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preserved a reticence of unusual severity
Turner was uncommunicative upon most subjects; but in regard to his mother and her family he preserved a reticence of unusual severity.
— from Art in England: Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

Progress and Renewal or UPR Siradiou
[Alpha CONDE]; Union for Progress and Renewal or UPR [Siradiou DIALLO]; Union for Progress of Guinea or UPG [Jean-Marie DORE, secretary-general]; Union of Republican Forces or UFR [Sidya TOURE] Political pressure groups and leaders: NA International organization participation: ACCT, ACP, AfDB, ECA, ECOWAS, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt (signatory), ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO (correspondent), ITU, MINURSO, MONUC, NAM, OAU, OIC, OPCW, UN, UN Security Council (temporary), UNAMSIL, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Rafiou Alpha Oumar BARRY FAX:
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Progress and Renewal or UPR Siradiou
[Alpha CONDE]; Union for Progress and Renewal or UPR [Siradiou DIALLO]; Union for Progress of Guinea or UPG [Jean-Marie DORE, secretary-general]; Union of Republican Forces or UFR [Sidya TOURE] Guinea-Bissau African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde or PAIGC
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

powers and right of universal seignorial
His memory is, and must ever be, dear to his subjects, for the free constitutions which he voluntarily granted to them in 1840 and in 1852; for his support of religion and patronage of education; for his conferring upon them, and upon foreigners, the right to hold lands in fee simple, and for his willing abandonment of all the arbitrary powers and right of universal seignorial land-lordship, which he had inherited.
— from Speeches of His Majesty Kamehameha IV. To the Hawaiian Legislature by King of the Hawaiian Islands Kamehameha IV

perfection a realm of unchangeable specific
Those qualities in which the universal will gives itself material manifestation form a series with grades of increasing perfection, a realm of unchangeable specific forms or eternal Ideas, which (with a real value difficult to determine) stand midway between the one primal will and the numberless individual beings.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg


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