Sentences with phrase «of imminent peril»

-- break and enter: John Doe, [2007] B.C.J. B.C.J. No. 2111, 228 C.C.C. (3d) 302 (B.C.C.A.), acquittal set aside, new trial ordered; accused testified that he had been fasting in the woods for 60 days when he entered the house to be warm and to eat; the trial judge erred by not correctly applying the modified objective test to the first two components of the defence of necessity — the existence of an imminent peril or danger and the absence of any reasonable legal alternative, had to be assessed on a modified objective standard; the trial judge erred by failing to determine whether the accused's perception of his situation, and the absence of any lawful alternatives, had an objectively reasonable foundation; the verdict would not necessarily have been the same had the trial judge properly applied the law on the defence of necessity.

It is, again, not only his size that attracts the fair sex but his special aura of imminent peril.

Very much of the same view is that famously nice, caring natural history TV presenter David Attenborough, concerned environmentalist the Hon Sir Jonathon Porritt, actress Susan Hampshire, Gaia theory inventor James Lovelock, ex UN apparatchik Sir Crispin Tickell (the man who — briefly — persuaded Margaret Thatcher of the imminent perils of Man Made Global Warming) and chimp expert Jane Goodall.

Not exact matches

We do not find ourselves permitted by the Word of God, however, to advise a woman to leave her husband, except by force of necessity; and we do not understand this force to be operative when a husband behaves roughly and uses threats to his wife, nor even when he beats her, but when there is imminent peril to her life... [W] e... exhort her to bear with patience the cross which God has seen fit to place upon her; and meanwhile not to deviate from the duty which she has before God to please her husband, but to be faithful whatever happens [«Letter From Calvin to an Unknown Woman,» June 4, 1559, Calvini Opera, XVII, col. 539, in P. E. Hughes, editor, The Register of the Company of Pastors of Geneva in the Time of Calvin (Eerdmans, 1966), pp. 344 - 345].

This doesn't mean that we're physically prepared for some cataclysmic event in terms of having a well - stocked fallout shelter, but rather that we enjoy the mental exercise of imagining the imminent peril and possible means of survival for humans as a species.

After all, if the world is not under imminent peril from climate change, who will listen to — and fund — the prophets of doom?

Furthermore, some legal authorities actually view item's exposing its client Niki Diaz to near - certain imminent deportation as a feather in item's cap — a new value - adding nadir in item's never - ending quest for self - aggrandizement, even at the peril of its own client.

To be involuntary, there must be circumstances of imminent and urgent peril where the action taken is unavoidable (measured according to a modified objective standard).

Although the, «in immediate peril,» «imminent risk,» and, «moral involuntariness,» requirements of the necessity defence (see Perka, [1984] S.C.J. No. 40, [1984] 2 S.C.R. 232; and see the «necessity defence availability» summary below) greatly restrict its use in relation to the defence of property, it has been considered in relation to property offences.