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  • She was the perfect trans lator from French to English, from tradition to the New World.

    An American in Paris Christopher Kimball 2010

  • The people who used to live there regulated the flow, but the Khleevi you brought back with you busted the regu lator.

    Massage 2010

  • Sparta, so well disciplined, pure and successful, inspired the admiration not only of Plato but of many other writers, one of whom left an account of its legis - lator which became a source for later utopists.

    UTOPIA ROGER L. EMERSON 1968

  • Lycurgus stands in utopian and much nonutopian political writing as the archetypal legis - lator, the charismatic leader who, given the power and opportunity, shaped the destinies of a real people as decisively as have his descendants, who have in nu - merous utopias transformed the characters of ordinary men into perfect and ideal citizens.

    UTOPIA ROGER L. EMERSON 1968

  • “Instead of follow - ing the high a priori road [of metaphysical enquiry], would it not be better humbly to investigate the de - sires, fears, passions and opinions of the human being, and to discover from them what means an able legis - lator can employ to connect the private happiness of each individual with the observance of those laws which secure the well-being of the whole?”

    ENLIGHTENMENT HELLMUT O. PAPPE 1968

  • A prominent instance of original authority in the first sense was the inclusion of the proposal of law within the function of an official's “authority,” as shown by the synonymous use, in this context, of auctor legis and lator legis (Berger, pp. 368-69).

    AUTHORITY LEONARD KRIEGER 1968

  • I can only wonder what is next: "Oh, Calcu-lator!"

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Helper module in using JSON:: PP in Perl 5.8 and lator dummy module providing JSON:: PP:: Boolean

    search.cpan.org Makamaka Hannyaharamitu 2010

  • WILLIAMSBURG - Busch Gardens plans to introduce a new flight simu-lator ride when the amusement park opens in late March.

    News for Culpeper Star-Exponent 2010

  • I can only wonder what is next: "Oh, Calcu-lator!"

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

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