Sentence examples for The premeditation from inspiring English sources
noun
The act of planning or plotting something in advance, especially a crime.
The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty".
The premeditation instruction did not, in terms, require the jury to find that the defendant acted without such provocation as would preclude a finding of malice.
The Stoics recommended "the premeditation of evils," or deliberately visualizing the worst-case scenario.
But the percussive rustle of Mr. Smith, who places his emphasis carefully from one moment to the next, highlights the premeditation behind these knotty miniatures.
The Stoics called this "the premeditation of evils," while modern-day researchers call it "defensive pessimism"—a strategy deployed regularly by between 25 and 30percentt of Americans, according to the researcher Julie Norem.
They fill an ever-narrowing gap in modern communication tools, combining the immediacy of a phone call with the convenience of an answering machine message and the premeditation of e-mail.
Animating their efforts is one of the most peculiar — in fact, downright perverse — aspects to the premeditation-versus-passion dichotomy in suicide.
The prosecutor, Colonel Steve Henricks, repeatedly emphasized the word "premeditation," trying to dissuade the jury – 13 high-ranking military officers – of even considering a conviction on a lesser charge that would take the death penalty off the table.
A 37-year-old juror, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said prosecutors did not prove that Smith, who had been drinking before the shooting, had formed the requisite premeditation to kill.
He might have also asserted that the presence of premeditation — the prosecutor's chief argument for taking it to adult court — was a particularly poor standard in the context of juvenile parricide; given the physical and psychological power imbalance inherent in child-parent relationships, a not uncommon feature to such murders is premeditation.
The dispute about whether it was genocide centres on the question of premeditation - the degree to which the killings were orchestrated.
