Sentence examples for when expressly from inspiring English sources

This strangely docile performer was a natural fit for Redmond Barry, who is too namby-pamby to retrieve a ribbon from a woman's cleavage even when expressly invited, too witless to understand that you don't negotiate with highwaymen.

Congress may have recognized this specter when it expressly precluded Section 13981 from being used in the family law context.

He "said something like 'Thanks Nick, the MoD will think I have been talking to the press when I expressly said I would not'".

His cable pals told him that in five years most shows would be delivered only when viewers expressly called up the programs, rather than the endless stream that now spills out of regular cable channels.

My love language is overwhelmingly "quality time," but my mother constantly gives me gifts, even when I expressly ask her not to.

Aissatou Bey-Grecia, 58, has lived in the neighborhood since 1968, when her parents expressly forbade her from going into Morningside Park.

But last Thursday, when the Supreme Court expressly and historically extended the right of gun ownership to private citizens, the Democratic Party's nominee for president merely shrugged.

Our prisons are already full to bursting with people who failed to watch The West Wing or The Wire when they were expressly told to.

As a critic of what he called the "imperial judiciary," he contended that, except when the Constitution expressly says otherwise, the court must defer to the will of the majority.

As Eddie Butler wrote in his report in the Observer: "Of course McCaw wriggles into positions he should not, and of course he dabbles with a hand when it is expressly forbidden but it is what he is paid to do".

Eight years when the judge expressly declares he is giving a full one-third credit for early plea (so the sentence would otherwise be 12 years) makes it particularly so, even for an offence that carries a maximum of life.