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  • Filhos e outros parentes, deputados, magistrados e militares, amigos e familiares da deputada reuniram-se no Alto das Cruzes para prestar-lhe a última homenagem, num clima de consternação.

    Global Voices in English » Angola: The assassination of a ruling party MP 2009

  • As consequências da expulsão de 13 ONGs do Sudão sobre os parentes destes homens foi um dos temas que mais preocupou a assembleia.

    In Sudan, Surviving Without the Help of NGOs 2009

  • Este vinho pode ser escolhido pela pessoa, parentes, ou qualquer entendido para conjugar a carácter da pessoa ao do vinho.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Red 2007

  • Este vinho pode ser escolhido pela pessoa, parentes, ou qualquer entendido para conjugar a carácter da pessoa ao do vinho.

    Vin Memoriam Red 2007

  • Quis oratores aut Philosophos tangit? quis historiam legit, illam rerum agendarum quasi animam? praecipitant parentes vota sua, &c. 'twas Lipsius 'complaint to his illiterate countrymen, it may be ours.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In the Latin the only official language for the Code of Canon Law, it does not use the construction “parentes debent” — “parents must” — which would be the strongest obligatory language in canonical usage.

    Important Homeschooling Info re the Rights of Parents to Educate their Children in the Faith Luxury Home 2007

  • Multiplicantur nunc in terris ut locustae non patriae parentes, sed pestes, pessimi homines, majore ex parta superciliosi, contentiosi, &c. licitum latrocinium exercent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Rather, it uses the subjunctive construction “parentes concredant” — “parents should entrust” — which carries a lighter shade of recommendation.

    Important Homeschooling Info re the Rights of Parents to Educate their Children in the Faith Luxury Home 2007

  • In some parts of Greece at this day, like those old Jews, they will not believe their wives are honest, nisi pannum menstruatum prima nocte videant: our countryman [6141] Sands, in his peregrination, saith it is severely observed in Zanzynthus, or Zante; and Leo Afer in his time at Fez, in Africa, non credunt virginem esse nisi videant sanguineam mappam; si non, ad parentes pudore rejicitur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [2033] Quid me litterulas stulti docuere parentes, what did our parents mean to make us scholars, to be as far to seek of preferment after twenty years 'study, as we were at first: why do we take such pains?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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