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Absatzgebiet narrow sales area recht
Ding zu vernichten right of destroying a thing recht kleines Absatzgebiet narrow sales area recht und billig equitable recht und billig just and equitable Recht zur Stornierung right of cancellation rechte Hand; Assistent right hand rechtfertigen; begründen justify rechtfertigt justified Rechtfertigung justification rechtlich geschützt legally protected rechtliche Auswirkungen legal effect rechtliche Formalität legal formality rechtmäßiger Besitz legal ownership rechtmäßiger Eigentümer legal owner rechtmäßiger Eigentümer rightful owner rechtmäßiger Inhaber holder in due course rechtmäßiges Eigentum rightful ownership Rechtsabteilung legal department Rechtsanspruch legal claim Rechtsanspruch legal title Rechtsanspruch legitimate claim Rechtsanspruch; title Rechtsanwaltsgehilfe articled clerk Rechtsanwaltskammer bar association Rechtsanwaltskanzlei lawyer's office Rechtsbeistand legal adviser Rechtsbeistand legal assistance Rechtsberater legal adviser Rechtsberatung legal advice Rechtserwerb acquisition of title Rechtsgrundlage legal basis Rechtsgrundsatz rule of law Rechtshilfe legal aid Rechtshilfe legal assistance Rechtslage legal position Rechtsmittel legal means Rechtsmittel legal remedy Rechtsmittel remedy Rechtssprache; Rechtsterminologie legal terminology Rechtssprechung jurisdiction Rechtssystem legal system rechtsverbindlich legally binding Rechtsvorbehalt legal reservation rechtswidrig unlawful rechtswidrig handeln act illegally rechtswidrig handeln act unlawfully rechtswidrig handeln to act illegally rechtswirksam effective in law Rechtswirksamkeit eines Dokuments legel effect of a document rechtzeitig in due time rechtzeitig in time rechtzeitig on time rechtzeitig bekannt geben give due notice Redaktion editorial office Redaktion; Belegschaft der Redaktion editorial staff Redefreiheit freedom of speech Rediskont rediscount rediskontieren to rediscount rediskontieren; Rediskont rediscount redlicher Erwerber purchaser without notice reduzieren reduce reduzieren; herabsetzen reduce reduzierter Preis reduced price reduziertes Einkommen reduced income Reduzierung cutback Reduzierung reduction Referenz; Bezugnahme reference reformieren;
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

a narrow street and re
Again he crossed the wide thoroughfare, walked along a narrow street, and re-entered hastily his own departmental buildings.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

are now saying about rhetoric
And do even you, Socrates, seriously believe what you are now saying about rhetoric?
— from Gorgias by Plato

am not splenetive and rash
I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat; For, though I am not splenetive and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous, Which let thy wisdom fear: Hold off thy hand!
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

am not splenative and rash
For though I am not splenative and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous, Which let thy wiseness fear.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

and nothing says Agathias remained
The cities of Italy resounded with the noise of drinking and dancing; the spoils of victory were wasted in sensual pleasures; and nothing (says Agathias) remained unless to exchange their shields and helmets for the soft lute and the capacious hogshead.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

are nevertheless supported and remain
The earthy and humid parts of you, though they naturally tend downwards, are nevertheless supported and remain where they are, although not in their natural situation.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

A natural shame and regret
A natural shame and regret for his weakness and indecision prevented Augustus from confiding to me at once what a more intimate and unreserved communion afterward induced him to reveal.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

and necessary satisfaction and revenge
“The offended party there, they say, marches off to his insulter and says to him, ‘You insulted me, so I have come to rip myself open before your eyes;’ and with these words he does actually rip his stomach open before his enemy, and considers, doubtless, that he is having all possible and necessary satisfaction and revenge.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

are now summoned and requested
The two representatives are now summoned, and requested to take their places, one in each group, when a race begins as to which group shall first find out what object of thought has been fixed upon.
— from Cassell's Book of In-door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun by Various

a negro servant and resided
One, however, is offered: Aunt Lunky was a negro servant and resided in Jacksonville, Illinois.
— from Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills by Virgil M. (Virgil McClure) Harris

And never see a robin
Climb clean above the roof and look from the steeple, And never see a robin, nor a beech or ellum tree!
— from Afterwhiles by James Whitcomb Riley

a neat speech and rounding
Percival was specially referred to, his skill in piloting the ship in and out again being dwelt upon in highly commendatory terms; and then—the skipper being a rare hand at turning out a neat speech and rounding it off with a compliment—the men were told that, having behaved so exceptionally well, their officers would now have no hesitation about engaging in any enterprise, however hazardous or hopeless it might appear, confident that the men they led would support them as long as they had strength to stand.
— from Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood

are not scattered at random
I take it that all will admit there is definite Government of this universe—that its pleasures and pains are not scattered at random, but are distributed in accordance with orderly and fixed laws, and that it is only in accordance with all we know of the rest of the world, that there should be an agreement between one portion of the sensitive creation and another in these matters.
— from Man's Place in Nature, and Other Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

and neglect suggests a reply
Love, willing to avenge the victim of his ingratitude and neglect, suggests a reply which had nearly deprived him of life.
— from Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of France, Wife of Henri IV; of Madame de Pompadour of the Court of Louis XV; and of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, Wife of Henri II by Mme. Du Hausset

and now she appeared rather
In her weak and weary state of health, she had at first appeared touched and grateful for the unceasing kindness and consideration heaped upon her, but that mood had passed apparently for ever, and now she appeared rather to chafe under obligations which Teen felt also, though in a different way, love having made them sweet.
— from The Guinea Stamp: A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Annie S. Swan

a neutral state as regards
The lax arm, being in a neutral state as regards motion, can be contracted 97 in any desired direction without loss of force or of time, whereas a taut muscle cannot further effect motion of the arm without relaxation of its antagonistic muscles, which takes time.
— from Technic and Practice of Chiropractic by Joy Maxwell Loban


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