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warrant as in:  has a warrant to...

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  • The judge signed an arrest warrant.
    warrant = document authorizing arrest
  • I think the judge may issue a warrant on this.   (source)
    warrant = a document granting the right to do something
  • ...these men were IOI credit officers with a valid indenturement arrest warrant for one Bryce Lynch, the occupant of this apartment.   (source)
    warrant = document granting a right (in this case, to arrest)
  • While Brother Gerald was explaining how he couldn't sign the warrant papers seeing as how Rosaleen was nearly deaf, I started for the door.   (source)
    warrant = document authorizing arrest
  • It dawned on him that the sheriff would soon be arriving with a warrant for his arrest, so he pulled on a shirt and a pair of pants, climbed out a rear window, jumped into his van, and headed south on 1-95.   (source)
  • Mr. Cheever, have warrants drawn for all of these—arrest for examination.   (source)
    warrants = documents authorizing something
  • "Adam," said Larry, "there's a warrant for your arrest."   (source)
    warrant = document authorizing arrest
  • Before you sign my death-warrant, be sure that you are yourself safe.   (source)
    warrant = a document granting the right to do something
  • His mother took out a police warrant against him.   (source)
    warrant = document authorizing arrest
  • If we come up with anything else we can get a warrant.   (source)
    warrant = a document granting the right to do something
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  • CHEEVER: You've ripped the Deputy Governor's warrant, man!   (source)
    warrant = document authorizing arrest
  • PROCTOR, suddenly snatching the warrant out of Cheever's hands: Out with you.   (source)
  • It doesn't matter; we have a search warrant.   (source)
    warrant = a document granting the right to do something
  • CHEEVER: Proctor, you dare not touch the warrant.   (source)
    warrant = document authorizing arrest
  • PROCTOR, ripping the warrant: Out with you!   (source)
  • Mockingly quoting the warrant: "For the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam's babies."   (source)
  • CHEEVER: I am given sixteen warrant tonight, sir, and she is one.   (source)
    warrant = documents authorizing arrest
  • NAME: WADE WATTS
    OUTSTANDING WARRANTS: NONE
    CREDIT RATING: EXCELLENT
    PURCHASE RESTRICTIONS: NONE
    TRANSACTION APPROVED!   (source)
    warrants = documents granting rights to do something -- such as arrest warrants
  • She took out a peace warrant against him, which meant if he came within fifty feet of her he'd be arrested.   (source)
    warrant = a document (granting the right to do something)
  • His own mother had sworn out a police warrant against him, declaring that she was afraid he would do bodily harm to her and her family.   (source)
    warrant = document authorizing arrest
  • With a warrant we can search her place for any trace of red fibers that match those found on Chase's clothes.   (source)
    warrant = a document granting the right to do something
  • He moved to suppress most of the evidence seized at Mercer House the night of the shooting on the grounds that the police did not have a search warrant; the motion was denied by the Georgia Supreme Court.   (source)
    warrant = document giving the right (to do the thing just mentioned
  • I say we get a warrant.   (source)
    warrant = a document granting the right to do something
  • Another time, he got angry at an exterminator who'd been hired to spray his apartment, so he punched him in the eye, banged his head on the pavement and then later, after the man had sworn out a police warrant against him, took a baseball bat and chased him around Madison Square, screaming that he was going to kill him.   (source)
    warrant = document authorizing arrest
  • I have a warrant for your wife.   (source)
  • He takes out a warrant.   (source)
  • This warrant's vengeance!   (source)
  • I have signed seventy-two death warrants; I am a minister of the Lord, and I dare not take a life without there be a proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it.   (source)
    warrants = documents authorizing
  • Subject had an active felony warrant for his arrest and was placed in custody after his wounds were taken care of by St. Joseph's ER staff.   (source)
    warrant = document giving the right to do the thing just mentioned
  • Immediately, Janice called the Garland County Sheriff's Department and advised a deputy of the active warrant for Adam's arrest, refusing to hang up until the officer agreed to send a car to his current location.   (source)
    warrant = document authorizing arrest
  • Ran subject for wants/warrants.   (source)
    warrants = documents authorizing arrest or other legal actions
  • She read Anne's death warrant by consumption in it unless it was scrupulously obeyed.   (source)
    warrant = something leading to (figuratively)
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warrant as in:  serious enough to warrant surgery

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  • She believes the invasion of privacy is warranted to assist in the battle against terrorists.
  • Although I think hitting a child would be valid grounds for expulsion in other schools, I agree such extreme measures aren't warranted here.   (source)
    warranted = justified
  • As famous as he was, Halliday's death should have warranted only a brief segment on the evening news, so the unwashed masses could shake their heads in envy when the newscasters announced the obscenely large amount of money that would be doled out to the rich man's heirs.   (source)
  • The effort of getting dressed warranted nothing less than a Grand Tour, she felt.   (source)
    warranted = justified or deserved
  • The attack was so inconsequential, according to the king, that it barely warranted notice.   (source)
  • Did you not think the nature of her injuries warranted immediate medical attention?   (source)
    warranted = justified
  • But this is a snobbish objection and not at all warranted by the facts.   (source)
  • This would warrant sending a squadron's strike force, the bulk of Adam's teammates based nearby, to go in and get him, but was the risk worth the reward?   (source)
    warrant = make reasonable
  • Henry Crawford was at Mansfield Park again the next morning, and at an earlier hour than common visiting warrants.   (source)
    warrants = makes reasonable
  • This was late, but not late enough to warrant aborting the mission.   (source)
    warrant = justify
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  • Evidently the time came in New England when the repressions of order were heavier than seemed warranted by the dangers against which the order was organized.   (source)
    warranted = justified
  • We felt that this slight break in protocol was warranted but in no way prejudicial—in one way or another—to the application review.   (source)
  • On each side there was much to attract, and their acquaintance soon promised as early an intimacy as good manners would warrant.   (source)
    warrant = make reasonable
  • Her ideas are not higher than her own fortune may warrant, but they are beyond what our incomes united could authorise.   (source)
  • There was, indeed, so deep a blush over Fanny's face at that moment as might warrant strong suspicion in a predisposed mind.   (source)
  • His happiness in knowing himself to have been so long the beloved of such a heart, must have been great enough to warrant any strength of language in which he could clothe it to her or to himself; it must have been a delightful happiness.   (source)
    warrant = justify
  • …Crawford had too much sense not to feel the worth of good principles in a wife, though he was too little accustomed to serious reflection to know them by their proper name; but when he talked of her having such a steadiness and regularity of conduct, such a high notion of honour, and such an observance of decorum as might warrant any man in the fullest dependence on her faith and integrity, he expressed what was inspired by the knowledge of her being well principled and religious.   (source)
  • "As far as I am concerned," he said, "there's not enough evidence to warrant that conclusion."   (source)
  • No matter what Muldoon said, Gennaro suspected him of unwarranted enthusiasm, and hopefulness, and—†   (source)
    unwarranted = not justified
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwarranted means not and reverses the meaning of warranted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • The fuss feels unwarranted as they step into a stark, sunken dining room.†   (source)
  • "A slight exaggeration," said Brom, "but not unwarranted.†   (source)
  • These frustrations often took the form of unwarranted rudeness on his part.†   (source)
  • What he said was a harsh and unwarranted insult to those like you and me.†   (source)
  • Leaps like that are totally unwarranted, but they are made.†   (source)
  • Also, Brom hoped to avoid attracting unwarranted attention to Carvahall.†   (source)
  • That's a perfectly unwarranted assumption.†   (source)
  • Sadly, not every Everest lawsuit is unwarranted.†   (source)
  • 'You're a font of unwarranted information, you know that.'†   (source)
  • Do you feel that confidence to be unwarranted?†   (source)
  • This one is unwarranted and overly anthropomorphic, though ...You wanted my opinion.†   (source)
  • He felt a surge of irritation at Brenda for making him stab the Crank—maybe unwarranted when he really considered how desperate they'd been.†   (source)
  • An unwarranted assurance.†   (source)
  • This situation is at the least unsettling, and at the most a grave and wholly unwarranted provocation.†   (source)
  • This was not an unwarranted fear.†   (source)
  • Idris is struck again by how easily the locals can tell he is a westernized Afghan, how the whiff of money and power affords him unwarranted privilege in this city.†   (source)
  • She was a middle-aged woman, without a trace of flirtatiousness, who walked with a slight shuffle and had lost the unwarranted gaiety that had made her so appealing in her youth.†   (source)
  • He must have been a difficult "role model" for Hester, however, because I think her worshipful love of him—in addition to her constant losses in the daily competitions with her older brothers—simply overwhelmed her, and gave her an unwarranted contempt of my Aunt Martha.†   (source)
  • It was all Hannah could do to free her arms enough so that she could pat Gitl's shorn head, touching it with as much tenderness as she could muster, while her cheeks still burned from the unwarranted slaps.†   (source)
  • To Matsuhiro [sic] Watanabe, As a result of my prisoner of war experience under your unwarranted and unreasonable punishment, my post-war life became a nightmare.†   (source)
  • Miraculously it survives the humidity and our moves, with only a few unwarranted archipelagos of gray mold dotting its oceans.†   (source)
  • Many people who looked at Warren Harding saw how extraordinarily handsome and distinguished-looking he was and jumped to the immediate—and entirely unwarranted—conclusion that he was a man of courage and intelligence and integrity.†   (source)
  • I didn't enroll to make friends or impress anyone, so as long as my unwarranted reputation doesn't interfere with my ultimate goal, I'll get along just fine.†   (source)
  • He considers removing her boots — which haven't been cleaned yet today — but decides that this would be an unwarranted familiarity.†   (source)
  • I felt her faith in me was unwarranted, but I was so relieved to see her again that I didn't contradict her.†   (source)
  • Pedro Tercero found out about his existence and had an attack of jealousy that was unwarranted if one compares the influence he had on Blanca with the timid siege of the Jewish merchant.†   (source)
  • Things — precautions —were coming back to him, among them the unwarranted risk of waiting in an airport's luggage area, and since he wanted the greater anonymity of economy class, a carry-on two-suiter might be disallowed.†   (source)
  • By what right did you use my work to make an unwarranted, preposterous switch into another field, pull an inapplicable metaphor and draw a monstrous generalization out of what is merely a mathematical problem?†   (source)
  • But when I say this, I do not mean to imply the stance I took over the matter of the book that evening was somehow unwarranted.†   (source)
  • Climbing along the blade of the summit ridge, sucking gas into my ragged lungs, I enjoyed a strange, unwarranted sense of calm.†   (source)
  • My point was that the agency has had three whole months to raise the objection—to show up with that kind of objection after proceedings have started is an unwarranted provocation.†   (source)
  • Two minutes passed; the door of d'Amacourt's office opened and the vice-president stood in the frame, an anxious executive concerned over an unwarranted delay.†   (source)
  • Unmitigated and unwarranted, man against himself and all his hostilities, the worst, of course, being his fears.†   (source)
  • Joe's fear of an outer security line seemed unwarranted as they hurriedly climbed another short flight of stone steps to the upper terrace.†   (source)
  • Not only was there a third life in the balance, a third unrelated, unwarranted death, but a killer who could be his shortcut to the crimes of the new Medusa, and those crimes were his bait for the Jackal!†   (source)
  • But I soon reminded myself that such trivial slips are liable to befall anyone from time to time and my irritation soon turned to Miss Kenton for attempting to create such unwarranted fuss over the incident.†   (source)
  • He could not understand why Dr. Ferris' face tightened into an injured look, "You will permit me to say that this is unexpected and unwarranted," said Dr. Ferris in that tone of formality which conceals pain and reveals martyrdom.†   (source)
  • Norris' first Congressional secretary told reporters he was "bitterly opposed to the Senator's unwarranted support of Tammany's candidate for President."†   (source)
  • They saw the unwarranted police raids on black political caucuses because these caucuses refused to allow white reporters.†   (source)
  • He'd never been in jail before, he said, and he apparently believed himself set apart by nature from the others—as if by that perhaps unjust and unwarranted, meaningless brand, like the mark of Cain—so that his punishment was more cruel than theirs, downright absurd, in fact.†   (source)
  • In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.†   (source)
  • Am I not indulging in unwarranted emotions?†   (source)
  • He looked so capable and calm and even the slight twist of his mouth was comforting as though it proved her agony and confusion unwarranted.†   (source)
  • So take this, Sir; neither as the unwarranted insolence which an unsolicited communication from myself to you would be, not as a plea for sufferance on behalf of an unknown, but as an introduction (clumsy though it be) to one young gentleman whose position needs neither detailing nor recapitulation in the place where this letter is read, of another young gentleman whose position requires neither detailing nor recapitulation in the place where it was written.†   (source)
  • Nor did it remain unwarranted by the event.†   (source)
  • She began to see that they looked upon her complaint as unwarranted, and that she was supposed to work on and say nothing.†   (source)
  • It was on the eve of Joachim's retiring to his bed for good, his last evening on his feet, that Hans Castorp happened upon him—in conversation with Marusya, with Marusya of the unwarranted giggles, the orange-scented handkerchiefs, and the externally well-formed chest.†   (source)
  • I felt quite amused at his unwarranted choler, and while he stumped indignantly up and down I fell to dwelling upon the romance of the fog.†   (source)
  • And once more a protest on the part of Belknap as to the unwarranted and illegal and shameful withholding of evidence on the part of the district attorney.†   (source)
  • It seemed a monstrous, unnatural, unwarranted condition which had suddenly descended upon him without his let or hindrance.†   (source)
  • No, Hans Castorp really wanted none of that, especially because ever since Mardi Gras his conscience had bothered him; that is to say, his conscience told him that Joachim had to regard a certain incident, about which they never spoke but of which Joachim was undoubtedly aware, as an instance of betrayal, desertion, and faithlessness, particularly when one thought of a pair of round, brown eyes, unwarranted giggles, and orange perfume, to the effects of which he was exposed five times a day—and each time sternly, properly lowered his eyes to his plate.†   (source)
  • The secret and intended and immoral and illegal and socially unwarranted and condemned use of her body outside the regenerative and ennobling pale of matrimony!†   (source)
  • Her manner as she said this was a mixture of outward courage born out of her conviction that she was in the right and an inward uncertainty about Clyde's attitude, which was all the more fused by a sudden look of surprise, resentment, uncertainty and fear that now transformation-wise played over his countenance; a variation and play which, if it indicated anything definite, indicated that she was seeking to inflict an unwarranted injury on him.†   (source)
  • For he could observe only too well how Joachim had to endure the daily, constant assaults of orange-scented handkerchiefs, round brown eyes, a little ruby, a great many unwarranted giggles, and an externally well-formed chest; and the common sense and love of honor, which enabled Joachim to avoid those assaults and flee from them, touched Hans Castorp, kept him under some control and prevented him from "borrowing a pencil," as it were, from a certain narrow-eyed person— which experience taught him he would have been only too ready to do without Joachim's disciplining proximity.†   (source)
  • She thought them totally unwarranted, and the repulsion which this exceptional severity excited in her was in danger of making the more persistent tenderness unacceptable.†   (source)
  • Nor was it unwarranted: in five minutes more the grating key, the yielding lock, warned me my watch was relieved.†   (source)
  • But by dint of much and earnest contemplation, and oft repeated ponderings, and especially by throwing open the little window towards the back of the entry, you at last come to the conclusion that such an idea, however wild, might not be altogether unwarranted.†   (source)
  • And therefore When The Representative Is One Man, His Unwarranted Acts Are His Own Onely†   (source)
  • And making this concession, I affirm that (with the sole exception of duties on imports and exports) they would, under the plan of the convention, retain that authority in the most absolute and unqualified sense; and that an attempt on the part of the national government to abridge them in the exercise of it, would be a violent assumption of power, unwarranted by any article or clause of its Constitution.†   (source)
  • But they that gave not their Vote, are therefore Innocent, because the Assembly cannot Represent any man in things unwarranted by their Letters, and consequently are not involved in their Votes.†   (source)
  • Matthew decided that he would give her one; that surely could not be objected to as an unwarranted putting in of his oar.   (source)
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warrant as in:  I warrant it

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  • It will rain tonight. I warrant it.
    warrant = am certain of
  • I warrant her a woman of good character.
    warrant = am certain
  • The company warrants their product.
    warrants = guarantees
  • We do know in part what Mr. Ewell did: he did what any God-fearing, persevering, respectable white man would do under the circumstances— he swore out a warrant, no doubt signing it with his left hand, and Tom Robinson now sits before you, having taken the oath with the only good hand he possesses his right hand.   (source)
    warrant = document stating that something happened
  • I cannot swim a stroke, nor could anyone else on this ship, I warrant, except Nat who was born on the water.   (source)
    warrant = guarantee (assure you)
  • Up to no good, I'll warrant!   (source)
  • The peddler said it was warranted to dye any hair a beautiful raven black and wouldn't wash off.   (source)
    warranted = guaranteed
  • She confided to me that she has got her death warrant. Her doctor told her that within a few months, at most, she must die, for her heart is weakening.   (source)
    warrant = guarantee
  • But that trick took 'em to the graveyard, and the gold done us a still bigger kindness; for if the excited fools hadn't let go all holts and made that rush to get a look we'd a slept in our cravats to-night—cravats warranted to WEAR, too—longer than WE'D need 'em.   (source)
    warranted = guaranteed
  • There might have been twenty people there, young and old, but they all played, and so did Scrooge; for wholly forgetting in the interest he had in what was going on, that his voice made no sound in their ears, he sometimes came out with his guess quite loud, and very often guessed quite right, too; for the sharpest needle, best Whitechapel, warranted not to cut in the eye, was not sharper than Scrooge; blunt as he took it in his head to be.   (source)
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  • "They're dead now, I'll warrant," said the first.   (source)
    warrant = guarantee (assure you)
  • "I'll warrant you it was," said Marilla emphatically.   (source)
    warrant = assure (indicating certainty of something)
  • "I'll warrant you'll make plenty in it," said Marilla.   (source)
  • Jane had assured her that it was warranted to produce any number of thrills, or words to that effect, and Anne's fingers tingled to reach out for it.   (source)
    warranted = guaranteed
  • I am peppered, I warrant, for this world.   (source)
    warrant = assure you
  •   And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow
      A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone   (source)
  •   I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,
      I never should forget it.   (source)
    warrant = am certain
  • I warrant thee, my man's as true as steel.   (source)
    warrant = assure
  • I'll warrant him as gentle as a lamb.   (source)
    warrant = guarantee (assure you)
  • I saw no man use you at his pleasure; if I had, my weapon should quickly have been out, I warrant you.   (source)
    warrant = assure
  • Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and I warrant, a virtuous...   (source)
    warrant = am certain
  • I anger her sometimes, and tell her that Paris is the properer man. But I'll warrant you, when I say so, she looks as pale as any clout in the versal world.   (source)
    warrant = assure
  • —you take your pennyworths now;
    Sleep for a week; for the next night, I warrant,
    The County Paris hath set up his rest
    That you shall rest but little.   (source)
    warrant = guarantee (assure you)
  • Tush, I will stir about,
    And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife:
    Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her;
    I'll not to bed tonight;—let me alone;
    I'll play the housewife for this once.   (source)
    warrant = assure
  • DYSART: That's an absolutely unwarrantable statement.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwarrantable means not and reverses the meaning of warrantable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • A year or so earlier, in an unwarrantably self-deprecating paragraph of a letter to her brother Buddy, she had referred to her own figure as "irreproachably Americanese."†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwarrantably means not and reverses the meaning of warrantably. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • "Oh, aren't you?" said Carrie, with an unwarrantable feeling.†   (source)
  • It would cost much time, and would unwarrantably inconvenience your master—†   (source)
  • They were generally assumed to be taken up with the legitimate business of courtship and marriage, and interference in such affairs on the part of their natural guardians was considered as unwarrantable as a spectator's suddenly joining in a game.†   (source)
  • And thus he looked upon every French aristocrat, who had succeeded in escaping from France, as so much prey of which the guillotine had been unwarrantably cheated.†   (source)
  • This is unwarrantable!†   (source)
  • To neglect her, perhaps even to avoid her, at a time when she had most need of her friends, and then suddenly and unwarrantably to break into her life with this strange assumption of authority, was to rouse in her every instinct of pride and self-defence.†   (source)
  • or else I shall be obliged to inform my master of your designs; and he'll take measures to secure his house and its inmates from any such unwarrantable intrusions!'†   (source)
  • His marriage seemed an unmitigated calamity; and he was afraid of going to Rosamond before he had vented himself in this solitary rage, lest the mere sight of her should exasperate him and make him behave unwarrantably.†   (source)
  • I took an unwarrantable liberty.†   (source)
  • Applied to any other creature than the Leviathan—to an ant or a flea—such portly terms might justly be deemed unwarrantably grandiloquent.†   (source)
  • The ambition was evinced by a certain impatience of the duties of a mere copyist, an unwarrantable usurpation of strictly professional affairs, such as the original drawing up of legal documents.†   (source)
  • Should any unwarrantably pert young Leviathan coming that way, presume to draw confidentially close to one of the ladies, with what prodigious fury the Bashaw assails him, and chases him away!†   (source)
  • And he says that I have every reason to hope, if I can put myself in an honorable position—I mean, out of the Church I dare say you think it unwarrantable in me, Mr. Garth, to be troubling you and obtruding my own wishes about Mary, before I have done anything at all for myself.†   (source)
  • Still, looking round me again, and seeing no possible chance of spending a sufferable night unless in some other person's bed, I began to think that after all I might be cherishing unwarrantable prejudices against this unknown harpooneer.†   (source)
  • It may seem unwarrantable to couple in any respect the mast-head standers of the land with those of the sea; but that in truth it is not so, is plainly evinced by an item for which Obed Macy, the sole historian of Nantucket, stands accountable.†   (source)
  • We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.†   (source)
  • Besides, the taking up arms, merely to enforce the repeal of a pecuniary law, seems as unwarrantable by the divine law, and as repugnant to human feelings, as the taking up arms to enforce obedience thereto.†   (source)
  • Their number, without an unwarrantable increase of expense, cannot be large enough to preclude a facility of combination.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, should an unwarrantable measure of the federal government be unpopular in particular States, which would seldom fail to be the case, or even a warrantable measure be so, which may sometimes be the case, the means of opposition to it are powerful and at hand.†   (source)
  • The unwarrantable stretch likewise, which that house made in their last sitting, to gain an undue authority over the delegates of that province, ought to warn the people at large, how they trust power out of their own hands.†   (source)
  • And the unwarrantable concealments and misrepresentations which have been in various ways practiced to keep the truth from the public eye, have been of a nature to demand the reprobation of all honest men.†   (source)
  • The valuable improvements made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would be an unwarrantable partiality, to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected.†   (source)
  • It is evident, it could not be done without waging war against the contracting State; and to ascribe to the federal courts, by mere implication, and in destruction of a pre-existing right of the State governments, a power which would involve such a consequence, would be altogether forced and unwarrantable.†   (source)
  • Suppose an article had been introduced into the Constitution, empowering the United States to regulate the elections for the particular States, would any man have hesitated to condemn it, both as an unwarrantable transposition of power, and as a premeditated engine for the destruction of the State governments?†   (source)
  • I have taken the pains to select this instance of misrepresentation, and to place it in a clear and strong light, as an unequivocal proof of the unwarrantable arts which are practiced to prevent a fair and impartial judgment of the real merits of the Constitution submitted to the consideration of the people.†   (source)
  • —fast, I warrant her, she:—
    Why, lamb!   (source)
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  • Aza, the cops found, like, two million dollars executing their warrant, but I bet they didn't even get half of it.†   (source)
  • But what aspect of his awareness could possibly warrant the interruption of a demitasse?†   (source)
  • The arrest warrant continued: "As a result, Czechoslovakia would have suffered untold economic losses and Sokolov would have obtained for his unlawful and marauding action significant values in money or possessions."†   (source)
  • The plainclothesman in front of her flashed a badge, showed a search warrant, and brusquely asked Mary for permission to enter.†   (source)
  • By staying the case, the Alabama Supreme Court had signaled there was something unusual about Walter's case that warranted further review in the lower courts.†   (source)
  • What harmful thing had she willfully done to this man to warrant his malice, his continual assaults, the relish with which he tormented her?†   (source)
  • The police had entirely surrounded the bank and were threatening to have the DCPJ captain himself show up with the warrant the bank had demanded.†   (source)
  • He knew only that the child was his warrant.†   (source)
  • The warrant officer in charge of field exercises is the commandant, an overzealous schoolmaster named Bastian with an expansive walk and a round belly and a coat quivering with war medals.†   (source)
  • So you arrested me without a warrant for being out late, and then when my dad runs out into the road to try and stop you or to find out what was going on, you intentionally ran him over.†   (source)
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  • He denied all the accusations, of course, and paid bail before the ink dried on the warrant.†   (source)
  • He has done nothing, nothing to warrant such —' Hermione, Parvati and Lavender all screamed.†   (source)
  • After Etta, he said, the path to Ole Jurgensen was clear, and from Ole to Judge Lew Fielding's chambers: Art had needed a search warrant.†   (source)
  • I guess I just didn't think my interest in the WNBA rose to the level where it warranted joining a discussion group, or, you know, following anything.†   (source)
  • I said, come back with a search warrant, you want to see what I keep under my bed, but I let 'em have a good look from the door, satisfy 'em you weren't there.†   (source)
  • And so, like the battered wife, he takes action even when-to you and me-nothing seems to warrant the attack.†   (source)
  • Fussily, he took a tissue and wiped some leakage—some fluid—from the corner of the warrant officer's mouth.†   (source)
  • Most of them had enough bulk to warrant a double take, but when she scanned their faces—often scarred, pockmarked, or just plain hideous—there was no spark behind their eyes, no shining kernel of cleverness.†   (source)
  • The thought that what I feel for him isn't even warranted or true is making me hurt.†   (source)
  • No one sees Bran without my warrant or my mother's.†   (source)
  • Dr. Barnwell is here, too, speaking with one of the nurses, and I wonder who is ill enough to warrant such a visit at this hour.†   (source)
  • The warrant came down from the governor today.†   (source)
  • You have a warrant?†   (source)
  • She knew she might be signing her dad's death warrant, but she cared too much about her friends to let them hurt each other.†   (source)
  • He tried to impose order now on the random movement before him, and almost succeeded: marshaling centers, warrant officers behind makeshift desks, rubber stamps and dockets, roped-off lines toward the waiting boats; hectoring sergeants, tedious queues around mobile canteens.†   (source)
  • You know he's got a warrant for his arrest in the next town.†   (source)
  • That announcement restored the calm and the good cheer that the occasion warranted but that they had been on the point of losing.†   (source)
  • The girl will be safe with me, that I warrant.†   (source)
  • In fact, it could warrant a call to war.†   (source)
  • We hereby certify that the vinegar in this bottle is warranted to be of the nature and quality which it purports to be.†   (source)
  • Which one of you scum-sucking maggots just signed his own death warrant?†   (source)
  • I didn't know what warrants Boris had out on him but though it was worrying to think he'd been arrested, I was a lot more worried that Sascha's people had sent someone else after him.†   (source)
  • In fact, they'd probably be the ones writing out Peeta's death warrant.†   (source)
  • I'm going to spell it out for you: Your mother is claiming that your past behavior at her house warranted her to discipline you because you were so incorrigible.†   (source)
  • If another bit of evidence pops up, if the police get a search warrant for the woodshed, if Andie goes to the cops—†   (source)
  • The police issued a warrant for Tiburon's arrest.†   (source)
  • Their conversation must have been sufficiently perplexing to warrant an early visit.†   (source)
  • It is almost inconceivable that the scattered seedship colony of four centuries ago could have supported a large enough congregation to warrant the presence of a bishop, much less a cathedral.†   (source)
  • But it certainly didn't warrant a butter knife to the eye.†   (source)
  • I paused for a moment, which was more consideration than the question seemed to warrant.†   (source)
  • The committee left for Washington to study the evidence and report on whether an appropriation was warranted.†   (source)
  • This girl's crimes of insolence, property destruction, and running away from her rightful owner are not devious enough to warrant a sentence of death.†   (source)
  • Its pilot was Chief Warrant Officer Cliff Wolcott.†   (source)
  • But no policeman came to call, either to ask questions or with a warrant empowering him to take paint scrapings from the WV's bumpers.†   (source)
  • It was said they were mostly not on the school grounds but "on call as the situation warranted."†   (source)
  • YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF CAPTAIN'S MAST-THAT'S where the commanding officer listens to what you've done and hands out what is called a nonjudicial punishment if he thinks it's warranted.†   (source)
  • The police got a warrant out saying he wanted dead or alive.†   (source)
  • A michman (warrant officer) shut the second hatch and with a powerful spin turned the locking wheel as far as it would go.†   (source)
  • EBGOC claims the right to go anywhere, anytime, within the original borders of the United States of America, without a warrant or even a good excuse.†   (source)
  • They were led by a terrific man, Major Steve Reich of Connecticut, with Chief Warrant Officers Chris Scherkenbach of Jacksonville, Florida, and Corey J. Goodnature of Clarks Grove, Minnesota.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, one out of seven arrestees had an outstanding warrant for a previous crime, and one out of twenty was carrying a weapon of some sort.†   (source)
  • An officer left the War Department and delivered death warrants to the defendants Mary Surratt, David Herold, George Atzerodt, and Lewis Powell.†   (source)
  • The facts were that two government agents had come to the house on the Park of the Evangels with a warrant, searched it from top to bottom without finding what they were looking for, and at last ordered the wardrobe with the mirrored doors in Fermina Daza's old bedroom to be opened.†   (source)
  • In many cases more than one diagnosis is warranted.†   (source)
  • The court concluded that Lisbeth Salander was indeed emotionally disturbed, but that her condition did not necessarily warrant internment.†   (source)
  • Undin's gaze faltered for a moment as he cast a look at Gannel, then he shook his head and uttered a gruff laugh that was, perhaps, louder than the occasion warranted.†   (source)
  • "My father couldn't be too heartbroken if he had time to go out and buy a new car," Jane said, "and to outfit you in a new uniform ...I'll warrant, he hasn't missed a single party since I've been gone, hasn't turned down a single social engagement!"†   (source)
  • "Human, I warrant," the man said.†   (source)
  • Old Widow Lau had bragged to her daughters-in-law that I had looks and manners to warrant ten marriage proposals.†   (source)
  • I keep wondering if that warrants a special date, just for him.†   (source)
  • You don't think that might warrant a bit of explanation?†   (source)
  • It is a step in the unknown, I'll warrant, but ...damn.†   (source)
  • In accordance with New Order 15, President Gray issued an arrest warrant for all persons involved with this dangerous activity....†   (source)
  • However, the unfortunate misunderstanding aside, there are perhaps one or two other aspects to this evening's events which warrant a few moments' thought — if only because otherwise they may come to niggle one throughout the coming days.†   (source)
  • Digging would continue through the night, he said, and the station would cut back to the scene as soon as developments warranted.†   (source)
  • But enough supervisors act that way to warrant the comparison.†   (source)
  • They can search our homes without warrant.†   (source)
  • A bite would be a death warrant.†   (source)
  • An arrest warrant was issued against one of Mukhtar's brothers on manifestly bogus charges.†   (source)
  • It would take a warrant to unlock that.†   (source)
  • And by eight o'clock I'm as angry as anything with my little chem partner, whether it's warranted or not.†   (source)
  • After being briefed on the circumstances of this case, Mr. Driscoll was supplied with photographs, fingerprints and warrants for Hickock and Smith.†   (source)
  • Once they resuscitated her at the hospital, the police found some outstanding bad-check warrants, so she'd had to choose: rehab or jail.†   (source)
  • Your feet haven't grown for a few years, I'll warrant.†   (source)
  • That he still relies on her for that affirmation is among her most valuable assets, something she's won, she feels, by mixing her affection with real firmness, by not giving approval or praise unless it's warranted.†   (source)
  • It seems you got a warrant outstanding ....and we found that gun she was talking about.†   (source)
  • It wasn't as if the situation didn't warrant tears.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the irksomeness of my situation led me to undertake more than could be warranted by prudence.†   (source)
  • A "fantastic" house is surely fantastic enough to warrant a high price, isn't it?†   (source)
  • The warrant officer on Yossarian's left was unimpressed by the entire incident of the soldier in white.†   (source)
  • There wasn't much chance that the new arrival would see his father anytime soon—Doris told me that her baby's daddy had just been picked up on three outstanding warrants.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's time for a search warrant.†   (source)
  • While the campus was quiet, their precautions were warranted; they had to wait several times for Agents or sleepless parents to pass on nighttime strolls.†   (source)
  • But I warrant you haven't seen them doing it; nor any one else in the Shire.'†   (source)
  • He wanted to know as little as possible, to feel only enough to get through the day amiably and to be interesting enough to warrant the curiosity of other people—but not their all-consuming devotion.†   (source)
  • Then he asked me a question I felt uncomfortable with, one I had known he might ask if Paquette's approach warranted it.†   (source)
  • A wretched death, I warrant.†   (source)
  • If Whitney's orders hadn't come through with the warrant, instructing her to be discreet, Eve would have marched onto the Senate floor and cuffed him in front of his associates.†   (source)
  • The authorities didn't have enough for a search warrant.†   (source)
  • That much is obvious and warranted.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus senses that he now is formally signing his own death warrant here, but knows he will sign another kind of death warrant if he takes his hand down.†   (source)
  • Our objective warranted the procedures, you may be assured of that.†   (source)
  • Mr. Ruiz and Mr. Montes, I have here warrants for your arrests, pending appearance in New York Superior Court.†   (source)
  • Often, Winnie's visits were overseen by Warrant Officer James Gregory, who had been a censor on Robben Island.†   (source)
  • Her T-shirt was snug, but she was slim enough to warrant it.†   (source)
  • Uncle Press looked at me, and in a voice that was way more calm than the situation warranted, said one simple word, "Run."†   (source)
  • A jockey's pay couldn't begin to cover the sky-high insurance rates his job warranted, much less the doctor's bills.†   (source)
  • 22 Shock to farmers was eased by continuing to buy grain at catapult—but cheques now carried printed warning that Luna Free State did not stand behind them, did not warrant that Lunar Authority would ever redeem them even in Scrip, etc., etc. Some farmers left grain anyhow, some did not, all screamed.†   (source)
  • He had lived long enough, he would say, to have committed sins that might have warranted punishment.†   (source)
  • After years of short haircuts and lots of rules with the Rangers, he dropped his packet for warrant officer school with an eye toward being an Apache helicopter pilot.†   (source)
  • It is the opinion of this court that the facts presented by the prosecution seem to warrant no leniency.†   (source)
  • I'll warrant there's noble blood in him.†   (source)
  • He delivers a death warrant to anyone who shelters him.†   (source)
  • "We can do whatever we want," an officer responded, though he admitted that they didn't have warrants.†   (source)
  • No warrants.†   (source)
  • It's part of the inspector's job to keep watch and call an inquiry if the information he gets seems to warrant it.'†   (source)
  • Most of the time, I don't have much exciting news, so I repeat names or random words, but today was noteworthy so it warranted full sentences.†   (source)
  • If he achieved the rank of chief warrant officer 2 he would receive a commission from the President.†   (source)
  • Warrants are issued for their arrests.†   (source)
  • Landers used all the information he'd gathered to draft an affidavit for a search warrant for the barn.†   (source)
  • Oh, a little brisk sometimes, yes, when the situation warrants.†   (source)
  • The police issued a warrant for my arrest, but Kay persuaded the bar owners to drop criminal charges against me.†   (source)
  • What will happen if Congress misconstrues the "necessary and proper" clause and exercises powers not warranted by its true meaning?†   (source)
  • We have an arrest warrant out for Tyler Vernon, but our agents, those that survive going tip to the hills, have been unable to find him.†   (source)
  • It's a strange thing, to have your daughter being publicly accosted by an officer of the law and to know inside that it's completely right and warranted, and yet on top of that having the impulse to shield her from criticism and unhappiness, and feeling, too, the purest, unbending aggression toward the officer.†   (source)
  • ...Without Union & peace our freedom is worthless ...our children would have no warrant of liberty....[If] our Country be numbered among the things that were but are not, of what value will be house, family, and friends?†   (source)
  • But sure enough, Jackson took a warrant out of his coat pocket and laid it on Governor Harrison's desk.†   (source)
  • The day we were arrested I had applied to the Praesidium for a civil warrant to arrest Mundt as an enemy of the people.†   (source)
  • Hello, Horace—have you got a warrant?†   (source)
  • Also, he did not remain with his people for a sufficient period of time to warrant much theological by-play.†   (source)
  • Yet even as the emotion sweeps over her she cannot help but writhe in the memory of the cataclysmic domestic happening which she knows gives her the liberty, the warrant to possess such electrifying desire: the silhouette of her husband, in his robe, standing in the doorway of their dark bedroom only a month before†   (source)
  • You don't have a warrant, do you?†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Peyton's log and a half-dozen baby books—all family memorabilia judged not valuable enough to warrant space in a safe deposit vault but too valuable to throw away—and made space for the iron rations at the bottom.†   (source)
  • CHAPUYS (Almost sure the fish is hooked, leaning forward but playing it cool) We are adjured by St. Paul to don the arms of God when the occasion warrants.†   (source)
  • I knew that this pilot was probably a young warrant officer being trained in nearby Savannah, was on maneuvers, and had spotted my prone, seemingly lifeless body in the boat below.†   (source)
  • "It warrants no stir," the Mayor declared.†   (source)
  • An editorial in a Kansas newspaper screamed: On Saturday last Edmund G. Ross, United States Senator from Kansas, sold himself, and betrayed his constituents; stultified his own record, basely lied to his friends, shamefully violated his solemn pledge ....and to the utmost of his poor ability signed the death warrant of his country's liberty.†   (source)
  • And the hands of death caressed her shoulders, the voice whispered and whispered in her ear: "God's got your number, knows where you live, death's got a warrant out for you."†   (source)
  • 'The next time they come they'll have the search warrant,' she said, and left before he could reply.†   (source)
  • Admittedly, the object on the Capitol floor was odd, but its presence hardly warranted screaming.†   (source)
  • Or maybe my behavior warrants a little rebellion.†   (source)
  • You're just going to find out if your curiosity was warranted.†   (source)
  • May I ask what evil I have committed against you so as to warrant death?†   (source)
  • This event warranted a grand meal with mole.†   (source)
  • The cops are here with a warrant for the woodshed ...they're at Dad's house too.†   (source)
  • Well, Marks and McDermott were seized on American soil, and without a warrant.†   (source)
  • I'm an enlisted man, just like you— a sergeant, not a warrant officer or a major.†   (source)
  • She was important enough to warrant an execution from the Captain of the Royal Guard himself.†   (source)
  • He put a $25,000 warrant out on Aidid for information leading to his arrest.†   (source)
  • Then I asked them how the warrant officer had died.†   (source)
  • It wasn't Patrick who needed the search warrant.†   (source)
  • However, her behavior lately warrants a little nosiness.†   (source)
  • "You be the Duke Leto, I warrant," he said.†   (source)
  • All agree a fresh start is warranted and welcome.†   (source)
  • I had actually cast a vote which I knew could sign our death warrant.†   (source)
  • One of the deputies recognized Mooney from an outstanding warrant.†   (source)
  • Nothing to warrant this security...probably.†   (source)
  • The warrant officer raced back to throw the proper switches, cursing his change of orders.†   (source)
  • Christina laughs, maybe a little harder than my comment warrants, but I appreciate the effort.†   (source)
  • If they want to search the bank, demand a search warrant.†   (source)
  • Her idea of herself, for instance, is much more exalted than her present circumstances warrant.†   (source)
  • Well, they had left-or at least one of them-to broaden the search warrant, most likely.†   (source)
  • "You have committed every crime that warrants execution among the Dauntless," says Tobias.†   (source)
  • Your bank is demanding a search warrant before we can enter.†   (source)
  • Mooney survived, but was then re-jailed on the warrant.†   (source)
  • I'll warrant you were the ones suggested seeking spice in the deep desert.†   (source)
  • I asked Owen what had been the stuff I'd seen leaking from the warrant officer's mouth.†   (source)
  • The sheriff had appeared with a warrant in hand.†   (source)
  • If Henderson spills anything to them he'll be signing his own death warrant.†   (source)
  • This is private property and until you have a search warrant, you will stay off my plane.†   (source)
  • The warrant officer was the last man out of the compartment.†   (source)
  • Anyway, I came down to get you to sign a warrant.†   (source)
  • They had a warrant—' 'They took my things?†   (source)
  • You see — Lomas is so tiny, nameless, it doesn't even warrant a dot," Chente explained.†   (source)
  • THE BODY BELONGS IN PHOENIX—THE GUY WAS A WARRANT OFFICER, A HELICOPTER PILOT.†   (source)
  • And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.†   (source)
  • "You'll want to take a peek at this," the sheriff said, and handed Kabuo the warrant.†   (source)
  • I avoided looking too closely at the body of the warrant officer.†   (source)
  • The forty-year-old warrant officer pressed the headphones against his ears.†   (source)
  • My odds are on the warrant officer—I think he had sighted her in his crosshairs, too.†   (source)
  • And there you were, preparing for a night of fishing, when the sheriff came along with his warrant.†   (source)
  • I brought it down and put it in before the sheriff showed up with his warrant.†   (source)
  • So what that there could be searches without warrants?†   (source)
  • He appeared at your boat on the evening of the sixteenth with a search warrant, is that correct?†   (source)
  • It's a warrant from the U.S. district attorney.†   (source)
  • "I've got a warrant," replied the sheriff, and took it out of his shirt pocket.†   (source)
  • The Clave has issued a death warrant against him.†   (source)
  • This is a fell warrior, I warrant you, wherever the rebels have got him from.†   (source)
  • An honor indistinguishable from a death warrant.†   (source)
  • No reason to start flinging accusations when I wasn't sure they were even warranted.†   (source)
  • For some reason, he has not issued a warrant for yours.†   (source)
  • The other was Brumby's warrant for sergeant dated the day after we left Sanctuary.†   (source)
  • The events at Kai Tak no doubt sealed his death warrant.†   (source)
  • Tuck had guns in the house, too, probably under his bed, but Dawson wasn't sure they were warranted.†   (source)
  • WHEN THEY REACHED THE LEDGE, Annabeth was sure she'd signed their death warrants.†   (source)
  • But she was a great deal more pleased than his casual words warranted.†   (source)
  • There was no sign of Warrant Officer Homer Lumley.†   (source)
  • No one so much as speaks to him without my warrant.†   (source)
  • As you might have noticed, I sometimes speak in dramatic terms if the occasion warrants it.†   (source)
  • There's old deaf women in Lannisport complaining of the din, I'll warrant.†   (source)
  • "Why, we have a warrant for your arrest for unpaid debts," said Harrison.†   (source)
  • She said, "Problem is we don't have a search warrant.†   (source)
  • To find some of your orc-friends, I warrant.†   (source)
  • I'd be happy to furnish you with her name — if your position warrants it.'†   (source)
  • A whole year that Inmate Bourne would live past his execution warrant date?†   (source)
  • The gold cloaks were here within days of the king's murder, with Lord Tywin's warrant.†   (source)
  • He thinks that I may now assume a higher tone, which the late Cornzvallization will well warrant.†   (source)
  • She was about to embrace me and, I warrant, whisper a command in my ear.†   (source)
  • "The warrant was totally justified," Jill said calmly.†   (source)
  • You, on the other hand, entered my house without a search warrant.†   (source)
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