They were joined by Jill Biden, the vice president's wife, and a veritable service brigade of Congressional spouses, more than 150 in all, who gathered on Wednesday to fill 2,000 grocery bags with canned corn, canned chicken, granola cereal, spaghetti sauce and other items to help feed 1,000 hungry children in the Washington area.
Today's IT professionals are veritable libertines, swapping services and systems around like priapismic satyrs at a techno-bacchanal.
Twitter keeps on growing like a weed, and there seems to be no stopping the much-hyped, heavily scrutinized Silicon Valley startup in its quest to turn its popular micro-sharing service into a veritable pulse of the planet.
At £45 a shot, Leeder's services are a veritable bargain.
The 62-year-old family business has provided custom upholstery services to a veritable Who's Who of designers for decades.
Before stepping down last month, Adm. Mike Mullen, General Dempsey's predecessor, called the Haqqanis "a veritable arm" of Pakistan's intelligence service.
When Adm. Mike Mullen, just days before his retirement last month as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, declared that the Haqqani network was "a veritable arm" of the Pakistani spy service, President Obama and his aides were outraged, administration officials said — not because they thought Admiral Mullen was wrong, but because his remarks further inflamed the Pakistanis.
Despite these limitations, the large sample size as well as the wide national coverage makes this data invaluable and the study provides veritable information on the oral health service utilization and common oral hygiene practices among adult Nigerians as well as socio-demographic factors possibly influencing the observed patterns.
The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, described the network last month as a "veritable arm" of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, a remark that other American officials later toned down.
Abbas and Latif Mansur were reputed to have belonged to the Taliban's liaison committee with the I.S.I., while Haqqani represented a part of the Taliban that Admiral Michael Mullen, the American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had called "a veritable arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency" in Congressional testimony on September 22, 2011.
The Napoleonic nobility, in other words, would be a veritable upper class based on a combination of service and wealth.
