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puissance

[pyoo-uh-suhns, pyoo-is-uhns, pwis-uhns] / ˈpyu ə səns, pyuˈɪs əns, ˈpwɪs əns /


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Maher won the Christmas Cracker and Christmas Puissance on Thursday, although the latter does not count towards the leading rider race.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2012

Maher took his day's earnings past £10,000 by capturing the Alltech Christmas Puissance title.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2012

Grey a répondu que ces mesures n'avaient pas un caractère agressif, mais que la situation était telle que chaque Puissance devait se préparer.

From Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History

Il a exprimé en même temps l'espoir qu'aucune grande Puissance ne commencerait les hostilités avant l'examen de cette formule.

From Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History

His third work was the one now translated, La Puissance Americaine, in which he has displayed, most emphatically, his admiration of our institutions, and offered them as examples to communities aspiring after rational liberty.

From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various




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