noun
definition
A pace; a step, as in a dance or in marching.
definition
The right of going foremost; precedence.
Examples of pas in a Sentence
Not long after his accession to office Gorchakov issued a circular to the foreign powers, in which he announced that Russia proposed, for internal reasons, to keep herself as free as possible from complications abroad, and he added the now historic phrase, "La Russie ne boude pas; die se recueille."
In all countries passenger trains must vary in weight according to the different services they have to perform; suburban Weight trains, for example, meant to hold as many pas ah d sengers as possible, and travelling at low speeds, do not weigh so much as long-distance expresses, which include dining and sleeping cars, and on which, from considerations of comfort, more space must be allowed each occupant.
A different and very interesting piece of evidence is afforded by the Ipomedon of Hue de Rotelande; in relating how his hero appeared at a tournament three days running, in three different suits of armour, red, black and white, the author remarks, Sul ne sai pas de mentir l'art Walter Map reset ben sa part.
A good example of the camisia of the 12th century is the rochet of Thomas Becket, preserved at Dammartin in the Pas de Calais, the only surviving medieval example remarkable for the pleating which, as was the case with albs also, gave greater breadth and more elaborate folds.
The Revolution drew him into political life, and he was elected a deputy for the Pas de Calais.
He then turned to industrial pursuits, and, having made himself acquainted with the processes of the cotton manufacture, founded at Auchy, in the Pas de Calais, a spinning-mill which employed four or five hundred persons, principally women and children.
In 1840 he ', as thus enabled to give a quantitative statement of the law acc s rding to which heat is produced in a conductor by the pas ageof an electric current, and in succeeding years he publish d a series of valuable researches on the agency of electricity in ansformations of energy.
Prince Gorchakov could then declare to Europe, "La Russie ne boude pas; elle se recueille"; and for fifteen years he avoided foreign complications, so that the internal strength of the country might be developed, while the national pride and ambition received a certain satisfaction by the expansion of Russian influence and domination in Asia.
This page gives an overview of all articles in the 1911 Brittanica which are alphabetized under Pas to Pea.
The impression created by the conduct of the Light Brigade was forcibly expressed in Tennyson's well-known ballad, and in spite of the equally celebrated remark of the French general Bosquet, C'est magnifique mais ce n'est pas la guerre, it may be questioned whether the moral effect of the charge did not outweigh the very serious loss in trained men and horses involved.
The strike of miners in the Pas de Calais after the disaster at Courrieres, leading to the threat of disorder on the 1st of May 1906, obliged him to employ the military; and his attitude in the matter alienated the Socialist party, from which he definitely broke in his notable reply in the Chamber to Jean Jaures in June 1906.
A petition in his favour addressed to Coffinhal, the president of the tribunal, is said to have been met with the reply La Republique n'a pas besoin de savants, and on the 8th of the month Lavoisier and his companions were guillotined at the Place de la Revolution.
Ramalho Ortigao, the art critic, will be remembered principally for the Far pas, a series of satirical and humorous sketches of Portuguese society which he wrote in collabora- Criticism.
He is best known, however, as a warm opponent of Arianism, whose eagerness to emphasize the deity of Christ and the unity of His person led him so far as a denial of the existence of a rational human soul (Pas) in Christ's human nature, this being replaced in Him by a prevailing principle of holiness, to wit the Logos, so that His body was a glorified and spiritualized form of humanity.
He shortly afterwards published two pamphlets against the use of paper money, entitled, Pas d'Assignats !
The last pas de deux will leave the viewer quite breathless!
A thousand and one faux pas are committed by brits abroad every year.
This faux pas attracted much attention and a great credibility gap began to open between government and governed on the subject of UFOs.
Priorite A Gauche - Remastered Underbelly Productions Three Weeks Pas de panic, Priorite à Gauche sont Dans le maison!
In most cases of moderate PAS the aforementioned program should prove efficacious.
For a bit of a chuckle we want to know what is your fashion faux pas?
Theoretical Physics hypertext faux pas These are the things not to do!
We were each engaged in impression management and doing our best not to commit a faux pas.
Unfortunately I made a faux pas, greeting Anne with the first thing that popped into my mind.
If the next fashion faux pas is waiting just around the corner, then just what do we do?
Climb the flake on the left pas a thin break, PR, to reach a V-shaped groove.
This is to prevent the damage caused by PAS from becoming impervious to improvement.
Its main slogan was Touche pas à mon pote which appeared on badges and posters.
We have a team of PAs based at our One-Stop-Shops, in schools and colleges, at careers centers and via our pas based at our One-Stop-Shops, in schools and colleges, at careers centers and via our partners.
This door has a certain Frenchness about it, n'est pas?
My second faux pas were my Burberry check swimming trunks.
The Jo nang pas have contradicted themselves in speaking of their nonconceptual Ultimate.
He also danced the pas de deux from Winter Dreams on the opening night.
Where we have a pas de six they have a pas de huit.
She was serene in the grand pas de deux.
It includes Gloria, not seen since 1993, whose central pas de deux made such an impression at the opening gala last month.
Want all to run smoothly, with no faux pas from her mother.
This year's is the fifth incarnation, and the lead single is Je ne suis pas un heros.
This is not a body is inspired by Rene Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
We also spoke to sometimes savage PAs in an attempt to gain direct access to our targets.
And praise must also go to Igor Kolb for his dazzling virtuosity as Ali in the pas de trois.
Thus even ir these constructive processes there occurs a constant pas,age of energy backwards and forwards from the kinetic to the potential condition and vice versa.
When I go to far-flung places, I often know little of local customs and, through ignorance, I have committed more than one faux pas.
I'm even weady to dance the pas de chale.
Where, how, and when had this young countess, educated by an emigree French governess, imbibed from the Russian air she breathed that spirit and obtained that manner which the pas de chale * would, one would have supposed, long ago have effaced?
But the advisers n'entendent pas de cette oreille, voila le mal. * Some want a thing--others don't.
Ah, Maman, ne dites pas de betises.
N'ayez pas peur, on ne vous fera pas de mal, * he added shyly and affectionately, touching the boy's hand.
Then, in March 1942, Bill was shot down over the Pas de Calais.
Returning underwear is typically considered a faux pas.