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• A différend is a 'case of conflict between (at least) two parties that cannot be equitably resolved for lack of a rule of judgement applicable to both arguments', and for Lyotard justice is described as the task of responding to différends, points at which the framework of political representation performs a victimisation accompanied by the loss of the means to prove the damage. —  Press Office : Press Releases
• My blasphemies are very many--rend them like a garment!... —  Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
• From her limbs Suspicious they the garments rend, and view Her body naked, and her fault is plain To her, confus'd, whose trembling hands essay'd Her shame to hide, Diana spoke;--“Hence fly Far hence, nor more these sacred streams pollute And drove her instant from her spotless train Long time the mighty thunderer's queen had known Calistho's state; but curb'd her furious ire Till ripe occasion suited: longer now Delay were needless; now the nymph produc'd Arcas; whom Juno more enrag'd beheld With savage mind, and furious look she ey'd The boy, and spoke;--“Adulteress! —  The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I ; II
• Lifted high The locks to rend, the fingers might be seen Stiffen'd, and rigid with the hair become In posture whatsoever caught, each nymph In that same posture stands. —  The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I ; II
• Loud cheers The welkin rend, and, bursting through the line Forth runs Acestes, and his friend uprears, Pitying his fallen worth and fellowship of years LXII. —  The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor

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