exigency
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Exigency might be offered as an excuse for bypassing the advisory process, but that’s the exact circumstance when expert discussion and interpretation of the data can make the biggest difference.
From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021
He and a business partner, another state trooper, had opened Extreme Exigency the year prior in Hurst to offer concealed carry classes.
From Washington Times • Feb. 16, 2020
Tho' he may not do what he should leave undone, yet he may leave undone something that else he could do, when the Publick Safety makes an Exigency.
From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton
A passing reference must be made to another committee, instituted in 1803—the Committee of Privileges and Exigency: and in 1845 an acting special committee for cases of great emergency was formed.
From Great Britain and Her Queen by Keeling, Annie E.
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