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This annulment extends to the cases of accused who are absent or contumacious with respect to prosecution charges.
Esta nulidad se extiende a los casos de acusados ausentes y contumaces por los hechos materia de acusación fiscal.
And I will bend each contumacious spirit each stiff-neck, prideful soul of you or crush you if I must.
Y yo doblegaré cada espíritu contumaz, y cada alma porfiada y orgullosa, o los aplastaré... si tengo que hacerlo.
The Stygians always want to make examples of contumacious underlings, and a ship has greater hull speed than a boat.
Los estigios siempre quieren hacer escarmiento en los rebeldes contumaces, y un buque navega con mucha más rapidez que un bote.
Two or three hundred yards behind him, still buried in the timber, Otto was having trouble with Dishpan, a contumacious pack-mare.
A doscientos o trescientos metros atrás, todavía en la espesura del bosque, Otto trataba de dominar a Dispham, una contumaz yegua de carga.
It takes the instigation to rebellion by men of ill will to make him discontented with his picturesque role and to put into his head the contumacious notion that men must be equal.
Sorprende, pues, el ansia de rebelión que le inculcan los hombres de mala voluntad a fin de enemistarlo con el papel tan pintoresco que le corresponde y meterle en la cabeza la idea contumaz de que todos los hombres deben ser iguales.
said the protostylarion, handing Rodvard a dossier which bore the endorsement: “Approved to expel the subject from the Myonessae for contumacious refusal to accept any choice—Tradit, I.”
—Tomad el apunte para acabar de una vez —dijo el protostylarion, tendiendo a Rodvard una carpeta con un título que decía: “Aprobada expulsión sujeto Myonessas negativa contumaz aceptar cualquier elección” —Tradit.
We were not to know that General St Clair’s failure to reinforce his rear-guard had been due to the contumacious refusal of two militia regiments to march; and that, had we pressed the pursuit, we might have captured prisoners by the thousand, and supported ourselves upon the food and ammunition that they strewed behind them in their rout.
No sabíamos que el general St. Clair no había reforzado su retaguardia debido a la contumaz negativa de dos regimientos de milicias a marchar, y que, si hubiéramos continuado la persecución, podíamos haber capturado miles de prisioneros y sostenernos con los víveres y las municiones que ellos dejaran en su fuga.
when the babelic crowd disperses, the Faithful Disciple will cast his gaze in the direction of the Mistress of the Sugar Plantation on High and young Fermina will frown and point downward once again with the thumb of her right hand, like Caesar after a gladiatorial combat, to clearly indicate that in her opinion the case is hopeless and that for the good of all concerned, and in particular that of the novelistic order and its stipendiary guardians, it is best to put an end to little niceties and sentimentality and finish you, the contumacious, indecent guilty party, off as expeditiously as possible
cuando el babélico gentío se dispersa, el Discípulo Fiel dirigirá sus miradas al Ama del Ingenio de Arriba y la Niña Fermina arrugará el ceño y apuntará otra vez con el pulgar de la mano derecha al suelo como César después de gladiador combate mostrando a las claras que en su opinión el caso no tiene remedio y para bien de todos, y en especial del orden novelesco y de sus ideológicos y estipendiados guardianes, conviene dejarse de melindres y sentimentalismos y acabar cuanto antes contigo, el contumaz, indecente culpable
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