Denis is the boss, yet he still makes polite requests for the performance of tasks by his employees, maybe even thanking them for their work. The workers respect him.
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4 total sentences available.
Denis is the boss, yet he still makes polite requests for the performance of tasks by his employees, maybe even thanking them for their work. The workers respect him.
Source: tatoeba (7899809)
A 25-year-old graduate student from Stanford University named Denis Hayes and a U.S. Democratic senator from Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelson, coordinated what became Earth Day — April 22, 1970.
Source: tatoeba (8702514)
Denis Chopera, a virologist working in South Africa, said that, since there are no side effects, the herb can’t cause harm, but people shouldn’t presume it is a miracle cure.
Source: tatoeba (8769898)
Shall not thou and I, between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a boy, half French, half English, that shall go to Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard?
Source: wiktionary
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