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extemporaneous

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spoken, performed, etc., without planning or preparation; impromptu; extempore
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whoever has the legislative or supreme power of any commonwealth, is bound to govern by established standing laws, promulgated and known to the people, and not by extemporary decrees, by indifferent and upright judges, who are to decide controversies by those laws; and to employ the force of the community at home only in the execution of such laws, or abroad to prevent or redress foreign injuries and secure the community from inroads and invasion.
Sharon Watson, who was appointed the seventh artistic director of the company in May 2009, trained at the London School of Contemporary Dance and then danced with Spiral and Extemporary Dance Theatre before joining Phoenix as a dancer from 1989 to 1997, after which she formed a company called ABCD.
That he went on like Ferdie to become an England international was extemporary, but whereas Les won but 17 caps Chris claimed 62, including Bobby Robson's World Cup semi-final of 1990.
One of the most important effects of ENSO on the central Mexican Pacific waters was the presence of the nearly extemporary hurricane Rick, being the last of the 1997 hurricane season.
Moreover, public authorities cannot rule by extemporary arbitrary decrees but are bound to dispense justice and rights of the people by promulgated standing laws and known authorized judges; in order to avoid disruption to peoples lives and properties humans give up their natural power and rights so that there shall be government by declared laws, or else their peace, quite, and property will still be at the same uncertainty, as it was in the state of nature74 However, Locke does not explain the genesis of laws or the rule of law but presupposes the same and attributes to the function of law the supremacy of the principle of public good and public good alone (salus populi suprema lex).
In many regions, for example, incentives are distributed to stakeholders by means of periodical auctions that indeed do not result from a specific strategy, but rather from extemporary actions.
(164) The difference between civil society and the state of nature is the existence of a government that is "bound to govern by established standing laws, promulgated and known by the people, and not by extemporary decrees." (165) And this government, thus constituted, must be "directed to no other end than the peace, safety, and public good of the people." (166) Indeed, the very definition of legitimate political power is the "right of making laws, with penalties of death and all less penalties ...
In the introduction to the lesson new lexis that occurs in the lesson is presented to be recognized and translated by the students: an activist, a permit, a troop, armed, to hide, a repression, a citizen, a government, a crowbar, extemporary, a privilege.
humour [personality] was very jovial and cheerful, especially among his friends and comrades, with whom he occasionally took a bottle only ad hilaritam [for good cheer] [...] he was very smart and witty in his sayings and repartees, and had a most excellent talent in extemporary versifying.
extemporary utterance, while the former is committed to writing and is