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Synonyms for pillar

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for pillar

a fundamental principle or practice

anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower

a prominent supporter

a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)

(architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure

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With pricing in mind, Pilla emphasized that underwriters can't ignore the catastrophe element.
"Jason had a really good perspective of what a lot of people were going through with the economy the way it is," said Pilla. "For him to be willing to tell our story was a really exciting thing for me."
Whatever truth resides in those assessments, it is certainly clear that Lennon is a different personality from Pilla, who is said to have asked more than once when the topic of closing a parish came up: "How will we be a better church if we close it?" A wide consensus among those I spoke with was that Pilla, who had his own trouble with a financial scandal at the end of his tenure, would have allowed some of the parishes "to die a natural death." It was also roundly held that he would not have gone after such places as St.
The company was made aware of the leak on Thursday and was investigating, Mr Pilla said.
Bishop Anthony Pilla is numbered among the more enlightened in the bishops' ranks so likely would leave it to his flock to judge Kucinich whole cloth--as the US Bishops' Conference directs--but certain anti-abortion zealots, US cardinals prominent among them, do not.
Previously, Kevin Pilla left his position as design director for the Focus division.
"While most of the products tested provided some measure of improvement, others actually decreased slip resistance on flooring materials, while still others offered a marked improvement in slip resistance," says Steven Di Pilla, director of product development and training for Risk Control Services at Ace, and principal architect of the study.
But he was much nicer in a letter to Bishop Anthony Pilla in Cleveland: "I think it is important for people to understand -- even though public school people in some districts are complaining they are being shortchanged, Ohio is doing a better job than any other state in the nation in terms of providing for our non-public schools."
Pilla. A biophysicist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, he explains that the newer devices transfer a field's energy into the body from wire coiled around, but not touching, the injured area.
Wolves howl at the moon (personified by Janet Pilla, one of Philadelphia's finest); bodies lurch, snatch, tear at each other.
A man calling himself Alan Johnson is operating the helpline for Irish clients desperate to get the pilla.
Cardinals and Bishop Pilla, president of the American Conference of Bishops, wrote President Clinton saying, "We .
Bishop Anthony Pilla of Cleveland and eight cardinals wrote in a letter to Clinton that the term health can mean "virtually anything that has to do with a woman's `well-being.' As you know and we know, an exception for `health' means abortion on demand."
As Dan Pilla points out, getting rid of the IRS is an appealing aspect of the sales tax.