How To Use Premeditate In A Sentence

Well, clearly, to be murder in the first degree in California, it has to be willful, deliberate or premeditated.
They were ordered by the organization to set up a violent gang and to premeditate terrorist activities. The case is under further investigation.
Twenty20 batting is largely premeditated and he outthought them. Times, Sunday Times
a premeditated crime
There is ample fact -- and we also have plenty of evidence -- proving that this incident was organized, premeditated, masterminded and incited by the Dalai clique," Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said today, in denouncing the Dalai Lama's supporters as instigators of what he described as violent protests that rocked the region in recent days. What They Are Saying

“Did you ever know a French novelist have a premeditated murder committed by a man who could not possibly have conceived the murder ten minutes before he committed it; with whom the cause of the murder anteceded the murder no more than ten minutes?” Phineas Redux
This theft was premeditated because the barrow is completely worthless to anyone other than a trader.
It was a nomadic yet static, spontaneous yet premeditated, engrossing yet mind-numbing existence with no end in sight No prize to be won. ICED
The scowl of the opposing parties, the blanched cheeks, the knit brows, and the grinding teeth, not pretermitting the deadly gleams that shoot from their kindled eyes, are ornaments which a plain battle between factions cannot boast, but which, notwithstanding, are very suitable to the fierce and gloomy silence of that premeditated vengeance which burns with such intensity in the heart, and scorches up the vitals into such a thirst for blood. The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
Robert Duval, prosecuting, said: ‘This was a single blow delivered by an intact glass in what was an unpremeditated attack by a man who had been drinking since 3pm.’
The unlawful killing of one human being by another, especially with premeditated malice.
For example, John (a Yankees fan) premeditates, with malice aforethought, to kill Mark (a Red Sox fan), because John is still angry about the 2004 ALCS. Waldo Jaquith - Point/counterpoint on hate-crime legislation.
The investigator said the killings were the result of poor procedure by trigger-happy police rather than premeditated murder.
Though he used to pretend that all this self-advertisement was premeditated and planned, I could hardly believe him. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
Like most inexperienced people," ran his notes, "I was astonished at the reported feats of men in war; I believed they were exaggerated, and that there was a kind of unpremeditated conspiracy of silence about their real behaviour. The Research Magnificent
The 47-year-old Adiguna is charged with unpremeditated murder and illegal possession of a gun, which carry a 15-year prison term and a life sentence respectively.
Was four years of punishment not enough for an unpremeditated, almost accidental, crime? MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES
In the world of military intelligence, much time is spent trying to distinguish "blinks" -- unpremeditated random actions -- from "winks" -- deliberate moves designed to communicate intent and draw out a response. Nick Mabey: Sorting Blinks From Winks In The Copenhagen End Game
I rarely premeditate, which is a mistake
Besides, there is no king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come to the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all unspotted soldiers: some peradventure have on them the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder; some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with pillage and robbery. The Life of King Henry the Fifth
It is clear that these offences were premeditated, determined and threatening in their intent.
It appears that we are confronted by premeditated aggression....
Because at its most effective, this album is kinda everything it should be, and everything we should ask: Something simple, beautiful, and coherent, something that feels remarkably imaginative but entirely unpremeditated.
Setting back the cause of the mentally ill despite his legislative good deeds, Patrick Kennedy seemed to be making an excuse for those who premeditate murderous rampages. Robert David Jaffee: Media Coverage of Mental Illness Follows Familiar Line
I was a sizar at a fashionable school, a condition never premeditated. An Autobiography
All three also received ridiculously short sentences for such a base, premeditated act of cruelty.
Prosecutors have argued that the crime was premeditated and that while she was mentally ill, she was not insane when she acted.
Like Hasan, he is a psychopath, someone who premeditates destruction, for which he shows no remorse. Robert David Jaffee: Restore Sanity to Conversation on Mentally Ill
Well, clearly, to be murder in the first degree in California, it has to be willful, deliberate or premeditated.
The killing had not been premeditated.
The pistol had been bought and prepared for the purpose with the utmost nicety, not only for use but show; nor is it unfrequent to find in such instances of premeditated ferocity in design a fearful kind of coxcombry lavished upon the means. The Disowned — Volume 08
And those injuries have been inflicted with deliberate and premeditated intent.
Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny said in recent weeks the country had seen an unprecedented rise in the incidence of unpremeditated violence on our streets.
It takes large dollops of courage and a ready willingness to take premeditated risks, in order to successfully ride the crest of the advertising wave and stay in the business year after year.
But since the interrelation of consciousness and world in language is rendered so disjunctive as to disengage the easy response, generosity and the unpremeditated seem also impossible.
When the crime came at last, it was as blundering as it was bloody; at once premeditated and accidental; the isolated execution of an interregal conspiracy, existing for half a generation, yet exploding without concert; a wholesale massacre, but a piecemeal plot. PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
The destruction of Maldek was premeditated.
What is Erick banned from owning firearms, or just wanting to pin premeditated threats/murders on his spouse? Think Progress » Erickson: I’ll ‘pull out my wife’s shotgun’ if someone comes to my door for the American Community Survey.
Under the terms of the plea agreement, the term "premeditated" was dropped from the new murder charge. The Seattle Times
They think the attack last week was unpremeditated. Hideously diverse Britain: the aftermath of a ferocious attack inside a mosque
China's premier blames supporters of the Dalai Lama for the escalating violence, which he calls organized and premeditated. CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2008
The troopers didn't have a chance," Col. Pawlowski said as he offered new glimpses yesterday into what he called a premeditated ambush. Post-gazette.com - News
What would stop Israel from setting up an investigation into complicty of the Turkish government in a premeditated armed attack on IDF commandoes by armed mercenaries and militants linked to known terrorist groups, who set sail from a Turkish port with the goal of breaking an Israeli blockade, and chanting “Khyber, khyber, beware O Jews”, and “Go back to Auschwitz” and various slogans glorifying jihad and martyrdom? The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
Webster's defines aforethought adequately, with a reference to the relevant legal term: ‘Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder.’
`Well, she did not premeditate, and I'll tell you why I know," I told the group. THE WIDOW'S TRIAL
Her first surprise and bewilderment at so wholly unpremeditated an act gave way to consternation as she considered its consequences. Chapter XIV
It was a nomadic yet static, spontaneous yet premeditated, engrossing yet mind-numbing existence with no end in sight No prize to be won. ICED
The deceased's use of violence was not premeditated and he had no intention to kill.
Sexual assault by its very nature is a crime that is premeditated, calculated and committed in secret.
The term deployed is precise, premeditated and deliberate because taken to its logical end Dodo software is just lousy and unimaginative thoughtware - follow it to the 'T' and don't be surprise if it you end sitting in a cave picking ticks off your mate while the rest pick entrails to make sense of the destiny of mankind's fate. THE INTELLIGENT SINGAPOREAN
Suicides can be premeditated and planned, but that doesn't make them any less desperate.
Their intent was exemplified by the closing paragraph in the Post-Intelligencer editorial, which urged that County Executive Randy Revelle and members of the county council order an urgent review of the police investigation in the Green River murders to determine its effectiveness and to see whether a greater effort should be made to “eradicate this continuing succession of obviously premeditated killings, and to bring their perpetrators to justice.” The Riverman
Maddy Cohan always managed to make him self-conscious, causing him to premeditate every reaction to her, even simple gestures of greeting. O: A Presidential Novel
By the time he wrote the letter, Nelson knew the four charges against him: unpremeditated murder for "erratically" driving the Humvee "at excessive speed," carrying a possible life sentence; lying about the looters, up to five years; threatening Burden if he didn't lie, up to three years. THE NEWS BLOG
The assault was premeditated and particularly brutal.
`Well, she did not premeditate, and I'll tell you why I know," I told the group. THE WIDOW'S TRIAL
The unpremeditated crime that Picasso commits to oneself is downhearted, should destroy copperplate depict almost.
The assault was premeditated and particularly brutal.
Marcellinus, or rather his continuator, (in Chron.,) casts a shade of premeditated assassination over the death of Constantine. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
In a case of premeditated murder a life sentence is mandatory.
I don't really premeditate what I write my songs about, you know they just kind of happen, and I can't start writing songs to please a certain group of people or propagate a certain message all the time, that's just not how my songwriting works -- it just sort of comes out and the songs are what they are. Tax Day, Conor Oberst Style - Give to Charity, Give Away a Film
He said it was that plus the combination of recidivist and spree burglaries, all premeditated and all targeting people in their own homes, that warranted a jail term of seven years with the minimum four-year non-parole period.
Ending up at Concordia after a childhood spent moving between Europe, Africa and the U.S. wasn't premeditated.
They looked unpremeditated, as though they were spontaneous, rapidly executed records of fleeting perceptions-like impressions, translated into a shorthand language of stroke and color.
In this way the defendant consumed the criminal offence of premeditated murder.
A self-described 'accidental and unpremeditated philosopher', he does not belong to any school. The Times Literary Supplement
Fox hunting is therefore cold, heartless, premeditated and above all, pointless.
Thankfully the injuries were not more severe and the offence was not premeditated.
Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast. December 7th, 2005
The words poured from William's mouth in an unpremeditated rush.
It was a part of him, the breath of his soul as it were, involuntary and unpremeditated. Jack London's Short Story - Planchette
And bycause ye shall not thinke the maker hath premeditated beforehand any such fashioned ditty, do ye your selfe make one verse whether it be of perfect or imperfect sense, and giue it him for a theame to make all the rest vpon: if ye shall perceiue the maker do keepe the measures and rime as ye haue appointed him, and besides do make his dittie sensible and ensuant to the first verse in good reason, then may ye say he is his crafts maister. The Arte of English Poesie
In the scientific story, as in the culinary one, long-term outcomes were unpremeditated.
At critical moments, it trips them, or causes them to stumble, or impels them to make a rash, unpremeditated move.
It was wholly unpremeditated; he had not dreamed of doing it. CHAPTER 11
Yet its exhibits, gleaned from some of the world's finest collections, elegantly displayed and labelled, are in essence, works of purposeful, premeditated vandalism.
MR... there's a difference between a sinner who sins out of weakness, and one who premeditates the sin. Legionaries of Christ founder, already accused of molestation, now reported to have fathered a child | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
They argued that he was so intoxicated by beer and crack cocaine that he didn't have the "willful, deliberate and premeditated" intent to kill Orange, 29, inside her apartment at the Prestwick Apartments in the Seven Corners area. Falls Church man Mark Lawlor convicted of capital murder of Genevieve Orange
Premeditated murder carries the death sentence .
All unpremeditated, she responded to that quick pressure. CHAPTER XXIII
It is precisely its accentuation of the underlying assumptions of this premeditated corporate world that gives Dream Machine's observations power and relevance.
Procuratorate within its jurisdiction should deal with the cases of special infringement on human rights due to unpremeditated crime in medical service .
We blow hard against teenagers who have unpremeditated sex but do little to ensure they don't pass on their misfortune or mistakes to their own children.
And bycause ye shall not thinke the maker hath premeditated beforehand any such fashioned ditty, do ye your selfe make one verse whether it be of perfect or imperfect sense, and giue it him for a theame to make all the rest upon: if ye shall perceiue the maker do keepe the measures and rime as ye haue appointed him, and besides do make his dittie sensible and ensuant to the first verse in good reason, then may ye say he is his crafts maister. The Arte of English Poesie
He is particularly good on the Fischer thesis that was at one time popular, of the war as the outcome of a premeditated program of German expansionism.
From the commedia dell'arte to Jackie Chan, the pratfall and other seemingly unpremeditated mishaps of physical humor have had a timeless appeal.
It was a careless, unpremeditated glance, one of those haphazard things men do when they have no immediate call to do anything in particular, but act because they are alive and must do something. Chapter 1
The deceased's use of violence was not premeditated and he had no intention to kill.
Referring to her essentially intuitive, unpremeditated process of creation, Panesar once described her as a ‘living collage‘.
The way in which Longus excites the sensual desires of the lovers by means of licentious experiments going always only to the verge of gratification, betrays an abominably hypocritical _raffinement_ [331] which reveals in the most disagreeable manner that the naïveté of this idyllist is a premeditated artifice and he himself nothing but a sophist. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
Whatever else persuaded MacDonald to head a National Government, it was not premeditated ambition.
The bar suricata old reconsideration logistic sawmill gelatin, brevoortia, and drifter, and economically premeditated ones latinate crab and impeccably embryotic amblyopic unprovoking dope. POWET.TV
So, they guy who premeditates a rape is guilty of a worse crime than the guy who spontaneously rapes, right? Beyond A Reasonable Doubt, The Rape/Consent Spectrum, And Restorative Justice
It is not really necessary to locate the degree of premeditated dishonesty involved in the politics of policy formulation.
In English Romantic Poetry and Prose, Russell Noyes enlarges upon Shelley's ‘profuse strains of unpremeditated art’.
26 As we argue in the conclusion of this paper, unpremeditated exploration applies not only to the caprice as the representation of architecture in painting but links the imaginary edifice to narratives of travel in the literary text.
I was glad Marcus had made little effort to arrange anything, because what was happening was so obviously unpremeditated. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
Hi," she said, in the kind of nasally, whiny voice that has been known to inspire premeditated violence. Bluemeany Diary Entry
That colloquial use of the word “intuition” refers to an unpremeditated insight that just happens to turn out to be true. The Angels and Us
It's clear that the male has an immediate advantage to the dating game, merely in his unpremeditated approach, differing radically to the carefully scheduled and pre-rehearsed moves of the female.
It is a totally premeditated crime and the criminals have to very carefully plan their moves.
In states with a death penalty, this is just the kind of killing - premeditated, commercial, often remorseless, a betrayal of humanity's deepest bond - that qualifies for the death penalty.
He admitted one count of unpremeditated murder and one count of soliciting another soldier to commit unpremeditated murder.
Did you ever know a French novelist have a premeditated murder committed by a man who could not possibly have conceived the murder ten minutes before he committed it; with whom the cause of the murder anteceded the murder no more than ten minutes? Phineas Redux
Based on the evidence available to this point, it is not possible to determine if the attack on her car was premeditated or not.
premeditated murder
The officer said the attack was premeditated because of the level of violence used by possibly more than one offender.
His curiosity about my vision and experiences served to solicit my unscripted, unpremeditated and fairly stream-of-consciousness truth-telling commentary.
The robbery was not premeditated and was a spur of the moment decision.
"This was not an unpremeditated attack, say the prosecution, and the Crown say this evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates there was cold calculation about the attack upon Mr Turner."
A pair of robbers wielding a gun and a knife bound and gagged a Carshalton pensioner in his own home in a premeditated crime described as ‘completely horrific’ by police.
Did you ever know a French novelist have a premeditated murder committed by a man who could not possibly have conceived the murder ten minutes before he committed it; -- with whom the cause of the murder anteceded the murder no more than ten minutes? Phineas Redux
The assault was premeditated and particularly brutal.
Then an unpremeditated confrontation developed - perhaps the people doing the tailgating took Mirecki getting out as a challenge or something - but Mirecki didn't put up much of a fight, and the assailants took off.
It was that name which had precipitated his action, an unpremeditated, wilful and reckless action which had put them outside the law. A WORM OF DOUBT
In the same mood, Anonymous by Robert Flynn Johnson (Thames & Hudson £19.95) gives us 220 images by unknown photographers whose images are fresh and unpremeditated.
a witty impromptu must not sound premeditated
Maybe I could do "littler" posts-both in the sense of lower word count (and all the people said, "Hallelujah!") as well as in the sense of being less ambitious-less premeditated, more random, shallower, maybe more personal and less analytical. Disputed Mutability
His longest chapter is devoted to the Irish insurrection of 1641, an unpremeditated but also disorganised, unfocused and bloody effort to improve property rights and secure religious freedoms.
Khan was among a mob wielding cudgels, swords, hammers and guns who attacked a group of West Indians in what was described as a premeditated and racially motivated attack.
Further, there's no doubt that Elaine Pulman's murder was premeditated and planned. WIDOW'S END
asked an unpremeditated question
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton condemned what she called "premeditated acts of terrorism against innocent civilians," and said the U.S. and Israel were "united in the fight against terror. Israel: Attackers will pay 'very heavy price'
Men in these cases made the decision to commit murder, and in many cases, it was premeditate, meaning they thought long and hard of what they intended to do, and planned their courses of action. “Don’t want to be murdered? Don’t marry a murderer!”
The greatest insult you can lay on a rock, country, folk, jazz, soul, or hip-hop musician is that they are "faking it," or "being theatrical"--if a singer starts overemoting in way that seems premeditated and/or insincere, the audience checks out. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
We have reason to believe at this point in time with the evidence through the course of the investigation this was premeditated, deliberate, intentional.
For their speeches are either premeditate, in _verbis conceptis_, where nothing is left to invention, or merely extemporal, where little is left to memory; whereas in life and action there is least use of either of these, but rather of intermixtures of premeditation and invention, notes and memory. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
I can trust you to see that all these elaborate conceits (which seem imitated from the choice Italian manner, and which I confess have flowed from my pen quite unpremeditated and somewhat to my own surprise) are nothing but a shabby cloak under which I am trying to hide my own palpable laziness -- a laziness which even the higher affections can only render a little restless and uncomfortable, but not dispel. Familiar Letters of William James II
With a tired sigh, and with an impulsive movement all her own, unpremeditated, spasmodic, she rested her head upon his breast. Chapter 21
Decent men turned into the caricatures of premeditated overexpectation. Times, Sunday Times
This use of our given names had come about quite as a matter of course, and was as unpremeditated as it was natural. Chapter 31
I rarely premeditate, which is a mistake.
What would stop Israel from setting up an investigation into complicty of the Turkish government in a premeditated armed attack on IDF commandoes by armed mercenaries and militants linked to known terrorist groups, who set sail from a Turkish port with the goal of breaking an Israeli blockade, and chanting “Khyber, khyber, beware O Jews”, and “Go back to Auschwitz” and various slogans glorifying jihad and martyrdom? The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
How entranced we were in our games, reacting spontaneously and with unpremeditated laughter and tears.
Compare to — John (a Hitler worshipping skin head) premeditates, with malice aforethought, to kill Mark (a Jewish man), because he hates Jews. Waldo Jaquith - Point/counterpoint on hate-crime legislation.
For their speeches are either premeditate, in verbis conceptis, where nothing is left to invention, or merely extemporal, where little is left to memory. The Advancement of Learning
In this way the defendant consumed the criminal offence of premeditated murder.
In a case of premeditated murder a life sentence is mandatory.
To be certain, the forum member from yesterday was only using specious emotional arguments in order to try and limit your lawfully carrying a firearm, while "rectifier" is advocating cold-blooded, premeditated murder, but in the end, they are both seeking to accomplish the same thing: control over your life, and limiting your rights. Walls of the city
The other is unpremeditated, as in improvised comedy.
In a case of premeditated murder a life sentence is mandatory. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
This appears to be a premeditated and cowardly racially motivated attack.
The evilness is premeditatedand yet often such evils are more complicated than just “I’m evil, bwahahahaha.” Movie Review: Avatar and a Comparison II « Colleen Anderson
Unpremeditated joint principal offender has the same intent of joint action, the joint duty of caution is therefore the essence of the building of unpremeditated joint principal offender.
We need a way to divide the mind into parts that is more meaningful than crude folk psychology "dumbbell" two part distinctions such as conscious v. unconscious, premeditated v. impulsive, etc. Archive 2008-10-01

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