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DIS

(1) (Data Instrumentation Systems) See DST.

(2) (Dis) A virtual machine. See Inferno.
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Dis

god of nether world; identified with Pluto. [Rom. Myth.: Leach, 315]
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Joye said he thinks the main reason South Carolina has been reticent to adopt a form of attorney-led voir dire is that there are too many examples of the process being abused in other states.
En peu de mots, nous arrivons a dire que le tatouage dans la societe berbere avait tellement un role decisif et un objectif different par-rapport aux autres societes qui le considere tel un element cle pour l'esthetique et la beaute.
Agha Muneer Ahmed Pathan, a healthy youth develops healthy atmosphere while there is dire need of healthy atmosphere, besides he acclaimed the efforts of youths and offered their full support for healthy activities for the larger interests of the youths of Shikarpur.
During their career Dire Straits sold over 120 million albums and spent over a thousand weeks on the UK charts.
Dire Straits are one of the most successful bands to ever come out of the UK, they have sold in excess of 120 million albums worldwide and were the UK's first stadium rock band.
Money For Nothing (MFN) is described as tribute to Dire Straits 'like no other before' with authentic sounds of one of the most successful rock bands of all time.
If you do, you may well get hurt." But HM Inspectorate of Prisons said: "Dire warnings staff were given were not grounded in evidence."
Today, under commissioner Willie Marcial, contact on the landing spot without dire consequence is an automatic flagrant foul penalty one and a flagrant foul penalty two with dire consequence.
The defendant argued that the trial judge's reliance on group voir dire as a mechanism for exposing prospective jurors' potential racial biases was inadequate to safeguard his right to an impartial jury.
8 (BNA): The US has voiced deep concerns over the increase of violence in Yemen, calling on "all parties there to reject the use of violence against their political opponents." State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert told reporters, late on Thursday, the situation Yemen is "so dire," and that "the more that we see violence take place, the worse the situation can become for civilians, in particular for women and children." "We are particularly concerned by the reports the actions in Sana'a, including the unlawful killings, the mass detentions and the violent suppression of peaceful protests," she said, quoted by Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
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