is not deeply held among the peoples of the EU.
The reception and adoption of democracy is not a function of sectarian belonging, but a reflection of the multi-dimensional historical, cultural, religious, and political identities of Iraqi individuals.
But democracy does require that citizens have a sense of belonging.
Supporters of gathering statistics on race and religion also look to the experiences of the United States, Britain, or the Netherlands, where census takers are free to inquire about ethnic origins and a citizen's sense of belonging.
But its revival is a portent of what happens when a form of politics claims to satisfy every human need except the coziness of communal belonging - and then lets the people down.
They therefore see its rule over them as illegitimate, which is precisely the point: the logic of popular sovereignty requires an idea of collective agency based on a sense of individual belonging that is much stronger than in our lecture audience.
And in the 1990s, from Bosnia to Rwanda, thousands upon thousands of human beings were massacred for belonging to the wrong ethnicity.
Through language he feels rich and stable; and when he is fully in charge of his wealth, he gains his citizenship, a sense of belonging.
Everywhere, people face the contradiction between centrifugal, cosmopolitan modernity and the centripetal need (or at least nostalgia) for belonging.
Religious experience instead becomes a form of social imagination within which they reconstruct a sense of belonging to Islam in new and strange surroundings.
Their feeling of belonging to a great and unified family was reinforced by the common aristocratic origins of their diplomats.
These citizens are guilty only of belonging to the three tribes (Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa) that spawned the rebels who took up arms against the government a few years ago.
Workers belonging to each caste pursued a wide variety of occupations, although agriculture provided the bulk of employment.
Access to literacy and to jobs in the government sector and modern professions was limited to a small section of the population usually belonging to the high castes.
In any case, the majority of peasants belonging to any caste, upper or lower, were poor.
Was it because I regarded my belonging to Europe as a surface matter of little significance?
But belonging to the eurozone proved to be very valuable-Greece is hurting less than Denmark although its problems are much greater.
Islamist extremism is a handy revolutionary creed for vulnerable young people to latch onto, to gain a sense of power and belonging.
The question is not primarily one of employment, or even poverty, but of marginalization and alienation, of the lack of a sense of belonging.
Perhaps the allure of belonging to a growing reserve currency will make sustained recession and austerity feasible in ways that have seldom been seen historically. I doubt it.
What has also clearly come out is that faith has a deeper significance than merely belonging to the faithful.