Apprentice Sentence Examples

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  • The apprentice genie also comes out of his lamp.

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  • He served as an apprentice to the village carpenter for seven years.

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  • He was an apprentice of Joseph Henry Green, the distinguished surgeon at St Thomas's, well known for his friendship for Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose literary executor Green became.

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  • He graduated at Harvard in 1727, then became an apprentice in his father's counting-room, and for several years devoted himself to business.

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  • He started his working life at 16, training as an apprentice toolmaker.

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  • He later became an apprentice on a tea clipper.

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  • In 1929 he became an apprentice electrician with Humber Electrical Engineering.

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  • William began work at 6 years old in a pin factory then as an apprentice shoemaker.

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  • The two form an unlikely friendship, and she becomes an apprentice sleuth.

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  • His father, a wealthy manufacturer, having been all but ruined by the French siege, he had, when only sixteen, to apprentice himself to an apothecary in Hamburg, and when twenty-two began to earn his living as an apothecary's assistant at Itzehoe.

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  • In September 1597 his apprentice cordwainer, Thomas Coxe, was admitted free.

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  • They derive from the chronic passion of apprentice mages and the good will of their peers.

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  • An apprentice must be at least 16 years of age to enroll in a training program.

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  • A military career was not initially on the cards as he left school and worked as an apprentice watchmaker and pawnbroker for eighteen months.

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  • Why not ask this wizened woman if she would like to take on an apprentice, like Alan Sugar?

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  • That year, The Apprentice estimated around 21 million viewers.

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  • Celebrity Apprentice follows in the footsteps of Donald Trump and Mark Burnett's once popular reality show The Apprentice, with a twist.

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  • The format is exactly the same as it was for the first Celebrity Apprentice, but with new stars and different tasks.

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  • The Celebrity Apprentice is usually a two-hour program on NBC, although some episodes are one hour in length.

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  • The women's team for Celebrity Apprentice 2 is called Athena.

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  • He has also participated in both the British and American versions of The Celebrity Apprentice and emerged as the winner in the first installment of the U.S. show.

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  • Just to show that he can take it as good as he can give it, Piers Morgan stepped up to the plate in 2008 as a contestant on the first season of Donald Trump's The Celebrity Apprentice.

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  • Since Keeping Up with the Kardashians had taken off with great success, Khloe Kardashian was ready for her next reality show - The Celebrity Apprentice.

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  • He has appeared several times on the NBC reality show The Apprentice.

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  • Omarosa appeared on Donald Trump's reality show The Apprentice.

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  • She has appeared on several other television shows, including 90210 and Fashion Police, and competed in the second season of Celebrity Apprentice where she was the seventh candidate fired.

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  • If you haven't been watching the celebrity version of Donald Trump's reality TV show The Apprentice, you might be wondering, who won Celebrity Apprentice?

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  • The Celebrity Apprentice is a reality show on NBC that is based on the successful Apprentice series.

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  • Trump then chooses which candidate earns the title of Celebrity Apprentice.

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  • The winner of the first season of The Celebrity Apprentice was Piers Morgan, who returned for season two as an advisor in the board room.

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  • Now that you know who won Celebrity Apprentice in season one, it's time to move on to the second season.

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  • Though Annie Duke threatened to crush Rivers, it was Joan Rivers who was victorious and earned the title of The Celebrity Apprentice.

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  • To learn more about the show, meet all of the candidates, see video clips, and watch full episodes, visit the official Celebrity Apprentice website at NBC.com.

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  • A reality show that tapes an entire season before airing the first episode, like The Apprentice, has more potential leaks than a show that eliminates contestants live, like American Idol.

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  • He has appeared on Bravo's Top Chef Masters and his wife Kristine is a former candidate on The Apprentice.

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  • One wonders if Hobb had the entire thing mapped out when she first sat down to write Assassin's Apprentice?

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  • I did enjoy the Jedi Apprentice series by Dave Worthington and later Jude Watson, though in books 15 through 16, Qui-Gon's Jedi love, Tahl, gets murdered and he goes out for revenge??

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  • A great Jedi Master you always were, but too blind was I to see it ... Your apprentice, I gratefully become."

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  • The Phantom Menace introduces Anakin Skywalker as a young slave boy, Obi-Wan Kenobi as a Jedi apprentice, and the introduction of the evil Darth Maul and the forces of darkness known as the Sith.

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  • Obi-Wan is no longer an apprentice but a Jedi and teacher.

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  • Anakin, who is no longer a boy, becomes Obi-Wan's apprentice.

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  • It is in this episode that Anakin Skywalker becomes the Emperor's apprentice and takes on the persona we all know as Darth Vader.

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  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Merlin trained Balthazar and upon his death gave Balthazar the quest to find the Prime Merlinian.

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  • Merlin and Merlin's Apprentice - The tale of Merlin's lift is told with Sam Neill in the role.

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  • I'm not even an apprentice in the snooping game, compared to you and Fred.

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  • Chirac played the sorcerer's apprentice by making the main axis of his campaign law and order, a longstanding theme of the FN.

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  • So at the age of fifteen, he signed up with his father's approval as an indentured apprentice onboard the " Oneida " .

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  • Alternatively, GRAHAM Training can recruit a modern apprentice on behalf of an organization.

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  • Caroline Benton has notched up a first for Southern Water by becoming the first female apprentice to qualify.

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  • I'm aged between 16 & 25 can I become a modern apprentice?

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  • He lived there with his 13 year old apprentice Andrew Morton, originally from Louth.

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  • She started at BAE Systems as a craft apprentice and rapidly moved to become a skilled flight test engineer on Eurofighter Typhoon aircrafts.

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  • Visit the Dockyard Apprentice and discover the skills and crafts used to build the mighty dreadnought battleships.

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  • We are drawn into the deeply personal struggles of Charles Wentworth, an apprentice blacksmith at the advanced age of 27.

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  • It appears that a new apprentice of the village carpenter was very boastful of his scholarship.

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  • John at 16 had already left home, and was an apprentice carpenter with Margaret Wyatt's building firm in St Giles ' Street.

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  • Nigel started work as an apprentice compositor in the printing trade and retrained many times in a rapidly changing industry.

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  • He was an apprentice draper, teacher and biology student before he became a professional journalist and writer.

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  • This census shows they had another daughter - Fanny, who was then an apprentice dressmaker.

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  • Ian Williams, 18, of Rhymney is an apprentice fitter at Corus ' Port Talbot works.

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  • This method is still used for teaching an apprentice gardener in Japan.

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  • The family moved to Glasgow and at the age of fourteen Gardner left school and became an apprentice jeweler.

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  • I went to serve, serve me time as an apprentice joiner for a year.

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  • On 12 October 1640 Dennis's apprentice mercer, Richard Peirce, was admitted free.

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  • His son is a plater in the frame squad and his grandson is an apprentice plater.

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  • Proving that a career in a male orientated industry is possible are two young women apprentice plumbers.

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  • Captain Cook Memorial Museum This museum is housed in the building where James Cook lodged as an apprentice seaman.

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  • New man at the helm for EA Scotland Evangelical Alliance Scotland has a new General Secretary - who is a former apprentice shipbuilder.

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  • Indeed, my first employment upon leaving school was as an apprentice shipwright, based on the St Andrew's Dock in Hull.

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  • Now, Tom was a half trained apprentice in sole charge of the village smithy.

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  • Chirac played the sorcerer 's apprentice by making the main axis of his campaign law and order, a longstanding theme of the FN.

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  • As an apprentice stonemason, I was in charge of building one.

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  • David Dickie was an apprentice upholsterer to William Lamont in Kilmarnock.

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  • On 23 January 1626 Harris's apprentice vintner Humphrey Boddicott (whom he had inherited from his father) was admitted free.

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  • The rich publisher may treat the poor poet better or worse than the old master workman treated the old apprentice.

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  • In 1851 he began his engineering career as apprentice in an establishment at Manchester, and subsequently he entered Newall's submarine cable works at Birkenhead.

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  • He was, to quote the words of a contemporary, " like an apprentice defying his master."

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  • This was a form of apprenticeship, and it is not clear that the apprentice had any filial relation.

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  • The first is of a preliminary character, qualifying for registration as a student or apprentice; in lieu of this examination, certificates of matriculation at a university, and those of certain other educational bodies, are accepted.

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  • The latter has other interesting pictures, including a fresco representing an apprentice with pestle and mortar (Pestapepe), the only authentic work in Forli of Melozzo da Forli (1438-1494), an eminent master whose style was formed under the influence of Piero della Francesca, and who was the master of Palmezzano; the frescoes in the Sforza chapel in SS.

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  • Besides these, there is also an apprentice school for industrial training.

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  • It served to strengthen the unfavourable impression formed in England of the Transvaal Boers with regard to their treatment of the natives; an impression which was deepened by tidings of terrible chastisement of tribes in the Zoutpansberg, and by the Apprentice Law passed by the volksraad in 1856 - a law denounced in many quarters as practically legalizing slavery.

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  • David Barclay (the son of the famous apologist for the Quakers) was an apprentice in the house, but he subsequently became master, and had the honour of receiving George II.

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  • The statute of 5 Elizabeth, c. 4, also curtailed their jurisdiction over journeymen and apprentices (see Apprentice Ship).

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  • After being for a short time apprentice to a ladies' tailor, he became tutor to an innkeeper's son.

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  • The released apprentice now visited his parents, and worked for a little time with them on the farm, meanwhile seeking employment in various printing offices, and, when he got it, giving nearly all his earnings to his father.

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  • Many refused to employ him, in the belief that he was a runaway apprentice, and his poor, ill-fitting apparel and rustic look were everywhere greatly against him.

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  • He served for a while as a saddler's apprentice, and after 1826 devoted himself to the life of a professional guide and hunter.

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  • He was then placed under the tuition of his brother Edward (1627-1655), of Trinity College; and, as he tells us, "while he continued in this condition his mother would alwaies be soliciting him to be an apprentice which he could never endure to heare of."

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  • After attending the grammar school at Lancaster he spent six years as an apprentice to a druggist in that town.

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  • His father, whose name also was William, began life as an apprentice to a fitter, in which service he obtained the freedom of Newcastle, becoming a member of the gild of Hoastmen (coal-fitters); later in life he became a principal in the business, and attained a respectable position as a merchant in Newcastle, accumulating property worth nearly £ 20,000.

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  • Senior Instructors Ollie demonstrating frontal reverse kick in Savate kickboxing with apprentice instructor Tim Campbell.

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  • Indeed, my first employment upon leaving school was as an apprentice shipwright, based on the St Andrew 's Dock in Hull.

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  • Is he the right man for the job or just the sorcerer 's apprentice?

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  • The Apprentice Boys felt this decision was not theirs to make and was a matter for the RUC.

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  • On 23 January 1626 Harris 's apprentice vintner Humphrey Boddicott (whom he had inherited from his father) was admitted free.

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  • Became an apprentice wheelwright in South Shields, befriending the young George Stephenson.

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  • Apprentice programs- learn a new set of skills, such as learning how to build things like gazebos and other outbuildings.

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  • The fifth Apprentice has barely been hired and already The Donald has signed up for another year of blatant product placement and shameless self promotion.

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  • Hired to run the company is one of the losers from The Apprentice's second season, Andy Litinsky.

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  • Tammy Trenta fought a good fight on The Apprentice 5, proving that an effective business person does not have to be cut-throat or vicious.

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  • The New York Post is reporting that Donald Trump has dumped Carolyn Kepcher, who not only runs his golf courses in upstate New York and Central NJ, but has also been his partner in crime on The Apprentice.

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  • According to the Post, Kepcher has grown quite the ego since becoming a member of The Apprentice's firing squad.

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  • Presently, Trump is in Los Angeles filming the sixth season of The Apprentice.

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  • At a young age, Ivanka Trump made a name for herself as a model, and now can be seen alongside her father, Donald Trump, on NBC's The Apprentice.

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  • Ivanka first appeared on the fifth season of her father's show, The Apprentice, when Carolyn Kepcher was unable to appear in a number of episodes.

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  • After Kepcher was herself fired from the Trump Organization, it was announced that Ivanka Trump would take over on the sixth season of The Apprentice.

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  • In January 2004, Trump ventured into one of his biggest deals -- hosting The Apprentice, a reality television show on NBC where up to 18 men and women compete for a $250,000 internship in one of his many companies.

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  • He earns at least $375,000 for each episode of The Apprentice.

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  • Fresh from her firing on The Apprentice, contestant Kristine Lefebvre is taking on Playboy.

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  • Lefebvre is taking her exposure on The Apprentice and turning it into an opportunity with Playboy magazine.

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  • While many beautiful women of The Apprentice have been offered the opportunity to appear in Playboy magazine, Lefebvre will be the first contestant of the popular reality series to pose nude.

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  • Former Apprentice wannabes Ereka Vetrini, Amy Henry, Krista Frank and Katrina Campins were all reportedly offered $250,000 to pose for Playboy, but none of the women accepted the offer.

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  • While The Apprentice still earns respectable ratings, the show has seen a sharp drop in viewers, with the current season earning the lowest numbers yet.

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  • The final show of the sixth season aired April 22, 2007, where viewers watched Trump crown Stefani Schaeffer as his new apprentice.

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  • On May 14, 2007, when NBC released its 2007-2008 television lineup, the billionaire real estate tycoon's reality show, The Apprentice, was not included.

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  • At one time, The Apprentice ranked in the top 10, but only placed 100th for the 2006-2007 season, which was shot in Los Angeles, California.

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  • His reality television show The Apprentice has been running strong since 2004, with both regular and celebrity versions.

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  • Not only has he made a deal with MTV to produce a reality television show starring recently crowned beauty queens, NBC has decided to bring back The Apprentice for at least one more run.

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  • In May, the network inadvertently left The Apprentice, which concluded its sixth season just one month earlier, out of the fall lineup.

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  • Sources close to NBC and The Apprentice told Reuters that the show, which dropped considerably in ratings since it first aired 2004, will be renewed for the seventh season, with an option to renew for one additional.

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  • However, the next installment of The Apprentice will have a slightly different twist -- celebrities will vie against each other in a number of different tasks as a means of raising funds for a variety of charities.

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  • According to Variety, the show is a mix between The Real World and The Apprentice, and will star former Miss USA Tara Conner as the "den mother."

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  • Trump is adding another season of The Apprentice to her busy plate, as NBC renewed the reality business competition for another season.

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  • For The Apprentice, the number of viewers from season one to season six dropped by an estimated 14 million viewers, proving that people tired of seeing the same thing over and over.

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  • Instead of featuring business men and women from around the country, the show's new contestants are celebrities and its new moniker is, naturally, Celebrity Apprentice.

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  • There will be a total of 14 contestants on Celebrity Apprentice -- no doubt split into teams of two.

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  • Tiffany Fallon - Playboy magazine's 2005 "Playmate of the Year" is set to join the cast of Celebrity Apprentice.

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  • Tito Ortiz - This Ultimate Fighting champion is throwing his gloves into the "Celebrity Apprentice'' ring.

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  • Trump has great intentions with this latest celebrity version of The Apprentice, but are good intentions enough to get people interested in the show again?

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  • Most notably, Stephen Baldwin will add yet another reality program to his resume, which already includes The Celebrity Apprentice, Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge, The Mole and Fear Factor.

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  • Many have stated that one of the most annoying participants in Celebrity Apprentice is "…amazing" when he's sober, though most of the rest of the world has its doubts.

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  • He wants to attend the Celebrity Apprentice reunion show.

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  • Her audition stunned both viewers and the judges, including Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan, former winner of The Celebrity Apprentice, and Amanda Holden.

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  • Ivanka Trump, daughter of real estate mogul and The Apprentice host Donald Trump, married fiance Jared Kushner on October 25, 2009.

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  • In addition to appearances on her father's reality TV show The Apprentice, Ivanka has worked as a model and pageant host.

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  • Bret Michaels is currently a cast member on Donald Trump's show Celebrity Apprentice.

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  • If you are able to find a trainer that you admire, you may be able to work with her as an apprentice.

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  • Of course, there are many more schools dedicated to teaching the art of dog grooming, or you may even choose apprentice with a grooming shop.

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  • You are a hunter's apprentice and become involved with the troubles in the land of the Old West.

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  • Three years after Sagat achieved the title of "God of Muay Thai", Adon became his apprentice and began to master the art of fighting.

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  • When first starting out, it is best to work as an apprentice with a reputable buyer and learn how they negotiate deals and otherwise navigate the sometimes less than crystal clear world of the diamond trade industry.

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  • After working as a jewelry designing apprentice for many years, he studied jewelry design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, New York.

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  • By establishing a relationship with your own palmist, he or she may be willing to apprentice you or at least direct you to someone who can aptly do so.

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  • That person happens to be unsuspecting Arthur, apprentice to Merlin.

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  • As an apprentice, Yoji was still learning the ropes of tattooing when the show began and spent much of his time helping out around the shop and drawing.

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  • So it's only natural that he takes on Diz as an apprentice, right?

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  • The best way to become a fully-fledged tattoo artist is to become an apprentice.

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  • If you want an even more custom-made design, you can often go to a tattoo studio and ask if there is an apprentice who is willing to draw up a design for you, for free.

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  • Since body piercing is passed from master piercer to apprentice, aftercare knowledge is not standardized across the piercing industry.

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  • Len from Massachusetts is a tattoo apprentice who has concealed his name and identifying details so that he could give you the most unvarnished, no holds barred, brutally honest account of what it means to be a tattoo apprentice.

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  • An apprentice's tattooing of anything other than skin (grapefruits, rubber practice skin, etc.) is practiced primarily to build initial hand strength and coordination; you must practice on real skin to progress.

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  • In 1856 a draper's apprentice, 21-year-old Thomas Burberry, opened his own store in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.

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  • All programs should combine lecture, observation, practice, apprentice teaching, and practical and written exam aspects.

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  • In between these requirements, students have extensive reading to do, and will also spend time in an apprentice program with Cathy, observing her classes and assisting in teaching them.

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  • Omarosa - Omarosa wasn't the winner of season one of The Apprentice, but she is the one who has turned her much maligned turn on the show into a showbiz career (of sorts).

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  • Or would you prefer to land a white-collar job and work with Donald Trump on The Apprentice?

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  • At one time The Apprentice TV show was the reality television program to watch.

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  • The Apprentice is the ultimate job interview.

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  • So what does the apprentice receive as his or her grand prize?

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  • The premise of Season 7 of the show, also known as The Celebrity Apprentice, was pretty much the same as the original series.

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  • For more information regarding The Apprentice TV show, check out the NBC website.

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  • Dubbed the ultimate job interview, The Apprentice takes 18 contestants, divides them into two teams and runs them through a variety of tasks.

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  • The Apprentice, created by Mark Burnett, came to NBC in January 2004.

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  • Although it didn't prove to be the hit the original Apprentice was, it did fare well enough for another season.

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  • Only a select few are physically, emotionally and mentally capable to take part in competition shows such as The Apprentice, The Amazing Race and Big Brother.

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  • Gene is approached by Donald Trump to appear in the Celebrity Apprentice, an opportunity that he accepts.

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  • The Celebrity Apprentice 2 is a reality TV show that carries on in the Apprentice tradition, focusing on business and teamwork.

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  • He has spent over thirty years with the company, rising through the ranks from a young apprentice to becoming managing director.

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  • Whether you are an apprentice bricklayer or a seasoned specifier, the Learning Texts provide you with everything you need to know about mortar.

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  • Our April visit, however, meant we could attend one of the seasonal shows put on by the maiko, or apprentice geishas.

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  • The apprentice then had to close his (or her) eyes and recite an incantation.

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  • Few things are finer in music or literature than the end of the second act of Die Meistersinger, from the point where Sachs's apprentice begins the riot, to the moment when the watchman, frightened at the silence of the moonlit streets so soon after he has heard all that noise, announces eleven o'clock and bids the folk pray for protection against evil spirits, while the orchestra tells us of the dreams of Walther and Eva and ends by putting poetry even into the pedantic ineptitudes of the malicious Beckmesser.

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  • But when in 1794 his father, Robert Davy, died, leaving a widow and five children in embarrassed circumstances, he awoke to his responsibilities as the eldest son, and becoming apprentice to a surgeonapothecary at Penzance set to work on a systematic and remarkably wide course of self-instruction which he mapped out for himself in preparation for a career in medicine.

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  • Kim Kardashian is married to NBA star Kris Humphries, and she continues to work on various reality television projects, including Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Dancing With the Stars, and an appearance on The Celebrity Apprentice.

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  • Well, aside from (ahem) intimate knowledge of the Playboy Empire, Madison got her feet wet when she served as a photo editor apprentice in one episode of The Girls Next Door, assisting with the design of a 2007 Girls Next Door calendar.

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  • While her version of Celebrity Apprentice wasn't as successful as the Donald Trump-headed show, she has continued to write books such as The Martha Rules and Martha Stewart Baking Handbook.

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  • Tutera made appearances on a number of television shows, including Disney Weddings, The Bonnie Hunt Show and The Apprentice, but it wasn't until WE came up with an idea for his very own show that Tutera became a bona fide household name.

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  • Britain's Next Top Model and The Apprentice were originally from the U.S., while Big Brother was licensed from The Netherlands.

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  • When he was sixteen, he became an apprentice goldsmith with his uncle, but did not complete his apprenticeship.

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  • Craig Reid, an apprentice engineer from Coventry, completes the trio going to the World Final.

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  • William Grinstead, son of Captain Grinstead, was an apprentice waterman employed on the River.

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  • Horace from childhood desired to be a printer, and, when barely eleven years old, tried to be taken as an apprentice in an office at Whitehall, New York, but was rejected on account of his youth.

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  • He began his medical career as apprentice to John Paisley, a Glasgow surgeon, and after completing his apprenticeship he became surgeon to a merchant vessel trading between London and the West Indies.

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  • But the most remarkable of the persons with whom at this time Johnson consorted was Richard Savage, an earl's son, a shoemaker's apprentice, who had seen life in all its forms, who had feasted among blue ribands in St James's Square, and had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs in the condemned ward of Newgate.

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  • He has stated in his autobiography that through all his early years of struggle, when he was successively grocer's apprentice at Fiirstenberg, cabin-boy on the "Dorothea" bound for Venezuela, and, after her wreck, office attendant and then book-keeper in Amsterdam, he nourished a passion for the Homeric story and an ambition to become a great linguist.

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  • Up till 1477 he is still spoken of as a pupil or apprentice of Verrocchio; but in that year he seems to have been taken into special favour by Lorenzo the Magnificent, and to have worked as an independent artist under his patronage until 1482-1483.

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  • The freedom is obtained either by patrimony (by any person over twenty-one years of age born in lawful wedlock after the admission of his father to the freedom), by servitude (by being bound as an apprentice to a freeman of the company) or by redemption.

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  • Of certified and accepted paintings produced by the young genius, whether during his apprentice or his independent years at Florence (about 1470-1482), very few are extant, and the two most important are incomplete.

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  • Disappointed in his early hope of entering the navy, he became apprentice to an apothecary in his native town; but seeing little prospect of advancement in that calling, he soon moved to Geneva (in 1816).

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  • It was in these circumstances that he dictated to his servant, a tailor's apprentice, who was absolutely devoid of mathematical knowledge, his Anleitung zur Algebra (1770), a work which, though purely elementary, displays the mathematical genius of its author, and is still reckoned one of the best works of its class.

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  • There had been no one at Nuremberg skilled enough in the art of metal-engraving to teach it him to much purpose, and it had at one time been his father's intention to apprentice him to Martin Schongauer of Colmar, the most refined and accomplished German painter-engraver of his time.

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