As a result of that, the Burghers left for Australia and the Tamils stayed behind to fight. |
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The burghers of the town had been caught napping during the committee stages of the Bill. |
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In Ayr and environs, from whence the Bard hailed, the poor burghers eat nothing but haggis and neeps marinated in whisky for months on end. |
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At the Battle of Courtrai in 1302, the French army was disastrously defeated by Flemish burghers. |
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It is strange that brothel-scenes were so popular among the God-fearing Dutch burghers. |
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In 1380 he helped to quell a revolt by the Flemish burghers against the count, which ended in 1382 with the massacre of 26,000 Flemings. |
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But why, you may ask, has this apparently trivial factoid ruffled the feathers of the good burghers of Oslo? |
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The burghers of Lucern were rich but, in those days, the chasm between the rich and the poor was enormous. |
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These works were initially commissioned by members of the church, noblemen, and wealthy burghers. |
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It had a lively artistic community and its wealthy burghers, together with the Church and the court at Brussels, provided patrons. |
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They were full burghers of the Transvaal, and as burghers it was their first duty to defend the republic. |
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I'd feel better, though, if the city's burghers had shown some concern about the defacing and trashing that define this city every day. |
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The company soon abandoned the plan, however, and in 1640 opened the colony to vrij burghers, promising two hundred acres for each head of household. |
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The Sinhalese and Tamils are in the majority, and there are also Muslims, aboriginal Veddahs, Malaysians and Burghers. |
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The local burghers were not the least bit delighted or impressed at this assumption, and the unenlightened portrayal of our quaint and historic village. |
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The burghers who died while serving with the National Scouts and the Orange River Colony volunteers who lost their lives while serving with the British. |
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These men became free burghers or citizens who had gained their release from their contracts with the VOC by taking up plots of land and by entering into a burgher militia. |
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The good burghers of the Ayrshire town fancy themselves as an erudite bunch and in the club's round-up page in their matchday magazine showed this is no idle boast. |
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Just ask the burghers of a certain age who are debarking from their vast, shiny cars at the door to the new O'Rourke's Steakhouse on Montrose Boulevard. |
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Moors, Burghers, Malays, Chinese, and the aboriginal Vedda are also established groups on the island. |
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There was also the development of private tuition in the families of lords and wealthy burghers. |
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Voting was limited to officials, property owners, leaseholders and burghers of incorporated towns. |
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Prior to the constitutional changes in 1919, the civic republic was ruled by a class of hereditary grand burghers or Hanseaten. |
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There was no refusing him, for he had got the complete upper hand of the community, and the peaceful burghers all stood in awe of him. |
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Peasants and burghers, however brave, are unable to stand their ground against veteran soldiers. |
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By the end of the century aristocratic, or French, values were spreading among the burghers, and depictions were allowed more freedom and display. |
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The home was also a place for neighbors, friends, and extended family to interact, further cementing its importance in the social lives of 17th century Dutch burghers. |
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At one time, burghers merely denoted Cape Dutch, settlers who were influential in the administration, able to participate in urban affairs, and did so regularly. |
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