Patriarchs add value in two ways that do not appear on balance-sheets, says Mr Fan.
Barbers shaved the heads of bearded patriarchs who then hurried off to admire the latest wares in Hat Alley.
They are all decision-makers in their small, closely held family companies, usually having taken over from elderly patriarchs.
Many patriarchs built their fortunes with risky bets: movies, the first casino, manufacturing.
The Pritzkers, especially the second- and third-generation patriarchs--Abram Nicholas, known as A.N.
It claims that all the Jewish patriarchs and matriarchs as well as all the Jewish prophets, kings and judges were Muslim.
The act of creating "child marriage-free zones" reminds us that even in 2013 patriarchs still attempt to dictate their daughters' destinies.
To clinch the deal the recruiters invite the patriarchs to meet office managers and see for themselves that Roshan is a respectable business.
Benedict began the day with a busy morning in Jerusalem's Old City, including meeting the patriarchs of the Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic churches.
This week the administration condemned Israel for defining the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem as national heritage sites.
Peter's tomb, where he prayed accompanied by the patriarchs of Catholic Oriental Churches, he proceeded through the Basilica, followed by senior clergy, back toward the square.
Just this week, Fayyad threatened to respond with a religious war to Israel's classification of the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb as national heritage sites.
Between sessions with the patriarchs, Benedict toured and prayed at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, believed to be located on the site where Jesus was crucified and buried.
They are often invested with the task of representing family honor particularly by patriarchs who fear the family structure might be undermined if their women yield to the seduction of Western society.
The fact that the West Bank was home to the major biblical sites the old city of Jerusalem, the tomb of the patriarchs in Hebron, Rachel's tomb in Bethlehem added to the sensation of a divine guiding hand.
Edward Sherman Hoar is several years Henry's junior, the younger brother of one of Henry's former classmates, the son of Squire Hoar (one of Concord's most esteemed patriarchs), and Edward admires Henry, looks to him for guidance.
Mr Freedman writes of the furore in one Los Angeles congregation aroused by a woman who, leading services, inserted in one of the most sacred prayers the names of the four matriarchs alongside those of the three patriarchs.
Hebron is home, among other things, to what is generally considered the second-holiest Jewish site, housing the Tombs of the Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) in the Cave of Machpela in a building shared with the Ibrahimi mosque.
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" As he put it, "From the beginning, the Church in these lands has commemorated in her liturgy the great figures of the patriarchs and prophets, as a sign of her profound appreciation of the unity of the two Testaments.
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He described his profound disappointment in the 1947 U.N. partition plan, and the fact that the Jews had not been awarded Biblical places like Hebron, where the Patriarchs are buried, and Shiloh, the center of Jewish worship before the building of the First Temple.
In addition to its routine condemnations of the security fence, Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem and Israel's refusal to give Hamas control over its border with Israel, UNESCO's board asserted that the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, where Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca and Leah are all buried, is a mosque.
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