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‘A male may have measures.’

[⟨det male.nhave.v ⟨det (plur measure.n)⟩]

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“On 2 October 1815, one of his first measures was to send out a circular to all the departmental prefects informing them of their priorities in this troubled time :” The very first priority should be given to the maintenance of order (…
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Alex is skeptical at his extravagant measures for love, but he tells him that sometimes “grand gestures” are necessary to impress a girl.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Legal may not have signed off on Adam’s measures of transparency, but his readers do and that’s what matters. 3.
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His concepts and many of his practical measures are now the basis of Western penal systems. The Alexander Maconochie Centre, a prison in Canberra was named after him.
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When consul he incurred the hatred of the democrats by his harsh measures as head of a special commission appointed to take measures against the accomplices of Tiberius Gracchus.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
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As cruel as Caldwell B. Cladwell was, his measures effectively regulated water consumption, sparing the town the same fate as the phantom Urinetown.
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Legal may not have signed off on Adam’s measures of transparency, but his readers do and that’s what matters. 3.
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The Cdiz Cortes blamed Venegas for his arbitrary measures, believing that they impeded the pacification of the country.
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Expense of proactive wolf measures makes duplicating local project difficult, officials say.”
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When he was younger, Lee had been absolutely certain that he got horrible rashes if he stayed still for too long and his teachers at school had mistaken his preventive measures for some sort of attention disorder.
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When he arrived there, his first measures so offended the Regent that she resigned in protest in early September, 1567.
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Images of Harry Bell Measures designed Central London Railway stations from :
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His ferocious measures having failed to suppress the conventicles in Scotland, be summoned to his aid in 1677 a band of Highlanders, who were sent into the western country.
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His own letters and proclamations to fellow peasants focused on the suppression of Roman Catholic customs of piety, the King’s requisitions of church bells and church plate to be smelted down for money and the general discontent with Gustav’s autocratic measures, and the King’s letters indicate that Dacke had considerable military success for several months.
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In his time and shortly after, Jelai was a fairly unpopular figure among the Croatian political elite, including Ante Starevi and others, and especially among the people who suffered losses due to his military campaigns and had little benefit from his economic measures.
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Most of his political measures, indeed, stood the test of experience, but in ecclesiastico – political matters he witnessed with sorrow the gradual decline of Catholicism and the spread of Lutheranism within his dominions, in spite of his earnest efforts and forcible prohibition of the new doctrine.
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Queried on 2013-06-19.