On two occasions at least, Muhammad is said to have resorted to
imprecations. In the first case, the Prophet cursed others while supplicating (qunut).
Ronald Reagan's arming of mujahideen,
imprecations of the "evil empire," and calls for Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall had nothing to do with it.
While you may be hopping about like an Apache doing a rain dance and yelling
imprecations that would make a longshoreman blush, don't expect your hunting partner to bail you out by making the shot if the bird's flight brings it in their range.
Famous for his tantrums in rehearsal (breaking and flinging batons, shouting
imprecations at musicians he found lazy or unprepared), he was unfailingly kind in person.
Actualites Eecrit par Rachid Mountasar Une analyse presque furtive et meme superficielle, non du discours mais des
imprecations incontrolees et des invectives populistes d'Abdelkader El Badaoui permet de relever au moins deux points fondamentaux qui semblent motiver (et trahir a la fois) le comportement verbal de cet enonciateur de [beaucoup moins que]marque[beaucoup plus grand que].
Certainly his
imprecations of our generally soft-bellied and soft-brained culture seem fair enough to me.
It has been observed that the Muslim rulers who succeeded the Shilaharas and Yadavas--the Nayate, Bahmani and Adilshahi sultans--also occasionally constructed stone edicts with gaddhegal
imprecations in Marathi.
I have a horror of prophesy, so I returned the lavender, and didn't give her what she begged (as if I could be innocent of a fortune I hadn't paid for); then I went my way, but perturbed, and she went hers, but muttering
imprecations. As we approached the sixteenth week of pregnancy they did a test, and offered us some literature, and told us we would have a son, and asked us to ponder in our hearts, as Mary did, which way was best.
Rather, what it and many tribunals do is use the statutory
imprecations in their governing legislation to be more active, more intrusive, more directive, and more forceful in using things like informal conferences combining ADR techniques and case management to do what another Queensland Supreme Court judge recently suggested, privately, the court urgently needs: some 'weeder-outer' judges to manage and mould cases to minimise time being wasted in expensive courtrooms by unmeritorious issues and arid disputes.
Thus, it is in this setting and framed by religion--in this case Roman Catholic Christianity prior to the advent of the Protestantisms (which would, however, continue this nefarious tradition centuries later), most especially the charge of deicide (murderers of God/Christ)--that four-year-old Didier Le Moyne was found murdered in September 1669, his body gutted, and that a community of believers, despite the
imprecations of King Louis XIV, so readily affirmed those guilty of his murder as the Jews, and particularly one of its leading residents, Raphael Levy.
But even with the well-remarked US dilatoriness over green issues (California excepted), it's hard to think that some of the statements and
imprecations will come as news to anyone.
First, he had to reassure a market so Chicken Littled by the Securities Exchange Act and FDR's
imprecations against Wall Street that the shortage of new stock offerings had caused trading to slow to a crawl.
Despite the
imprecations of the latter's wife, powerful but tuneful soprano Jane Harrington as Vicki, instead of plunder he lands a job in a bar that seems to serve nothing but whisky.
Judge Robert Warnock, said: "Having heard the content of your pathetic
imprecations towards the child I'm relieved no actual meeting took place.
The
imprecations in Leviticus 26:25-26 establish a three-fold scheme of sword, pestilence, and famine.
