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Art can be chosen over commerce, and idealism can trump pragmatism, all you need is to stick to a contra mundum attitude.
Neither Chinese President Xi Jinping nor Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed the alleged alliance contra mundum.
He did not become captive to progressive elites, nor did he seek their approval, and nor did he relish standing alone contra mundum.
The origins of contra dancing go back to colonial days, and its roots can be traced to English country dance.
I play bassoon in a double reed group at my school and one member of our group has just bought a contra bassoon, and we're all really excited!
There was a variety of different airscrews, three blade, four blade, five blade contra rotating, and three blade twin airscrews.
But contra William Faulkner, there are signs that the past is finally becoming past.
Examples would include contra cyclical capital requirements, for instance, as well as dynamic provisioning.
We have concluded that this is not a case where we ought to apply the doctrine of contra proferentum.
The Times intervened in 2016 after the Rotenbergs obtained a contra mundum order that would have given them anonymity until at least the middle of the next decade.
The defining image of Luther, chin tilted defiantly upwards, saintly, contra mundum, had been cast in print as effectively as in bronze, fixed forever in the western imagination.
If this first step does not resolve the ambiguity, step two in the interpretative process is to apply the doctrine of contra proferentem.
They included quadrilles, contra dances, and round dances like the varsovienne, the waltz, and the polka.
The Reagan administration authorized the CIA to help the contra rebels with funding, armaments, and training.
A better analogy than the calculation of compensatory damages is the interpretation of a contract of disability insurance but without the contra proferentum rule: one must construe the contract.
For Irigaray, then, contra Lacan, there can be a sexual relation.
The commercial exploitation rights of the prototype developed by the students will be given away to the project-companies per contra their financial commitments.
An additional role was played by the interpretation of contracts according to the contra proferentem rule and even a review of content was possible within limits.
This contra asset account is expressed as a negative number.
Later that year, Cortazar's novella Fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionales was first published.
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He showed himself a man of might, and insight too, in his contra haereticos.
The Eugene Folklore Society welcomes high-energy dance band Sassafras Stomp and Chicago dance caller Rachel Wallace to its Saturday contra dance.
The per contra is that they themselves are rather malodorous.
Leila and Vera had promised an ancient Irish contra dance in costume.
He did not live long after the completion of the contra Celsum.
A comparison of the explanation of this passage in contra Crescon.
Just before sunset, I headed to the old Boston Township School House for a contra dance.
The contra dance community used to be exclusively baby boomers, but lately, I've noticed many younger people have joined in.
A highly unequal income distribution pattern accompanied by trade led growth per contra would limit the productive capacity of the domestic economy.
On the other side, though, there's the PER CONTRA, by means of this pretty chick.
At an altitude of five hundred feet, the pigeon drove on over the town of Berkeley and lifted its flight to the Contra Costa hills.
Began in the Contra Costa in Oakland when I was eleven, shakin' out for the mangle.
He ran aft, drew in the sheet, and filled on the long tack toward the Contra Costa Hills.
I'm goin' to have a town along the embarcadero that'll lay over any town in Contra Costa.
Contra the amnesiac tendencies of much Pop, these apparitional vistas intimate the abiding presence of history, however ruinous and partial.
Pinole was incorporated in 1903 and is located in Western Contra Costa County.
Asmunsen, the owner of a large granite quarry in Contra Costa County.
It was nip and tuck across to the Contra Costa Hills, neither of us seeming to gain or to lose.
The Contra Costa County Peace Officers Monument is located in Martinez, California.
I could make out the Selby Smelter on the Contra Costa shore and the Mare Island lighthouse.
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