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He said the factory farms should be considered "breeding grounds" (focos rojos - which might also translate as "hot spots") of potential infection for the cities of Veracruz, Boca del Río, Coatzacoalcos, Córdoba, Orizaba, Xalapa and Perote.
David Kirby: Mexican Lawmaker: Factory Farms Are "Breeding Grounds" of Swine Flu Pandemic 2009
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In the wake of one of her trips to New York in the late 1830s, Whig leader Philip Hone wrote in his diary that finally, Fanny Wright's Gone … the apostle of infidelity, the idol of the Loco-focos, and the oracle of sub-treasury politicians.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Jam quoque cum fiunt antiquae sacra Vacunae, ante Vacunales stantque sedentque focos.
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For years now, U.S. war planners have believed that guerrilla warfare is the future -- not against Guevarist focos in the countryside of some recalcitrant, possibly-oil-rich land, but in growing urban "jungles" in the vast slum cities that increasingly dot the planet.
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Scimus & tenemus de impiorum animabus, non in montanos focos & cineres, vel glaciem nostris oculis expositam, deflectere, sed in extremas mox abripi tenebras, vbi est fletus
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Septentrionem versus nauigando consumpsissent ad insulam quandam peruenisse: ibique iacta anchora descensum in Insulam fecisse, focos accendisse: (Nam verisimile est nautas in ipso mari glaciali frigore non parum esse vexatos) et commeatum naualem ad reliquum iter expediuisse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Scimus & tenemus de impiorum animabus, non in montanos focos & cineres, vel glaciem nostris oculis expositam, deflectere, sed in extremas mox abripi tenebras, vbi est fletus
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Aa intercept� qu� et syluis et cespitibus consueto gentis ad focos alendos fomite fer� destituuntur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Septentrionem versus nauigando consumpsissent ad insulam quandam peruenisse: ibique iacta anchora descensum in Insulam fecisse, focos accendisse: (Nam verisimile est nautas in ipso mari glaciali frigore non parum esse vexatos) et commeatum naualem ad reliquum iter expediuisse.
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Aa interceptæ; quæ et syluis et cespitibus consueto gentis ad focos alendos fomite ferè destituuntur.
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