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Español · Bermudas: Se frustra moción de “falta de confianza”
Global Voices in English » Bermuda: “No Confidence” Motion Thwarted 2009
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For Vornado, a REIT that owns 35 million square feet of office space in New York and Washington, the bid for ING ' s real-estate-investment business comes as company executives have expressed frustra tion with the dearth of good deals available in the U.S. real-estate market.
REITs Going Global to Find Deals Anton Troianovski 2010
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Euriel. et Lucret. qui uxores occludunt, meo judicio minus utiliter faciunt; sunt enim eo ingenio mulieres ut id potissimum cupiant, quod maxime denegatur: si liberas habent habenas, minus delinquunt; frustra seram adhibes, si non sit sponte casta.
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Hoc unum praemoneo domine ut sis diligens circa victum, sine quo cetera remedia frustra adhibentur.
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Juvenis solicitus de futuris frustra, factus melancholicus.
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[3917] Tu frustra pius, heu, &c. What, wouldst thou have the laws of nature altered, and him to live always?
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[2862] Helleborum frustra cum jam cutis aegra tumebit,
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Phaerus Aegypti rex de caecitate oraculum consulens, visum ei rediturum accepit, si oculos abluisset lotio mulieris quae aliorum virorum esset expers; uxoris urinam expertus nihil profecit, et aliarum frustra, eas omnes (ea excepta per quam curatus fuit) unum in locum coactas concremavit.
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Fallax medicus qui potens mederi simplicibus, composita dolose aut frustra quaerit.
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Moneo Domine, ut sis prudens ad victum, sine quo caetera remedia frustra adhibentur.
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