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They were constituted as the conservators of public morality ; they were not simply to prevent crime or particular acts of immorality, but rather to maintain the traditional Roman character, ethics, and habits ( mos majorum )— regimen morum also encompassed this protection of traditional ways, which was called in the times of the empire cura (" supervision ") or praefectura (" command ").
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They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.
They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.
They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
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They were the first in Europe to gain the franchise, and by the 1980s they routinely constituted about one-third of the membership of the Eduskunta ( parliament ) and held several ministerial posts.
They formed part of the third squadron of the High Seas Fleet as it was constituted for World War I.
Amongst those who followed these ideas were the English poets and painters that constituted the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who, from about 1850, opposed the dominant trend of industrial Victorian England, because of their " opposition to technical skill without inspiration " They were influenced by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ), who had strong feelings about the role of art in helping to improve the lives of the urban working classes, in the rapidly expanding industrial cities of Britain.
They were prostitutes in the sense that sex was one of their obligations, but unlike the average prostitute, sex constituted only a facet of the courtesan's array of services.
They are carried in by the sergeant-at-arms or some other mace-bearer and displayed on the clerks ' table while parliament is in session to show that a parliament is fully constituted.
They were one of the earliest forms of fanzine, and at one time constituted the primary type of science-fictional fannish activity (" fanac ").
They constituted the grounds for their expulsion and banishment in 1492, so they could not subvert conversos.
They had also constituted bishops in other districts where there were a sufficient number of adherents.
They are rules that are observed by the various constituted parts though they are not written in any document having legal authority ; there are often underlying enforcing principles that are themselves not formal and codified.
They constituted a legacy of what has been called the cultural infrastructure underlying American public space.
They were constituted as a complement to the regular troops of the bourbonic army, which had to confront the Miquelets, who persisted as an insurgent redoubt of supporters of Archduke Charles.
They also decided that, as proper court martial could not be constituted in Sydney, no further action should be taken against Johnston.
They alleged that the definition of " spouse " under the Old Age Security Act constituted an infringement of their right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law, entrenched in section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and that such an infringement was discriminatory on the basis of sexual orientation.
They can be completely extirpated in shallow water bodies, and during the winter of 1948-49 in the Amu Darya, muskrats constituted 12. 3 % of jackal faeces contents, and 71 % of muskrat houses were destroyed by jackals, 16 % of which froze and became unsuitable for muskrat occupation.
They are constituted by cave temples, monolithic rathas ( chariots ), sculpted reliefs and structural temples.
They constituted the greater part of the corps in the military troops of French West Africa, known in French as the Tirailleurs Sénégalais.
They contested that the debate, to be held on the grounds of and partially funded by a state university, constituted an illegal in kind campaign donation because it excluded Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate.
They are usually more than 20m, and up to 60m, in diameter and the posts that constituted them were generally more than 0. 5m wide.
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