"manner" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Due process requires that notice be given in a manner "reasonably calculated" to inform a party of the action affecting him.
- One edict was that "Methods of crime shall not be explicitly presented or detailed in a manner calculated to...inspire imitation."
- As an enfant terrible in perpetuity, Mr. Miller is once again going about his business of pulling things apart and putting them back together again in a manner calculated to, at the very least, wrench attention.
- Being very anxious to see the dear old fellow, nevertheless, I dispatched my dinner, in a manner not at all calculated to raise me in the opinion of the chief waiter, and hurried out by the back way.
- It is illegal to use the Senate seal in any manner reasonably calculated to convey a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States.
- The ancient shuffled cheerfully along, rattling his stick noisily across Mrs Naylor's front railings in a manner calculated to rudely awaken the insatiable lady librarian from her erotic dreams.
- But naturally she had honored my request in a manner calculated to forward her desire as well.
- Knowing that it was a breach of manners calculated to offend most of those in the room, he had tried not to say it; but somehow his tongue could not resist.
- Westfield, who no longer plays for Essex, was accused of breaking the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906 by being paid to "bowl in a manner calculated and intended to allow the scoring of runs".
- What's more, when these people do try to talk about matters of emotional consequence, they tend to do so in an offhand, deadpan manner almost calculated to kill further discussion.
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