How To Use Scion In A Sentence

The operation of budding requires a good deal of nicety: first, to avoid wounding the wood of the stock in slitting the bark; and, secondly, to make the bark of the scion fit quite closely to the wood of the stock, as, if the least vacuity is left between them, the bud will wither instead of beginning to grow. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
The operation of budding requires a good deal of nicety: first, to avoid wounding the wood of the stock in slitting the bark; and, secondly, to make the bark of the scion fit quite closely to the wood of the stock, as, if the least vacuity is left between them, the bud will wither instead of beginning to grow. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
Furthermore, in order to assess the special disability and whether there has been unconscionable conduct, it is essential to also examine the actual actions of those against whom that conduct is impugned.
The insured person is guilty of unconscionable conduct if he does not provide for the insurer to be recouped out of the damages awarded against the wrongdoer.
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Haddock, the explosive, semi-sozzled scion of Marlinspike Hall; Cuthbert Calculus, the nearly deaf genius inventor; Thompson and Thomson, the bumbling identical-twin detectives; and opera diva Bianca Castafiore, aka the Milanese Nightingale, who is the sole female character to recur in Hergé's Tintin stories. Tintin & Co.
He's the scion of a very wealthy newspaper-publishing family.
For the unconscionable fellow, owing to this coheirship which he pretends to disesteem, has been made privy to experiences which must not only have been extraordinary to so plain and humdrum a person, but which have been, as I happen to know, of great importance to him, and which -- to put the thing at its highest -- have lifted him, dull dog as he is, into regions where the very dogs have wings. Lore of Proserpine
But the Bench refused to stay the proceedings after Jordan had contended he had been prejudiced by undue, unconscionable and inordinate delay since the raid two years ago.
Viet Nam also set the precedent for the CIA to go well beyond any conscionable realm for their involvement in the murder of Diem. Spook spotlight (Jack Bog's Blog)
She, quite rightly, is suing the government for its unconscionable treatment of her. Archive 2009-09-01
Scions for topworking hickories have been employed for what I call "mediate" and Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920
The Fr. _cresson_, from It. _crescione_, which Mr. Wedgwood cites, points in the direction of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
In one sense, it is a job that he was born for, as the scion of a political dynasty. Times, Sunday Times
In roses, their spread is chiefly caused by grafting infected scions, buds and/or root stocks.
The scion - which literally means the heir to an important family or dynasty - is that top bit. Times, Sunday Times
Eldritch giants are powerful scions of arcane lore.
The one car that doesn't quite fit this mold is the Scion xB — a boxy urban mini-wagon with a 158 horsepower, four-cylinder engine. Is Your Car Getting You More Traffic Tickets?
Frankly, to provide anything less than the above requirements is unconscionable, and as a digital camera maker you know better that to short-change your customers this way.
During the reign of King Philip II, Pope Pius V, appalled at the unconscionable carnage of the bullfights, forbade the practice of the corridas.
But although both doctrines show equity intervening to prevent unconscionable conduct, the special feature of the mutual wills and secret trust cases is that they involve not two parties but three.
I do not have the emotional ability to grasp how a grown adult would be able to conscionably spray this toxic and excruciatingly painful substance into the faces of these young people, who were peacefully and responsibly expressing their concerns for the world they find themselves growing up in. Heather McCloskey Beck: Creating Peace Through Conscience and Creativity
And you, Jeb Bush, are a the scion of a family of fascists who believe - quite unAmericanly - that our representative government exists primarily to stay out of your elitist control and private amassment of wealth. Jeb Bush: 'I don't know' if Obama is a socialist
Rarely has a champagne house had such a disarmingly ebullient scion. Times, Sunday Times
Frankly, to provide anything less than the above requirements is unconscionable, and as a digital camera maker you know better that to short-change your customers this way.
The only existing continental gaming houses authorized by government are now the two Badens, Spa (of which the lease is nearly expired, and will not be renewed), Monaco (capital of the ridiculous little Italian principality, of which the suzerain is a scion of the house of "Grimaldi&"), Malmöe, in Sweden, too remote to do much harm, and HOMBOURG. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France
That all the fruit here is exceptionally tasty was noted by the Australians, who have taken scions from Kyrgyz apples to propagate and cross-fertilize with their own. Wildwood
It's unconscionable for the government to do anything for a man who admits to smuggling 135 tons of cocaine into the United States.
Later on, he sent me scionwood from other known hardy varieties which I placed on butternut, and many of these made tremendous growths but were winterkilled the very first winter. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950
Thanks to the tireless enforcers of Darwinian purity necessary and time wasting efforts of actual hard working scientists responding to an unconscionable attack on honest scholarship by a sine nobilis, bibliolatrous bunch of cultural miscreants. No more coffee for Mr Witt - The Panda's Thumb
I deplored my lack of success in discovering the link that was missing between me and king's blood; I intimated my conviction that further effort on my part would still be met with failure; and I renounced with fitting expressions of disappointment my candidateship for the Scions thanking Aunt Carola for her generosity, by which I must now no longer profit. Lady Baltimore
All it promises now is deforestation, escalating world food prices, revolution and starvation. the only conscionable use for food is food. Pig farmers warn of pork price rise as their feed costs soar
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Rose Wilt was long thought to be a suspected viral disease caused by grafting scions onto imported root stocks from the U.K., Canada and Australia.
In a commodious alcove, in a glow of pink light from above, was a life-sized group of musicians -- statues in colored metal of a Spanish girl playing a mandora, an Italian with a slender calascione, a Russian playing his jorbon, and an African playing a banjo. The Changing Sun
An honest plaine meaning man, (simply and conscionably) reprehended the malignity, hypocrisie, and misdemeanour of many The Decameron
According to Edward Sion, Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Villanova University, T Pyxidis may be in fact a "ticking time bomb," and potential threat to the Earth if it were to go supernova, which it may do sometime in the future, though very, very far in the future on our timescale: by Scion's calculations, at least 10 million years. Could A Faraway Supernova Threaten Earth? | Universe Today
Gianfrancesco Gonzaga invited classical scholar Vittorino da Feltre to set up a boys' school in the city inspired by humanist principles, where ducal scions mixed with talented plebs.
Strictly, a scion in terms of human heredity is the descendant of a noble or storied lineage, whereas what is significant about the subject of the article is the specific circumstance of her conception.
The war caused an unconscionable amount of suffering.
The pity is that it probably was up until after 2000 and a blatantly dishonest, arrogantly self-focused, irresponsible and unconscionable sociopath was elected president and we see what that cost us. Political family names bring shame as well as fame
He was the scion of a noble and highly educated family, and correspondent of Gregory the Great.
What rendered it probable that the rumour came from "that end of the town" was, that Bruce the younger was this year a bejan at Alec's college, and besides was the only other scion of Glamerton there grafted, so that any news about Alec other than he would care to send himself, must in all likelihood have come through him. Alec Forbes of Howglen
Scion's application to the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) for permission to release a parasitic wasp into New Zealand to control the gum leaf skeletoniser has been approved. NZ On Screen
Goldsmith called the government “unconscionably lax in allowing Bradley Manning,” an Army private arrested on suspicion of giving WikiLeaks Afghan and Iraq war documents last summer, “to have access to all these secrets and to exfiltrate them so easily.” WikiLeaks’s Assange gains influential defenders
Measurements of air conductivity were performed on stem or branch segments of a series of eight unworked apple rootstocks and two scions.
He is the scion of a wealthy Saudi family that made its fortune in the construction business.
Time and again, I have observed suckering (vigorous growth from roots) and incompatibility between rootstock and scion.
Although unconscionable conduct in this narrow sense bears some resemblance to the doctrine of undue influence, there is a difference between the two.
These sorts of strong-arm tactics over what are really small-time offenses is really unconscionable. RIAA punishes Brittany for resisting
Companies of cadets (a term originally meaning the younger scions of noble houses) were first formed in France in 1682, to teach young noblemen the duties of an officer.
What the Trade Practices Act does is make unconscionable conduct unacceptable to the law.
The rule has little force in circumstances such as the present where injunctive relief to prevent unconscionable conduct is the only substantive claim I can discern to be available to the appellant.
The man's skin was almost as parchment-like as Lord Scion's was, and an aquiline nose jutted out from the man's bony cheeks.
To get the best two-tone look, graft several scions randomly around the plant.
It is unconscionable to think that people are dropping like flies on Syrian streets, the injured are hiding in private homes to avoid capture or cold-blooded murder, the funeral procession are being shot at with many killed at a time they bereave the dead, the detained are tortured and many die and are buried in mass graves, yet the international community seems only willing to extend words of comfort. . . Notable & Quotable
They had both drunk an unconscionable quantity of red wine the previous night.
Every so often I try and re-invent myself as a scion of publishing and literature.
The assassinations seemed indiscriminate, unconscionable, and wild, but they were never mindless.
Her genetic legacy (and her mother's, and her mother's mother's…) abides in her scions.
So someone might be drunk and you get them to sign a contract, that's unconscionable, an unconscionable bargain and would be set aside.
Up north, the Yankees are in disarray as former scions of industry go on trial and the stock market does a passable impersonation of a weapon of mass destruction.
Those (infrequently) “subjecting” you to pay are otherwise taking on unconscionable collective debt to pay for your utter unseriousness. The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Individual Mandate a “Republican Idea”?
It is an application for an equitable remedy to protect the plaintiff against the consequences of unconscionable conduct.
Thanks to these alpha parents' first-rate genes and nonstop cocktail parties, their scions were both very good-looking and highly adept at small talk.
Remember, no matter how the scion may seem, so long as there is light in his eyes, there is still hope.
It might seem non-egalitarian, but consider that for the past two years we've been trying to ratify the succession of one of two political dynasties - neither of whose scions has had a non-political aspiration since birth.
This unconscionable scandal must kindle the moral imagination and stir the conscience of the American public.
The doctrine does not give relief for what is simply an unfair bargain - it has to be an unconscionable one, the terms of which show conduct shocking the conscience of the court.
Scion has been involved in research into the gum leaf skeletoniser since it was first detected in New Zealand. NZ On Screen
Because the object was not simple addition, whereby another Adam would merely have meant two Adams, both mopish, dumpish, unconscionably lazy; the object was multiplication by stimulation, whereby, by combining Eve with Adam, Adam, as all subsequent history shows, was raised to the nth power. The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers
That the scion of one of the oldest-established funambulist families in the land should come to this, should give up this gay life of sawdust, music, sequins, and romance to become a bean-counter. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
It's a ‘sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons’ tale about the privileged scions of a group of Mafia dons who find it impossible to make it in the straight world of New York by virtue of their last names.
George Washington was a scion and leader of Virginia's landed, slaveowning gentry.
The condition of the scion is the most important element for success in top-working hickory trees. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924
I think it's important that Government has the correct laws in place, and say where unconscionable conduct does occur, that action can be taken.
From having nothing but the task of deflating a lot of stiffies in Rita Blanca, she now was engaged to a scion of the Courtrights. Telegraph Days
The community is not bound to provide what is in effect a subsidy for unconscionable employers.
Speculation would introduce the idea that lignification relates to a hormone influence proceeding from the leaves of a tree and that the leafless scion does not send forth hormones for stimulating the cells of the scion to the point of furnishing enzymes for wood building. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924
Figure 4 shows mean and standard error of the mode, or most common, vessel length for the series of apple rootstock and scion varieties.
Their leaders have learned the hard way that, within their well-managed tropical island states, no election verdict, no constitutional custom or habit, no parliament’s decision, no ordinary citizen’s commonplace prerogative is safe from an intrusive America whose caprices and policies are neither fairer, nor more predictable, nor more morally conscionable than the vagaries of hurricanes. Happy Independence Day, Haiti
A cadet of the family of the Earls of Lincoln, he espoused, along with many other scions of noble houses, the royal side in the civil war.
Koeneke, like an oracle asquat his own fissure, has written a book that is unconscionably nifty-gallifty. Books by Portland Authors: Rodney Koeneke - Reading Local: Portland
This approach effectively permitted a defendant to reap the fruits of his own unconscionable conduct (subject to the latent damage provisions), and deprived the subsection of much practical substance.
What the Trade Practices Act does is make unconscionable conduct unacceptable to the law.
She added: ‘Those who are attempting to impose their own theological perspective instead of applying proven public health practices are playing a deadly game; an unconscionable game.’
There is a functional overlap between undue influence and unconscionable dealing, although analytically the doctrines are distinct.
The Trade Practices Act is basically about misleading or deceptive conduct, or unconscionable conduct.
Many kinds of pistachio trees that aren't cultivated for their nuts are instead used as rootstocks to which the upper, nut-bearing portion of the tree, or scion, is grafted.
Even more infuriating to people like her, poorer students sometimes pass the entrance exams while scions of wealthy families fail to make the grade.
How anyone can view this as anything other than unconscionable malice is beyond me, but regardless of my opinion on the matter, god could just as easily have decreed that women are intellectual equals to men, and that they should be afforded the same rights as men in Israelite society. Harlan Ellison on God
unconscionable spending
I'm not that much of an unconscionable money grubber, really.
Like their ancestors, the scions of pre-Hispanic rulers were especially keen patrons.
He turned and cut three scions from his own classic yuzu tree and gave them to me.
Rose Wilt was long thought to be a suspected viral disease caused by grafting scions onto imported root stocks from the U.K., Canada and Australia.
In one sense, it is a job that he was born for, as the scion of a political dynasty. Times, Sunday Times
This verdict is the result of the unconscionable manner in which the Justice Department lawyers conducted this trial. Ted Stevens - Swampland - TIME.com
Unconscionable facial hair was involved, as were songs in which the male member was unironically compared to a pistol.
These grafts sometimes remained quite green and promising for a period of a month but lignification progressed in the stock without extending to the scion. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924
He's been a very successful campaigner, with moral indignation, about this unconscionable debt bondage that exists in the world today, and he's been a very effective campaigner from the outside.
Both are medically, ethically conscionable uses of a donated body. Questions for Mary Roach, author of Stiff
The scion of a courtier family with wealthy estates in Buckinghamshire and Yorkshire, he received a gentleman's education at Oxford and the Inns of Court, before embarking on the Grand Tour of Europe.
In my opinion, his Honour was correct in holding that it might be unconscionable to depart from those assumptions.
The scion to a Manhattan real-estate fortune, he had determined early on to pour his wealth into projects that helped other people.
The souvenir programme for Arbor Day in 1955 includes a note on the presentation of scions of the tree, and there is a report that four newly-wed brides from Aston-on-Clun received them.
To take this oath with you present, whilst you defy the First Sister, is unconscionable. MEDALON
The unconscionable truth fused his mind, body and soul in a foreign uncertainty and the rhythm that had heretofore produced harmony in his life was now off-key. Who Said It Would Be Easy
For success in grafting, the vascular cambiums of the stock and the scion must be placed in contact with each other.
He found that one kind of rootstock turned on twice as many stress tolerance genes in the scion as the other — and that that scion was more resistant to a bacterial disease called fire blight. Archive 2006-03-19
On the plus side of the ledger, Iraq has many of the structural features of a modern, functioning society - an educated populace, an economic middle class and bureaucratic institutions that, while lumbering and more corrupt than would be conscionable by our standards, still manage to deliver services to the public. Rep. John Sarbanes: Key Tests Loom in Iraq and Afghanistan
But the unconscionability of the transaction remains of direct materiality to the case based on undue influence.
She saw all the scions of London society standing around gossiping about the young people on the dance floor.
Good and professcional appearance, please attache photo to your CV. Thank you.
I have used the in-lay bark, modified cleft, the cleft, and what I call a saddle graft, bevelling two sides of the stock and splitting the scion, thus slipping the split scion down over the prepared stock. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952
As counsel for the Bank has pointed out, the Statement of Defence does not plead unconscionability.
The smugness is reinforced not just by his history as the entitled scion of one of America's aristocratic dynasties, but also by his conviction that his every action is blessed from on high. Political Waves
It alleged that the transaction was unconscionable, inequitable and unreasonable.
The Magistrate found firstly that they had engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct and also unconscionable conduct.
I think it unconscionable that the Right is purposefully misleading people -- including scaring seniors into believing that Obama and the Democrats in Congress want to "euthanize" them! Fact Check in the Health Care Debate
They will likely include Kashmiri Peter Qasim, who has been in detention for an unconscionable seven years, as well as the Afghan and Iraqi asylum-seekers whose countries say they cannot, for now, take them back.
When he was running for the job, they described him as an amiable but uncurious and dimwitted scion.
The man who must now try to build a coalition government is the scion of one of Greece's most prominent families. Times, Sunday Times
But Scion, which launches in California in June with two new subcompacts directed at the sizable Generation Y, is a long-term investment that Farley is sure will pay off handsomely.
I cannot crawl into the minds of the youngest generation of psychologists to learn whether exceptional still carries what I must regard, personally, to be the unconscionable semantic distortion, both denotative and connotative, introduced a generation ago using "etymological" grounds for justification. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
Among those infected were several scions of the topmost aristocracy who were being educated abroad.
Moreover the fundamental principle that equity is concerned to prevent unconscionable conduct permeates all the elements of the doctrine.
However, they are attacked by a group called The Scions of Oblivion, who believ an ancient artifact is buried under the school. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Novel-Writing Tip of the Day: Be Careful with Sequels
A corporation must not, in trade or commerce, engage in conduct that is unconscionable within the meaning of the unwritten law - section 51AB.
The scion - which literally means the heir to an important family or dynasty - is that top bit. Times, Sunday Times
Dormant cuttings are saved for bench grafting, stored in the cold; after soaking in fungicide solution, rootstock cuttings are disbudded and scion cuttings are cut into one-node pieces.
Late summer grafting is not practical because the scions which make a start do not lignify their new shoots sufficiently to withstand the winter cold. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920
He has been identified, or at least in the eyes of his critics, as the scion of important political family, one in which he's had to do very little on his own to be successful.
The cerebral scion approximated the appearance of the Regent's living computer, and floated in a tall, clear fluid bubble chamber that was set into an hourglass-shaped base.
At one extreme, I do not categorise it as unconscionable or extortionate: at the other, it is not standard or customary.
A graft or scion, which is a shoot with two or more buds on it of last year's growth, is inserted on the stem of another plant called the stock. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
This appears to either be a case of seeking tax exemptions (which makes less sense than for heterosexual couples capable of having children and the necessity for said exemptions that accompanies that) or for acknowledgement of their lifestyles as conscionable by the American people. The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Kagan I Presume?
Five compounds were identified and assayed, namely aloe-emodin, chrysophanol, emodin, physcion and rhein. Chapter 7
But commandeering my computer for an entire week in order to hector me into giving them more personal information is unconscionable.
During the reign of King Philip II, Pope Pius V, appalled at the unconscionable carnage of the bullfights, forbade the practice of the corridas.
Mark Stafford, a fourth-generation scion of one of Leinster's most prominent business dynasties, has decided to end his family's informal media omerta.
The last is of the drippy scion of the once-formidable founding family, who fails even to announce the paper's closure properly.
a scion of royal stock
The cambium is the cementing material that unites stock and scion and unless there is active cambium there will be no union. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913
The scion of a family of surveyors, architects and property developers, he learnt the meaning of the word architrave almost from the moment he could talk. Top stories from Times Online
The former vice president is the son of a US Senator and scion of a prominent political dynasty.
If it isn't, I'm sure he could provide scionwood of a better clone - but grafting myrtaceous plants is no cakewalk!
Some of the most noted chiefs of the wood-rangers were scions of the noblest families; and though living most of the year the life of savages, were able to shine by their graces and refinement in the courtliest society of the day. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
I have read enumerable stories of consumers facing completely ridiculous, unethical, and even unconscionable issues. Ask The Consumerists: How Do You Stay Calm When You're Being Wronged? - The Consumerist
It has come to such a pass in this so-called chivalrous country that sensitive women will submit to almost any wrong rather than seek redress in our courts of law, where they are liable to be subjected to studied insult by unconscionable shysters. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
Yet what's truly gripping is the account of crofting life under the brutal and unconscionable feudal system. Times, Sunday Times
Actually treating them like "common criminals" is conscionable because it validates our system of laws and our culture. Administration critics slam civilian trials for 9/11 suspects
I urge all gastronomes to avoid supporting this unconscionable practice.
Before we met the triplets, meaning the Barbaderos, we witnessed a kind of fakey young and raw New York street posse who did a well-choreographed and slightly raunchy dance around the cars accompanied by unconscionably loud dance-club music. Meeting the Chevrolet triplets
The King of the Belgians is a scion of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, as is HM The Queen (Leopold I, first King of the Belgians, fixed it for Queen Victoria to marry his nephew Prince Albert), so swapping Monarchs would not involve too many mental gymnastics and we could then take the opportunity to divest ourselves of the slightly contentious requirement that our Monarchs not marry Catholics. Archive 2007-09-23
a snotty little scion of a degenerate family
It is unconscionable to be at this juncture and not go all the way to establishing a system that emancipates humanity from the tyranny of our nation's for-profit health care system. Printing: Now, Let's Get the Health Care Job Done!
Where the ground relied on is unconscionable conduct in a foreign court the principle of comity requires that the jurisdiction be exercised only with great caution.
How can we Americans, scions of Jefferson and Paine that we are, ever rest easy if we allow such a capitulation to take place?
In roses, their spread is chiefly caused by grafting infected scions, buds and/or root stocks; although some can be vectored by parasitizing, chewing or sucking insects.
Five years earlier those scions of the radical Left, the Webbs, published a Fabian tract warning that children are being born freely to Irish Roman Catholics and the Polish, Russian and German Jews, the thriftless and irresponsible ... Chesterton and the Eugenic Nightmare
A range of rootstocks was examined, with different abilities of dwarfing; both ungrafted and grafted with the same scion shoot cultivar.
The problem is that the old party is an unconscionable time a-dying, which prompts Kemp to utter outrageous one-liners.
It's the same scion and the rootstocks are different, so you have a different tree - and there are thousands and thousands of root stocks that can affect quality, size, taste, all of these things.
What I think it will do is poison the atmosphere in the American scientific and academic community in a way which is absolutely unconscionable.
It will be unusual for a bank itself to have exercised undue influence, acted unconscionably, or exerted illegitimate pressure.
The obstacles in the way to achieve such benefits, with cleaner fuels, continue to include a compromised political will coupled with unconscionable corporate conduct.
The daughter of a Hungarian rabbi and a scion from a respected rabbinic family, she courageously hung onto to her Jewish faith.
It is especially important to protect the bud union (where the top scion meets the rootstock).
The audience roared their approval, and Lord Scion lowered his hands firmly onto Avon's shoulders.
For a family to be put through such tragedy and emotional upheaval twice unconscionable.
I think what makes the movie so resonant is how the unconscionable behavior of some characters and sections of the society at large isn't quite as far-fetched as you might initially think. Archive 2010-06-01
The other night I dined with him and his charming hosts, scions of one of America's oldest corporations.
Of course contracts induced by fraud or misrepresentation or contracts which are unconscionable bargains are voidable rather than void but, in the absence of third party reliance, that cannot constitute a difference of principle.
They had both drunk an unconscionable quantity of red wine the previous night.
As a little tacker I had a collection of RAAF uncles, great uncles, & associate uncles that developed my love for the P38 & PBY, and my suspiscion that the rep of the Avro Lancaster is more spin than substance. Cheeseburger Gothic » Anzac Day
The sapling was the scion of a god, invulnerable, unapproachable, and so long-lived as to be, in practical terms, immortal. The Silver Spike
She is after all the scion of mighty kings, no matter how ill-gotten she may be.
It would have been a stranger to the unconscionable conduct.
Scion shared his wishes to learn more of the world first-hand to Kara unrequitedly.
To define as ‘corporal punishment’ the mere physical separation of two combatants not only puts students at risk but also gives children unconscionable power over teachers who choose to intervene.
Elizabeth Petre, nearly fifteen years of age, was engaged to marry twenty-two year-old William Sheldon, scion of the wealthy recusant family that introduced tapestry-making to England.
This personal and political avoidance of poverty issues is nearsighted and unconscionable.
Grown from scions of five parental families grafted onto a common rootstock, these new cacao trees yield more pods and beans than their parents.
The modern commercial nation to which Ferguson belongs, as a British subject, a Highlander by birth but one born too late to claim to be the scion of an independent Scotland, in fact typifies a state in which the press of numbers and the extent of territory have begun to make the bonds of society inapprehensible. Social Theory at Box Hill: Acts of Union
To get the best two-tone look, graft several scions randomly around the plant.
We affirm Judge Bridges's conclusion that severance is not possible because the four unconscionable terms pervade the dispute resolution section of the agreement. Groklaw
The war caused an unconscionable amount of suffering.
To take this oath with you present, whilst you defy the First Sister, is unconscionable. MEDALON
Walking away from atrocities does not make them go away, and it is not conscionable morally or wise strategically ... James Zogby: "Mister Smith" Leaves Washington
And more and more facts coming out about the reality of the CIA having tortured and trying to twist that around to get people to accept that as something that is conscionable.
The cerebral scion approximated the appearance of the Regent's living computer, and floated in a tall, clear fluid bubble chamber that was set into an hourglass-shaped base.
The world's leading solo Polar explorer - the only man to ski alone across both the Arctic and the Antarctic, a survivor of encounters with enemies as varied as ravenous bears and unconscionable loneliness - is quitting.
It's like getting whitewall tires and a chauffeur for a Scion. New Customs: Changing Language, Changing Bikes
In more recent times the Act has been extended to cover unconscionable conduct by business against business as well as by business against consumers.
The performers were Michael Alpert (who is a native Yiddish speaker, bless him) and Julian Kytasty, the scion of a dynasty of bandura players. My Friday, By Delia
His father raised the young man to be a scion of the ruling class. THROWING THE ELEPHANT
The scion is the piece used as the top, fruit-producing part of the new plant. 5. How plants live and grow
He uses what in Washington is sharp language (we could give 'em lessons down here), saying that this comment was "disgraceful," that remark "tragically flawed," and this action was "unconscionable" ... and he is very circumspect about his candidacy, avoiding the redolence of narcissism that seems to cling to most presidential candidates like the odor of a wet fart. Stan Goff: PING & PONG: you are the ball
The smugness is reinforced not just by his history as the entitled scion of one of America's aristocratic dynasties but also by his conviction that his every action is blessed from on high. what he has learned from his time in office, he replied: "I've learned that God is good. BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS

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