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Sumption


Definition:

  • (n.) A taking.
  • (n.) The major premise of a syllogism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sumption's letter implies that Neuberger did not believe that Witness B was acting alone and that the judge believed that Witness B's conduct was "characteristic of the service as a whole".
  • (2) The 15-page speech on "the limits of law" was delivered by Sumption – once one of Britain's highest-earning barristers – at the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last week.
  • (3) In Mr Sumption's summary, a senior judge had initially found that there was such a "culture of suppression" within MI5 that it undermined any government assurances on its behalf.
  • (4) Sumption realised early on that the key to the case was character, and convincing the judge Berezovsky was a wrong 'un.
  • (5) This debate cannot be resolved here, but possibility of positive discrimination in the appointments process does, as Sumption suggests, deserve an airing, even if (and this is by no means clear) we – like Sumption – end up rejecting it.
  • (6) But Sumption failed to identify one of the prime causal factors: institutional sexism.
  • (7) Jonathan Sumption’s views exemplify perfectly what is wrong with the way women in the legal profession are viewed by those in the highest echelons of power.
  • (8) 11.14am BST Lord Sumption also issued an additional judgment.
  • (9) Concluding his speech, Sumption commented: "I am not going to suggest that the fabric of society will break down because judges, whether sitting in London, Strasbourg, Washington or anywhere else, make law for which there is no democratic mandate.
  • (10) Excepting the supreme court justice Lord Sumption, who has deep reservations about the extension of the judge-made law which flows from the extension of judicial review as well as from human rights law, this autumn has seen what amounts to a judicial conversation about the relationship between Strasbourg and the UK courts, the conclusion of which is that the fault lies less with Europe or the Human Rights Act than with our judges themselves.
  • (11) Lord Sumption looks around at the higher reaches of the bar and believes there are not enough women at the top of the profession who are up to the job of being a senior judge.
  • (12) One of the judges, Lord Sumption, said Catt regularly took part in demonstrations against the Brighton arms factory, owned by the manufacturer EDO MBM, which police had said were “amongst the most violent in the UK”.
  • (13) Gideon Sumption of Stacks Property Search, a buying agency, said: "Some people who perhaps retired in their mid- to late-50s and whose children had left home downsized to a smaller house.
  • (14) In his judgment on the Nicklinson case, Lord Sumption argued that the law is considerably more humane and flexible than many of those who argue for reform appear to recognise.
  • (15) How much money was Jonathan Sumption QC paid to represent Tony Blair at the Hutton inquiry?
  • (16) The court was effectively about to rule, Mr Sumption revealed, that MI5 had treated basic rights with contempt and had lied to the parliamentary watchdog which provides its only oversight.
  • (17) Delivering the Kuttan Menon memorial lecture, Hale agreed with many of the conclusions reached on improving judicial diversity by another supreme court justice, Lord Sumption, last year.
  • (18) In a sustained broadside, Lord Sumption, a UK supreme court justice, raised fundamental questions about the court – which has issued landmark but controversial judgements against the UK on the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland and on the right of prisoners to vote.
  • (19) Adopting an unfashionable argument, Sumption also asserted that politicians are far better than judges at reaching compromises over competing interests.
  • (20) Since losing in the high court, David Millband has instructed one of the country's most expensive advocates, Jonathan Sumption QC, to represent his position.

Taking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Take
  • (a.) Apt to take; alluring; attracting.
  • (a.) Infectious; contageous.
  • (n.) The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension.
  • (n.) Agitation; excitement; distress of mind.
  • (n.) Malign influence; infection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
  • (2) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
  • (3) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
  • (4) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
  • (5) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
  • (6) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
  • (7) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
  • (8) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
  • (9) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
  • (10) Those without sperm, or with cloudy fluid, will require vasoepididymostomy under general or epidural anesthesia, which takes 4-6 hr.
  • (11) Serum gamma glutamyl transferase (gammaGT) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activities have been estimated in 49 epileptic patients taking anticonvulsant drugs.
  • (12) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (13) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
  • (14) It was then I decided to take up the offer from Berkeley."
  • (15) While the majority of EU member states, including the UK, do not have a direct interest in the CAR, or in taking action, the alternative is unthinkable.
  • (16) Mother and Sister take over with more nuanced emotional literacy.
  • (17) "These developments are clearly unwarranted on the basis of economic and budgetary fundamentals in these two member states and the steps that they are taking to reinforce those fundamentals."
  • (18) This attack can take place during organogenesis, during early differentiation of neural anlagen after neural tube closure or during biochemical differentiation of the brain.
  • (19) You can't spend more than you take in, and you can't keep doing it for ever and ever and ever.
  • (20) The process of integrating the two banks is expected to take three years, with predictions that up to 25,000 roles could eventually be eliminated.

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