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  • Cases in which "borrowing" occurs he puts under the title cautela caution, and gives this caption the same prominence as subtractio.

    languagehat.com: MATHEMATICAL TERMS. 2004

  • Talvez... quando até Sarkozy pede cautela com a globalização, quando os candidatos à presidência americana falam abertamente das desigualdades sociais.

    Leituras Artur 2007

  • Note 140: Janus, 1915, pp. 451 — 52: "In primis quaecumque sit passio puerilis, nutrici diaetae cautela pro modo aegritudinis est iniungenda et adeo tenuis observanda, ac si nutrix aegritudinem infantuli pateretur, quia lac nutricum ex cibis contrariis generatur aegritudinem infantulis prius non existentem et inventam prius augmentat."

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Quanto à diplomacia europeia, esta opta pela cautela - embora apoie a vontade de independência kosovar, só a aceita num cenário de consenso entre todas as partes, coisa difícil de antever com os habituais vetos russos.

    Leituras Artur 2007

  • In hoc autem palatio sunt multi pauones de auro; et cùm aliquis Tartarus facit festum domino suo, tunc quando conuiuantes collidunt manus suas præ gaudio et læticia, pauones emittunt alas suas, et expandunt caudas, et videntur tripudiare; Et hoc credo factura arte Magica, vel aliqua cautela subterranea.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Celestine V was succeeded by Boniface VIII, and this Pope promptly demonstrated scant indulgence for Spirituals and Fraticelli in general: in the last years of the dying century he signed a bull, Firma cautela, in which with one stroke he condemned bizochi, vagabond mendicants who roamed about at the far edge of the Franciscan order, and the Spirituals themselves, who had left the life of the order and retired to a hermitage.

    The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980

  • Nos autem dicimus quod potest consolidari et iterum ad motum reddi habillis, cum hac cautela:

    Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

  • On this George _ex abundanti cautela_ knocked a nail out of the right boot that he had been wearing and changed boots with my father; but he thought it more plausible not to knock out exactly the same nail that was missing on my father's boot.

    Erewhon Revisited Samuel Butler 1868

  • PASCUAL: Y hasta mañana And till tomorrow, we'll stay awake juntos con doble cautela together we'll both make nos quedaremos en vela. a double guard for her sake.

    Don Juan Tenorio Jos�� Zorrilla 1855

  • Decide que le agradecemos y tenemos en servício el buen deseo que tiene de nos servir: _pero porqué nuestra, palabra y seguro real así se debe guardar á los infieles como á los Oristianos_, y faciéndose lo que él dice pareceria cautela y engaño armado sobre nuestro seguro para no le guardar, que en ninguna, manera se haga eso, ni otra cosa de que pueda parecer que se quebranta nuestro seguro.

    The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 William Hickling Prescott 1827

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