I am at present and was then an officer of the Terran Federation Armed Forces; the courts have no power to compel a Federation officer to give testimony involving breach of military security.
She looked at Rainsford reproachfully; he'd knocked a breach in one of her fundamental postulates.
I'm sure you would never bring a breach of promise case--I'm sure it has all been a dreadful mistake.
It will be a breach of good taste and good feeling," she answered.
The knowledge that I was committing a breach of the law, even though it was only caused by necessity and for the sake of rescuing my son, filled me with alarm.
I could not repeat some of her opinions to you without committing a breach of confidence.
These bore each other little love; but fortunately the former died (771) before an open breach occurred.
Brave as I boast myself, I feel the task 500 Arduous, through the breach made by myself To win a passage to the ships, alone.
Three carronades were crushed by its onslaught; then, as though blind and besides itself it turned from the man, and rolled from stern to stem, splintering the latter, and causing a breach in the walls of the prow.
In 1444, Ladislaus king of Hungary, in breach of a treaty solemnly sworn upon the gospel, invaded Bulgaria, at the instigation of the Cardinal Legate.
He was at length made to see that circumstances forbade anybreach between his family and that of the other young man.
I then reproached him in the bitterest terms for his breach of promise, and said that I was much tempted to return to the town instantly, complain of him to the alcalde, and have him punished at any expense.
His Indian training told him it would be a breach of decorum to speak to her; but so great was his anxiety to find the solution of what was a mystery even to the villagers themselves, that he felt he must not let the opportunity pass by.
Then it was to them such a breach of the rules or usages of such occasions.
It would have been considered a great breach of decorum if he had manifested any curiosity or had arisen to see who the person was to whom he was indebted for this kindness.
The very first broadside made a considerable breach in the enemy's works.
The gale increased: the sea was constantly making a cleanbreach over the deck.
Not only good is omitted by this luxurious life, but evil committed, as breach of marriage and love, loss of health and estate, &c.
This God confirmed by thundering and lightnings, and other sensible solemnities, to strike the people with more awe in receiving and keeping of it, and to make the breach of these moral precepts more terrible to them.
Mr. Pickwick himself might have been called and put on the rack, this incident not concerning his breach of promise.
To prove a breach of the promise, it must always be shown that the defendant had been given an opportunity of officially refusing to fulfil it.
He was never guilty of a dishonest act, nor ever known to commit a breach of trust; and as a quick messenger, his extraordinary speed of foot rendered him unrivalled.
I regret the state of those laws, my dear Miss Folliard, as much as you do; but still their existence puts a breach between you and Reilly, and under those circumstances my advice to you is to overcome your affection for him if you can.
And is not breach of word a dreadful crime in good folks?
I am sure you will not, by a breach of your word of honour, give me reason to conclude that, had I not obeyed you, I could have fared no worse.
But I must own, that it is past my comprehension, that a wife can resent any thing a husband can do (that is not a breach of the peace) so far as to think herself justified for eloping from him.
About midnight the gate nearest to the breach was thrown open, and the party sallied out and made their way towards the enemy's battery.
For half an hour the struggle continued, and then the Dahomans lost heart and retired, leaving fifteen hundred of their number piled deep in the space between the breach and the stockade.
They will make a breach now," Mr. Goodenough said.
Her record was unbroken, and instinct resented a breach now.
Oh no, but she has won two breachof promise cases.
He drank this, for they consider it a breach of etiquette to refuse proffered food; and immediately left, as if he remembered an engagement, having first thanked us in a rather constrained manner.
The Saxons came here peaceably; they were amicably received, and it would be quite wrong to imagine the early immigrations as invasions involving any abrupt breachin place-names, customs, and traditions.
Yet sooner or later it is inevitable that the battery of the Comparative Method should breach these venerable walls mantled over with ivy and mosses, and wild flowers of a thousand tender and sacred associations.
This estrangement came to an open breach in the year 1525, when Erasmus published his treatise "De Libero Arbitrio.
Two years had hardly elapsed when Mahomet accused the people of Mecca of a breach of their engagement.
When the attempt at assassination and the open breach has taken place in both narratives, Saul, according to the prophetic account, marvels nevertheless that David does not come to table, xx.
Now even that very fawning train Which shared the gleanings of your gain, 50 Press foremost who shall first accuse Your selfish jobs, your paltry views, Your narrow schemes, your breach of trust, And want of talents to be just.
Shall I not censure breach of trust, Because knaves know themselves unjust?
Sure, I know," Flaxberg rejoined; "but if I would go home without your consent you would claim I made a breach of my contract.
