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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 Dancy, Jonathan 2009

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 Thomas Wood

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.

UNHCR Celebrates 60th Anniversary 2010

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 2005

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?

David Tang: From connections come corrections 2011

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

Doris Blessing 2007

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

Vitro Nasu » 2007 » October 2007

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 2005

"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 Harold MacGrath 1901

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: 2009