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expanding rapidly due in part
international: country code - 592; tropospheric scatter to Trinidad; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) Haiti general assessment: telecommunications infrastructure is among the least developed in Latin America and the Caribbean; domestic facilities barely adequate; international facilities slightly better; mobile-cellular telephone services are expanding rapidly due, in part, to the introduction of low-cost GSM phones in 2006 domestic: coaxial cable and microwave radio relay trunk service international: country code - 509; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

every readjustment definite in purpose
They know their own business, are quick and resourceful at every readjustment, definite in purpose, and self-reliant in action.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

et receu des injustices plus
, says he, “Comme il faisoit une particuliere profession de la poesie , c’est en cette qualité qu’il a de plus severes censeurs, et receu des injustices plus signalées.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 1 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

emancipation represented Downpatrick in Parliament
Croker, John Wilson , a politician and man of letters, born in Galway, though of English descent; bred for the bar; wrote in advocacy of Catholic emancipation; represented Downpatrick in Parliament; was in 1809 appointed Secretary to the Admiralty, a post he held for 20 years; was one of the founders of the Quarterly Review , to which, it is said, he contributed 200 articles; edited Boswell's "Life of Johnson" with Notes; was an obstinate Tory, satirised by Disraeli and severely handled by Macaulay; founded the Athenæum Club (1780-1857).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

exceedingly rare damsel is passing
Brooding over the various ills she hath undergone, that exceedingly rare damsel is passing her days.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume Two. Āranya, Kishkindhā, and Sundara Kāndam by Valmiki

every readjustment definite in purpose
They know their own business, are quick and resourceful at every readjustment, definite in purpose and self-reliant in action.
— from Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller

English races devotes itself principally
The common brown garden-ant, one of the darkest skinned among our English races, 'devotes itself principally to aphides which frequent twigs and leaves'; especially, so far as I have myself observed, the bright green aphis of the rose, and the closely allied little black aphis of the broad bean.
— from Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen

et recte dicitur in petitione
“ Nullo igitur modo vota aut preces sunt irritæ aut infrugiferæ et recte dicitur, in petitione rerum corporalium aliquando Deum exaudire nos, non ad voluntatem nostram, sed ad salutem. ”— Oratio de Precatione, in Declamat.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

every religious description in protecting
We further declare that we are exclusively a Protestant Association; yet, detesting as we do, any intolerant spirit, we solemnly pledge ourselves to each other, that we will not persecute, injure, or upbraid any person on account of his religious opinions, PROVIDED THE SAME BE NOT HOSTILE TO THE STATE ; but that we will, on the contrary, be aiding and assisting' to every loyal subject, of every religious description, in protecting him from violence and oppression.
— from Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton


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