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  • "Down with the Empire, long live the Republic" is the cry, and under the impulse of such as Gambetta the crowd rushes to the Hotel de Ville and sets up a government of National Defence.

    France Through Canadian Eyes 1917

  • This picture is made more vivid by the pencillings on Sir Charles's copy of Daudet's _Numa Roumestan_, where the word "Gambetta" is scribbled again and again opposite passages which describe Numa's wonderful ringing voice, his quick supple nature, all things to all men, catching as if by magic the very tone and gestures of those with whom he spoke, prodigal as the sun in greetings and in promises, poured out in a torrent of words, which seemed "not to proceed from ideas, but to waken them in his mind by the mechanical stimulus of their sound, and by certain intonations even brought tears into his eyes."

    The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

  • The party's regional president is Antonio Gambetta Vianna.

    Berlusconi Behind Anti-Immigration Wave in Italy 2010

  • They also note that engineers tend to be high-achievers who rise by merit, which may make them more likely to be frustrated by their interactions with corrupt bureaucracies in the Middle East and North Africa and thus receptive to radical messages. — “Engineers of Jihad,” Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog, Oxford University Department of Sociology Working Papers

    Primary Sources 2008

  • They also note that engineers tend to be high-achievers who rise by merit, which may make them more likely to be frustrated by their interactions with corrupt bureaucracies in the Middle East and North Africa and thus receptive to radical messages. — “Engineers of Jihad,” Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog, Oxford University Department of Sociology Working Papers

    Primary Sources 2008

  • He was even able to invent a Jewish prime minister, Leon Gambetta.

    Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

  • Diego Gambetta and Stefan Herzog write, Friedrich von Hayek, in 1952, made a strong case for the peculiarity of the engineering mentality, which in his view is the result of an education which does not train them to understand individuals...

    EconLog: Political Economy Archives 2009

  • I got a rare opportunity to see the famous Vern Gambetta talk on the subject of speed.

    Lonnie Lowery, Ph.D. - Cutting-Edge Muscle Science William Harryman 2009

  • A staunch republican and someone who spoke out against the power of the church in French life, Gambetta was of Italian-French parentage.

    Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

  • In the absence of a dissenting impression, Gladstone and Granville agreed that the most important principle was to maintain amiable relations with France, the other Dual Controller, and its new premier, Leon Gambetta.12

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

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