Sentence examples for great writ from inspiring English sources

The future of the Great Writ of habeas corpus may depend on it.

Reaves prepared for him a state writ of habeas corpus, known as a Great Writ.

The "great writ" forbade authorities to hold citizens indefinitely without being charged.

Still, the habeas machinery runs on, wasting resources and dissipating respect for the Great Writ, while benefiting almost nobody.

It is often called the Great Writ because of its extraordinary power to protect the liberty of individuals.

Will the freeing of an innocent man through the Great Writ give aid and comfort to the enemy?

THE work of a stage actor, however great, is writ on water.

For without enhanced cooperation on a global scale, the 21st-century world may come to look like the late-19th-century Europe of rivalrous great powers, writ large.

But to suggest that the Industrial Revolution was great for society, writ large, is to miss the fact that multi-generational starvation and poverty infiltrated the industrialized lands of our ancestors.

It is grep writ large.

The New Yorker, October 16, 2000 P. 247 Briefly Noted book review of "Nowhere Else on Earth" (Viking; $24.95) by Josephine Humphreys...Humphreys' latest novel...is an unusual sort of epic, the great sweep of history writ small... Humphreys has always been a master of telling a larger story through a deceptively intimate narrative, and Rhoda's tale, with its clear, distinct voice, is no exception.