Sentence examples for noxious thing from inspiring English sources

John Foy QC, for the authority, told the court of appeal: "It's not disputed that the mother administered a noxious thing, it could be described as a destructive thing, to her daughter and it inflicted grievous bodily harm on her.

"I don't know what 'technically illegal' means," says Associate Professor Leslie Cannold, an abortion reform activist who played a central role in repealing Australia's national ban on abortion drug RU486 (a "noxious thing" under the law).

Whosoever, being a woman with child, unlawfully administers to herself any drug or noxious thing, or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means, with intent in any such case to procure her miscarriage, shall be liable to imprisonment for ten years.

In the second volume of her eight-volume history, she had given an extended account of Wentworth's manipulation of the Irish parliament, during Charles I's reign, commenting that it showed "that parliaments are noxious things when they become the dupes of ministers" (Macaulay 1763 83, 2.184 5).

A Time magazine article about young people at the Republican National Convention claimed that most millennials in attendance weren't Trump voters; in fact, many were, like other Republicans, openly wondering if they could support a man who says such noxious things publicly.

Once you do, you'll probably find the whole thing noxious enough to go just a bit out of your way to avoid paying them.

A syringe full of noxious bacteria sounds like the last thing a cancer patient needs.

About seven years ago, I praised her for several things, including turning the noxious generalization of "world music" into an idea that represents life as it is lived, and affords huge aesthetic possibilities.

The ur bitch goddess and resplendent proto-cougar (on the prowl long before that noxious term was invented) is doing her thing in the flesh at the ballroom of Loews Regency Hotel.

That achievement seemed even more compelling given that the person Gornik transformed had lived his whole life through the prism of professional, organized racism, rather than doing normal young-person things and more quietly harboring noxious beliefs.

Reactive aldehydes are a noxious byproduct of lipid peroxidation, which, among other things, increase BBB permeability [ 47], contribute to cytoskeletal changes in neurons [ 48], and affect glucose transport across membranes [ 49, 50].