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    the states


    1. Bronner arrived in the States in 1929, and bounced between soap consulting jobs for various companies


    2. evening news back in the States,


    3. He feels the pull of the flash bulbs, like it was seventy-nine, and he wants to stop, wants to make a statement, the statesman, the doting father with a sparkle in his eye, and he is disgusted with himself


    4. students from another country on their first day school in the States


    5. Chloe was beside herself, so she resumed the explanation, “It seems that, in the States, there are not candidates of Harold's depth of talent and skill enough to be considered for the vacancy


    6. She told me about having grown up hearing about her father's first trip to the States


    7. He had mentioned to me sometimes ago is going back to the states on December, 1981 to spend this Christmas with his family


    8. “See that’s the kicker, as we say here in the States, Mr


    9. I just have to see to it that they can meet the states requirements for credits


    10. They were, therefore, called upon to send deputies to the general assembly of the states of the kingdom, where they might join with the clergy and the barons in granting, upon urgent occasions, some extraordinary aid to the king

    11. Hence the origin of the representation of burghs in the states-general of all great monarchies in Europe


    12. The statesmn, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever


    13. But whether it does so likewise with regard to that part of its capital for which the receipts are long ago expired, for which, in ordinary and quiet times, it cannot be called upon, and which, in reality, is very likely to remain with it for ever, or as long as the states of the United Provinces subsist, may perhaps appear more uncertain


    14. “It wasn't as mysterious as all that,” Kate demurred, “Changing the states of elementals is pretty much our stock and trade you know


    15. The top teacher in the States was Ed Parker and one of his students made the


    16. From others he demands a certain sum, but leaves it to the states of each province to assess and levy that sum as they think proper


    17. According to the scheme of taxing by requisition, the parliament of Great Britain would stand nearly in the same situation towards the colony assemblies, as the king of France does towards the states of those provinces which still enjoy the privilege of having states of their own, the provinces of France which are supposed to be the best governed


    18. Such occupations were considered as fit only for slaves, and the free citizens of the states were prohibited from exercising them


    19. hadn't seen since his last trip to the States


    20. "In the States, smokers rate some way below lepers

    21. Similar taxes, though not quite so heavy, take place in the Milanese, in the states of Genoa, in the duchy of Modena, in the duchies of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla, and the Ecclesiastical state


    22. Similar taxes and monopolies of salt and tobacco have been established in many other countries, particularly in the Austrian and Prussian dominions, and in the greater part of the states of Italy


    23. The revenue of the States-General and of the different cities, however, is said to amount to more than five millions two hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling ; and as the inhabitants of the United Provinces cannot well be supposed to amount to more than a third part of those of Great Britain, they must, in proportion to their number, be much more heavily taxed


    24. This, however, could scarce, perhaps, be done, consistently with the principles of the British constitution, without admitting into the British parliament, or, if you will, into the states-general of the British empire, a fair and equal representation of all those different provinces ; that of each province bearing the same proportion to the produce of its taxes, as the representation of Great Britain might bear to the produce of the taxes levied upon Great Britain


    25. He called it like he saw it, and for the most part, got everything right, especially the insistence of the inhabitants of the states he visited on the subject of equality


    26. He was not in favor of the War between the States, but when it came to decision time, he felt his place was with his homeland, the South


    27. Most spectacular have been the results in New Jersey, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Texas, especially Texas, which has created as many new jobs these last two years as the rest of the states combined


    28. Applications in the States were approaching forty per cent already


    29. „The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be entrusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself to exercise it


    30. And why is that? Well, it reserves to the States respectively, or to the people, those rights not enumerated and specifically delegated to the United States by the Constitution

    31. Before we left Japan, Dorothy told me she was going to leave me when we got to the states


    32. After I got to the states I didn‘t drink anymore or smoke either


    33. The laptop hard drive was already on its way back to the States, as were the papers he’d recovered from Area 7 and Booker’s study


    34. The ―Articles‖ were created by chosen representatives from each of the states to secure the freedom, sovereignty and independence of an emerging nation


    35. There are no troops to kill with IED's because the troops are in the States and if they want to terrorise the locals please do so


    36. Both terrorist groups received continuous and considerable support from the Soviet Union and Communist China as well as the states surrounding Rhodesia


    37. “Right – but tell me, you seem to have been down here for a while, why does a geologist stay down here in Costa Rica when the good money is obviously back in The States?” Sylvia was certainly blunt, but she had been so open about herself – it was Beth’s turn


    38. Another ban shortly passed, the Northwest Ordinance, which banned slavery from all territory north of the Ohio River, what would become the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin


    39. ’ But wasn’t Sylvia the one that brought the stuck-up American bitch home in the first place? She was the one who’d ended up with the money, not Chiquita, and what’s more, she was also the one who’d just come from The States, probably on her own partner the wop, Sal Cassano’s instructions


    40. She arrived from the States to the wonderful discovery that bulldozers had widened it, cutting into the cliff face

    41. Fat chance! They were back at La Hacienda the moment she returned to the States


    42. Bryan would have to win all five of the states with the closest margins of defeat for him, under 5%


    43. Founded in 1872 and situated in the states of Idaho (1%), Montana (3%) and Wyoming (96%), Yellowstone National Park stands as the world’s oldest and largest national park comprising 3,472 square miles in area


    44. With Sylvia so often in the States pursuing other business interests, Caroline’s work with the horses was transacted through Mike


    45. Mike wasn’t in charge of a thing! He was just a hired flunky who sent cocaine to the States in the digestive tracts of her horses


    46. I am from Vermont, in the States


    47. Another disturbing thought was that, by the time he got back to Chauita, the cocaine would already be in the States


    48. We even have one or two on the inside in their headquarters in the States, too


    49. “I’d always thought it strange,” she said, “that Mike, a man who knows nothing about horses or work, suddenly began a business of shipping horses out of the country, until Kevin practically said that Mike had switched from mules to horses, and the cocaine was being shipped up to the States with them


    50. “That’s true,” she said, “but I know for a fact that he’s still shipping horses to the States, you can check that out with any farm around Puriscal














































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