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  • A mí lo que me resulta particularmente digno de consideración son las implicaciones de todo esto para el crítico puntuador más influyente del mundo, el “Emperador del Vino” que hace y deshace las fortunas de bodegas a base de puntos.

    Tasting Bordeaux 2005 blind with Robert Parker | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • Para nosotros en cambio el problema es dramatico porque, ademas de los problemas de salud publica que representa su consumo, el narcotrafico financia a los terroristas que destruyen nuestra democracia y sus dineros distorsionan nuestra economia, creando inflacion e informalidad fiscal, y causando un enorme perjuicio moral, producto de las fortunas incalculables que se generan y que corrompen a todas las capas de la sociedad.

    Diane Tucker: Former Colombia Foreign Minister Argues For An Extension Of Tough U.S. Drug Plan And Free Trade, Supports McCain 2008

  • [2247] Id omne misellis Indis, they are ugly to behold, and though erst spruce, now rusty and squalid, because poor, [2248] immundas fortunas aquum est squalorem sequi, it is ordinarily so.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ganham fortunas, sugando o dinheiro dos contribuintes, o que se comprova pela prevalência de automóveis de luxo nos parques automóveis frente à escola.

    Inducação II Artur 2005

  • Maiestate: Et enim nos ei, qui vitam & fortunas nostras in suam potestatem & tutelam accepit, ei inquam, nomen quoque gentis nostræ innocenter contaminatum, curæ vt sit, supplices rogamus.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Maiestate: Et enim nos ei, qui vitam & fortunas nostras in suam potestatem & tutelam accepit, ei inquam, nomen quoque gentis nostr� innocenter contaminatum, cur� vt sit, supplices rogamus.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The whole is afterwards supported by a full period, as by a solid basis; -- "Depressam, caecam, jacentem domum, pluris quam te, et fortunas tuas aestimâsti."

    Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • Is, ubi primum opportunum fuit, Jugurtham anxium ac miserantem fortunas suas accedit; monet atque lacrimans obtestatur, uti aliquando sibi liberisque et genti Numidarum optime merenti provideat, omnibus proeliis sese victos, agrum vastatum, multos mortales captos, occisos, regni opes comminutas esse; satis saepe jam et virtutem militum et fortunam temptatam; caveat, ne illo [328] cunctante Numidae sibi consulant.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Adherbal, ubi intellegit omnes suas fortunas in extremo sitas, hostem infestum, auxilii spem nullam, penuria rerum necessariarum bellum trahi non posse, ex iis, qui una Cirtam profugerant, duos maxime impigros delegit; eos multa pollicendo ac miserando casum suum confirmat, uti per hostium munitiones noctu ad proximum mare, dein Romam pergerent.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • His absence from the centre of affairs, though it lasted only a year, was most distasteful to him; cf. _ad Att. _ v. 11, 1, 'Ne provincia nobis prorogetur, per fortunas! dum ades, quidquid provideri potest, provide: non dici potest quam flagrem desiderio urbis, quam vix harum rerum insulsitatem feram.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

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