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The mayors were constituting a permanent committee in the mairie of the second arrondissement.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

And whether he is necessarily everywhere in his works, and as it were constituting them?

From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by Ware, William

The factors that were constituting European marriage, taken as a whole, were indeed of very diverse characters and often involved unreconciled contradictions.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock