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specific performance Effektivität effectiveness
Ecke corner Ecke oben links left upper corner Ecke oben recht right upper corner Ecke unten links bottom left corner Ecke unten rechts bottom right corner eckige Klammern square brackets Eckzins base lending rate Eckzins base rate Edelmetall precious metal Edelmetallabteilung bullion department Effektenabteilung securities department Effektenbörse stock exchange Effektenbuchhaltung securities accounting Effektendifferenzgeschäft margin business Effektenemission capital issue Effektenhändler securities broker Effektenhändler an der Börse jobber Effektenlombard advance against securities Effektenmarkt stock market Effektenverwaltung investment management Effektifbestand actual balance effektive Kaufkraft; reale Kaufkraft real purchase power effektive Vertragserfüllung specific performance Effektivität effectiveness Effizienz der Arbeit labour efficiency ehe sie zahlen; vor der Bezahlung before parting with their money ehe
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

sería pues explotar ese
—Buen negocio sería, pues, explotar ese cultivo en la isla dominicana; pero a estar a lo que Ud. dice, [12] será a la fecha
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

sacred prophetic evangelical evangelistic
Adj. scriptural, biblical, sacred, prophetic; evangelical, evangelistic; apostolic, apostolical[obs3]; inspired, theopneustic[obs3], theophneusted[obs3], apocalyptic, ecclesiastical, canonical, textuary[obs3]. #986.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

species pity envy emulation
[300] And grief they define to be an irrational contraction of the mind, and it is divided into the following species, pity, envy, emulation, jealousy, pain, perturbation, sorrow, anguish, confusion.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

sait pas encore exactement
il ne sait pas encore exactement ce qu'il cherche; - il visualise les informations en trois dimensions partout dans son bureau, donc dans un espace d'environ 10 m2 de surface et 2 m de haut, ce qui est infiniment plus vaste que les 21 pouces maximum sans épaisseur de son écran; - ça ne tombe jamais en panne!
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

se para en el
(Vase Brígida, y un poco antes de concluir esta escena sale Ciutti, que se para en el fondo, esperando) (Brigida leaves.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

sicut passer erepta est
Anima nostra sicut passer erepta est de laqueo venantium; when we fell in the trap.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

se puede entrar en
no conozcas tu falta—indicó la señora con aparente jovialidad.—Es natural; acostumbrado a entrar con la mayor desenvoltura en los ateneos, clubs, academias y congresos, crees que de la misma manera se puede entrar en un templo donde está la Divina Majestad.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

same prayer every evening
For years she had prayed the same prayer every evening: "Oh God!
— from 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance by Ossip Schubin

sacerdotes praestolantes eos exceperunt
Hinc se in fanum contulerunt, in limine cuius sacerdotes praestolantes eos exceperunt.
— from The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

scalam proprio erectam et
Illuc conscendent plurimi, nobis ducibus, Per scalam proprio erectam et firmam in pectore, Quam Deus, et vegeti sors dabit ingeni; Non manes, pluma, ignis, ventus, nubes, spiritus, Divinantum phantasmata.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

some private ejaculations espying
At the very last moment, in the midst of some private ejaculations, espying a gentlewoman at a window nigh, he kissed his hand, saying, "Your servant, mistress," and so he was "turned off," as Pepys says of him, "a comely-looking man he was, and kept his countenance to the last.
— from Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 1 From the twelfth to the eighteenth century by Arthur Griffiths

seamen proposed early enough
In a similar manner, another famous eye-witness, John Evelyn, notes in his Diary that "some stout [Pg 27] seamen proposed, early enough to have saved nearly the whole city," the destruction of houses to make a wide gap; "but this some tenacious and avaricious men, aldermen, etc., would not permit, because their houses must have been of the first."
— from Firemen and Their Exploits With some account of the rise and development of fire-brigades, of various appliances for saving life at fires and extinguishing the flames. by F. M. (Frederic Morell) Holmes

Stewart Philosophical Essays Edin
[293] Thus, Dugald Stewart ( Philosophical Essays , Edin. 1810, p. 33) tells us of ‘the simple idea of personal identity.’
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

system proved exceptionally effective
[4] This ingenious system proved exceptionally effective in Brazil.
— from England and Germany by Emile Joseph Dillon


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