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zu Eulenburg Foreign
Through that remarkable friend and Christian, the Reverend William H. Hechler, he met the Grand Duke of Baden; he made the rounds of German statesmen, Count zu Eulenburg, Foreign Minister, Von Buelow and Reichschancellor Hohenlohe; then he met the favorites who encircled Sultan Abdul Hamid and the Sultan himself.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

zeal earned from
A committee was appointed for the execution of this plan, and as things soon became pretty warm, Lowe turned it into a regular revolutionary tribunal, over which, as the great day of triumph approached, he presided day and night without resting, and by his furious zeal earned from me the nickname of 'Robespierre.'
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Zosimum Ejusque Fidem
* Note: Heyne in his Disquisitio in Zosimum Ejusque Fidem.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Zelee exactly for
It did not follow the routes of the Astrolabe and the Zelee exactly, for they proved fatal to Dumont d'Urville.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Zum ewigen Frieden
[These views are set forth by Kant more fully in the essay Zum ewigen Frieden (1795).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Zirca ella fin
la conduceſſemo ſop a lo tribunalle facendola ſedere ſoura vno coſſino et lalt e Zirca ella fin q e L prete Sapara li moſtray vno
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Zametov entrance free
“You must have a jolly life, Mr. Zametov; entrance free to the most agreeable places.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Zeugitana extended from
Zeugitana extended from the river Tusca to Horrea-Cælia, and Byzacium from this last place to Thenæ.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

zealot enthusiast fanatic
— N. obstinateness &c. adj.; obstinacy, tenacity; cussedness [U. S.]; perseverance &c. 604a; immovability; old school; inflexibility &c. (hardness) 323; obduracy, obduration[obs3]; dogged resolution; resolution &c. 604; ruling passion; blind side. self-will, contumacy, perversity; pervicacy|, pervicacity[obs3]; indocility[obs3]. bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism; opiniatry|, opiniativeness; fixed idea &c. (prejudgment) 481; fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania; opinionatedness opinionativeness[obs3]. mule; opinionist|, opinionatist[obs3], opiniator|, opinator|; stickler, dogmatist; bigot; zealot, enthusiast, fanatic.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

zone exclusive fishing
Maritime claims This entry includes the following claims: contiguous zone, continental shelf, exclusive economic zone, exclusive fishing zone, extended fishing zone, none (usually for a landlocked country), other (unique maritime claims like Libya's Gulf of Sidra Closing Line or North Korea's Military Boundary Line), and territorial sea.
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Zephirus et Flora
Once more, this is from Le Roman de la Rose, ll. 8449-51:— 'Zephirus et Flora, sa fame, Qui des flors est déesse et dame, Cil dui font les floretes nestre.'
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer

zealous exertions for
I am much flattered by the communication your lordship has the goodness to make of having nominated me for the command of a squadron to be employed on a very particular service; and I beg your lordship will be assured of my most zealous exertions for the promotion of every part of it.
— from Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Ross, John, Sir

Zara exclaimed fiercely
Zara exclaimed fiercely, hotly; she neither stammering, nor appearing to be put to shame.
— from A Bitter Heritage: A Modern Story of Love and Adventure by John Bloundelle-Burton

zur Einladung für
(4) "Rede zur Einladung für Rabbinische Studien," written in Hebrew and German, inserted in "Johann David Köhler's Program," Altorf, 1785.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

zukünftige Entwicklung future
Zugang beschränken restrict entry Zugang zu höherer Bildung access to higher education Zugang zum Erwerbsleben access to the labor force Zugang zum Erwerbsleben access to working life Zugang zur Beschäftigung access to employment Zugang, Eintritt access Zugang, Eintritt accession Zugang, Eintritt entrance Zugang, Eintritt entry Zugang, Eintritt, Zustrom inflow Zugang, Zutritt, Zustrom influx Zugangsbedingungen conditions for access Zugangsbedingungen entry standards Zugangsbedingungen, Zugangsvoraussetzungen conditions for entrance Zugangsbedingungen, Zugangsvoraussetzungen conditions for entry Zugangsbedingungen, Zugangsvoraussetzungen entrance requirements Zugangsbedingungen, Zugangsvoraussetzungen entry requirements Zugangsbeschränkung entry restriction Zugangsbeschränkung limitation on access Zugangsbeschränkung limitation on entrance Zugangsbeschränkung limitation on entry Zugangsbeschränkung restricted access Zugangsbeschränkung restricted entrance Zugangsbeschränkung restricted entry Zugangsbeschränkung, Zulassungsbeschränkung entrance limitation Zugangsbeschränkungen entrance restrictions Zugangsbestimmung entrance rules Zugangsbestimmung provision governing entrance Zugangsbestimmung rule governing entrance Zugangshemmnis, Zugangsschranke entry barrier Zugangsprüfung, Aufnahmeprüfung entrance examination Zugangsrate hiring rate Zugangsrate, Einstellungsrate accession rate Zugangsrate, Einstellungsrate recruitment rate Zugangsschranke, Zugangshemmnis barrier to entry Zugangsvoraussetzung, Zugangsbedingung entrance requirement Zugangsvoraussetzung, Zugangsbedingung entry requirement Zugangsvoraussetzung, Zugangsbedingung requirement for access Zugangsvoraussetzung, Zugangsbedingung requirement for entry zugelassene Gewerkschaft certified union zugelassene Zeit, vorgegebene Zeit allowed time zugänglich accessible zukünftige Entwicklung future development zulassen admit Zulassung admission Zulassungsbedingung condition of admission Zulassungsbedingung,
— from Mr. Honey's Work Study Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

zealous earnestness for
I will rather collect from the pages of his friend’s biography a few passages recording the first impression of his character, the memory of which may be carried by the reader through the following brief record of his singular career:— “His speculations were as wild as the experience of twenty-one years has shown them to be; but the zealous earnestness for the augmentation of knowledge, and the glowing philanthropy and boundless benevolence that marked them, and beamed forth in the whole deportment of that extraordinary boy, are not less astonishing than they would have been if the whole of his glorious anticipations had been prophetic; for these high qualities, at least, I have never found a parallel.”
— from Shelley by John Addington Symonds

Zeus est facile
“Pour quiconque s'est occupé d'études philologiques, Jéhova dérivé de Zeus est facile à admettre.”
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5 Miscellaneous Later Essays by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller


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