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Beyond that, there lurk the problems of a slender majority, vulnerable to prima donnas, by-elections and downright blackmailers.
We tend to associate Handel operas with high voiced prima donnas, the castrati and the sopranos.
In this case the averment of the fact of manufacture meant that there was prima facie evidence of that fact before the court.
There is insufficient evidence before us that one ingredient of the Section 5 offence was established to constitute a prima facie case.
Massey, who was raised in the old school of thespian behavior, thought that Dean's mood swings and prima donna behavior were unprofessional.
Their right, prima facie, is to use any part of the way for the purpose of passing and repassing.
The fact is, pundits are the prima donnas of journalism, and they are paid to be opinionated.
He showed up unannounced at the home of Copenhagen's prima ballerina and insisted he be allowed to dance Cendrillon for her.
Dolly leapt into action, the huntress awakened, graceful, athletic, like a prima ballerina in a full fur coat.
Inclusion of the man's name on the birth register as the child's father is prima facie evidence of his paternity.
In the civil law if a driver goes off the road on to the pavement and injures a pedestrian, or damages property, he is prima facie liable.
This would happen if God were actively putting ideas into my head that, prima facie and in all cases, seemed to have some other source.
Nobody has suggested that a ship is prima facie heritable and I do not think such a suggestion could reasonably be made.
I have always been a bit of a prima donna sleeper, noise and light bother me and I have a tough time getting comfortable.
Barbara Boothroyd is certainly up to the challenging role of a prima donna who is used to everybody bowing before her.
The prima donna and primo uomo each had at least one large-scale display aria in every act, followed by an exit.
In a precisely similar way, we see the prima facie rightness of an act which would be the fulfilment of a particular promise.
If there is a prima facie case that raises serious concerns about patient safety, the student should be suspended until the matter is resolved.
This statement must be made in clear and definite terms, and there must further be some prima facie evidence that it has some foundation in fact.
Evidence of the speaker's unreliability or insincerity may defeat or override his prima facie warrant for acceptance.
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I thought he was a 'castrato' who, as is the custom in Rome, performed all the parts of a prima donna.
Here is the testimony of one who cannot, prima facie, be deemed unprejudiced.
He was thinking more of his prima donna than of Elcia when he wrote that stretto.
In the former, instead of a prima donna we have a prima ballerina in the principal female part.
She was tired of hearing that one day she might, with diligence and application, become a prima ballerina.
They can always count on me for anything from wardrobe mistress to prima donna.
They wandered about some more, listened for a short time to the trillings of a robustious prima donna come upon evil days.
He was disguised as a prima ballerina for the purpose, and as a windup he danced, with great skill and abandon, a can-can.
There does not appear to be sufficient reason for giving a mere assertion of claim the prima facie standing of absolute ownership.
That the oneness requires425 proof is prima facie evidence that it is a value, a desiderate, not an existence.
He, Mr. Churchill, and Mr. Lloyd George might almost have been called rivals for the rle of prima ballerina assoluta.
The number of well-defined dugs is always the best prima facie evidence of prolificness in any animal.
The common theory, independent of other proofs, is prima facie the most probable.
Raoul, of course, was the first to be astonished at the prima donna's absence.
Her rle is taken by a pantomimist, usually the prima ballerina.
The prima donna was singing the jewel-song from Faust, and not badly.
The tenor of the San Marco troupe rose with the prima donna.
I saw at once the prima facie evidence was strongly against her.
The future prima donna had done practicing her scales, and was trying her voice now in selections from Italian operas.
Consider the undenied system which must prima facie produce such results.
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