Finally, she asked Mr. Balfour if she could have the freedom to impose a business matter on him. I came to wait until my father – to humiliate me at his feet – did not throw himself on my mother! After furnishing his apartment near her for a long time, he was in no hurry to disturb her presence at this moment and went inside. Being insistent means offering or imposing something on others without being asked. Hers were very clean and small, and she knew they had to lean on her eyes as she lay down. Latin obtrudere to thrust at, from ob- in the way + trudere to thrust â more at ob-, threat When I looked at the open window, I saw crowns of light from Joe`s pipe floating there, and I imagined it was like a blessing from Joe – not piled on me or presented before me, but penetrating the air, that we shared. But the same boat was carried by Walter Fetherston, who was infinitely careful not to jump on their attention. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. : (pry-mah fay-shah) Latin adj. for “prima facie” or “prima facie” and refers to a trial or prosecution when the evidence presented at trial is sufficient to prove the case, unless substantial contradictory evidence is presented at trial. Prima facie evidence submitted by the prosecutor`s office to a grand jury leads to an indictment. Example: In the case of a bad cheque charge, proving that half a dozen cheques were written in a non-existent bank account makes it prima facie evidence.
However, evidence that the bank improperly printed the account number on the checks could refute the prosecutor`s apparently “open and closed” case. Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your go-to guide to problems in English.
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