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  • Such critics also pointed out that, thanks to the commercialization of Everest, the once hallowed peak has now even been dragged into the swamp of American jurisprudence.†  (source)
  • However, even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably, first in the state courts, then through the Federal courts until the ultimate tribunal is reached-the United States Supreme Court.†  (source)
  • There were a lot of things about the trial that were wrong; but the practice of jurisprudence was much laxer then.†  (source)
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  • On the back wall, left, above the shelves, there are signs: 'Jurisprudence', 'Codes'; on the right-hand wall which can be slightly on an angle, the signs read: 'Le Journal Officier, 'Lois fiscales'.†  (source)
  • Jessica picked up Jurisprudence and pulled it out to its full length.†  (source)
  • I believe that this case must be unique in Swedish jurisprudence.†  (source)
  • It was probably Sophie's most flagrant evasion (and one incorporating her strangest lie) that earlier she kept harping to me about the extraordinary liberality and tolerance of her upbringing, not only deceiving me, just as I'm sure she deceived Nathan, but concealing from me until the last possible moment a truth which, in order to justify her dealings with the Commandant, she could hide no longer: that the pamphlet had been written by her father, Professor Zbigniew Bieganski, Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at the Jagiellonian University of Cracow; Doctor of Law honoris causa, Universities of Karlova, Bucharest, Heidelberg and Leipzig.†  (source)
  • This shows it is improper to use a technical interpretation from the jurisprudence of only one State.†  (source)
  • I rushed Reuben out the door, and it was clear from his bewildered expression that he had no idea what law he had broken or rule he had violated in the odd system of jurisprudence practiced in our room.†  (source)
  • So exotic jurisprudence loses its brightest jewel....so what do I care?†  (source)
  • maybe if the thought had ever occurred to him that because of love or honor or anything else under heaven or jurisprudence either, Bon would not, would refuse to, he (the lawyer) would even have furnished proof that he no longer breathed)—maybe all the time it was this that racked him: how to get Bon where he would either have to find it out himself, or where somebody—the father or the mother—would have to tell him.†  (source)
  • And jurisprudence, the making and executing of laws.†  (source)
  • K. looked at him with some curiosity, he was the first student he had ever met of the unfamiliar discipline of jurisprudence, face to face at least, a man who would even most likely attain high office one day.†  (source)
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