Errant
in sentence
35 examples of Errant in a sentence
All you have to do is listen carefully to people who say, 'I loaned my child or grandchild the phone, and a month later, all these
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in-app charges showed up on my bill.'
Brad Pitt is simply superb as the
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son who rebels.
A misfit for sure, he and three of his equally outcast buddies begin making rockets, which they fly from a patch of barren land eight miles out of town, so as to no longer terrorize the community with their oft-times
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rockets.
I caught a blurb about the film including mini synopsis to wit: Grandfather dies and leaves challenges, rather than $$$$$ to his
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playboy grandson.
The film starts off Nate (Richard O'Neal) and Sarah (Barbara Bourbon) discussing their 18-year old daughters upcoming marriage and the rancher's need to ride off on
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for a number of days.
His best friend challenges Charley to prove it by hypnotizing him and while Charley works his hocus pocus, an
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golf ball beans his pal, stunning him into a zombie-like state.
The film is a celebration of
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genius with an appreciation that such talents are frequently flawed in character and cause casualties along the way.
And the fact that she doesn't even recognize the guy whom she thinks has killed a beloved pooch and yet trusts and sends him to look after her fish, so that he can conveniently discover their childhood connection that lasted, what, maybe a week, which is more than enough time for an enraged father to locate his
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son in a small Chinese village?
But the little girl doesn't mix well with his lifestyle, and provides him with some close shaves involving some
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gangsters, and a bout of horse napping.
The best joke of all – that Bezos bought the Post by mistake through an
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one-click purchase (a capability patented by Amazon) – has a ring of truth to it.
The
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MPs are not just betraying their voters’ confidence; they are also betraying their duty to the country and discrediting democracy.
In fact, an unwritten but sacrosanct convention ensures that the Speaker almost never uses the position’s authority to suspend or expel
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members, except when there is a consensus between the government and the opposition to do so – which of course rarely occurs.
One view is that the state is sacrosanct: the EU has to intervene and help any
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member to get back on its feet.
This requires monitoring – and pressuring –
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states to ensure that they comply with the Council’s standards.
The
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MPs were rapidly silenced, and the visitor received a table-thumping welcome from the rest of the House.
By detaining thousands of sect followers the Party may unwittingly transform an
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spiritual movement into a dangerous political force.
The fact that
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bombs or missiles kill some civilians does not make their deaths war crimes.
The planned shift to a bail-in regime for private creditors and political acceptance of default for
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sovereigns will probably end fiscal profligacy.
But regulators have not taken enough advantage of the authority that they do have to punish
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managers: they can ban these individuals from working in finance.
After all, if markets truly believed that the ECB would refuse to backstop
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governments, investors would run away from participating countries at the first sign that conditionality was not being met.
Meanwhile one of the carriers who were in the inn thought fit to water his team, and it was necessary to remove Don Quixote's armour as it lay on the trough; but he seeing the other approach hailed him in a loud voice,"O thou, whoever thou art, rash knight that comest to lay hands on the armour of the most valorous
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that ever girt on sword, have a care what thou dost; touch it not unless thou wouldst lay down thy life as the penalty of thy rashness."
"That is true," said Sancho, "since the mere noise of the hammers of a fulling mill can disturb and disquiet the heart of such a valiant
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adventurer as your worship; but you may be sure I will not open my lips henceforward to make light of anything of your worship's, but only to honour you as my master and natural lord."
For it is a usual and ancient custom with knights and ladies
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to give the squires, damsels, or dwarfs who bring tidings of their ladies to the knights, or of their knights to the ladies, some rich jewel as a guerdon for good news,' and acknowledgment of the message."
"Give me leave, senora, to obtain the permission I speak of," returned Don Quixote; "and if I get it, it will matter very little if he is in the other world; for I will rescue him thence in spite of all the same world can do; or at any rate I will give you such a revenge over those who shall have sent him there that you will be more than moderately satisfied;" and without saying anything more he went and knelt before Dorothea, requesting her Highness in knightly and
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phrase to be pleased to grant him permission to aid and succour the castellan of that castle, who now stood in grievous jeopardy.
What thinkest thou of the matter, Sancho my son?""I don't know what to think," answered Sancho, "not being as well read as your worship in
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writings; but for all that I venture to say and swear that these apparitions that are about us are not quite catholic."
Don Quixote overheard the conversation and said, "Haply, gentlemen, you are versed and learned in matters of
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chivalry?
My lord and husband the duke, though not one of the
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sort, is none the less a knight for that reason, and will keep his word about the promised island, in spite of the envy and malice of the world.
Of magic prince, of Zoroastric loreMonarch and treasurer, with jealous eyeI view the efforts of the age to hideThe gallant deeds of doughty
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knights,Who are, and ever have been, dear to me.
On hearing this, the Distressed Duenna made as though she would throw herself at Don Quixote's feet, and actually did fall before them and said, as she strove to embrace them, "Before these feet and legs I cast myself, O unconquered knight, as before, what they are, the foundations and pillars of knight-errantry; these feet I desire to kiss, for upon their steps hangs and depends the sole remedy for my misfortune, O valorous errant, whose veritable achievements leave behind and eclipse the fabulous ones of the Amadises, Esplandians, and Belianises!"Then turning from Don Quixote to Sancho Panza, and grasping his hands, she said, "O thou, most loyal squire that ever served knight-errant in this present age or ages past, whose goodness is more extensive than the beard of Trifaldin my companion here of present, well mayest thou boast thyself that, in serving the great Don Quixote, thou art serving, summed up in one, the whole host of knights that have ever borne arms in the world.
But to marry such an elegant accomplished gentleman as has been just now described to us—indeed, indeed, though it was a folly, it was not such a great one as you think; for according to the rules of my master here—and he won't allow me to lie—as of men of letters bishops are made, so of gentlemen knights, specially if they be errant, kings and emperors may be made."
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