Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of north-central Spain south-southeast of Bilbao. Probably founded by the Visigoths in the sixth century AD, it is a manufacturing and processing center.
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- proper noun A city in the province of
Álava ,Basque Country , Spain. It is the capital of theBasque Country
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Examples
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Olga Karmansky won the individual title and the team of Karmansky, Aline Bakchajian, Brenann Stacker and Lisa Wang took the team title at the Pan American championships in Vitoria, Brazil.
USATODAY.com - Record gives Hedrick third Athlete of the Week honor 2005
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"Vitoria" -- and with it and a very few of the crew who aided him, arrived, with God's help, at Sevilla.
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I have however found out that I will be living in a city called Vitoria for my 6 month work placement.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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De Indis may be legitimately classified as a protocolonialist text in at least two senses: (i) the discursive, the Text implicitly resting upon the supplement of the expropriating logic of other more explicitly colonialist texts such as Vitoria's De Indis; (ii) the historical, the Text positioned within the contours of the equally heterogenous logic of the early Capitalist World-Economy.
Wilson on Grotius's De Indis Dan Ernst 2008
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De Indis may be legitimately classified as a protocolonialist text in at least two senses: (i) the discursive, the Text implicitly resting upon the supplement of the expropriating logic of other more explicitly colonialist texts such as Vitoria's De Indis; (ii) the historical, the Text positioned within the contours of the equally heterogenous logic of the early Capitalist World-Economy.
Archive 2008-11-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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In the Basque Provinces, the national game of _pelota_, a species of tennis, played without rackets, is still kept up, and is jealously cultivated in the larger towns, such as Vitoria, San Sebastian, and Bilbao.
Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin
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At 50, Mr. Marsalis's overriding tendency is to go beyond his Ellington foundation, primarily by means of world rhythms outside the parade beats and hand claps from his native New Orleans, like the 6/8 patterns behind "Tree of Freedom" from his Iberia-inspired "Vitoria Suite".
The Jazz Scene: Whirling Through a Wynton Wonderland Will Friedwald 2011
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In hot pursuit, the "Iron Duke" caught up with them just short of the Pyrenees, and handed the French, at Vitoria, a decisive defeat.
The Compassionate Scoundrel Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011
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WOW you must have gone threw the same military training as our cult troll friend fake col buffalo chips, as you seem to have a hard time recognizing a tank over a crown Vitoria car.
Think Progress » Mining lobbyist: ‘The president has parked his tanks on our front lawn.’ 2010
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I spent a summer in the mountains up there in Izara village near Vitoria.
Eta ceasefire: Making 'permanent' permanent | Editorial 2011
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