Contra supporters often tried to downplay these violations, or countered that the Sandinista government carried out much more.

A Sandinista militiaman interviewed by The Guardian stated that Contra rebels committed these atrocities against Sandinista prisoners after a battle at a Sandinista rural outpost: " Rosa had her breasts cut off.

Quintilian speaks of three orations by Sulpicius as still in existence ; one of these was the speech against Murena, another Pro or Contra Aufidium, of whom nothing is known.

The Ophites accepted the existence of these seven archons ( Origen, Contra Celsum, vi.

# Alcman, Sappho, Alcaeus and Theocritus have σδ for Attic-Ionic ζ. Contra: The tradition would not have invented this special digraph for these poets if was the normal pronunciation in all Greek.

It is also possible for Super Game Boy games to make use of the SNES hardware for extra effects, as demonstrated in Contra: The Alien Wars, Donkey Kong, Kirby's Dream Land 2, A Bug's Life, Animaniacs and Toy Story ; these games had expanded sound when used with the Super Game Boy.

The letters tend not to concern questions of bidding or play – these are dealt with in other features such as Pro et Contra ( discontinued after Oswald Jacoby's death in 1984 ).

Contra: a ) words with and are rare, and exceptions in phonological and ( even more so ) phonotactic patterns is in no way uncommon ; b ) there was in etc.

Contra: a ) The most prominent example of a verb beginning with στ has in fact < * se-in the perfect reduplication (); b ) the words with / ts / > σ ( σ ) also have: Homer, Ion.

Contra: a few inscriptions do seem to suggest that ζ was pronounced like σδ ; furthermore, all words with written σδ are morphologically transparent, and written σδ may simply be echoing the morphology.

* Nick Nope ( Do Contra ) – " Agreed ", " equal " and its derivates are words missing in Nick ’ s vocabulary.

All of Origen's works written after 218 are dedicated to Ambrose, including his On Martyrdom, Contra Celsum, Commentary on St. John's Gospel, and On Prayer.

Contra dance events are open to all, regardless of experience.

Contra dances are arranged in long paired lines of couples.

There are several related dance forms, such as Scottish country dance, Irish dance, American Contra dance, and square dance.

** Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of 5 charges for his part in the scandal ; the convictions are later reversed on appeal.

( Many traditional square dance calls are similar or identical to contra dance calls, which are described at Contra dance choreography ).

Phantom black " panthers " have been reported across the state, and are seen with particular frequency at and around Mount Diablo, in Contra Costa County, California.

Police services for the community are provided by the of the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office Bay Station.

The Kensington Municipal Advisory Board ( KMAC ) is a commission whose members are appointed by the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors.

It must be also noted that the Mithras mysteries, so closely connected with the Persian religion, are acquainted with this doctrine of the ascent of the soul through the planetary spheres ( Origen, Contra Celsum, vi.

Contra: the use of a special symbol for is no more or no less improbable that the use of ψ for and ξ for, and such use of special letters may be justified by the fact that they are the only double sounds that could appear at a word initial.

Contra: whether the prononciation of was, or, di would probably still have been the closest native Latin sound ; furthermore, the inscriptions are centuries later than the time for which is assumed.

In California's Contra Costa County and Solano County, a shoreline necklace of refineries, built in the early 20th century before this area was populated, and associated chemical plants are adjacent to urban areas in Richmond, Martinez, Pacheco, Concord, Pittsburg, Vallejo and Benicia, with occasional accidental events that require " shelter in place " orders to the adjacent populations.

Josephus's Contra Apion is a wide-ranging defense of Judaism against many charges laid against Judaism at that time, as too are some of the works of Philo of Alexandria.

Contra accounts are used in bookkeeping to record asset and liability valuation changes.

The Mercury News encompasses all other Bay Area newspapers owned by Media News Group, including the Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times, Marin Independent Journal, San Mateo County Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and 10 other local daily newspapers, each of which are branded as " an edition of the San Jose Mercury News ," which accounts for the newspaper's high circulation.

Many other short Latin poems from a thirteenth-century manuscript are attributed to him, along with a prose treatise, Contra Curiales et Officinales Clericos.

In Contra, the player controls one of two armed military commandos named Bill " Mad Dog " Rizer and Lance " Scorpion " Bean, who are sent on a mission to neutralize a terrorist group called the Red Falcon Organization that is planning to take over the Earth.

There are two types of stages in Contra.

Both, Contra and Super C, are included in the Nintendo DS game Contra 4 as hidden bonuses.

Solano County has a number of rare and endangered species including the beetle Elaphrus viridis, the wildflower Lasthenia conjugens, commonly known as Contra Costa goldfields and the annual plant Legenere limosa or False Venus ' looking glass.

* 1990 – Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal ( the conviction is later reversed on appeal ).

The last mention of Ambrose in the historical record is in Origen's Contra Celsum, which the latter wrote at the solicitation of Ambrose.

The earlier date, 293, is sometimes assigned and apparently supported by the authority of a " Coptic Fragment " ( published by Dr. O. von Lemm among the Mémoires de l ' académie impériale des sciences de S. Péterbourg, 1888 ) and corroborated by the maturity revealed in his two earliest treatises Contra Gentes ( Against the Heathens ) and De Incarnatione ( On the Incarnation ), which were admittedly written about the year 318 before Arianism had begun to make itself felt, as those writings do not show an awareness of Arianism.

This change is effected by progressing the 1's down the set and progressing the 2's up ( also up the hall and down the hall ; see Contra Dance Form main article for full characterizations of the progression in the eight dance forms mentioned above ).

:* Sharon Barrett Kennedy's " Now, What in the World is Contra Dancing?

It is especially important in Argentine Tango, Lindy Hop, Balboa, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Salsa, Contra dance, Modern Jive and other styles of partner dance.

Similarly, the Catholic Institute for International Relations ( CIIR, now known as " Progressio "), a human rights organization which identifies itself with liberation theology, had summarized Contra operating procedures in their 1987 human rights report: " The record of the contras in the field, as opposed to their official professions of democratic faith, is one of consistent and bloody abuse of human rights, of murder, torture, mutilation, rape, arson, destruction and kidnapping.

While President Ronald Reagan was a supporter of the Contra cause, the evidence is disputed as to whether he authorized the diversion of the money raised by the Iranian arms sales to the Contras.

As with other passages in Josephus relating to Christian themes, concern remains over whether the passage was part of Josephus's original text or instead a later addition-it can be dated back no further than the early 3rd century when it is quoted by Origen in Contra Celsum.

The denial of the virgin birth is also sometimes ascribed to the Ebionites ; however, Origen ( Contra Celsum v. 61 ) and Eusebius ( HE iii. 27 ) both indicate that some Ebionites did accept the virgin birth.

However, it is not a pure genre and is very frequently coupled with elements of other genres, such as the shooter elements in Contra, the adventure elements of Flashback or the RPG elements of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

Contra liberal individualism, Honneth has emphasised the inter-subjective dependence between humans ; that is, our well-being depends on recognising others and being recognised by them.

The original settlement in what is now the downtown was initially called " Contra Costa " (" opposite shore ", the Spanish name for the lands on the east side of the Bay ) and was included in Contra Costa County before Alameda County was established on March 25, 1853.

This, for instance, is the general purport of the book, " Contra insulsam vulgi opinionem de grandine et tonitruis " ( Against the foolish belief of the common sort concerning hail and thunder ), written by Saint Agobard ( d. 841 ), Archbishop of Lyons ..

BART is operated by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, a special-purpose transit district that was formed in 1957 to cover San Francisco, Alameda County, and Contra Costa County.

Later in the same work, Purcell's own manuscript designates the same singer, Mr Howel, described as " a High Contra tenor " to perform in the range G < sub > 3 </ sub > to C < sub > 4 </ sub >; it is very likely that he took some of the lowest notes in a well-blended " chest voice " – see below ).

Contra is used where " signal " would be used for support.

The Ionian philosopher Thales had also studied in Babylonia ( This is controversial ; see primary source, Josephus Contra Apionem I. 2 ).

Contra Costa County ( Spanish for " opposite coast ") is a primarily suburban county in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U. S. state of California.

Bay Point, formerly West Pittsburg, is a suburb and census-designated place located in eastern Contra Costa County, California, just west of the city of Pittsburg and northeast over a low range of hills from Concord.

It is the most populous CDP in Contra Costa County.