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Contra
[video game series] The in-universe use of the term "Contra" is first explained within the Japanese instruction card of the arcade version of Contra, and reiterated in most games (including Contra: Shattered Soldier), as "a title awarded to a superior soldier possessing almost super human dr...
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contra
Latin, meaning: (+ acc.) against.
Found op http://archives.nd.edu/ccc.htm
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Contra
The Latin term 'Contra' means, in a UK legal context: 'to the contrary'.
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Contra
An entry made into an account or statement to nullify a previous... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/contra.htm?id=300&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of contra'>more</a>
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Contra
Member of a Central American right-wing guerrilla force attempting to overthrow the democratically elected Nicaraguan Sandinista government between 1979 and 1990. The Contras, many of them...
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Contra
To the contrary
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Contra
Con'tra A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against , contrary , in opposition , etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many English words. Confer Counter , adverb & prefix
Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/148
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Contra
• A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary, in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many English words. Cf. Counter, adv. & pref.
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Contra
(from the article `Sandinista`) ...and built up support through mass organizations of workers, young people, and other groups. To fight off the attacks of the counterrevolutionary ... ...in February 1984, which was, when revealed, universally condemned. The CIA also secretly organized and supplied a...
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contra
(from the article `contredanse`) ...of the English country dance (q.v.) and was performed into the 19th century by French, English, and German aristocrats and bourgeoisie. ... Country dances are performed in three characteristic formations: (1) circular, for an indefinite number of couples (`round` ...
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Contra
[video game] Virtual Console (MSX2) ==Plot== In Contra, the player controls one of two armed military commandos named Bill "Mad Dog" Rizer and Lance "Scorpion" Bean, who are sent on a mission to neutralize a terrorist group called the Red Falcon Organization that is planning to take over the...
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Contra
Member of a Central American right-wing guerrilla force attempting to overthrow the democratically elected Nicaraguan Sandinista government between 1979 and 1990. The Contras, many of them mercenaries or former members of the deposed dictator Somoza's guard (see Nicaraguan Revolution), operated main...
Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0024152.html
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Contra
[album] Contra is the second album by American indie rock band Vampire Weekend, released in January 2010 on XL Recordings. It debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 200. The album title is intended as a thematic allegory and a complex reference to the Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries, ...
Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_(album)
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contra
The counter-vocalist of the Sardinian tenores
Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Italian_music
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contra
1) Against 2) Band leader? 3) In opposition to 4) Iran-.. affair 5) Latin
Found op against 6) Nicaraguan guerrilla 7) Nicaraguan rebel 8)
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