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  • [946] What is y 'sodomiticall acte which is to be punished with death?

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

  • When they are complete, a date is set to sign the acte authentique, the final sales agreement, which must be witnessed by the notaire.

    A Buyer's Guide to France Tara Loader Wilkinson 2010

  • Yet Atlan views this original and moving creation not as a commemoration but rather as “un acte, à la fois personnel et collectif, de résistance” (an act of resistance at once personal and collective).

    Liliane Atlan. 2009

  • Les articles du Code de la presse invoqués interdisent, sauf autorisation du juge, la publication de tout acte de procédure pénale et sanctionnent “celui qui, à la suite des troubles, a accepté de se substituer aux autorités régulièrement constituées”, la punition pouvant aller dans ce cas jusqu'à l'emprisonnement à vie.

    Tunisia Detains Another Journalist, as Censorship Measures Grow 2009

  • If you have studied a foreign language, you know that our understandings of the world come with the language we speak, which is why English is full of words derived from other sources which better explain certain concepts such as raison d'etre or entr 'acte.

    Nur Englisch David 2007

  • Les articles du Code de la presse invoqués interdisent, sauf autorisation du juge, la publication de tout acte de procédure pénale et sanctionnent “celui qui, à la suite des troubles, a accepté de se substituer aux autorités régulièrement constituées”, la punition pouvant aller dans ce cas jusqu'à l'emprisonnement à vie.

    Tunisia Detains Another Journalist, as Censorship Measures Grow 2009

  • Yes, I am arguing that our pet cats give us the chance to practice an acte gratuit of affection, rather than of aggression, and thereby to prove our freedom while stroking their fur.

    existentialolcaturday : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • It's just the entr 'acte, a touch of grand guignol spectacle provided to keep the audience's attention.

    December 2006 2006

  • Ballieryna Alexaindrah Ibanohnova pawses inna middel ov hers pieruette inna begynnyng ov teh ballets furst acte I;

    I will kill u. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • In July 1626, the Council of Formosa, the ruling body of Taiwan, passed a new law: In order to distinguish the pirates from the traders and workers, we have resolved ... that all Chinese who live or trade inland among the natives must appear here ... and obtain a license [een acte van lisentie] permitting them to reside in the land.

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

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