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  • Geburtstag von Werner Fleischhauer (Stuttgart: Jan Thorbecke, 1964), 35 – 48; and Reiner Haussherr, Über die Christus-Johannes-Gruppen.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Other indices such as the FGT (Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke) or the Sen Index, which combine both dimensions of incidence and depth of poverty, are also widely used.

    Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Biodiversity Synthesis~ Key Questions on Biodiversity in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2008

  • An election law carried by Thorbecke actually restricted suffrage further, reduced from approximately 90,000 to 75,000 men.

    2. The Netherlands 2001

  • I led Maggie down the Thorbecke-plein, turned left, right and left again till we came out on the Amstel.

    Puppet on a Chain MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1969

  • Thorbecke, was returned to Parliament by the most Catholic town of

    Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough

  • Thorbecke saved Holland and the Royal House from another revolution, by imposing a Liberal constitution upon the reluctant King William II, the

    Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough

  • It consisted of five members, four of whom, Thorbecke, Luzac, Donker-Curtius and Kempenaer, were prominent liberals and the fifth a Catholic from North Brabant.

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • It was not on political grounds that the Thorbecke ministry was to be wrecked, but by their action in matters which aroused religious passions and prejudices.

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • His bill for the abolition of the cultivation-system and the conversion of the native cultivators into possessors of their farms was thrown out by a small majority, Thorbecke with a few liberals and some

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • Thorbecke, who accepted the office (January 31, 1862).

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

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