sist


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sist

(sɪst) Scots law
n
(Law) a court order stopping or suspending proceedings
vb (tr)
(Law) to stop or suspend (legal proceedings)
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During the Civil War he as- sisted in the recruiting of colored men for the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Regiments and consistently argued for the emancipation of slaves.
Still, he was sufficiently touched by his aunt's grief to long to rush out from under the bed and overwhelm her with joy -- and the theatrical gorgeousness of the thing appealed strongly to his nature, too, but he re- sisted and lay still.
It never occurred to me then that I didn't know in what soundness of mind exactly con- sisted and what a delicate and, upon the whole, unimportant matter it was.
You understand," he in- sisted, superfluously, looking hard at me.
Cardiff Met entered into a transnational education partnership with SIST in 2009, offering programmes at campuses in Casablanca, Rabat and Tangier.
This study used a validated ambulatory activity monitor and aimed to (1) provide insight into motor function in older adults living in a residential care facility through acquisition of several basic components of everyday physical activity and (2) acquire insight into the performance of two types of postural transitions (i.e., SiSt and StSi) through long-term monitoring in a geriatric population.
Both the SIST and the ZT are designed to be used for participants in team sports.
Without this capability, the ISP cannot help sist attack.
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