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Peres

[ per-ez ]

noun

  1. Shi·mon [shi-, mohn], 1923–2016, Israeli political leader, born in Poland: prime minister 1984–86, 1995–96.


Peres

/ ˈpɛrɛs /

noun

  1. PeresShimon1923MIsraeliPolishPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: prime minister Shimon (ʃiːˈməʊn). born 1923, Israeli statesman, born in Poland: prime minister (1984–86; 1995–96); president from 2007; Nobel peace prize 1994 jointly with Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin


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The pères Emanuel were raised in a observant Jewish home in Wilmette, a suburb of Chicago.

Admirons la sagesse de nos pères, et tachons de l'imiter, en faisant ce qui convient à notre siècle.

He was, says his historian well, "de la race des amants et non point de la race des pères."

The man in charge at the cabstand, on the quay des Saints-Pères, at the corner of the bridge, saluted Brocq cordially.

In the Rue des Saints-Pères they plunged into darkness, all the deeper for the brazier of sparkling lights behind them.

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