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Em determinado momento, dentro de um contexto bem mais amplo, ele fez referência às atividades de Maiorana pai no contrabando, prática bem comum, aliás, na Região Norte na época.
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Siendo un importante centro ganadero y minero pero que cobija también actividades como el contrabando y la explotación ilegal, sus altos niveles de pobreza indican que los puneños no son “autónomos” como deberían serlo, por su condición de “Región”.
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See also C.A. Araúz Monfante, El contrabando holandes en el Caribe durante la primera mitad del siglo XVIII (Caracas: Academia Nacional de História, 1984).
The Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Dari 2001
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De matute es lo mismo que de contrabando y matutero ó contrabandista es el que introduce tales géneros.
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
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Cuando llegó el buque á La Coruña había un sinnúmero de guardias aduaneras alerta, pues se decía que llevaba muchos géneros de contrabando.
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
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French and Latin, and all the rest of them; and when you get on talking to that _contrabando_ chap it worries me.
!Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War George Manville Fenn 1870
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Finisterra I hope it will be in a valiant English bark, with plenty of contrabando on board, and not across the country on a pony, in company with nuveiros and men of Padron.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842
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Farewell, my captain, and when you next come to Finisterra I hope it will be in a valiant English bark, with plenty of contrabando on board, and not across the country on a pony, in company with nuveiros and men of Padron.
The Bible in Spain 1712
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Miles de personas sobreviven del contrabando y esperan una oportunidad para mejorar su existencia.
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Miles de personas sobreviven del contrabando y esperan una oportunidad para mejorar su existencia.
oroboros commented on the word contrabando
Spanish: contraband, secret cargo
September 12, 2007
seanahan commented on the word contrabando
I never would have guessed the meaning of this one.
September 12, 2007