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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.

supplier

see FIRM.

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posting his palace guards on watch for suppliants who entered into the

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

Athens, as the imperial city, is posited as a hegemon (absent the tyrannical implication of empire), a position emphasized through its openness to suppliants and its ability and willingness both to defend those suppliants attacked unjustly and to integrate the polluted or hostile into its civic/religious structure.

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

Both [the Suppliants and Prometheus Bound] belong to trilogies which, like the Oresteia, present a struggle between opposing rights or principles, and trace its course through successive crises to its solution in a rational compromise.

The radical tragic imaginary: Castoriadis on Aeschylus & Sophocles

In 2 Esdras 14, 22 the suppliant likewise prays for the skill which will enable him to convey his encounter with the divine experience.

Apuleius' Metamorphoses and Jewish/Christian literature

Chapter 7 ("Staging Suppliant Women') raises similar questions about organizational rationale.

Ian C. Storey. Euripides: Suppliant Women

220, in which Achilles orders Patroclus to prepare a meal for the suppliant embassy Patroclus sets a huge chopping block "in the glow of the fire" (en pyros augei, 9.

Assembly and hospitality in the Cyclopeia

Aeschylus, volume 1, Suppliant Maidens, Persians, Prometheus, Seven against Thebes (Loeb Classical Library).

Rocks, views, soils and plants at the temples of ancient Greece

Que faire de toutes ces situations oo le parent non hebergeant utilise l'enfant pour << faire revenir >> l'autre en le faisant porteur de messages tantot suppliant tantot menacant ?

La residence alternee: de loin la principale menace au bien-etre des enfants de parents divorces

Golub's series of paintings Mercenaries, White Squad, and Vietnam feature over-sized soldiers, singly or in small groups, taunting each other or torturing victims who are helpless and in suppliant positions.

The ethics of audience positioning in the paintings of Leon Golub and the prints of Sue Coe

Suppliant, we appear before the Wizard, beseeching him to aid us in our hour of need.

E-mail ethics: an audience with the wizard: what if you misdirect a strategy-disclosing e-mail? How do you keep from revealing embarrassing metadata? Todd Flaming, ISBA's lovable lawyer geek, tells all to Karen Erger, ISBA's lovable malpractice-prevention guru

On the advice of Princess Nausikaa, he offers himself as suppliant to Queen Arete, throwing himself in the ashes of her fireplace and stating, "my life is pain" (7.