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  • 11act of forestalling — index constraint (restriction) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 12Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei Iaido — [Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei Iai, English Version Manual 3rd edition, published October 2006, by All Japan Kendo Federation, Tokyo, Japan.] Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei Iaido is the Nihongo| iaidō |居合道 style of the All Japan Kendo Federation (AJKF, Zen… …

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  • 13Engrossing — Engrossing, forestalling and regrating were marketing offences in English common law. The terms were used to describe unacceptable methods of influencing the market, sometimes by creating a local monopoly for a certain good, usually food. The… …

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  • 14The Book of Five Rings — Go Rin No Sho calligraphed in Kanji . Musashi strived for as great a mastery in that art as in swordsmanship. The Book of Five Rings (五輪書, Go Rin No Sho …

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  • 15Badger (person) — A Badger was, in English, a term of uncertain derivation (possibly derived from bagger, a bag or person carrying one) for a dealer in food or victuals which he had purchased in one place and carried for sale in another place. OED gives the… …

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  • 17Sikh Wars — (1845–46, 1848–49) Two wars fought between the Sikhs and the British. In the first war Sikhs invaded British India under the pretext of forestalling a British attack on the Sikh state in the Punjab (see Ranjit Singh). They were defeated, the… …

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  • 18prevention — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. stoppage, forestalling, arrest, arresting, preclusion, obviating, bar, debarring, halt, impeding, foil, retardation, repression, restraint, restriction, inhibition, interception, overriding, circumvention, hindering,… …

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  • 19forestall — (v.) late 14c. (implied in forestalling), to lie in wait for; also to intercept goods before they reach public markets and buy them privately (formerly a crime; mid 14c. in this sense in Anglo French), from O.E. noun foresteall intervention,… …

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  • 20abbrochment — or abbroachment /abrowchmant/ The act of forestalling a market, by buying up at wholesale the merchandise intended to be sold there, for the purpose of selling it at retail. See forestalling the market …

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