jus
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She has a firm idea about the distinction between two very different theories of citizenship: jus soli, based on soil, and jus sanguinis, based on descent.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026
Options range from $19 wagyu oxtail patties to a $48 grilled pork chop served with crab butter, grilled mango and a jus flavored with kuchela, a Trinidadian green-mango relish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
John Skrentny, a sociology professor at the University of California, San Diego, believes that, though birthright citizenship or jus soli is common throughout the Americas, "each nation-state had its own unique road to it".
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025
Once the wine has cooked out, we add more aromatics and transfer the pan to a 350-degree oven to reduce to the thick and sticky jus that glazed the chicken on the plate.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2024
He say, Okay, boy, you be servin jus a little while, too.’
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
The anti-clerical and anti-theological animus is already strong; the attitude dantis jura Catonis is arranged; the jura themselves, if not actually graven and tabulated, can be seen coming with very little difficulty.
From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George
The Popes had not been fettered, habent omnia jura in suo scrinio; and their jurisdiction in England had been transferred whole and entire to the King.
From Henry VIII. by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
In all resolutions relating to the fundamental laws, the organic regulations of the confederation, the jura singulorum and matters of religion, unanimity was required.
From Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 by Horrocks, Mrs. George
The last example was known in 1789, to celebrate the jura of the Prince of Asturia, afterwards the pious and exemplary Ferdinand VII.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various
In all resolutions relating to fundamental laws, the organic regulations of the Confederation, the jura singulorum and matters of religion, unanimity German Confederation established was required.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
