ultima

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Examples

• Anaya recalled that decades ago certain New Mexico schools banned Bless Me, Ultima, whose protagonist is a curandera, or healer.

• Nihil est enim ea pietate misericordiaque crudelius, qu in impios et ultima supplicia meritos confertur.

• He felt that he had reached the land—or at least the borderland—of Bohemia, that Ultima Thule of every young literary dream.

• The ultima ratio, the final reasoning of nations is war, and the majority certainly have that right.

• It may still sometimes be a necessity, a dura lex, an ultima ratio, but it is always a monstrous calamity.

• Militarism is but the ultima ratio of reaction, and all nations are allies against the one common enemy, reactionary government.