Use "prima" in a sentence

1. It had been Chrissie’s bad luck to be in the way on that particular night and she had received a mouthful of foul language from the prima donna as a result

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2. The solicitor acting for these masquerading princes and forgers, found he could not weave a single mesh of the legal net required for a prima facie case, though he had twisted and contorted every clause of the laws relating to libel, and waded through briefs innumerable, in the hope of finding a precedent

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3. The fight game was once considered a poor man‘s sport, not a sport tailored for millionaires and prima donnas fighting once or twice a year for obscene paychecks exceeding what many of their predecessors earned over a lifetime

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4. Another prima facie ground for disbarment

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5. I pretended I didn’t hear, but as soon as I got on board he shoved me in the chest and yelled as loud as he could, ‘Don’t bloody sit near me, prima donna!’ Everyone sniggered

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6. I hid at intervals in the Library in case someone shouted poof, queer or prima donna

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7. Planning, as a prima facie is the base for

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8. ‘’Goddammed Action Division prima donnas! They think that they are better than anyone else

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9. Winslow gave her an approving look: he liked her attitude, which was a far cry from the prima donna attitude one expected from fighter pilots

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10. He probably didn’t even mention that this is a mission for The Prima

11. I don’t work for Prima for the money

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12. “And would ye be damning the entire race for those mingering bastards at Prima? The first ma arse

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13. “Sheryl’s my friend that works for Prima too

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14. “She’s a spy from the Prima that’s why bother

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15. Do you really want to continue to work for Prima? Is that were you see yourself in the future? You fight against what you are

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16. “You and Me / As well these / Have had past / Future as well; Clear are learned in their minds / Embodies selfsame spirit all one / From birth to death, in every birth; Spirit as entity hath no birth / How can thou kill what’s not born; What’s not real, it’s never been / And that’s true, it’s ever there / That’s how wise all came to see; Prima facie if thou feel / Subject Spirit is to rebirths / Why grieve over end of frame; Dies as one / For like rebirth / Why feel sad / Of what’s cyclic; Isn’t thy lament over that / Un-manifested to start with / Gets manifested just as guest / And bids adieu in due course, and, Dies not Spirit as die beings / What for then man tends to grieve

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17. “Well, yea, but that officially ended with the termination of Prima Nocta

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18. Isis is called the Star of the Sea and represents the fruitful, rich plains of Egypt, the prima materia, which brings forth life when fertilized by Osiris, the Nile flood (Larousse 19)

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19. They wouldn’t have allowed it, anyway — their duty, as they saw it, was to protect the next prima

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20. I might be the next prima, but I had no experience with this sort of thing

21. In the past, Great-Aunt Ruby would, as prima, have been the one to take on such a role

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22. There was power in me, of course, although it was nothing compared to what it would be when she passed the strength of the prima to me and I had found my consort

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23. Was she really too tired, or was this her way of telling me it was time I stepped forward and showed everyone that I really was capable of taking on the mantle of prima?

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24. When I was younger, my great-aunt frightened me a good deal, not simply because she was the prima and therefore in charge of the whole clan, but also because she had seemed so very old to me

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25. Not every house in Jerome was maintained quite so well, but the prima had to keep up appearances

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26. The world had changed a lot since Ruby was a girl, and she’d changed with it…just not to the point where she was happy seeing the next prima of the McAllisters wearing faded jeans and cowboy boots that needed resoling

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27. That was the work of a true prima

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28. Certainly not thinking he’d be the consort of the McAllisters’ prima

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29. The powers of the prima

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30. I was the prima

31. It was probably hard for them, to think that she’d asked for me at the end, and not her own sons, but allowances had to be made for the passage of power from prima to prima

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32. Would this still be my room, my home? Or would I be forced to take my place as prima in the cluttered Victorian mansion on the hill?

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33. I could tell that she wanted to talk more, to ask about me being prima now and all that, but I just didn’t have the time…or the heart

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34. I could see why there would’ve been plenty of young men vying for her attentions, and not just because she was the next McAllister prima

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35. The prima always presided at the great celebrations

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36. Maybe he just thought as prima I should be the one calling the shots

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37. “Yes, but it’s tradition for the prima to live here, so…

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38. Although I’d been dressing a little more nicely these days, mostly because it didn’t seem right for the prima of the McAllisters to be slouching around in jeans with holes in them and pilly sweaters, I hadn’t gone to a lot of effort today

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39. I could tell by his disappointed expression that this new candidate wasn’t overly impressed with the McAllisters’ prima

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40. He was just seeing the prima of the McAllisters and her big house and the position he’d have as her consort

41. Of course, part of it is that everyone wants to be here for Thanksgiving with the new prima

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42. She said twenty-one is special for any girl, but especially for the next clan prima

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43. She had her parents and the members of her clan, and seemed to look forward to being prima

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44. The prima of her youth, Abigail McAllister, had died early

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45. What I did recall was that Ruby had barely a year after meeting her consort before she had to take over as prima

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46. “So that’s why the Wilcoxes always have a primus, never a prima

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47. ” As far as I knew, the McAllister clan had always had a prima as its head

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48. I got the impression that she would have liked to call out my remark for being irreverent but wasn’t quite willing to confront her prima in such a way

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49. “It would? But I was always told that it was bad for a prima to be with someone who wasn’t her consort, almost as bad as making it to twenty-two without a partner

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50. You are prima, as am I

51. Groups of three seemed safe enough, especially since one of the de la Paz crew’s particular gift was being able to sniff out dark warlocks, which was why their prima had included him as part of the group

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52. It was as if now that I was prima, my aunt was trying to distance herself from me

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53. Hands on her hips, she retorted, “Settle? Settle? The prima of the McAllisters should not have to settle! All right, it might have protected you from the Wilcoxes, but what about the rest of us? A prima without a consort isn’t strong enough to protect her whole clan, or didn’t Margot tell you that?”

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54. There had never been a McAllister prima without a consort

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55. “That is, it doesn’t happen very often, but a prima can marry someone who isn’t her consort

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56. I had no idea whether she’d ever visited the place while Great-Aunt Ruby was alive…or the prima before her, for that matter

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57. Without thinking, I launched myself off the pool table and at Damon Wilcox, hand raised to deliver the sort of blow I’d dealt Perry with in the parking lot of Main Stage, only this time so much more powerful, as I had the strength of a prima and the hate and sorrow of a thousand avenging angels to bolster it

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58. At least her stubbornness to his questioning was now understandable, but if she thought that her charge was indeed Michael Sands then the prima facia case against her still stood up

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59. Prima facie it seems that somewhere, this

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60. Here we have a story prima facie of a very fabulous turn,

61. “What is the significance of gold to the prima materia?” His back was to her

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62. “Some say that gold is the prima materia

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63. But that there should he three distinct Persons in the Godhead; that One of these should lay aside the 'form of God’ and descend to be born of a Virgin, so as to become part of the integral personality of the Christ; and that this occurred 1877 years ago in Palestine, in the Son of Mary,—is a proposition of prima facie incredibility so confounding to sense and reason that the tendency of the thinking public, learned and unlearned, has ever been largely in the direction of skepticism or resolute denial

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64. ’ 'The literal sense of words is prima facie their true sense

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65. trick me up…but that was okay, I'd had my share of prima donnas to deal with in my stage

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66. The voice of a prima donna seemed to her to be but echoes of her conscience, and this illusion that charmed her as some very thing of her own life

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67. The abnormalities of harelip, breastmole, supernumerary digits, negro's inkle, strawberry mark and portwine stain were alleged by one as a prima facie and natural hypothetical explanation of those swineheaded (the case of Madame Grissel Steevens was not forgotten) or doghaired infants occasionally born

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68. Prima facie, I put it to you that there was no attempt at carnally knowing

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69. A prima donna in the bowels of a wardrobe dripping with dresses, but with nothing to wear

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70. Raoul, of course, was the first to be astonished at the prima donna's

71. From that moment the prima donna sang with all her heart and soul

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72. Failing to find the pair, he hurried back to the Opera, remembered Raoul's strange confidence about his fantastic rival and learned that the viscount had made every effort to enter the cellars of the theater and that he had disappeared, leaving his hat in the prima donna's dressing-room beside an empty pistol-case

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73. If market action suggests that a bottom is being formed, accept that as prima facie evidence that a basic low is at hand

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74. Assuming that an investment trust has done substantially better than the relevant “average,” this is of course a prima facie indication of capable management

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75. Suppose we look for a simple prima facie indication that a stock is cheap

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76. If a stock adheres to the Seven-Week Rule then it is prima facie a stock that tends to hold the 10-day moving average; therefore, once it breaks this moving average, it should be sold because it is now changing character by failing to hold the 10-day line

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77. Mona went on: "Why do you tell us all this? You're not the prima donna of what's happened here! All

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78. "Why, the prima donna," he used to say to his friends, "mews a lullaby to you like a little white kitten

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79. It must be observed that there were at that time two parties, each supporting the superior claims of its favourite prima donna

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80. Both parties were so devoted to music, that the conductors actually began to be apprehensive of some startling manifestation of the passion for the good and the beautiful embodied in the two prima donnas

81. The dandy, who was in the last stage of enthusiasm, clapping his hands and still more actively stamping with his feet, gave Ivan Andreyitch a cursory and absent-minded glance, and immediately putting up his hands like a trumpet to his mouth, so as to be more audible, shouted the prima donna's name

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82. Yes, sir, whilst the English Government establishes no such doctrine, the French Government acts upon the principle that speaking the English language is prima facie evidence of your being a British subject, and would justify their treating you as an enemy, the burden of the proof to the contrary being thrown upon yourself

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