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  • As for our parentage, and line of auncetours, long before vs, and noble actes of theirs: as we our selues haue not doen the like, how can we call, and title their actes to be ours.

    A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

  • Ce laxisme n'est autre qu'une façon d'encourager ces personnes à commetre des actes haineux.

    Global Voices in English » Morocco: Rage Against the Sandwich Continues 2009

  • I really dislike him for so many reasons and not just health-care … like when Lieberman actes; ole a royal d! ck a calls for military strikes against Iran.

    Think Progress » Lieberman: ‘It’s Possible’ I Could Be ‘A Good Old-Fashioned New England Moderate Republican’ 2010

  • (“And the country roaring like a bull in its wounds, coughing like a sick lung in the smog, turning over in sleep at the sound of motorcycles, shivering at its need for new phalanxes of order …”) However — and this has to be set against his somewhat promiscuous attitude toward violence and obscenity and les actes gratuits — he did shamefacedly admit that there was a bourgeois side to these matters, too:

    Master of Conventions 2008

  • (“And the country roaring like a bull in its wounds, coughing like a sick lung in the smog, turning over in sleep at the sound of motorcycles, shivering at its need for new phalanxes of order …”) However — and this has to be set against his somewhat promiscuous attitude toward violence and obscenity and les actes gratuits — he did shamefacedly admit that there was a bourgeois side to these matters, too:

    Master of Conventions 2008

  • Elle se rapporte à des mots ou à des actes qui mettent une personne en colère : par exemple, When he was reminded of his criminal record, it was like a red rag to a bull.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Rene Meertens 2010

  • (“And the country roaring like a bull in its wounds, coughing like a sick lung in the smog, turning over in sleep at the sound of motorcycles, shivering at its need for new phalanxes of order …”) However — and this has to be set against his somewhat promiscuous attitude toward violence and obscenity and les actes gratuits — he did shamefacedly admit that there was a bourgeois side to these matters, too:

    Master of Conventions 2008

  • Un agent provocateur est une personne agissant secrètement pour le compte d'un groupe mais apparaissant comme le membre d'un autre pour perturber son activité incitant délibérément, par ses propos et son comportement, à commettre des actes sanctionnés par la loi ou par l'opinion publique Wikipedia.

    agent provocateur, provoquer, provocant/e Rene Meertens 2010

  • La torture: Le corps et la parole: les actes du IIIe Colloque interuniversitaire, Fribourg 1985 (Collection "Interdisciplinaire") (French Edition)

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Torture Source Code by Congress 2009

  • - Les membres du gouvernement sont pénalement responsables des actes accomplis dans l'exercice de leurs fonctions et qualifiés crimes ou délits au moment où ils ont été commis.

    Balkinization 2007

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