The police had to deal with several exigencies before they could capture the suspect legally. From LearnThat.org.
Noun, : the exigencies of city life. ,He promised help in any exigency. From Dictionary.com.
'Only, I suppose, of what are called the exigencies of business. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold of Chickaree] Reference
So I hide behind certain exigencies of the household and my desire to secure my husband’s happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Bland Ambition, Part I | Her Bad Mother] Reference
Given factors like the short-term exigencies of reelection, what do you think offers our best chance of bringing that about?. From Wordnik.com. [As the Romans Did] Reference
I have a .22 for varmints, a 12 gauge for hunting and a .45 for "exigencies". From Wordnik.com. [Rifle Shooting's 10 Most Significant Developments of the Decade] Reference
I know that there are certain social exigencies -- society. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
One may conciliate that with all the exigencies of fashionable life. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Asleep, you might dream, exigencies and emergencies, everything exhausting. From Wordnik.com. [Rebecca Campbell and Nicole Walker: 7 Rings Day 1: Featuring Poet and Essayist Nicole Walker] Reference
A labour unit retired because of the exigencies of the precarious situation. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
In a variety of ways literature incapacitates a man for the exigencies of existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
In other regions we find men of ample, moderate, or small means, and very unlike exigencies. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
The exigencies of the beadwork, however, lends a certain stiffness and ungainliness to the figures. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
The crowded curricula of study and the exigencies of their opening careers, spoil life for young men. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
We were, of course, called upon by the exigencies of our altered circumstances to make many sacrifices. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Its demands seem to vary somewhat with the exigencies of the times -- for example, in peace and in war. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Renaissance to the requirements of the times, modifying his details to meet the exigencies which arose. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
If his biography teaches anything, it teaches that he never failed to meet the exigencies of any occasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Yes, there is limp Wall Street reform, but no clawback of the exigencies that drove the nation to the brink. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond J. Learsy: Decline of the Middle Class as Metaphor for the Decline of America] Reference
The waterplane is not primarily designed to perform long flights, although such may be carried out if the exigencies demand. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
They are rife on all occasions, and their frequency and energy bear no relation to the supposed exigencies of his political career. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
The impetus was, as usual, the exigencies of combat — Israel was flummoxed by Egypt's Soviet-built air defenses in the 1973 Yom Kippur war. From Wordnik.com. [Up in the Sky, An Unblinking Eye] Reference
Incorporating a global labor force also helps PMCs to remain competitive and respond to the exigencies of the government contracting process. From Wordnik.com. [David Isenberg: It All Depends on What You Mean by Cost-Effective] Reference
This self-assessed and self-imposed burthen has naturally been growing more heavy, from year to year, under the exigencies of modern progress. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
This disregard of routine was essential; but how much to be desired is a system suited to the exigencies of the service, both in peace and war!. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
He went on and on, and never backward, until his time was come, when his genius, fully developed, rose to the great exigencies intrusted to his hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Though separated from them by the colors he fights under, they remain united by old associations; but the exigencies of party forbid him to meet them. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"But, my dear, you are foolish," exclaimed the lady of the screen, breaking into a laugh; "when one acts one must submit to the exigencies of the footlights.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It is curious to see, how easily the exigencies of party mould men, and how readily under that pressure they unsay their maxims, and retract their principles. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
One industry brief in particular was targeted for newspapers, but it turned editors off in part by explaining the exigencies of taking accurate notes in interviews. From Wordnik.com. [When Is A Quote Not A Quote?] Reference
That they will again do so upon occasion I do not doubt; but they ought not, by premeditation or neglect, to be left to the risks and exigencies of an unequal combat. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
I have often said that Senator Platt was capable in more ways than any other man in the Senate of doing what the exigencies of the day from time to time put upon him. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
It is only fair to admit that he had meager theatric resources to draw upon and be able in any way to whip it into shape to fit the exigencies of the approaching occasion. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
This had not been his plan, and the long ride down the mountain, and above all the happiness of being with Judith, of her avowals had made him forgetful of its exigencies. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
But I trust that they will rise to the height of the demands which the changed times and the exigencies of the situation are pressing upon them, and will continue to press. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The exigencies of city life make this arrangement in some cases inconvenient, and yet inconvenience is less often than is popularly supposed synonymous with impracticability. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
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