deputy
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South Africa's deputy police chief has resigned three weeks after he was charged with sexual offences.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Gavin Robinson said that removing Emma Little-Pengelly as deputy first minister would "punish everybody else"
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
The Feinberg in question is Hegseth’s deputy, Steve Feinberg, a private-equity billionaire who grew up in the Bronx.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
On the might’ve-gotten-blown-up decoy plane were Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, the White House press pool and others.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
The deputy looked like he wanted to say something else, but he didn’t.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
The sheriff responded that deputies had conducted brief and routine polling place visits for years.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
P&R Treasury Lead Charles Parkinson said he never believed the direction to reduce spending by 1% in real terms - which deputies agreed to last year - was possible.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
With more police and sheriff’s deputies joining immigration enforcement, “we’re not in the streets arresting these individuals,” Mullin said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
He said the federally funded highway, which runs from West Sacramento, Calif., to Ocean City, Md., yielded two immigration arrests after traffic stops by his deputies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Honestly, I didn’t know what to do. None of the deputies at the jail were talking to me anymore,” Dad said.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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Iroquois Constitution
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
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