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  • "I'm a vegan and I looked awfully skinny at one point, " she explains.
  • Before military action can lawfully be undertaken against Iraq, the security council must have indicated its clearly expressed assent.
  • v before my name awfully small; but anyone who knows can see it. A Young Girl's Diary
  • But since there's nothing at all wrong with the statute that requires him to perform the ministerial task he has so far petulantly avoided, and because his malfeasance has been used to aggrieve the lawfully appointed Burris, White should be harshly condemned at the very least. Jeff Norman: Victory For Blago and Burris is Imminent
  • The short version is that her parents were nutcases who treated her awfully; she ‘freaked out’ at age 11, ending up in a mental hospital.
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  • He's got the groove going and he paces his compilations like an expert DJ, but his blips and bleeps sound awfully derivative.
  • Is there a huge problem with renegade owners unlawfully springing their offending dogs from the doggy jail?
  • This is awfully sad but they say that twins are very close. Times, Sunday Times
  • But there's something awfully deriative about them, a mish-mash of cubism, constructivism, futurism, vorticism, Merz and more.
  • This bandy-legged, sawed-off little rat racer is awfully interesting in its own right. Fanboys in Flight: Subaru Roars In on a Wing
  • He proposed she become his lawfully wedded wife.
  • The plot, about police investigator Stewart trying to nab a criminal while being unlawfully pursued with daffy poetess Colbert in tow, is too lightweight — and the characters spend too much time pointlessly arguing — for me to care. Weekly Mishmash: April 18-24 : Scrubbles.net
  • ‘You're awfully quiet,’ he mentioned, taking off some oven mitts and turning to face me.
  • He's doing awfully well with it, and settling down to a manageable pace.
  • She empowered him to tell them, that whatever blame she might throw on Mary's conduct, any opposition to their sovereign was totally unjustifiable, and incompatible with all order and good government: that it belonged not to them to reform, much less to punish, the maleadministration of their prince; and the only arms which subjects could in any case lawfully employ against the supreme authority, were entreaties, counsels, and representations: that if these expedients failed, they were next to appeal by their prayers to The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
  • This seems awfully similar, to a noneconomist such as me, to the pretense of knowledge that Austrians have so well criticized, starting with the socialist calculation debate. Roger Koppl - The Austrian Economists
  • They needed to win awfully bad," Charlotte coach Paul Silas said. National Basketball Association - Knicks vs. Hornets
  • Pressure from powerful corners must make it awfully easy to misplace files.
  • It sounded a little dry for my liking — I was kind of imagining the sort of intellectualist discourse that made the Mundane SF movement sound awfully stuffy, with their pshawing at pulp “follies”. Ethics and Enthusiasm
  • As to the second kind of adjuration, which is by compulsion, we may lawfully use it for some purposes, and not for others. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • Everyone has got the right to protest but it has to be done peacefully and lawfully.
  • Whenever one person is lawfully in the custody of another, the custodian owes a duty of care to the detainee.
  • And it's that part of the equation that most written SF is chickening out of: it's de rigueur to show how awfully bad things are going, and how much worse they will get, but almost nowhere do you see SF that thinks about how to * solve* those problems. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Jetse de Vries
  • Would you mind awfully sending more clues? Times, Sunday Times
  • Though Dad is awfully good at growing green things, the Little Sprouts pine for something sweeter.
  • With his place on the social scale preassigned by birth, Valentin is not so fortunate: “What I envy you is your liberty,” he observes, “your wide range, your freedom to come and go, your not having a lot of people, who take themselves awfully seriously, expecting something of you.” Archive 2009-11-01
  • we are lawfully wedded now
  • She's a real legal immigrant who joined the American family lawfully, which is the definition of the word. CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2006
  • But in direct contrast to this point the laid-back attitude is an awfully good antidote to stress - in theory.
  • Keep in mind that comically large pants are an awfully convenient way to hide a perma-rection. Best of the Best Week Ever! | Best Week Ever
  • If that were the case, Secretary White might justifiably (and lawfully) refuse to countersign the certificate on ethical grounds based on the manifest impropriety of Blago's action. Illinois Sec. of State Refuses To Approve Burris Appointment, But Admits He Really Can't Stop It
  • Yetwhile my mind spins furiously with all these things I should do andshould want to do, my bodyfeels awfully stubborn about remaining perched in one spot, complaining with increased aches and stiffness about gardneing orbiking, invoking extra effort to read with eyes that can no longer bring fine printinto focus. 2008 July « Becca’s Byline
  • The strange thing about this new establishment is that it seems to be awfully big. Times, Sunday Times
  • They'll think it most awfully sneakish of me to talk to you without them; do come down, there's a dear. ' The Story of the Amulet
  • I get it .... just the idea of lawfully armed people "infringes" on your rights, isn't that it SL10? Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
  • He'd be awfully sorry after he accidentally walloped her on the head with a cuspidor, but she'd still have the aching noggin.
  • With the chevy ss impala of the gorgon sumptuosity bidentate, it is eventual that lawfully traffic dysthymia be bishop. Rational Review
  • I write the v before my name awfully small; but anyone who knows can see it. A Young Girl's Diary
  • Computer programs in the form of firmware that enable wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telephone communication network, when circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network. Boing Boing: November 19, 2006 - November 25, 2006 Archives
  • When we think of an awfully odiferous place of unpleasant scents, the words ‘monkey house’ instantly come to mind.
  • ‘You're awfully late, dear,’ Prince Alfonso was heard to mutter in English.
  • The jury agreed that the doctor had acted lawfully.
  • Democracy itself requires that all public power be lawfully conferred and exercised, and of this the courts are the surety.
  • The centre is not so awfully bad, if you ignore the drunks and rowdies that is.
  • During that time three solicitors were, he alleges, unlawfully granted powers to administer the estate.
  • And apart from faint background muzak, it is awfully quiet, for the other diners don't say much to each other.
  • But the Court has not clearly decided whether a state law may obligate people (pedestrians or passengers, and not just drivers) to present identification once they are lawfully stopped.
  • ‘It was still awfully rude of you,’ Elizabeth replied bluntly.
  • The whole idea that the White House was "blindsided" by that decision seems awfully suspect to me. TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
  • Aucker "did use, unlawfully possess and exhibit military and naval discharge certificates, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited or falsely altered," according to a document filed in U.S. District Court in Aucker hit by charge of altering his record
  • To die will be an awfully big adventure. James Matthew Barrie 
  • However, something, whether by human error or mechanical fault, went awfully wrong as we saw him plummet to his death from the arena roof.
  • And, I hope, pass laws sooner rather than later to demilitarise the police; ban Tasers and rubber bullets; criminalise police and politician violence against free speech activities; demand prosecutions for financial fraud; compel the corporate books that unaccountably swallow billions in tax revenue to be audited; investigate torturers; bring home soldiers from corporate wars of choice – and rebuild society, this time from the grassroots up, accountably, lawfully and democratically. How to Occupy the moral and political high ground | Naomi Wolf
  • BTW, the system is not awfully wrong: the negative charge on the acidic carboxyl groups is to be expected. Archive 2008-01-01
  • The result is impressive but awfully stern and austere.
  • The show's bosses now have an awfully big mess to sort out. The Sun
  • If the company were to dismiss you simply because you asked for a proper job description or submitted a grievance about your treatment, it would certainly be acting unlawfully.
  • He was awfully sick at being beaten.
  • Given the evidence of a struggle, had the officers simply taken the plaintiff's word as to what had happened without investigating further, they'd have been in awfully deep the next day had she turned up severely injured, or even dead. Third Department
  • Hon. Members on both sides have argued that the processing of applications takes an awfully long time.
  • In the PC world of academia, that definition can become awfully narrow.
  • We strongly disagree with the federalcourt ruling because the premise of the ruling is that the blind ofAmerica are being unlawfully made victims of discrimination becausewe lack "meaningful access" to paper money, which is patentlyuntrue. Font geeks, unite!
  • The snooty subtext here is that to possess anything resembling a potty mouth is just so awfully common. The Sun
  • The operator who undertakes washing and dyeing shall register lawfully and withdraw the business license.
  • Since the Cooch seems awfully interested in what consenting adults do in private the follow up question regarding “the acts” part of his response should have been whether missionary is the only “culturally normal” form of hetero sex. Think Progress » Cuccinelli: Homosexual ‘acts’ are a ‘detriment to our culture.’
  • His guitar may be a crutch but is an awfully artful one, akin to a medieval minstrel's cittern accompanying a sung ballad. Poet, Prophet and Puzzle
  • You must be awfully confident of your grasp of macroeconomics to think we should constitutionalize a tool (deficit spending) that many economists believe is absolutely critical to combat recessions. The Volokh Conspiracy » Bloggers agree: Little chance for immigration bill, and they hate the VAT
  • He's not as young as he was and I feel awfully sorry for him. The Sun
  • Since the Cooch seems awfully interested in what consenting adults do in private the follow up question regarding “the acts” part of his response should have been whether missionary is the only “culturally normal” form of hetero sex Think Progress » Cuccinelli: Homosexual ‘acts’ are a ‘detriment to our culture.’
  • When Noah complains that 300 cubits is awfully long for a boat, God tells him: ‘I think big.’
  • People must be entitled to act in pursuance of a court order without being at risk that they are thereby acting unlawfully.
  • Controls are one thing; instilling fear among lawfully settled citizens is quite another. Times, Sunday Times
  • They argued that I was being unlawfully detained in prison as a result of the Stafford ruling.
  • The contraband is lawfully seized and admitted into evidence against the probationer, but unlawfully seized and suppressed in the case against the other person. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Georgia v. Randolph Apply to Computers?
  • It was very good but awfully strong. EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
  • And any evidence from those non-searches can or can not beused? can. because any time a cop is lawfully in a position to observe x, x is admissible. doesn’t mean a frisk is a searchwhit (Quote) The Volokh Conspiracy » Shahzad and Miranda Rights
  • You must be awfully proud of Kyle, as I know you are of your other kids.
  • Israel must be an awfully dreary and deprived place if the only way to make it bearable is make the neighboring countries seem worse by destroying their infrastructure. So much for iran’s tor-1s
  • I felt a blush spread over my face - he must think I was awfully clumsy.
  • Even the most cursory glance showed me the crowd did look awfully grand.
  • Here's a bit from "A Proposal Under Difficulties", featuring Barlow and Yardsley, two competitors for the affections of Dorothy, where Bangs comes awfully close to inventing emoticons, or at least the 'applaud' sign for television audiences. Book 24: The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces
  • He paused before continuing, ‘Was it just me, or did Chloe look awfully pale in there?’
  • Rotterdam-based website Dvdstream. nl is using the Dutch copyright law that permits the copying of films or music for private consumption, to lawfully provide unlimited film-downloads. B2fxxx
  • Whether they liked him or not, Johnson was an awfully good reflection on them.
  • The housing renovations are almost complete and hubby Ford is an awfully busy scientist with a power career that eclipses most of the couple's concerns.
  • Statistically, if you test fifteen spots on the DNA strand, there are more than an octillion nuclear DNA profiles, which is awfully nice when you're in front of a jury and trying to pin down a particular individual. The Tenth Circle
  • Unlawfully obtained evidence is not automatically excluded from a criminal trial.
  • I'm awfully fond of brown trout, and you guys that like Asian carp are in fer a buncha trouble down the road, when Asian carp have run everything else out. What's Your Favorite Invasive Species?
  • It is said that the fetter on judicial review unlawfully discriminates against non-nationals on the ground of their nationality.
  • After I unpacked everything from my suitcase for couple of hours, I became awfully tired and quickly fell into a deep slumber on my soft comfy bed.
  • Soames had gripped the back of a buhl chair; young Mont was behind that “awfully amusing” screen, which no one as yet had been able to explain to her. To Let
  • The man was obliged to render up the land he had unlawfully enclosed.
  • We had decided that if we got the smallpox we would go to the pesthouse together, but we heard of the awfully insanitary conditions there, and that they used blankets from one patient's bed for another, so I thought that as long as I did not have it I had better not go and get it. Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ray
  • The singers looked and sounded as if they weren't trying awfully hard - as if this was the musical equivalent of a gentle stroll in the park.
  • But because I'm fundamentally weak and spineless, I find it awfully difficult to be similarly critical about the heroic efforts of a mere one-man band.
  • Polly only thought, at that time, of improving on her successful propitiation of Miss Nipper, and devising some means of having little Florence aide her, lawfully, and without rebellion.
  • Now, there are plenty of languages that are awfully low on prefixes and suffixes, although typically languages have at least something along these lines according to some linguists' analysis.
  • Ministers are bracing themselves for compensation claims for wrongful arrest from the individuals unlawfully stopped by 14 police forces throughout Britain. Times, Sunday Times
  • singularity university is a google-backed school by and for the smartest people on earth who incessantly think about how to inter-disciplinarily solve humanity's largest challenges through giant leaps in technology. unfortunately, i can't prove it but this sounds awfully like the kind of organization that brought john connor back from the future to kill his mother, or a robot, or something. after all, you can't spell The apartment broadcast
  • I like to think I'm engaged in a bit of civil disobedience, but that's an awfully highfaluting title for a simple act of citizen outrage. Why I Don't Pay Washington DC Parking Tickets
  • Now no man who has a certain duty to perform, can lawfully do that which renders him unfit for that duty. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
  • An inquest jury returned a verdict that he had been unlawfully killed.
  • His sun is in Capricorn and moon is in Gemini; he is glib, witty, clever and awfully ambitious. Hana and Haruki
  • His father's ‘prime horror’ was of prigs, and yet James does seem here to be awfully priggish, a fussy and self-obsessed old man.
  • The two workers face numerous charges including for the crime of "unlawfully, intentionally and seriously impairing the dignity of another", known as crimen injuria, for pulling down Mr Terre'Blanche Clipmarks | Live Clips
  • And hearing about blood and wounds does really make me feel most awfully funny. The Railway Children
  • Executive Orders and Justice Department opinions have prepared the access to power to allow the arrest of lawfully-elected officials as well as civilian resisters, "deport", try, convict, and execute as many as necessary to discourage any further resistance by the hoi polloi, and continue on track to become, as they feel they are entitled, "the Rulers of the Universe. TOO LITTLE TOO LATE
  • John singled out the sword as the suitable agent of retribution against a ruler who unlawfully used it against his people: ‘For whosoever takes up the sword deserves to perish by the sword.’
  • The result of the trial is as follows: "the tribunes gave as their decision that the aedile had been lawfully driven from that place, as being one that he ought not to have visited with his officer. Satyricon
  • This is an awfully tough game for a top seed (after the USA won its group) coming into the quarter-finals.
  • Those motorists issued with a ticket unfairly, and unlawfully, are thus left with the onus upon them to write an appeal, to justify their excusal for a lawful activity.
  • And you know, I often don't even worry about these awards and so on because well, it seems awfully braggy, but it's funny, we were talking about this one night, some of us Toronto crew, about blogging without ego, and I think this captures that same idea, so I'm going to pass it on to some of them. Archive 2009-06-01
  • Would you mind awfully if I went for the antique dining table? Times, Sunday Times
  • Prescribed certificates are set out for doctors to sign, certifying their opinion that grounds for lawfully terminating the pregnancy exist.
  • And then he was awfully decent about giving me this job.
  • Dealing with declaration one, I understood that you were jibbing at the word ‘unlawfully’ in Mr Clayton's draft.
  • The fundamental principle is that the courts will intervene to ensure that the powers of public decision-making bodies are exercised lawfully.
  • I would like to know just what Mr. Morrissey's definitions of "conservative" are, because a true American Conserve-ative does believe in preserving the Constitution as it is written with the intent of the founders ever present, unless lawfully amended through the amendment process, which also includes acknowleding the 9th Amendment and placing any and all such amendments before the people of this country for their voice and vote. Political Incorrectness: MSM's Mistaken Definition of American Conservative
  • It was very good but awfully strong. EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
  • Burton was also sentenced to 18 months for a separate offence of unlawfully taking a car, and one month for driving while disqualified, to be concurrent with the major penalty.
  • He laughably said it was a one bedroom place, when in fact it was a bedsit in which he'd made an awfully bodged attempt to incorporate a separate bedroom.
  • The NYPD also agreed to adopt written policies that ensure those lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights can gain access to protest areas, have adequate means of ingress and egress from the areas set aside for the protest, and that police provide adequate warning and an opportunity to disperse prior to using the Mounted Unit for crowd control. Civil Rights
  • He was discussing ways that he could make money and he foolishly got on to ways he could make money unlawfully and this plan was hatched.
  • Needless to say he's in the turbulent water for an awfully long time.
  • It was very good but awfully strong. EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
  • It is two in the afternoon, the weather is awfully hot, and you are struck in a traffic jam.
  • [CSA] _No slave or other_ person held to service or labor _in any State or Territory of the Confederate States_, under the laws thereof, escaping _or lawfully carried_ into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party _to whom such slave belongs, or_ to whom such service or labor may be due. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
  • During that time three solicitors were, he alleges, unlawfully granted powers to administer the estate.
  • `He's awfully nosey about poor Sir Cedric's wine cellar," Stan told Reggie. WEEKEND FOR MURDER
  • a _jugum_ [= jugerum, about two-thirds of an English acre] of land so bestowed on the "sacrosanct" Church has been taken away from her, and is unlawfully held by the despoiler. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
  • All those applications were made nugatory by the respondents and we claim that the child was taken out of Australia unlawfully because there was no specific order.
  • But they had run awfully hard to stand still. Times, Sunday Times
  • We're not sure why we should get along so awfully - we're sure all these whiter-than-white post-punk posers are really wonderful once you get to know them.
  • One study found a greater proportion of psychopaths in sex offenders who had assaulted and/or unlawfully confined female prison staff members than in a sample of the general sex offender population.
  • A contract which unlawfully fetters the discretion of a purchaser is ultra vires and invalid.
  • To the mass of mankind, therefore, the philosopher may appear as a spiritual saboteur, a subverter of things lawfully established, and an apologist for the devil.
  • The applicant contends that the council acted unlawfully on a number of grounds.
  • The tax cuts are looking awfully effective at the moment.
  • Not that he designed to oblige us to a strict imitation of him in this particular; for he might, and we may lawfully possess and enjoy these things: but to teach us not to overprize them, not to seek them too earnestly, nor love them inordinately. The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08.
  • I must have been feeling awfully ambitious to set myself such a daunting assignment!
  • Mrs Kapijimpanga, however, cautioned the residents against squatting on land that has been unlawfully acquired.
  • Dying wouldn't be such an awfully big adventure for Uncle Vernon - he was too old.
  • The right of pre-emption or exclusive purchase in the same article was used by the Crown to lawfully extinguish Maori customary title and thereby allow alienation.
  • I can certainly understand why the Meetup group vastly more than "secular friend"-ships with peers who practice the same apatheism as their parents appeals to the guy, and I still think it's awfully harsh to laugh at him. Philocrites: Moments in bad publicity for atheists.
  • Marine Corps chaplain is expected in federal court Thursday to answer a misdemeanor charge of unlawfully wearing military medals. Heroes or Villains?
  • For example, Proust, especially from Sodom and Gomorrah on, does some awfully odd things in marking and punctuating his dialogues, so that sometimes it isn't at all clear who's speaking.
  • It's awfully supercilious when it should be just silly.
  • Clay, who was standing awfully close to Teresa, waggled his eyebrows at me. The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
  • The particulars did not allege unlawfully supplying or procuring anything at all and did not set out the actus reus of any offence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Have you ever unlawfully distributed or sold controlled substances, or been a prostitute or procurer for prostitutes?
  • Helen is quite heartbroken, and I feel awfully sorry for her.
  • His lawfully wedded wife, as Lucivee has in fact turned out to be, hasn't lost a moment getting him safely tucked away. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
  • Even for a fast learner, though, four months is an awfully short time to cram.
  • Some awfully big investments are looking awfully exposed. Times, Sunday Times
  • The operator who undertakes washing and dyeing shall register lawfully and withdraw the business license.
  • If the BBC contravene the code it is not acting unlawfully.
  • A born super model, according to Lauren Hutton (who, if you’re old enough to remember, could do some awfully nice things to a swimsuit), has a small head, a perfectly symmetrical face, superior bone structure, and a certain kind of proportioned body. Heidi Klum Loves Your Forkhorn
  • I, as I said, was raised Catholic, and I was I don't know that I would use the word prissy, but I was awfully devout and careful. Agnostic Michael Krasny Has 'Spiritual Envy'
  • Perhaps we must, but it does sound like awfully hard work. Times, Sunday Times
  • The shadow cabinet room 's going to be awfully cramped. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mariana de Talavera, who will also explain to you in what circumstances you may lawfully Kill your King and whether you had better hand him his poison in a goblet or smear it for him upon his robe or his saddlebow. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • He can be an incredible forechecker and when he's having one of his shifts, he's awfully hard to play against. USATODAY.com - Penguins deal for top pick, take goaltender Fleury
  • In those circumstances, the police officers were not justified in arresting the bailiff on the ground that he declined to accede to their request that he should leave the building he had lawfully entered.
  • Amnesty International is trying to establish whether the police acted lawfully in shooting him.
  • Still, some Chinese people are awfully narked off about it, as The New York Times reports: Now China Bans The Da Vinci Code Too
  • He has come awfully good this year. The Sun
  • England and this country, aliens were not only politically disqualified, but they could not in their own name lawfully hold and sell real estate. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.
  • Mother's awfully anxious for me to bring a nice girl home.
  • Each of the original 22 defendants were charged with break and enter, being unlawfully in a dwelling house, three counts of mischief, and obstruction of police.
  • I should know by now that heavy drinkers are awfully fond of high-flown rationalisations for any brief spell of abstinence.
  • But Buck's new position in favor of birth control methods that kill zygotes (like IUDs or the Pill) is inconsistent and makes him look awfully hard-hearted toward the raped 14-year-old girl. Jason Salzman: Schieffer Lets Buck Slide on Face the Nation
  • The end of it is always, or nearly, the same, and to the effect that of course we "jaded critics" do not really care about any pieces at all, and only visit the theatre because we are paid to go, and that it is awfully unfair that such "jaded" -- one cannot help insisting upon the word "jaded" -- people should be allowed to act as critics. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
  • Now I write it down the scene does seem awfully portentous. Times, Sunday Times
  • You have to dig awfully deep to get to the hurt and the pain and the powerlessness.
  • Both follow last year’s Grand Chamber ruling in Liga Portuguesa and hold that the Member States are allowed to restrict online gambling within their jurisdictions even when the would-be supplier of such services is doing so lawfully from a different Member State. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Closing of the Internet Frontier?
  • In some parts of the world it is all too easy to board a merchant vessel unlawfully.
  • And they say they are awfully sorry, though it is not their fault. Times, Sunday Times
  • There seems to have been even less reason for departing from ancient usage in the present instance, since Joanna had a son, to whom the cortes might lawfully have tendered its oath of recognition; for a female, although excluded from the throne in her own person, was regarded as competent to transmit the title unimpaired to her male heirs. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3
  • As it is, when she utters them on court, I have to keep reminding myself that she's really an awfully nice gal.
  • The Employment Appeal Tribunal has given an important judgment about tips, service charges and the national minimum wage: it has ruled that restaurant employers who make inadequate wages up to the minimum wage level by redistributing service charges and tips to waiting staff via a "tronc" system act unlawfully. Archive 2008-06-01
  • Prosecutors suspect that the bureau has, for example, unlawfully favored the school by approving its establishment of a junior high school.
  • The bailiff in this case was acting lawfully.
  • Dispossess unlawfully or unjustly; oust. emercement (amercement) The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference
  • May 7, 2010, 12: 51 pm whit says: whit: can. because any time a cop is lawfully in a position to observe x, x is admissible. doesn’t mean a frisk is a search and to be more clear, see plain view doctrine and open view doctrine. whit: can. because any time a cop is lawfully in a position to observe x, x is admissible. doesn’t mean a frisk is a search The Volokh Conspiracy » Shahzad and Miranda Rights
  • His, had knavishly anisotropic taint in the new lutra trombicula prospicience, and had to dynamics to rigging awfully they saw any katabolism at all amazingly the caulescent propinquity apoidea everywhere. Rational Review
  • Amy could see that she was awfully pretty with long reddy chestnut hair, which fell behind her back and deep emerald green eyes.
  • When I 'read the minutes' I just reach back in my mind and recall what the gabble was the night before -- I've got an awfully good memory. Tunnel In The Sky
  • She felt naked, exposed and awfully vulnerable in the forest.
  • In general, grave fear lawfully superinduced does not militate against consent in the will, and therefore renders contracts neither invalid nor rescindable. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • It was with a guy who spoke awfully.
  • I'm envisioning a big mass wedding of gay and lesbian couples, with announcements sent to every Republican officeholder, every anti-gay propagandist, every church that unlawfully electioneered on behalf of Proposition 2. Michael Schaub: Project Texile: Bringing Gay Marriage Back to Texas
  • There is an awfully large LED which displays the number 1: 03 and is steadily counting down.
  • ‘This is an awfully long walk,’ he said casually.
  • Prosecutors suspect that the bureau has, for example, unlawfully favored the school by approving its establishment of a junior high school.
  • So it's awfully refreshing to see someone cut through the clutter and deliver a cogent and thoughtful message about how to help Americans eat more healthfully. What front-of-package food labels should say
  • Friends asked if he wouldn't mind awfully going to pick their son up from his school one night. Times, Sunday Times
  • Did I say something awfully horrid? Times, Sunday Times
  • It is the essence of offences against the person that what is done is done unlawfully.
  • Unfortunately, the disciplined response needed to put the NASA workforce back in the right direction will not come from this administration or, for that fact, any administration or even the lawfully bound investigatory bodies! Augustine Committee Meets at MSFC Today - NASA Watch
  • I'm sure they just forgot to add the word heteronormative on the Grants page, because the way it stands right now, it seems awfully discriminatory. Archive 2007-07-01

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