a fortiori
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"That said... that does not mean that the individuals who were targeted, and a fortiori the person who died, were themselves involved in trafficking. I want to be absolutely clear on that".
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
For, after all, is it not by now conceded that, a fortiori, if marzeydoats and doazey-doats then the invariable corallary is habeas corpus mandamus potatus?
From Time Magazine Archive
I am struck more than ever I was with the hopelessness of us English, and a fortiori the Germans, ever competing with the French in matters of form or finite taste of any sort.
From Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James
The same criticism applied a fortiori to the English income tax which constituted the worst possible form of taxation.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard
In the Middle Ages, they reasoned thus: If rebellion against the prince deserves death, a fortiori does rebellion against God.
From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis) Conway
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