Take the Gardiner family, for example: they bought their private island from the Montauketts (for some powder and shot, a few Dutch blankets and a dog, allegedly) some 372 years ago, and were duly awarded a royal warrant from Charles I, which, as far as anyone knows, remains in effect today.
That 1993 merger combined Wessanen, a wholesaler of cocoa, flour and edible oils that had branched into consumer foods, and Bols, a spirits firm with a few strong Dutch brands.
As a result, few prosecutors can read Dutch, the language of Indonesia's most important legal precedents.
Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez's team had time to launch a few balls into the Dutch box but van Marwijk's side survived and it is they who will go forward hoping it will be third-time lucky for them in a final following their defeats in 1974 and 1978.
Moreover, vandalism has become worse over the past few months with attacks on Royal Dutch Shell's pipeline in the Opobo Channel in December and subsequent attacks on the Brass Creek fields.
The war is also becoming increasingly Americanised, partly because of Mr Obama's surge, but also because a few NATO members, notably the Dutch and the Canadians, are bringing home their combat troops (while still, it seems, contributing trainers).
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By 1715 Mauritius was in French hands, the Dutch having abandoned it a few years earlier.
Under Dutch law, the monarch has few powers and the role is considered ceremonial.
And although West Indies, surprisingly inserted by Dutch skipper Peter Borren, encountered few alarms, a few deliveries barely bounced as they skidded through the dry surface.
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There were few synergies even in distribution, since a Dutch law that prevented food retailers from selling spirits was slower to change than the new firm had hoped.
SEEDS.nl is a project of Dutch bank ABN-AMRO, one of the few banks to jump into crowdfunding with both feet.
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There are 27 member states, but a few countries have common languages, such as German, French and Dutch.
With a few French and Italian exceptions, the Iveagh pictures are all English, Flemish and Dutch.
The daily breakfast, served as either a buffet or a la carte, is excellent, and a few days each week they offer a chuck wagon-style breakfast with cast iron Dutch ovens that is not to be missed.
South Africa is one of just a few countries in the world that that has a court system that takes root in Roman-Dutch law.
Frits Bolkestein, a Dutch free-marketeer of Eurosceptical outlook (by Dutch standards), would be a tough commissioner for competition, one of the few posts that really matter, if he gets it.
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"The Dutch announcement is a consequence of the investigations which were launched by EU member states a few weeks ago, " the EU spokesman said.
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Inevitably, the success of a seemingly recession-proof economy gets this country a very strong financial press - even if, as we noted a few weeks back, the talk over the coming months will be of whether it has been infected by the "Dutch disease", an over-reliance on the booming resources sector that is having a distorting effect on the economy as a whole.
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