(a.) A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.
(v. i.) To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety.
Example Sentences:
(1) This will be one city, where everyone’s rights are respected, and where police and community stand together to confront violence.” New York City judge Shira Scheindlin ruled stop-and-frisk to be unconstitutional in August 2013.
(2) A predominantly type-specific mu-capture radioimmunoassay (RIA) of IgM antibodies to Coxsackie B1-B5 (CB1-CB5) viruses was previously described (Frisk et al., 1984).
(3) In April 2008, overzealous Heathrow security officials frisked Shenouda while on his way to consecrating St George's Coptic Cathedral , Shephalbury Manor, Stevenage.
(4) She called for an "immediate" change to the policy, and the appointment of an independent monitor to ensure that the NYPD carries out stop-and-frisks in accordance with the US constitution.
(5) A video of his arrest captured by a nearby security camera and published by the local TV channel ABC 7 shows the police initially frisking him, then handcuffing him and finally piling on top of Hernandez as he lay on the sidewalk while apparently hitting him with batons.
(6) The structural racism people of color experience isn’t harming police – unless they’re people of color, off duty, and subjected to stop and frisk by their fellow officers.
(7) For a middle class Indian babu to be frisked is unimaginable.
(8) I suppose I am less visibly attached to my children in a sense because they have your surname – maybe there is a tiny fear that it may cause problems some day – being frisked at border controls or something.
(9) We believe that both the murder of another unarmed black youth and the building of a new jail which will primarily house black people are state violence, a term which encompasses both immediate acts of violence by the state (like stop and frisks, or police shootings) and “slower” forms of violence that the state sanctions, condones or enables (like poverty, segregation, surveillance, militarization and incarceration).
(10) The case – Floyd v City of New York – was the result of 14 years of litigation against the stop and frisk policy.
(11) Stop-and-frisk violated an individual's right to protection under the fourth and 14th amendments of the constitution, Scheindlin concluded.
(12) A New York judge ruled Monday that stop-and-frisk searches carried out by city police are unconstitutional – and ordered that a federal monitor be brought in to oversee their reform.
(13) The videos, says Jennifer Carnig, a spokeswoman for the NYCLU, provided an unprecedented insight into discriminatory policing under stop and frisk: verbal and physical abuse, heavy-handed searches and the drawing of weapons on people who appear to be unarmed.
(14) Bloomberg, a staunch advocate of stop-and-frisk throughout his 12 years as New York City’s mayor, had asked the second circuit court for a stay on the ruling and the remedy measures.
(15) The heart of the reform ordered after we won the stop-and-frisk case is a joint remedial process that brings community members and other stakeholders together to discuss and hammer out the actual law enforcement and accountability reforms.
(16) Trump insisted: “I also explained last night stop and frisk was constitutional.
(17) Bloomberg's policing strategies also proved controversial, especially over the last few years, as the NYPD's stop-and-frisk programme came under increased scrutiny.
(18) I’ve lived here for 20 years and I lost count of the number of times I was stopped and frisked by the police by the time I was in high school,” said Nate Jeffrey, 32, a mechanic with the city’s transit authority.
(19) We know that police stopped and frisked New Yorkers more than 4m times in a decade , most of them black and Latino, 90% of them, according to the NYPD’s own figures , innocent of any crime.
(20) He said New York City’s law department and plaintiffs in two stop-and-frisk legal cases against the city had agreed that they would recommend to the district court that the monitor supervision will have oversight for three years.
Frolic
Definition:
(a.) Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.
(n.) A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.
(n.) A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.
(v. i.) To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is not a time to be engaged in a frolic,” he says.
(2) If ministers have ordered the public service to pursue this anti-democratic frolic it’s a clear abuse of power.
(3) Known for his flamboyant verbal attacks and overturning even the largest electoral majorities of his opponents, he has taken in everything from US senate committee hearings to feline frolics in Celebrity Big Brother.
(4) The flicker and dazzle was conducive to hallucinatory drugs and the hi-tech fun 'n' frolics found the perfect interzone between futurism and regression to childhood.
(5) Even then a madcap day was not done with folly and frolic as France, on their own line, 20 points down and with nothing at all to gain, tapped and ran.
(6) Instead of a sober inquisitorial process it descended into an adversarial attack, and instead of a search for the truth we witnessed taxpayer-funded lawyers on a frolic, cross-examining police officers as if they were on trial.” King cited the cross-examination of a senior police commander as an example of lawyers “twisting words” and grandstanding to the media.
(7) The indulgence of knights and dames: nostalgia for empire, a frolic that does nothing beyond telling voters Abbott is too in love with the past to understand the future.
(8) Girls laugh and frolic joyfully in the water, their brightly coloured jilbabs soaking as the tide comes in.
(9) Look at it again, if you doubt me - he's the heart and head of the picture, and he is delighted to realise that North By Northwest is a frolic, a dance in mid-air, a fabulous absurdity.
(10) If he responds that it has been a thrill to be the first Liberal in many, many decades to be entitled deputy prime minister, then he will expose himself to the accusation that he is on a power frolic while thousands of voters are suffering the effects of spending cuts, tax rises and job losses.
(11) Hours later a criminal case relating to Mr Skuratov's alleged sexual frolics was opened, which was used as the basis for Mr Yeltsin's decree ordering his suspension.
(12) When I was a minister, I would never have countenanced my chief of staff going to such a meeting without my imprimatur and my approval so I think a question does need to be answered whether the chief of staff was there on a frolic of his own or with the imprimatur of the deputy leader.
(13) As the transfer window gasps and sweats its way through the usual high-summer Sahara of inanity there is a newfound starchiness about Spurs’ recruitment, a rolling back from all the fun and frolic towards the youth-oriented austerity promised by Daniel Levy in the spring.
(14) Brooke, more deeply confused than ever, composed a poem, Beauty on Beauty, celebrating their moonlit frolics, but when he was alone with Gardner, his compliments were at best ambiguous.
(15) Tony Abbott will spend the early part of the coming week in a targeted outreach effort with ethnic minorities in Sydney and Melbourne in an effort to build local support for the Coalition’s counter-terrorism measures, and also soothe a grassroots backlash prompted by the government’s early frolic on hate speech.
(16) He is an opposition politician.” Another government minister said Farage was clearly “on a frolic of his own”, adding that high-level visits were already being planned.
(17) Paragliders sail overhead, children frolic in the shallow waves and a camel train carrying sunburned Europeans ambles down Sousse beach as the sun hits its midday peak.
(18) You can still work while the little ones frolic in the sand.
(19) The first surgical anesthetics were a consequence of the resulting student "ether frolics."
(20) The Australian Council of Trade Unions condemned the “narrow” terms of reference, saying the government had “embarked on a $100m frolic which is aimed at damaging unions”.