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his

If you say something is his thing, you mean it belongs to a particular man or boy. It is his book, not mine. His is used, instead of the name of an object, to refer to something belonging to a man or boy. It isn't my book, it is his.

his

Belonging to him. [from 8th c.] (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.) [11th-17th c.] attributive: belonging to him

his

that which belongs to him

His

belonging to God

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You must take his age into account.
Are you for or against his idea?
All that you have to do is to follow his advice.
You can trust him to keep his word.
You should have refused his offer.
I hope to see his picture soon.
Without his glasses, he is as blind as a bat.
John met Mary on his way to school.
A moment's hesitation may cost a pilot his life.
He broke his word.
I would like to give him a present for his birthday.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his field, and how to avoid them.
The student decided to abridge his paper by taking out unnecessary details.
The convicted drug dealer was willing to comply with the authorities to have his death sentence reduced to a life sentence.
He was sick of being vilified all the time by people who were jealous of his ability.
Sven was so verbose that his friends resorted to calling him a chatterbox.
Though his stay in Europe was transient, Spenser felt he had learned much more about interactions with other people from traveling than he did at college.
The king was tired of his sycophants always praising him, so he sent them away.
There was always too much superfluous writing in his essays.
His essay gave only a superficial analysis of the problem, so it was a real surprise to him when he got the highest grade in the class.
In order to keep his original idea from being copied, Henry resorted to reticence.
To win his audience, the speaker resorted to using rhetorical techniques he learned from his communication courses.
The defense lawyer was confident that he would be able to answer the prosecutor's arguments in his rebuttal.
His father would never sanction his engagement to a girl who did not share the same religious beliefs as their family.
Bill Clinton spoke in ambiguous language when asked to describe his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
He was a benevolent old man who volunteered to mow his neighbors' lawns for free.
Baffled by Sherlock Holmes' cryptic remarks, Watson wondered whether Holmes was intentionally concealing his thoughts about the crime.
There was a feeling of constraint in the room; no one dared to tell the king how foolish his decision was.
A cursory examination of his teeth indicated that he had gingivitis.

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Who mother dies. Her father has an affair and flees with his lover.
Show me his wounds!
He jumped in the mouth of one to help his brother.
That honored Britannian. Using his own body as a shield.
Right. How's his intelligence look?
Yongle controlled his vast empire from the Imperial capital, Nanjing.
By contrast, it took the founder of the Ming dynasty 21 years to build a wall more than 20 miles long around his capital city, Nanjing.
Dick Whittington had to watch where he put his feet, because the streets of his city were paved with something very different from gold.
As a new century dawned in 1 400, the emperor YongIe had another transport technology at his disposal, which had the potential to make him master, not just of the middle Kingdom, but of the entire global market.
Under his successors, Zheng He's voyages were suspended.
Admiral Zheng He's enormous ships and his emperor's grandiose ambitions had done precious little for China.
His name was Vasco da Gama.
Da Gama made his country's - and his own - fortune by cornering the market in the 1 5th century's favourite food additive spices.
From apple to planet: everything obeyed his laws.
And one of those questions caught his attention early on: the properties of the ensemble of stars we see in the sky, the Milky Way Galaxy.
Thanks to this discovery he established his name even more so, which helped him pursue his plans for further research on the Milky Way Galaxy in collaboration with institutions abroad.
Henk hacl finished his studies, except for the final exam, which he could not do, because the University was closed.
And Henk went to Leiden, and from time to time we received news about his stay, the people at Leiden, the things that were going on there.
So, we had to make that map before his talk.
He processed his data in a similar way as had been done by us in our surveys.
We did invade his land.
His mission is to seek peace with Abd el-Kader.
His daughter's not for sale!
My father wants to give me to a friend of his.
All I know is I want to be his wife - and bear his children.
But Santa Claus doesn't charge for his presents.
He gives his shit away for free.
Yo, Johnny, Frankie says you're one of his best workers, and what's the problem?
I guess I felt bad that his supposed friend was betraying him and what my brother was doing to him, but I was just trying to do him a favour.
Now in his time of need you're just going to drop him like that?
Look, I got a free catcher, I got one of Nick's crew suspended, and I got Nick to turn his back on one of his best friends.
It must be killing him. Now his whole crew is like a chicken with one of its wings cut off.
Don't you? Four days later, Johnny came back from his suspension.
While he was gone, I kept hoping Nick would forgive him and think about what I'd said, but. it seemed like his mind was made up.
That's where Frankie and his jerk-ass crew hang out.
They also control the soccer pitch, which means if you want to play there, you have to ask permission from Frankie and his crew.
Why won't you let bud and his friends use the soccer field?
Just thought you might want to know, Frankie and his crew are going to hit back.

News and current affairs

For many of his supporters, it was President Ronald Reagan who, with his deliberate escalation of the arms race, pushed the Soviet economy to the brink, thereby fully demonstrating the superiority of liberal societies and free markets.
But even Charles de Gaulle, a resistance leader of the right, had to accept Communists in his first postwar government, and he agreed to nationalize industries and banks.
He gave a fascinating talk about his adventures, complete with clips of him floating around, catching bubbles in his mouth, and so on.
With his Churchillian prose and almost Shakespearean cadences, his mellifluous phrases and sonorous voice carried for decades a message of hope from a people that could have lost all hope and trust in humanity after the horrors of World War II.
Larger and more powerful nations were envious of so a powerful spokesman, and his speeches became textbook models for statesmen and diplomats in distant lands.
His books - which he found time to write despite the hectic demands of diplomacy - were a unique combination of enormous erudition and crystalline clarity.
His scholarly training and rhetorical gifts supplemented each other in a rare fashion.
He never found his way back, and when confronted with the New Politics of primaries and populism, he became dispirited when he could not cope with this new style.
In the international arena, Eban's pen was his sword, and the spoken word his lance.
He could be a fierce turf fighter, yet it is fair to say that he could have fought harder for his moderate and dovish views in the post-1967 government in which he served.
Meanwhile, in about 2005, I was in South Africa with a small group advising former President Thabo Mbeki and his government about its IT policy.
It is far from clear if he would have prevailed, given his lack of an independent political base, but his international prestige and standing might have given him a chance if he would have chosen to throw the gauntlet.
Eban's silence in the last years was not only a product of his disenchantment with Israeli politics or his failing health.