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Examples

  • The officials say Capsa is used to generate revenue for the FMLN's political campaigns.

    Chávez Ally May Have 2008

  • In El Salvador, intelligence officials say, Mr. Merino oversees Capsa, a company that operates the country's second-largest landfill and has garbage-removal contracts with 52 municipalities.

    Chávez Ally May Have 2008

  • The younger Merino said his brother isn't involved with Capsa and the business does not fund the FMLN.

    Chávez Ally May Have 2008

  • Coming, then, to my story, I must tell you that in Capsa, a city of Barbary, there dwelt aforetime a very rich man, who had among several children a little daughter, fair and of a docile temper, whose name was Alibech.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Capsa-sparrow, but he is quite wrong in making them as large as the common house-sparrow.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • Southern Africa (Capsa) in Cape Town, he said the level of maintenance was inadequate to counter deterioration in the country's 60000km surfaced road network.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • So in spite of the fact that Capsa had offered him no resistance, he gave his soldiers permission to loot it, rape it, and burn it; every adult, male and female, was put to the sword.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • After the surrender of Vaga, the King made sure he kept no money or treasure in any town likely to be along the line of a Roman route march; everything was transferred to places like Zama and Capsa, remote, difficult to infiltrate, built as citadels atop unscalable peaks — and surrounded by the fanatically loyal Gaetuli.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • "You should have been at Capsa, only the place surrendered," said Marius, and gave his quaestor a searching glance.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • Thus when Marius appeared with his army before Capsa, the King thought him still a hundred miles away; no one had reported to Jugurtha that the Romans had stocked up on water and grain in order to cross the arid wastelands between the Bagradas River and Capsa.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

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