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  • For one thing, Russian, like most European languages, has two words for "the Western concept of law": one for 'a law' a binding rule of society, enforced by a controlling authority, in this case zakon, and one for law as the whole body of such rules and that body as an object of study, in this case pravo, which is... let's see... one more word than English itself has, meaning Russia must be twice as legal a culture as any English-speaking one.

    languagehat.com: RUSSIANS AS ESKIMOS. 2004

  • The string which served as reins would have had no influence on the spirited beasts, but the words “na pravo,” to the right, “na levo,” to the left, pronounced in a guttural tone, were more effectual than either bridle or snaffle.

    Michael Strogoff 2003

  • Rude pravo followed the official line and portrayed the police intervention as justified and appropriate.

    Making the History of 1989 1989

  • One such instance appears in this November 20 cable from the American Embassy in Prague, which compared local coverage of the November 17 demonstration across three newspapers: Rude pravo, the Communist Party's central mouthpiece; Svobodne slovo, run by the Czechoslovak Social Democrats an officially-sanctioned non-communist party; and Mlada fronta, the organ of the Union of Socialist Youth.

    Making the History of 1989 1989

  • "Jesam li ja onda imao pravo, jesi li sada zadovoljan?" he said.

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • The string which served as reins would have had no influence on the spirited beasts, but the words "na pravo," to the right, "na levo," to the left, pronounced in a guttural tone, were more effectual than either bridle or snaffle.

    Michael Strogoff : or the Courier of the Czar 1911

  • The string which served as reins would have had no influence on the spirited beasts, but the words "na pravo," to the right, "na levo," to the left, pronounced in a guttural tone, were more effectual than either bridle or snaffle.

    Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar Jules Verne 1866

  • Karadzic defends 'holy' cause in war crimes trial photo: Creative Commons/Stefan st-fl amin kru feat. uselizavenje - ovo je beograd (srpski rep/serbian rap) goldie - pravo sa coska (srpski rep/serbian rap)

    WN.com - Articles related to Facebook Feeling More Privacy Pain in Europe 2010

  • Ionako su ljudi samo po sebi mnogo radoznali i vecina bi platila da pogleda taj bolesni film, jer postoji nesto u njima neopisivo sto ih privlaci da vide sta ljudski um moze da napravi kada bi pokazao pravo lice coveka u obliku divlje zivotinje.

    Film School Rejects - Latest Comments Pazi sta radis 2010

  • Sent out the message how great the wolves are and the pups are getting pravo and getting sick.

    billingsgazette.com 2009

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