foco

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The Equal Righters promptly relighted them with loco-foco or friction matches and continued the meeting.

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  • Later, according to Crowther, the triumph of the Sandinistas against the dictator Somoza was the only confirmation of the Cuban theory of guerrilla foco, which, nonetheless failed in Nicaragua because the US intervened to defeat the revolutionaries, and it continued to intervene throughout Latin America against all "fidelista-inspired revolutions." —  Political Affairs Magazine
  • El foco de la disputa en el campo de los conceptos (o sea, de las herramientas de análisis e interpretación de las realidades) es justo en la forma de un sistema político de base plural e igualitaria. —  Anarkismo.net
  • Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio, or di foco, ora sono di ghiaccio, ogni donna cangiar di colore, ogni donna mi fa palpitar. —  Vimeo / Recent Public Videos
  • Este lançamento teve como foco principal consertar erros (bugs), adicionar mais traduções, e preparar o terreno para futuros recursos de relatórios. —  Open Source Guy
  • Ayers, of course, had long held what the left once knew, broadly, as "maoist" politics - a view of the world that was opposed to Russian style bureaucratic communism from above, instead advocates of this approach supported sending revolutionary cadre to "swim among the masses like fish in the sea" or attempting to establish guerilla foco as romantically theorized by Regis Debray and carried out with disastrous results by Che Guevara. —  Seeing the Forest
 

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