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Supplier

A company that provides goods or services to another company. These goods or services may be used to make a different good or service (which is then sold to customers). Alternately, the supplier may provide retail goods or services that a company simply re-sells.

supplier

a producer or distributor of a GOOD or SERVICE. See also INTERNAL SUPPLIER.

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(v) "Praya is undertaken by a suppliant, but it is accompanied

Dying to redress the grievance of another: On praya / prayopavesa(na) in Kalhana's Rajatarangini

No verso 97, Teseu tambem identifica os mantos nao-festivos das ancias e aponta para o carater transgressor da manifestacao coral diante de um ambiente inapropriado para tal, podendo trazer serias consequencias para a cidade de Atenas, pois Teseu sugere "[...] that Demeter might be offended by a suppliant branch in her temple at the time of the Eleusinia, and so might any sacrifice be ruined by the ill-omened word or deed" (SMITH, 1967, p.

[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] as suplicantes de Euripides (VV. 42-86)

Tzanetou frequently considers the plays with comparison to the funeral oration, an Athenian panegyric genre that includes suppliant narratives within the framework of hegemonic discourse.

City of Suppliants: Tragedy and the Athenian Empire

For Benjamin, anthropological shifts have political and artistic consequences, and one can recall Schmitt's disgust with the way in which "Les Suppliants Paralleles" appears to aestheticize the horror of Bloody Sunday, as Peguy juxtaposes Oedipus with the demonstrators in Saint Petersburg.

Revisiting Dante's promised end: eschatological implications of Peguy's Jeanne d'Arc mysteries

Orestes holds in one hand a pious suppliants branch, in the other a bloody sword.

The radical tragic imaginary: Castoriadis on Aeschylus & Sophocles

The citizens have become suppliants to the monuments of the gods, asking for mercy ("Why sit ye here as suppliants, in your hands branches of olive filleted with wool?," lines 2-3; "the common folk, with wreathed boughs crowd our two market-places, or before both shrines of Pallas congregate, or where Ismenus gives his oracles by fire," lines 19-21) (2,3).

The plague of Thebes, a historical epidemic in Sphocles' Oedipus Rex

An issue there is that many of the players are young teens that work with "buscones" who may tell players to take certain suppliants. Some may also do so willingly as getting a big league contract -- even at the league minimum -- can take care of a player and his entire family for life.

Phillies Lead All Teams With Most Minor League Drug Suspensions

Throughout history and around the world, suppliants have groveled to potentates for the most basic of rights and common decency.

Back to the abyss: the revolutionary war was fought to escape abuses perpetrated on a whim by government. TSA actions show that government fancies reign again

It is most often used of suppliants before a God or a god-like King.

Self-construction: 'auto-ethopoeia' in Romanos' kontakia

In "Violence and Vulnerability in Aeschylus' Suppliants," Sara Brill attempts to show how, "in his Suppliants, Aeschylus' construction of the act of supplication contributes to the inquiry into the foundations of authority and the ever-shifting bases of power and vulnerability that this tragedy provides."

Wians, William, ed. Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature

Later, he says, "Suppliants, spurred on by their synaptic structure, by the very neurological makeup of their mind-brains, act out their infantile wish.