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Poena stupet, quod in poena/Sit Iohannes sine poena/Bullientis olei.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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As you learn in Classics 101, the ancient Greek word for work was ponos, derived from the same root as the Latin poena, meaning “sorrow.”
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010
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We may agree with Horace, I think - Raro antecedentem scelestum deseruit pede poena claudo.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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He, or another agency with sub poena power, should go back and get that.
Elizabeth Edwards: John Wanted To "Fight" 2004 Election Results, Was Overruled 2009
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But at the conclusion of the piece, I said repeatedly that it's smelly what happened in Ohio, it's entirely plausible that the election was stolen, and above all that what we need is a real investigation, both by the mainstream media and especially by people with sub poena power.
Elizabeth Edwards: John Wanted To "Fight" 2004 Election Results, Was Overruled 2009
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Yes, but I was curious as to the definition of the offence in the statute, so that I can judge for myself whether I think that “threatening, abusive or insulting words” that are “religiously aggravated” reasonably fit under the offence, as required by the nulla poena sine lege principle.
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There's every chance Damian Green and David "sub-poena-them-all, I'm-a-libertarian" Davis are going to end up with a frightful GOOey mess on their faces.
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These clowns deserve the poena cullei, the penalty for parricide imposed by the Roman Republic, pursuant to which the condemned is tied in a sack with "a dog, a cock, a viper and an ape," then hucked into the Tiber.
So many ways to be wicked Tripp 2008
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Thank you for pointing out with plain examples the dangers that may come by "innovative" interpretations of the nulum crimen, nula poena sine lege principle.
Why not qualify the taking away of virtual objects as theft? 2008
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For the most part, law-enforcement agents say, craigslist does a good job of policing itself and cooperating with investigations, providing IP addresses and the e-mail of suspects, so long as the cops have a search warrant or sub - poena.
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