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  • noun a town in central Belgium

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Examples

  • Maarten Van Aalst, the lead climate specialist at the International Red Cross, said in an interview that stakeholders will need to scale up mitigating measures alongside deep cuts in greenhouse emissions "if countries and communities are to avoid the worst disasters in a changing climate."

    U.N. Sees Links to Extreme Weather Nicholas Bariyo 2011

  • "I can't think of a single person (in Belgium) who is not pleased with our (health-care) system," said Rik D'hiet from Aalst, Belgium, who was visiting the United States with his wife and two children last week.

    Gary S. Chafetz: Occam's Razor Can Cut Down the Health Care Lobbyists 2009

  • The first, a needle lace, is still manufactured in the region of Aalst.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • The first, a needle lace, is still manufactured in the region of Aalst.

    [the art of lace making] brugge and surrounds 2009

  • Zierikzee on June 29, the Spanish army turned to Aalst, quartered the soldiers on the inhabitants, and forced the loyal city to pay the full costs of their maintenance.

    The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

  • Under their own "eletto" they marched to Aalst, where they were joined by other mutineers, and soon a large force was collected together, who lived by plunder and were a terror to the country.

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • In Aalst the mutineers received him with eager joy, harsh and repellent as he appeared, they cheerfully obeyed him; for he could hold out to them

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • The next morning the mutineers from Aalst sought their fallen leader; but he had disappeared, and the legend now became wide-spread among them, that the Prince of Evil had carried

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • The sun was setting behind pleasant Aalst as he approached, and the sky looked as if it was strewn with roses.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • The citizens, among them Adam, learned this fact with rage and terror, but the mutineers of Aalst had not yet collie.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

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