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  • I explore the ways this case illuminates sexuality and colonial morality in "Sex, Religion, and Other Cultural Exigencies in the Early-Modern Atlantic," paper presented at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Scripps College, Claremont, 2 – 5 June 2005. back

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • "Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing, its contributors therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered a Benefit on the Public, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honor and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or as payment for a just Debt."

    Ron Paul Drops An Anti-Illegal Immigrant Mailing In South Carolina 2009

  • Exigencies of wind and weather, it seemed, made no difference to the quiet, good order, and everywhere one felt the mood of permanence and confidence.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • Exigencies of wind and weather, it seemed, made no difference to the quiet, good order, and everywhere one felt the mood of permanence and confidence.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • Exigencies of wind and weather, it seemed, made no difference to the quiet, good order, and everywhere one felt the mood of permanence and confidence.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • Private Property therefore is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing; its Contributions therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered as conferring a Benefit on the Publick, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honour and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or the Payment of a just Debt.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Political Leanings of Law Firms: 2007

  • Private property … is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing, its contributors therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered a Benefit on the Public, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honor and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or as payment for a just Debt.

    Think Progress » Memories 2005

  • Private property … is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing, its contributors therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered a Benefit on the Public, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honor and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or as payment for a just Debt.

    Think Progress » The War on Work 2005

  • Exigencies of space prevent me from commenting upon all of her choice items, but to list a few is instructive.

    'Literary Domestics' Kelley, Mary 1984

  • Exigencies of their Affairs, hath been hitherto established, to adopt such

    John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961

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