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por el recurso a los servicios
Estas últimas están relativamente bien dotadas en apoyo jurídico, ya sea por el recurso a los servicios internos de litigios, ya sea por la contratación de compañías especializadas.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Public entirely rejected all lenitives soporifics
That the said James Fraser, through his whole practice on the said Dame Public, entirely rejected all lenitives, soporifics, palliatives, &c. though approved of by the regular and graduate physicians, as Dr. Pelham, Dr. Fox, Dr. Pitt; and that he prescribed nothing but chemical salts and stimulating medicines, in which regimen none but quacks and empirics who had never taken their degrees will agree with him.
— from Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 1 (of 2) by John Hill Burton

put everything ready and left strict
I put everything ready, and left strict injunctions with “Uriah” that he was to touch nothing , and so I left.
— from Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East by A. Hume-Griffith


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