• In pre-Revolutionary Russia a priest was confronted by a soldier as he walked down a road.

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  • It follows the life of a farmer in pre-Revolutionary China and proved riveting to Americans who knew little about the culture.

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  • Afterward, a senior officer laid a wreath on a memorial to five pre-Revolutionary War royal governors who had been born in the historic city.

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  • Our contemporary art scene here is reminiscent of pre-revolutionary France when the nobility indulged intensively in equestrian disciplines while the sans culottes rioted in Paris over the price escalations in bread.

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  • The ex-prime minister's campaign has hammered on the perceived lack of security, political instability and economic degradation that have left many Egyptians longing for a return to pre-revolutionary law and order.

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  • In the northern town of Velikiy Ustyug, famous under the tsars for the art of its silversmiths, Mr Taplin found a church given over to a display of pre-revolutionary photographs and trivia.

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  • With the exception of the imperial offspring of the Ming dynasty and the dauphins of pre-Revolutionary France, contemporary American kids may represent the most indulged young people in the history of the world.

    NEWYORKER: Spoiled Rotten

  • After extended negotiations with the local government, the Lindens were afforded a 40-year lease on an intact pre-revolutionary property, which now boasts modern amenities and 14 guest rooms decorated with furniture made by local artisans.

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  • The hero of this melodramatic story of pre-Revolutionary America is Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis), a rugged but sensitive individualist who roams the forest of the Hudson Valley in the company of two Indians, Chingachgook (Russell Means) and Uncas (Eric Schweig).

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  • As the envoy of a defeated power at the Congress of Vienna, he played a weak hand with determination and skill, securing France within its pre-revolutionary borders and achieving a part at least of his vision for Europe.

    ECONOMIST: Talleyrand

  • The only cars that have a traspaso, a permit that enables the vehicle to be traded freely, are those that date from before the revolution, and those that were bought, with special permission, to replace a pre-revolutionary model.

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  • They begin with an account of the pre-revolutionary consensus, such as it was, in Europe, America and the third world, and then describe how it collapsed, partly under the assault of new thinking, and partly under pressure of experience.

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  • With its curved slider and gesture-controlled touch interface, Palm Pre fuses exquisite design with the revolutionary webOS software for fast access to content on the device or web.

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  • GRAPEVINE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GameStop (NYSE: GME), the world's largest multichannel retailer of video games, announced today that it is now taking pre-orders on Nintendo's revolutionary new video game console, the Wii U. Top Wii U games, like Call of Duty: Black Ops II, ZombiU, New Super Mario Bros.

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  • Eisenstein was fascinated by Mexico and by its complex layering of cultural strata: pre-Columbian civilisations, Spanish baroque, 19th-century Beaux-Arts and revolutionary modernism.

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