prima

• “Ross thinks that duty proper, as he calls it, is a quite different sort of thing from a prima facie duty; the notion of ˜duty™ in ˜prima facie duty™ is a different notion from that in ˜duty proper™.”

  Harold Arthur Prichard

• “WORD CORRECT PRONUNCIATION bivouac _biv'wak_ chargé d'affaires _shar zha'daffar'_ connoisseur _connissur_ dishabille _dis'abil_ ennui _onwe_, not _ongwe_ finale _finah'le_ foyer _fwaya'_ massage _masahzh_ naïve _nah'ev_ papier maché _papya mahsha_ piquant _pe'kant_ prima facie _prima fa'shie_ pro tempore _pro tem'pore_ régime _razhem'_”

  Practical Grammar and Composition

• “Now, you have got a huge group of people fleeing for the same reason and so UNHCR began addressing refugees as groups en masse, what we call prima facie cases, said Redmond.”

  Voice of America: UNHCR Celebrates 60th Anniversary

• “Ngcuka had announced in 2003 that Zuma would not be prosecuted for corruption related to the country's multi-billion rand arms acquisition deal, despite what he called prima facie evidence of wrongdoing.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “In any case, does he really trust the rich and famous, people he describes as "prima donnas" and "divas", to tell the unvarnished truth on his site?”

  The Guardian: David Tang: From connections come corrections

• “(Compared to Iris and Doris, Susan and Simone were competitive and vain prima donnas.)”

  Doris Blessing

• “Note 61: Ebrard, p. 1543F: "Vnde & Petrus in prima Epistola ad infantium imitationem nos inuitat dicens: deponentes igitur omnem malitiam, & omnem dolum, & simulationes, & inuidias, & omnes detractiones; sicut modo geniti infantes, rationabile, sine dolo, lac concupiscite, &c." back”

  A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

• “The lady whom you call my prima donna knew him and he knew her, and she must have had mighty good reasons for running.”

  The Lure of the Mask

• “It is certainly not brilliant wordplay on the use of the legal term prima facia with cosmetic surgery which would warrant a pointer, it’s talking about someone’s face and using the term “on it’s face”, hardly subtle.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » The Nightmare of Every Rookie Prosecutor:

• “GRACE: It's called a prima facia case, a bone bare case, that there's probable cause to believe a rape happened.”

  CNN Transcript Aug 6, 2003

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