How To Use Vila In A Sentence
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Avila, who in May tussled with bloodmobile workers who had parked in front of the Health and Welfare Building, apparently impinging on Avila's designated space.
PhillyDeals
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Firstly, the Pacific Economic Survey, which is being launched next Monday in Port Vila.
Australia's Policies in the Melanesia and Wider Pacific Islands Region, Including the Pacific Partnerships for Development
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Lara's 100%-owned Araguaia Nickel Project comprises 53,889 hectares of exploration licenses and claims in a district that has seen several significant nickel discoveries in recent years: Araguaia adjacent to Vila Oito (Teck), Serra da Tapa and Vale dos Sonhos (Xstrata) and Lontra (Horizonte Minerals plc).
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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It should be noted that it was only following the LTTE blocking of water supply to the East at the Mavilaru anicut, that the Government was compelled to undertake military operations against the LTTE in order to protect the civilian population and vital strategic assets including the Trincomalee Port.
Asian Tribune
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Yo quise quemar este libro en presencia de su dueno, y esperandole un dia que me habia de venir a ver, supe que dos dias antes se habia ido a Avila, huyendo de la enfermedad de pintas que andaba entonces en Salamanca; y asi le queme aquella noche en mi celda en una chimenea que hay en ella.
Fray Luis de Leon
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As this brief synopsis should make clear, Viladesau's book is full of tantalizing lines of thought and many interesting sidetracks.
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Recovering, he set aside his Haviland plate with the half-eaten cream dariole and dabbed at his mouth with the linen napkin.
The Glory Game
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In the Ottoman-Saudi Treaty, Ibn Saud recognized Ottoman sovereignty over Najd in return for his appointment as governor of a newly constituted province (vilayet) of Najd and hereditary rule for his family.
1914, May
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As per Manuel Vilanueva, may associate and friend request, attached is our procedure, list of available securities and application form to be filled by the costumer.
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First I take offence to the use of the term deadbeat, yes there are those which believe that society owes them a living, but, there are also those who truely are down on their luck right now, while we send billions to foreign countrys to feed, house and educate their children we cant make sure our own have the same privilages.
Undefined
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All the oscars need to do to improve is stop the broadway-like production numbers, forget the interpretative dance choreography, and for god's sakes fire Bruce Vilanch as head writer. kencosgrove
Oscars Producer Gives a Ceremony Post-Mortem | /Film
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There are four great centres of pilgrimage for Shi ` ite Moslems in the vilayet, Samarra, Kazemain, a suburb of Bagdad, Kerbela and Nejef.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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The clan of Kurush Khan, a subchief of one of the more barbarous Hyrkanian tribes from east of the Sea of Vilayet, had been driven westward out of its native steppes by a tribal feud.
Conan the Freebooter
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The first reduction in size occurred in 1857, when some of the western portion of the vilayet was added to the newly created sanjak of Zor.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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I appeal to every reader of feeling and sentiment whether the fictitious murther of Duncan by Macbeth in Shakespeare does not excite in him as great a horror of villainy, as the real one of Henry IV by Ravaillac as related by Davila?
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BALIKISRI (_Balukiser_), a town of Asia Minor, capital of the Karasi sanjak in the vilayet of Brusa, altitude 575 ft., situated on rising ground above
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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Big Butch Brewster, to whom the billet-doux was addressed in T. Haviland Hicks, Jr.'s, familiar scrawl, tore open the envelope, and while the squad listened, he read aloud the message left by that sunny-souled youth; "DEAR BUTCH: "Coach Corridan will have to use the alarm clock from now on! I'm called away on business. See that my stuff gets to Bannister O.K. Stow it in the room next to yours. I'll be back at college some time in the next century. Give my adieux to Coach Corridan and the squad.
T. Haviland Hicks Senior
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Rauf praises the tyrants in Iran and is apparently ready to accept their money for the Islamic center at Ground Zero, but he fails to explain the term vilayet-i-faqih to
Infidel Bloggers Alliance
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Wilson was Consul-General in Noumea (1995-1998); Second, and later First Secretary, in Paris (1988-1992) and Third Secretary in Port Vila (1983-1985).
Special Coordinator to Solomon Islands - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs
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The location is 77 kilometres northwest of Port Vila, close enough to pose some threat of a tsunami, the USGS said.
6.5 Quake Strikes Sea Floor NW of Vanuatu
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Observers say this is the beginning of a new era which could climax in a movement for vilayet-e-faqih , a compulsory part of the Shi'ite faith that is intertwined with the concept of imamat or leadership all Muslims under one leader.
THE NEWS BLOG
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But when I mentioned the Point to David Borland, a charming and articulate Vanuatan waiter at a rather fancy French restaurant in Port Vila, he told me what one item was worth to his family.
A Pacific Theater of Memories
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Batman's Alley" is more than just a street—it's an open-air graffiti gallery in the heart of the bohemian Vila Madalena neighborhood.
Sao Paulo: Brazilian Beauty
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Never before, or afterward, not even when the luckless Butch fell in love, and T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., assisted Cupid, did the pachydermic Butch act so insanely as on this occasion.
T. Haviland Hicks Senior
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Police said the pilot, contracted to take an actor dressed as Santa to the party in the Nova Mare slum, was flying over the neighboring Vila Joao shantytown when it was fired upon on Sunday.
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In chronological terms, Paviland is early in the European series of burials and is actually the earliest with a firm radiocarbon date measured directly on human bone.
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Haviland had a sense of humor; it would make a story too good to keep -- the new oil operator, the magnificent and mysterious New York financier, a "deadhead" at the Ajax.
Flowing Gold
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And his wrinkled, old visage expressed so crabbed a determination to remain unmoved that Mr. Haviland laughed outright in the most tolerant of humours.
That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
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Machiavelli employs an Italian version (sangiachie) of the Turkish word, meaning an administrative district of a Turkish vilayet or province.
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In civilate qu¾ vocatur Narnia tam diri ac tetri, ut nihil aliud credatur, quam de infernalibus locis deducti essent.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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BRITTANY, or BRITANNY (Fr. _Bretagne_), known as Armorica (_q. v._) until the influx of Celts from Britain, an ancient province and duchy of France, consisting of the north-west peninsula, and nearly corresponding to the departments of Finistère, Côtes-du-Nord, Morbihan, Ille-et-Vilaine and
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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But with Shi'ite religious parties emerging as the strongest power, no sooner were the elections over than voices were raised for the creation of an autonomous southern Iraqi region, and for vilayet-e-faqih .
THE NEWS BLOG
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While his energy is to be lauded, Avila's presentation consisted solely of a seemingly endless rambling account of unformed tales, hastily thrown together with little connection.
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Further, Langdon deems the sculpture — which depicts St. Teresa of Avila in spiritual ecstasy, based on a description in her autobiography — as pornographic, as it supposedly depicts the saint “on her back in the throes of a toe-curling orgasm.”
Ron Howard, Angry & Demeaning?
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But Bob Vila is about IMPROVING things, not completely desecrating the very things that made him famous …
George Lucas Paper Bag Puppet | My[confined]Space
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The young girl and Haviland, however, conveyed their charge carefully and safely to the farm-house, had him laid upon her own prettily-belaced bed, and Haviland insisted -- was it not a sacrifice in him on that critical evening of his election!
The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making
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Already, members of the Da'wa Party, many of whom were taught in Iran, have taken over mosques in Basra, and members of Hezbollah have heavily infiltrated the Shi'ite population, in addition to Iranian intelligence and members of the Pasdaran-i-Inqalab Iran's Revolutionary Guards to pave the way for vilayet-e-faqih.
THE NEWS BLOG
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This plant-derived antiradical formula includes colloidal oatmeal, shea butter and carrot oil and lathers up to leave skin clean and revilatized.
Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
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The other day, the hostess of a popular talk show on a Tamil channel announced on screen that she was sporting a ‘malivu vilai’ saree.
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Vilasini, 23, lives in Bangalore, India and enjoys painting and pottery.
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In Serie C in Brazil in 2007, over 60,000 turned up to see Bahia win promotion against Vila Nova.
The Knowledge: April fool! | Scott Murray
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A The Path egy olyan bizarr mese, mely teljesen új megvilágításba helyezi gyerekkorunk egyik meghatározó, mindenki által jól ismert, "happy enddel" végződő történetét.
Tale of Tales
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Hi . Are Hector Avila and Maricruz Delgado wedding today?
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SYDNEY—A magnitude 6.5 earthquake has struck the sea floor northwest of the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila, according to a notice from the U.S. Geological Survey, adding to jitters over tremors in the region following the quake that has devastated parts of Japan.
6.5 Quake Strikes Sea Floor NW of Vanuatu
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Portuguese architect Ana Reis has completed a family house in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.
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When Kuruvila took over as headmaster, the school in the crowded George Town area was dark and dingy.
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The December 2001 seizure of the multiton consignment of cocaine aboard the vessel Macel in the Mexican Pacific port of Manzanillo bolstered the evidence against her, because cell phone records found on the boat subsequently tied the cargo to Avila Beltrán and Espinoza Ramírez, who was also arrested in Mexico City on the night of her capture two weeks ago.
Underworld Queenpin
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Like many of its citizens, Avila itself was a kind of palimpsest, a city of overlays.
RIDDLE ME THIS
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They were covered by the Vilayets of Edirne and Salonika.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident
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Movia stuff rocks, I've only been able to get my hands on a the Vila Marija merlot and a pinot grigio.
New Weekly Feature: What We Drank
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Vilayet-i-faquih is the special term promulgated by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to describe the idea that all of Iranian society is under the permanent stewardship (sometimes rendered as guardianship) of the mullahs.
'A Call to Prayer From the Rubble of the WTC'
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Daniel Davila, a 23-year-old timber floorer from Camarillo, Calif. — a Los Angeles suburb knee-deep in the Golden State's housing dust bowl — made the 14-hour move across the Pacific two years ago.
More U.S. Job-Hunters Try Australia
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Now it emerges that there is a strong movement in southern Iraq for the establishment of autonomous Shi'ite provinces as a precursor to introducing vilayet-e-faqih rule by the clergy in the whole country.
THE NEWS BLOG
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I can care about Newt and Gwen Stacy and Frodo and Captain Ahab and the Great Gatsby and on and on ... but I care about the Turtle and Abner Marsh and Tyrion Lannister and Jon Snow and Haviland Tuf and Daenerys and my own guys a thousand times more.
A Few More Last Words
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The Disco Vilante from Thunderball. the Yacht that could turn into a hydroplane.
Top 10 Coolest Boats in Movie History » Scene-Stealers
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It is a very commodious and pleasant voyage, hauing on both sides of the riuers many great vilages, which they call Cities: in the which hennes, pigeons, egges, milke, rice, and other things be very goode cheape.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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If only I could've cancelled all plans - as many guests do - and sojourned in Udaivilas longer.
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The use of the term “Islamicfasciam” and the other term flying around lately “Clash of Civilazations” are disturbing.
Think Progress » Kondrake: Rice and Hughes Convince Bush To Drop ‘Islamic Fascism’ From Speeches
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Dr. Hector Vila, chairman of the Ambulatory Surgery Committee for the American Society of Anesthesiologists, said he administers the drug during office procedures such as urology, dentistry and gynecology.
CNN.com
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Just realised the link I gave you for "The vilain petit canard" (Andersen) is ONLY a text (it's in French and you can print it if you want) ...
Canard - French Word-A-Day
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Tripolitania was organized into a province (vilayet) under a governor appointed by the Ottomans, while Cyrenaica formed a separate subprovince responsible directly to Istanbul.
D. Libya
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On May 10, a bloodmobile from the Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank was parked in front of the Health and Welfare Building, apparently impinging on Avila's designated space.
PhillyDeals
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Batman's Alley" is more than just a street -- it's an open-air graffiti gallery in the heart of the bohemian Vila Madalena neighborhood.
Sao Paolo: Pounding Heart of Brazil
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The forest rabbit, or tapeti (Sylvilagus brasiliensis), is commonly eaten in its native habitat, which extends from southern Mexico to southern Brazil.
14 Domestic Rabbit
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Nolasco: and therewith from Carmel mount the children of Elijah prophet led by Albert bishop and by Teresa of Avila, calced and other: and friars, brown and grey, sons of poor Francis, capuchins, cordeliers, minimes and observants and the daughters of Clara: and the sons of
Ulysses
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Officials at a news conference said Avila took part in a gunrunning scheme to take 700 weapons across the border between September 2009 and December 2010.
ATF gunrunning probe strategy scrutinized after death of Border Patrol agent
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I buy the Guardian when I'm not in a bate about drivel like this because I want well written soundly researched intelligent copy, not the poltical equivilant of whether some surgically ehanced tardo has a new bloke and is in luvvv.
Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk
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BULDUR, or BURDUR, chief town of a sanjak of the Konia vilayet in Asia
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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By the way, Kristin, I couldn't imagine the use of "froid" and "vilain" for a newspaper ...
Canard - French Word-A-Day
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Davila is best known as a marathoner, and if one (i.e., me) had to predict the 2012 U.S.
Runner's World Magazine Daily News
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Themed tour routes, which include tours of Joburg's mines and Soweto's historical Vilakazi Street, were being explored as packages to market to tour operators.
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The show begins with a group of razzle-dazzle, take-no-prisoners Hoylands — including the Luries 'first acquisition of his work, the muscular "Devilaya 28.12.77" (1977) — that remind us how much he learned from Hans Hofmann about creating space with astringent color and prepare us for the intense energy of the rest of the exhibition.
Channeling American Abstraction
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The Ustad sung paeans of her musical skills as well as that of her illustrious father, the late Ustad Vilayat Khan, who was an eminent sitar player.
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Alberto Vilar, the multimillionaire Royal Opera House donor, and Mike Sandifer, launching their charm offensive this week, are set now to talk up the prospects for Amerindo's diverse portfolio of unquoted technology investments.
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St. Louis's extreme severity towards what he called the knavish oath (_vilain serment_), that is, blasphemy, an offence for which there is no definition save what is contained in the bare name of it, is, perhaps, the most striking indication of the state of men's minds, and especially of the king's, in this respect.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2
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T.e spectacle Butch Brewster beheld was indeed one to paralyze that pachydermic collegian, T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., the sunny-souled, irrepressible Senior, danced madly about on the tiger-skin rug in midfloor, evidently laboring under the delusion that he was a lunatical Hottentot at
T. Haviland Hicks Senior
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Now, the commander's name was Haviland, and Jenks's spelling Haverland tells me that his dialect was non-rhotic did not pronounce postvocalic r.
Languagehat.com: HAVERLAND.
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This was demonstrated in the resettlement of Vila Planetario, a squatter settlement of refuse collectors in the centre of the city.
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The correct names of the Portuguese towns where she lived and painted in 1914-1915 are: Vila do Conde and Valença do Minho. reply
Sonia Delaunay.
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He blushed a little, shook his head at her, and drove on ahead into the streets — the churches, the abbey, and other buildings on this clear bright morning having the liny distinctness of architectural drawings, as if the original dream and vision of the conceiving master-mason, some mediaeval Vilars or other unknown to fame, were for a few minutes flashed down through the centuries to an unappreciative age.
The Woodlanders
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I have heard well-meaning Bengalis complain that Vilayat Khan only spoke pidgin Bengali despite having spent a good part of his life in Kolkata.
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He matched Chile's Marcelo Rios and Argentina's Guillermo Vilas as the only South Americans to be seeded so high here.
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In Vila Madalena, a bohemian outpost set in rolling hills, the nighttime vibe is one of all-out revelry.
Sao Paulo: Brazilian Beauty
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Vilain cafard ou jolie blatte forestière ambrée ? by Stephanie Booth on 22.09.2007
Vilain cafard ou jolie blatte forestière ambrée ? — Climb to the Stars
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From 1770 Boccherini was composer and performer to the infante, Don Luis, at Aranjuez and later at Avila, a position he held until Don Luis died in 1785.
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The lieutenant said Avila suddenly removed her urostomy bag and threw it at the three arresting officers, who were splashed with urine.
Woman Throws Bag Of Urine At Police Officers
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Enciso accompanied the expedition as "alguacil mayor" and continued to oppose Balboa until the latter's execution by Dávila in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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Avilamycin quality have what kind of quality, the existing returns will help to alter or decorate it's molecule by the Combinatorial biosynthesis method, and produce new ramification of Avilamycin .
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Although Gavilan was a brilliant welterweight, he found the extra strength of the Hawaiian too tough a hurdle.
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Of the Tartars it is said that "c'est vne nation prophane et barbaresque, sale et vilaine, qui mangent la chair demie cruë, qui boiuent du laict de jument, et qui n'vsent de nappes et seruiettes que pour essuyer leurs bouches et leurs mains." [
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
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(I flew Air Vanuatu from Auckland, New Zealand, to the capital city of Port Vila, on the island of Efate, then took one of the airline's several daily flights from Port Vila to Santo.)
A Pacific Theater of Memories
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In a common fallacy, however, many Sunnis tend to conflate Iraqi Shiite Islamists with the Iranian regime next door, even though the political ideology of Iraqi Shiites does not mesh with Ayatollah Khomeini's vilayet e-fakih (the guardianship of the jurist) and although ever since their return from exile in Iran in 2003, the Shiite Islamists have actively sought to shed whatever Iranian veneer they had acquired.
Iraq on the Edge
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However, it is also concern about safety because the actions of the driver, as Dávila writes: uuuu, me toco un chofer q va en carrera consigo mismo.
Global Voices in English » Ecuador: All Aboard the Trolley Bus
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Those who had dared to pit this cockleshell against the unleashed might of the Vilayet could do naught but cling and wait.
Conan The Unconquered
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This is part of the Early Years prequel series, and has Michael Keating reprising his role as Vila from the original series.
Public Service Announcement
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Ed un tempo propizio la accompagna: la ricostituzione dell 'Epiro nei suoi quattro vilayet autonomi quale è nei propri consigli e nei propri desideri; ricostituzione, che pel suo Giornale, quello dell' ottimo A. Lorecchio -- cui precede il principe Nazionale Kastriota, Chini -- si annuncia fatale, e quasi fulcro della stabilità dello impero Ottomano, a della pace Europea; preludio di quella diffusione del regno di Dio sulla terra, che sarà la Pace tra gli Uomini.
Old Calabria
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Instinctively realizing that the pachydermic parade was headed for < i > his room, T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., rushed to the closet, murmuring, "Safety first!" as usual, and stowed away his banjo.
T. Haviland Hicks Senior
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WordPress Finally Has Tags! — Climb to the Stars
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Among the most excessive is the ravishing Vila Algarve, a rococo fantasy of curving terraces and balconies and stairways, topped off with urns and grotesques and maiolica-tiled tableaux, the whole place teetering on the verge of complete disintegration.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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It has solved a mystery for me: The triller I saw my last day in Port Vila was of the Polynesian persuasion.
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Google Shared Stuff: First Impressions — Climb to the Stars
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As The Inquirer reported in July, a welfare department employee complained in writing of having been in line to give blood when an Avila aide arrived and insisted that the bloodmobile back up so the aide could park Avila's car in his space.
PhillyDeals
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Yo quise quemar este libro en presencia de su dueno, y esperandole un dia que me habia de venir a ver, supe que dos dias antes se habia ido a Avila, huyendo de la enfermedad de pintas que andaba entonces en Salamanca; y asi le queme aquella noche en mi celda en una chimenea que hay en ella.
Fray Luis de Leon
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Daniel Davila, a 23-year-old timber floorer from Camarillo, Calif.--a Los Angeles suburb knee-deep in the Golden State's housing dust bowl--made the 14-hour move across the Pacific two years ago.
More U.S. Job-Hunters Try Australia
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He was quoting from Susana Vila, a divorced economist he had been dating on a more or less permanent basis for the past four years.
OUTCAST
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Thankfully, Davila seems committed to keeping the title wholesome and honest.
365 Reasons to Love Comics #316 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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They are walking in the hills of Calabria, white-water rafting in the Pyrenees, cycling in Catalonia, visiting sherry bodegas in Jerez, or touring the beautiful Castilian cities of Toledo, Segovia and Avila.
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Hearing propitious sounds, they came stringing in, and Haviland's explanation, with the celebration that followed it, took such a length of time that the longest, lankiest Phi fell asleep in the parlor and his lamp burned out about two.
Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University
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Home-improvement expert Bob Vila has tweeted/vouched for K-Mart, and reality star Kim Kardashian is representing Armani too.
'Pay per Tweet' attracts attention, controversy
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Livraria ad Vila is een gesloten pui met een plint van boekkasten.
Exotic House in Brazil by Isay Weinfeld
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Earlier, at the Juvenile Court Center in Texarkana, the Avilas waived their right to an initial hearing on allegations concerning four of their other sons, who range in age from 8 to 14.
Parents say they have left Tony Alamo Ministries; want 5 children returned from protective custody
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Opera, ed. DUPIN, V (Antwerp, 1706); HELLOT, Nobles et vilains, le miracle de Basqueviue, d'apres les poesies inedites de Jean Petit
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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¶ Mais fermoso estaa ao vilam mao burel que mao frisado
Four Plays of Gil Vicente
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I think cutting down a redwood is the moral equivilant of murdering a human being. previous - next
Nessus Diary Entry
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During summer, though, one beach is primarily gay, while the other is very much a nudist beach, further out of town between Sitges and Vilanova.
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Around the horn: Fans attending World Series games beginning Tuesday night at Houston's Minute Maid Park might think Bob Vila is in town.
USATODAY.com - Umpires do decent job, don't need instant-replay help
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Captain John Haviland, a United Empire Loyalist, having served the British as an artificer in the American Revolution, moved from New York and settled in 1803 at Townsend Township, Norfolk County, near Brantford.
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Jim Paavila, another member of the biking group's executive, estimates on a busy day, there are hundreds of people riding trails in the area.
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Vilain offers a model in which sex emerges out of a delicate dance between a variety of promale, antimale, and possibly profemale genes.
Archive 2007-05-01
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Islamic center at Ground Zero, but he fails to explain the term vilayet-i-faqih to American audiences.
Forum: News/Activism
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Or is that really any more helpful than those absurd late nineteenth-century attempts to classify Teresa of Avila as a 'hysteric'?
Notes and Links
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Avila, calced and other: and friars, brown and grey, sons of poor
Ulysses
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But let us not forget the more obscure actors, those such as the Quaker Laura Haviland and the former bondswoman Harriet Jacobs, the Rebel General William Mahone and the southern abolitionist Moncure Conway.
Mike Musick: How should the country mark the sesquicentennial?
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Despite his unorthodox views, which were apparently influenced by gnosticism and Manichaean dualism, he became bishop of Avila in 380.
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Many of these hermits are also visionaries, an idea which comes out of tales of mystic saints like Teresa of Avila and Francis of Assisi, who were close to real-life Christian shamans.
