Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ballots in the Chamber of Deputies, was finally elected to a seven-year term as President of Italy. Quipped Antonio Segni's partisans in a somewhat blasphemous parody of the miraculous vision that came to the Emperor Constantine as he marched on Rome in the 4th century: In hoc Segni vinces...
...Below a flaming cross that appeared in the noonday sky above Rome, Constantine saw the motto, In hoc signo vinces (By this sign conquer), which eventually led to his conversion to Christianity...
...effort to speed up its operations, the Cambridge City Council appointed an ad hoc committee to revise its rules last January. Under the leadership of Councillor G. d'Andelot Belin, the committee introduced new rules of procedure, and got rid of some unnecessary regulations and procedures...
...said it is possible that the government investigation, which "seems to be run by anonymous panels and ad hoc committees," is using its technical material to support a political position. "Perhaps they only want an excuse to call for inspection in Russia," he ventured, "but they cannot correctly use seismology as justification...
Exact tabulation of results is available. An HOC spokesman said bills for the expenses of running drive have not yet been deducted the totals received, and some from students had been...