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The Austrian lawyer and scholar Philipp Wilhelm von Hornick, in his Austria Over All, If She Only Will of 1684, detailed a nine-point program of what he deemed effective national economy, which sums up the tenets of mercantilism comprehensively:
She, and they, emphasized that repeal would generate enormous sums of much needed tax revenue, and weaken the base of organized crime.
She also spent exorbitant sums of money on the grandiose baroque projects of her favourite architect, Bartolomeo Rastrelli, particularly in Peterhof and Tsarskoye Selo.
She invested wisely large sums of money and unlike some of her extravagant former colleagues, such as the star tenor Giovanni Mario, who died in penury, she saw out her days amid luxurious surroundings.
She spent large sums of money in a highly visible campaign to support scholars, collect Bulgarian art, and sponsor cultural institutions.
She called this era her “ plutocratic ” period in that she was starting to receive sums for American serialisation rights which both exceeded what she earned in the UK for such rights and was, at this time, free of income tax.
She charged that the three trustees, Cone, Jack Donlan, and Stephen F. Story, paid themselves $ 4. 35 million in bonuses for arranging the Buccaneers ' sale, sums far in excess of what Culverhouse himself had specified, and that they paid Story a sum that was comparable to the salary of a Fortune 500 executive for managing the estate and included a 10-year golden parachute clause.
She retracted her confession that vials were given to her by a British citizen which were used to infect the children, denying knowing any such person as ' John the Englishman ' or having been paid " large sums of money " to infect the children
She survived her husband by many years and was one of the very few English people present at the Jubilee, at Rome, in 1350 ; the king had tried to prevent the attendance of his subjects at this ceremony on account of the large sums of money usually taken out of the kingdom on such occasions.
She attacks the New York Times and the Democratic Party, and sums up her opinion of liberals in two sentences: " Want to make liberals angry?
She is secretly a member of the Temples of Transcendent Evolution, a spiritual group that believes the Mycora to be divine and invests large sums of money into researching them.
She sums up the work ’ s appeal: “ It ’ s part of the quietness of fluorescence .” There ’ s another in the main hallway of her home.
She sums it up by stating, “ transcendental guarantees of truth are dead ;... there is only the endless struggle of local narratives vying with one another for legitimization .” What this says is that there cannot be one way that all people should act in certain circumstances, but rather studies and theories focused on the common good of the public majority.
She expended considerable sums in repairing the ancient edifice and without her concern this remarkable building would no longer be with us.
She died at Norwich on 11 November 1814, aged 75, bequeathing sums to charity.

She and up
She rubbed her eyes and stretched, then sat up, her hands going to her hair.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.
She finally regained her balance and got up in the saddle.
She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.
She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed up the liquid of her eyes and sank into the fibers of her brain, depriving her of reason and sight.
She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.
She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.
She pulled her legs up under her, to rise, her full peasant skirt drawing up her thighs, and Feathertop's music pfffted away.
She would often go up on the roof to see the attendant take down the flag in the evening.
She looked up and saw that, without knowing it, Mrs. Coolidge was holding it aloft.
She had been picked up by the Russians, questioned in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage.
She escaped, crawled through the usual mine fields, under barbed wire, was shot at, swam a river, and we finally picked her up in Linz.
She gave me the names of some people who would surely help pay for the flowers and might even march up to the monument with me.
She smoothed the covers on Scotty's bed and picked things up from the floor.
`` She didn't really say '' -- She glanced away at the floor, then swooped gracefully and picked up one of Scotty's slippers.
She lost not a second, picking herself up and continuing her pilgrimage to Laura.
She was taken up in worry for the reckless old man.
She sprang up and went swiftly to the bedroom.
She swung her eyes up to the blue of the window, her jaws gently mashing the bitter beans.
She enjoyed great parties when she would sit up talking and dancing and drinking all night, but it always seemed to her that being alone, especially alone in her house, was the realest part of life.
She stood up, smoothing her hair down, straightening her clothes, feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside, and, above everything else, for the absence of the need to answer, to respond, to be aware even of Stowey coming in or going out, and yet, now that she was beginning to cook, she glimpsed a future without him, a future alone like this, and the pain made her head writhe, and in a moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests.
She had felt that her arm wanted to go up in the first trial, but had consciously prevented it from so doing.

She and her
She lay there, making no effort to get back on her feet.
She drank greedily, and murmured, `` Thank you '', as he lowered her head.
She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;
She got to her feet, staggered, and almost fell.
She sat down at the table, shaking her head.
She clung to him, talking to him, and dabbing at her eyes.
She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
She swung the quirt again, and this time he caught her wrist and pulled her out of the saddle.
She came down against him, and he tried to break her fall.
She wiped it off with the sleeve of her coat.
She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.
She remembered little of her previous journey there with Grace, and she could but hope that her dedication to her mission would enable her to accomplish it.

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