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• The natives who served as informants to the Spaniards compiling the Relaciones Geográficas repeatedly cited "the greater convenience (el regalo)" that life under Spanish rule brought to Mexico as the cause of so much death and disease, a life where people ate too often, ate too much meat and fat, drank too much alcohol, slept on soft beds, dressed too warmly, and had become lazy and idle. 51 To claim that Indians had a life of ease in a postconquest Mexico is of course an absurd assertion; what the elders were lamenting was the loss of a way of life grounded in ideals of balance and moderation. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
• Do not, I pray, waste your pity on those who until just a few short months ago were lamenting the term limitations mandated in our own US federal constitution which prevented George W. Bush from seeking a third term. Venezuela to face an uncertain and painful future in years to come
• Many seem to believe that lamenting the middle-class bias of their sample is a sufficient contribution towards equality.
• The San Francisco Examiner" this morning wrote an editorial lamenting what it called the romantic and religious baggage around marriage, and said we have to do away with it. CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2000
• I believe they're all around us, but it's increasingly hard "to distinguish their gleam," as an English critic, Edward Garnett, was already lamenting in 1922, "amid the subfusc, swollen cataract of stories made to order. Are British or American Writers Better?
• In the confusion, he berates his lamenting fellow-citizens for their blindness, an image emphasizing the human dilemma of uncertain truth.
• Burns was lamenting within his own lifetime a host of ersatz imitators of his achievement.
• A graphic representation of the subject of Poe's most celebrated and tragic narrative poem of the same name, supernaturally lamenting the death of a young lover.
• When, two years ago, Mortimer gave us Rumpole Rests His Case, with its last story featuring our hero being carted off horizontal with a dodgy ticker, there was much lamenting.
• Breyer, lamenting the court's "dispiriting" decision, said he knows of no other supreme court in the world that has closed its main entrance. Supreme Court closes its front doors to the public