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  • Atunci când se confruntă cu o voce contrar la radio sau televiziune, ei apelează canal.

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  • Într-un Cosmos, care funcţionează contrar capetele noastre, norocul trebuie să fie privit ca un truc menit să aducă în caz de catastrofe pe noi la o dată ulterioară.

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  • Aici sunt oameni, instituţii, şi dispozitivele retorice că îndoiţi logica, denaturează fapte, şi în caz contrar Stoke incendiile de furie neconstructive în societatea noastră.

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  • It could be added that in both instances of accounting for the experienced as a mixture of contrar - ies one of the contraries was matter.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HAROLD J. JOHNSON 1968

  • Every ane of these headis sufficientlie declared, he entered to the contrar; and upoun the notes gevin in his text, he schew that the Spreit of God in the New Testament gave to this king other names, [480] to witt,

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • And as tuiching the repentance, and declaratioun of the same be contrar effectis, [890] that your

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • For other species, and diversities of species, of a lower scale, but of capacity to ascend into the higher order with time and opportunity, the daily papers may be usefully consulted under the headings devoted to the "pill" specific line -- _pildoras para en contrar perros_, as the Spanish _saynete_ has it.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

  • There was mony advised him to the contrar, for Janet was mair than suspeckit by the best folk in Ba'weary.

    Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

  • Doctor's throat in five meenits; an ', thirdly, it wad be a bonny queer thing gin thirty-three Kers an' Grahams a 'earnestly prayin' the contrar ', hadna as muckle influence at a throne o' grace, as ae man that didna mean what he said, even though the name o 'him was William Henry

    Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

  • The consideration of which, and the lamentable case and condition the land already is, and may be in, by reason of the same, hath moved us, after the example and in imitation of the cloud of witnesses who have gone before us, to protest against the same, as being contrar to the Word of God, and repugnant to our former Union with England in the terms of the Solemn League and

    The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876

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