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Record 1 2017-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Execution of Work (Construction)
  • Road Construction Equipment
CONT

The front wheels of a motor grader may be leaned to either side to offset the side thrust produced by soil pressure against the angled blade and to assist in turning the grader.

OBS

side thrust: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exécution des travaux de construction
  • Matériel de constr. (Voies de circulation)
OBS

poussée latérale : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 2 1988-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Law
CONT

Assiduous lobbying gave the company sufficient influence with the private bills committee of the legislature that it could offset some of the thrust of populist pressure that eventually emerged in Vancouver as elsewhere. For example, when Vancouver moved to strike the protective buy-out clause in its charter in 1900, the company was able to block this initiative.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit commercial
OBS

Proposition d'après le rapport "Report on Company Law" (1975) du ministère de la Justice du Nouveau-Brunswick.

Spanish

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