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Re: "Reasonable Doubt"
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tsuwm
36 minutes 48 seconds ago
I recently read A Trial by Jury, by D. Graham Burnett (which I can't totally recommend). I found this to be revealing:
The judge explained the standard of proof. The state must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. Did we hear that? Th
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Re: "Reasonable Doubt"
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TheFallibleFiend
Today at 01:43 AM
"However, it does not mean an absolute certainty."
Before our case, I asked the meaning, because the lawyers kept throwing around the term to the prospective jurors, including myself, as if everyone knew what it meant. When I asked the lawyers,
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Re: "Reasonable Doubt"
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morphememedley
Today at 12:56 AM
Facts and issues pertaining to the Leibeck lawsuit against McDonald's got distorted or omitted in much of the popular and press discussion of the case, and corporate and political interests stoked and exploited public outrage, as written about here
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Re: "Reasonable Doubt"
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olly
Today at 12:53 AM
Originally Posted By: TheFallibleFiendIn criminal cases in my state, a defendant is presumed innocent until the prosecutor can prove his guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt." However, the term "reasonable doubt" is not defined, presumably being l
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Re: Indian sign
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olly
Yesterday at 10:56 PM
"Nicky's got the Indian sign on Nat".
I agree with Twosleepy and Javan8.
In wwh's context it would mean "Nicky is more dominant over Nat".
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Is that the Aum sign Latishya?
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Re: diabolical liberty
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morphememedley
Yesterday at 10:52 PM
I wasn't sure that I'd ever heard or read carnal license, but maybe I had; an exact wording Google search fetched 182 results. Might diabolical liberty and carnal license be alike in meaning, sometimes anyway?
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Re: diabolical liberty
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tsuwm
Yesterday at 05:49 PM
here's an entry for diabolical from OED2 which you may find to be helpful:
3. slang. In weakened sense: outrageous, disgraceful; disgracefully bad. Also, used as an intensive, esp. in diabolical liberty.
1958 B. BEHAN Borstal Boy III.
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Re: Indian sign
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tsuwm
Yesterday at 05:40 PM
Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8I have only been with this site a couple weeks, belonging to others that discuss words far longer. I do find this site confusing however, especially in finding the word of the day and ease with which to "surf" t
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diabolical liberty
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gaius novus
Yesterday at 05:38 PM
I've come across this phrase - "a diabolical liberty" - a few times recently, most notably in a Jeffrey Archer book. I've never heard it before. A Google search comes up with some bands, comics, and movies, all from the UK, which, combined with Arc
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Re: Nouns as Verbs
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Word Lady
Yesterday at 04:32 PM
Don't you think that a modicum of verbification has added richness to our language? I think what people object to are today's countless "verbifications of the moment". I'm talking about the tendency to turn a noun into a verb in order to sound a) i
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Re: capitalize?
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dalehileman
Yesterday at 03:39 PM
Welcome olive: I presume you mean that "6 x 6 Aluminum" starts the sentence. Ordinarily however, we don't start sentences with a digit. Sometimes we spell it out, "Four-by-fours support the frame," or rewrite: Aluminum 6 x 6 Wonder Sheets covered
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Re: Indian sign
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LukeJavan8
Yesterday at 02:24 PM
I have only been with this site a couple weeks, belonging to others that discuss words far longer. I do find this site confusing however, especially in finding the word of the day and ease with which to "surf" the site. Any help would be appreciated
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Re: Indian sign
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LukeJavan8
Yesterday at 02:22 PM
I agree with twosleepy, above, in what is said about the blanket and the hex. My grandmother was of Indian descent and used the term. The blanket could be made of feathers too, however, depending on the nation involved. The power did not reside in
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Re: capitalize?
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twosleepy
Yesterday at 01:07 PM
Originally Posted By: olivetolaughDo you capitalize a word if it proceeds a number like
6 x 6 Aluminum..........???
thanks
First, did you mean "precedes"? If so, that means "come before". I am assuming you mea
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Seek word
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dalehileman
Yesterday at 12:44 PM
I know it as well as my own name, which at my advanced age I'm also not sure of sometimes. It means fostering or provoking further inquiry or research and possibly it's derived from some fellow of historical significance
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Re: "Reasonable Doubt"
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The Pook
Yesterday at 08:57 AM
Originally Posted By: BranSheaSince there are so many people who have for almost everything
'unreasonable doubt ' I always liked the term : 'reasonable doubt '.
...and tobacco companies.
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capitalize?
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olivetolaugh
Yesterday at 08:52 AM
Do you capitalize a word if it proceeds a number like
6 x 6 Aluminum..........???
thanks
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Re: "Reasonable Doubt"
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BranShea
Yesterday at 05:51 AM
Since there are so many people who have for almost everything
'unreasonable doubt ' I always liked the term 'reasonable doubt '.
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Re: Widow's Peak
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BranShea
Yesterday at 05:37 AM
That's one I hadn't heard yet!
When we say someone has 'a good head ' we mean he has a good brain. In that sense your saying could be associated with the also Anon. one -- 'on brains no hair will grow '.
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Re: Show and Tell
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BranShea
Yesterday at 05:32 AM
To you quite common I think. To me a new surprising word I just came across.
wile, wilier, wiliest, wilishness
Wile
1154, "wile, trick," perhaps from O.N.Fr. *wile (O.Fr. guile), or directly from a Scand. source (cf. O.N.
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Re: Widow's Peak
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The Pook
07/02/08 09:16 PM
Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8I had a widow's peak at the top of my forehead, but alas now my forehead reaches to the crown of my head!!
A dead widow's peak perhaps?
"God only made a few perfect heads and put hair on the rest
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Re: "Reasonable Doubt"
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The Pook
07/02/08 09:11 PM
Originally Posted By: twosleepyI bought a curling iron which stated, and I am not making this up, "Do not use while asleep".
My favourite is a heat gun I bought for paint stripping that operates at several hundred degrees celsius, with th
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