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"RCMP approves taser use across Canada : new, less lethal weapon reduces possibility of injury to police and public = La GRC approuve l'utilisation de l'arme Taser au pays : une nouvelle arme quasi léthale qui réduit le risque de blessures pour les policiers et le public" Kerr, Joanna.
Archive 2008-02-01 Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2008
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Le respect dû à _la propriété_, est l'arme avec laquelle on combat toute proposition que tient à l'affranchissement.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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_A l'arme_, instead of _aux armes_, adds to the suspiciousness of this derivation.
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An alarm is originally the signal to arm: Query, Is it not formed from the cry _à l'arme_, which in modern times is _aux armes_?
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_ -- It is in favour of the derivation _à l'arme_ that the Italian is _allarme_; some dictionaries even have _dare all'arme_, with the apostrophe, for to give alarm.
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So defective was its firing arrangement then that after a heavy storm only a feeble sputter came from whole battalions of foot: and on those two eventful days the honours lay with the artillery and _l'arme blanche_.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898
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To return to the cavalry, I have heard the superiority of the French ascribed also to their dexterity in the use of the sabre, or, as it is termed here, _l'arme blanche_.
Recollections of Europe James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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This could not be called "teaching the young idea how to shoot," since the corps only bore _l'arme blanche_; but it was highly creditable to the waggery of the citizens of Taunton, and the most efficient burlesque upon the volunteer system I had yet seen, although I have encountered many more elaborately gotten up.
Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. Tyrone Power 1818
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Barack Obama restreint le recours à l'arme atomique
WN.com - Articles related to Taxer les riches pour financer la sant?, l'erreur de Barack Obama 2010
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Barack Obama restreint le recours à l'arme atomique
WN.com - Articles related to Taxer les riches pour financer la sant?, l'erreur de Barack Obama 2010
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