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  • A proper legal definition of piracy will incorporate its traditional elements which still hold true today -- hostis humani generi, universal jurisdiction -- but also incorporate new acts and motives beyond those of the rollicking 17th century buccaneer.

    D.R. Burgess: Somali Piracy: Send in the Marines...Then the Lawyers D.R. Burgess 2011

  • This was no idle threat, for piracy carries with it the definition hostis humani generi, enemies of the human race.

    D.R. Burgess: Somali Piracy: Send in the Marines...Then the Lawyers D.R. Burgess 2011

  • This was no idle threat, for piracy carries with it the definition hostis humani generi, enemies of the human race.

    D.R. Burgess: Somali Piracy: Send in the Marines...Then the Lawyers D.R. Burgess 2011

  • A proper legal definition of piracy will incorporate its traditional elements which still hold true today -- hostis humani generi, universal jurisdiction -- but also incorporate new acts and motives beyond those of the rollicking 17th century buccaneer.

    D.R. Burgess: Somali Piracy: Send in the Marines...Then the Lawyers D.R. Burgess 2011

  • Alela Diane Menig è una cantautrice americana generalmente associata ai generi musicali psych folk e New Weird America.

    No Fat Clips!!! : Alela Diane – White As Diamonds 2009

  • Bene+dic, Domine, creaturam istam cerevisae, quam ex adipe frumenti producere dignatus es: ut sit remedium salutare humano generi: et praesta per invocationem nominis tui sancti, ut, quicumque ex ea biberint, sanitatem corporis, et animae tutelam percipiant.

    dustbury.com » The blessing of the beer 2008

  • Another thing which wasn't really a low, but the only coverage they got in the school paper was a PSS (photo-short-story) of my silly Clay-O-Rama photo entitled "generi-doh". which was kind of strange - I had some great photos of the 8-foot Axis and Allies table they had set up which would've been great to use.

    elfpvke Diary Entry elfpvke 2008

  • If this were the worst of this passion, it were more tolerable, [1738] but it ruins and subverts whole towns, [1739] cities, families, and kingdoms; Nulla pestis humano generi pluris stetit, saith Seneca, de

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Matrimonium humano generi immortalitatem tribuit, saith Nevisanus, matrimony makes us immortal, and according to [5950] Tacitus, 'tis firmissimum imperii munimentum, the sole and chief prop of an empire.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Optimum bene nasci, maxima para felicitatis nostrae bene nasci; quamobrem praeclere humano generi consultam videretur, si solis parentis bene habiti et sani, liberis operam darent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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