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des outils performants en raison
Mais voilà, c'est que l'internet est devenu multiforme et exige de plus en plus des outils performants en raison de l'"enrichissement" des contenus (ou plutôt des contenants, car sur le fond, le contenu véritable, rien n'est enrichi sauf les entreprises qui les vendent).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

degree of pleasurable excitement raised
The same author ( ibid. , pp. 79, 94) argues that in the fights of two males for one female—with violent emotion on one side and interested curiosity on the other—the attitude of the former "might gradually come to be a display made entirely for the female, and of the latter a greater or less degree of pleasurable excitement raised by it, with a choice in accordance."
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis

dispose of property either real
According to Associate-Justice Washington, they already had: Protection of the government, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the right to acquire and possess property of every kind, and to pursue and obtain happiness and safety, subject to such restraints as the government may justly prescribe for the general welfare of the whole; the right of a citizen of one State to pass through or to reside in any other State for the purpose of trade, agriculture, professional pursuit, or otherwise; to claim the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus, to institute and maintain actions of any kind in the courts of the State; to take, hold, and dispose of property, either real or personal, and an exemption from higher taxes or impositions than are paid by the other citizens of the State.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

department of public education rose
During this same period the expenditures in this particular department of public education rose from 2,000,000 pesos to that of 10,000,000 pesos.
— from The Argentine Republic by Anonymous

de ortu progressu et ruina
[209] Historia de ortu, progressu et ruina hæreseon hujus sæculi (Col. 1614), lib.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

deities of polytheism each ruling
As a matter of fact, the Aztec gods, though bedizened with the attributes of mortal conjurors, and with the fur and feathers of totems, are, for the most part, the departmental deities of polytheism, each ruling over some province of nature or of human activity.
— from Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

deposits of partial extent resting
But changes like these in the Lym-Fiord, and those before mentioned as occurring at the mouths of great rivers, will only account for some cases of marine deposits of partial extent resting on fresh-water strata.
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir


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