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The term allegiance was traditionally often used by English legal commentators in a larger sense, divided by them into natural and local, the latter applying to the deference which even a foreigner must pay to the institutions of the country in which he happens to live.
As an example of false cognates, the word for " dog " in the Australian Aboriginal language Mbabaram happens to be dog, although there is no common ancestor or other connection between that language and English ( the Mbabaram word evolved regularly from a protolinguistic form * gudaga ).
( Chapter 24. 33 ) The institution of the Magna Carta which happens outside the timeframe of the story, is portrayed as a progressive ( incremental ) reform, but also as a step toward recovery of a lost golden age of liberty endemic to England and the English system.
Something similar happens in English with words like peculiar and potato.
At one of the first social gatherings she attends, she happens to see Messenger and the wife of the Head of the School of English, Marianne Richmond, kissing passionately in the kitchen.
However a few recent loanwords are sometimes playfully conjugated as verbs, for example English Google and double, whose Japanese transliterations end in-ru which happens to be the citation form ending of Japanese verbs.
Kasche wrote: " Schmidllin showed a special interest in the Jews ... Luburic told me that Schmidllin told him that the Jews must be treated in the finest manner, and that they must survive, no matter what happens ... Luburic suspected Schmidllin is an English agent and therefore prevented all contact between him and the Jews "
Within a day, the hand-made piece of promotion was mistaken for an anti-Semitic graffito ( as Jude, beside being an English first name, happens to mean " Jew " in German ), and the window was smashed by passers-by.
When Scrooge and the nephews find out that the English name of this bookdealer-turned sailor happens to be Christopher Columbus (" The plot thickens!
The argument, by this interpretation, plays upon an ambiguity in Chinese ( which happens to also exist in English ).
This usually happens if a particular child is being consistently bullied, or has problems with the language ( in which case someone who is bi-lingual, in English and the language of the child in question, is chosen as the ombudsman.
J. R. R. Tolkien in his 1955 lecture " English and Welsh " distinguishes the " native tongue " from the " cradle tongue ," the latter being the language one happens to learn during early childhood, while one's true " native tongue " may be different, possibly determined by an inherited linguistic taste, and may later in life be discovered by a strong emotional affinity to a specific dialect ( Tolkien personally confessed to such an affinity to the Middle English of the West Midlands in particular ).
Yugi's voice changes – in the manga, when the transformation happens in the presence of Anzu Mazaki ( Téa Gardner in the English dub ), who had her eyes closed at the time, the Pharaoh's voice was so different that she did not realize that Yugi was the speaker.
Except for the initial 11 and last 4 sentences, all of the 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Ivo Andrić's novel Prokleta avlija ( translated into English as Accursed and / or Damned Yard ) happens in Yedikule Prison ( link on the Andrić Foundation site ).
However, in China and Taiwan, 酷兒 also happens to be the same transliteration as the English word queer referring to sexual orientation or gender identity.
* Kayin Amoh-A Scottish ( later retconned as English ) swordsman / bounty hunter who happens to be a friend and rival of Eiji.
It is also the nearest possible transliteration in Japanese kana of the English word " southern ", and Takada's favorite music group happens to be Southern All Stars.
On the contrary, the fall of seems to be a purely English sound change that happens to occur in this particular ethnic group.
Many of these have been subsequently borrowed into Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese, with the same ( or corresponding ) characters being pronounced differently according to language, just as happens in European languages – compare English biology and French biologie.
However, the label has always systematically worked with electronic music, indie pop and rock artists, and " doesn't see itself as a world music label: it just happens to enjoy working with artists from around the world, some of whom sing in languages other than English " ( as stated in the label's manifesto ).
This occasionally happens in friendly or practice matches, for instance English county sides against University Centres of Cricketing Excellence.
This occasionally happens in friendly or practice matches, for instance English county sides against University Centres of Cricketing Excellence.

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She is a free-spirited young lady and, unknown to him at first, happens to be Mrs. Random's niece.
Finally he happens upon a bag lady ( Debbie Harry ) who turns into a princess when he kisses her.
Fortunately Babbs's costume happens to be that of an old lady.

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That, at any rate, is what happens at the Khaju bridge.
In order to exonerate himself, he is compelled to find the real criminal, who happens to be his girl friend.
This happens at the moment man loses the perception of moral substance in himself, of a nature that, in Maritain's words, is perceived as a `` locus of intelligible necessities ''.
It happens in the territory of the Leopoldville government, which is itself a fiction, demonstrably incapable of governing, and commanding only such limited credit abroad as UN support gives it.
Progress will take place far less through what is done in any `` summit conference '' of the National Council or the World Council, or even in offices of the denominational boards, than through what happens in the communities where Christian people live together as neighbors.
The decisive question is what happens within each congregation and, finally, in the minds and hearts of the individual members.
And this is what all too often happens.
Thirdly, the South is not merely an embarrassingly backward region, but a part of this country, and what happens there concerns every one of us.
In the academic world there is seldom anything so dramatic as a strike or a boycott: all that happens is that the better qualified teacher declines to gamble two or three years of his life on the chance that conditions at the Catholic institution will be as good as those elsewhere.
He is generally and initially suspicious of any federal project, unless it happens to benefit his Gulf Coast constituents.
The trouble is, Theresa thought, that while everything that happens there is supposed to matter supremely, nothing here is supposed even to exist.
In Buddhism, karma is not the only cause of all that happens.
Ashlag proposed that such a framework is the purpose of creation, and everything that happens is to raise humanity to the level of altruism, love for one another.
Unlike bony fish, there is no direct control of the pigment cells by the nervous system, and this results in the colour change taking place more slowly than happens in fish.
In many cases such a selection can be made without invoking the axiom of choice ; this is in particular the case if the number of bins is finite, or if a selection rule is available: a distinguishing property that happens to hold for exactly one object in each bin.
Adiabatic processes can occur if the container of the system has thermally-insulated walls or the process happens in an extremely short time, so that there is no opportunity for significant heat exchange.
The gas is now compressed to a 100cc volume ( we will assume this happens quickly enough that no heat can enter or leave the gas ).
Dropping of syllable-final r sometimes happens in natively rhotic dialects if r is located in unaccented syllables or words and the next syllable or word begins in a consonant.

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