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quid

noun as in cud

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So it was really a quid pro quo to ensure that there weren’t nuclear weapons by the other side that were very close to the border of that country posing an existential threat.

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The Supreme Court has long held that campaign finance regulation generally doesn’t violate the First Amendment as long as it prevents quid pro quo corruption or the appearance of corruption.

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It establishes a mechanism of fairness that doesn’t depend on colonial mentalities of quid pro quo, says Bloom.

This may be more subtle than the quid pro quos to which your brother has become accustomed, but for that reason, it is less likely to damage your relationship with him.

The Booth report provides examples of quids that larger platforms could offer to receive the quo of continued immunity.

“The U.S. is going to want to keep these as separate issues and not link them formally with a quid pro quo,” he said.

The Court has upheld limits on individual contributions to avoid quid pro quo corruption or the “appearance of corruption.”

The Budapest document makes sense historically only as a quid pro quo agreement resting upon American credibility to act.

Eric Idle said, “It means we can advertise it as 300 quid cheaper than the Stones.”

The Supreme Court only accepts one justification for limiting political speech: quid pro quo corruption or the appearance thereof.

Postrem quid nobis effectum hactenus, seu potis quid attentatum sit ad diuinam gloriam.

Quid sit Nova Francia, qualis regio, qui in e populi, quique mores.

Quid a missionariis hactenus effectum seu potius attentatum sit.

Gallos quid atq omnes gentes cm semel saturi sunt, long despiciunt, irridntq clanculum omnia; etiam religion, quam susceperint.

In the action off Camperdown, Admiral de Winter asked one of his lieutenants for a quid of tobacco.

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