Jaggers, which you desired me to
waive for a moment.
"Let us
waive the point." (Sir Joseph invariably used this formula as a means of at once conciliating his sister, and getting a fresh start for his story.) "I was cruising off the Mersey in a Liverpool pilot-boat.
To avoid, therefore, all imputation of laying down a rule for posterity, founded only on the authority of ipse dixit --for which, to say the truth, we have not the profoundest veneration--we shall here
waive the privilege above contended for, and proceed to lay before the reader the reasons which have induced us to intersperse these several digressive essays in the course of this work.
In matters of contribution, it is the practice to
waive the articles of the constitution.
"Then with that assurance and your highness's good leave," said Don Quixote, "I hereby for this once
waive my privilege of gentle blood, and come down and put myself on a level with the lowly birth of the wrong-doer, making myself equal with him and enabling him to enter into combat with me; and so, I challenge and defy him, though absent, on the plea of his malfeasance in breaking faith with this poor damsel, who was a maiden and now by his misdeed is none; and say that he shall fulfill the promise he gave her to become her lawful husband, or else stake his life upon the question."
Would "Dear Miss de Sor"
waive all ceremony, and consent to be a guest (later in the autumn) at her father's house?
'Your friend, sir,' said he, 'is--ha--is a little impatient; and, in his impatience, is not perhaps fully sensible of what he owes to--hum--to--but we will
waive that, we will
waive that.
As a result, they de- cided that it was time to
waive etiquette and send their greatest and best against me.
She had set herself to stand or fall by her qualities, and to
waive such merely technical claims upon a strange family as had been established for her by the flimsy fact of a member of that family, in a season of impulse, writing his name in a church-book beside hers.
Ladies and gentlemenI am ordered by Miss Woodhouse to say, that she
waives her right of knowing exactly what you may all be thinking of, and only requires something very entertaining from each of you, in a general way.
The Egyptian woman claimed to prosecutors that her 34-year-old countryman, A.M., did so to coerce her to
waive her rights in their legal dispute before the Dubai Sharia Court.
Attorney-client privilege--in the news lately--increasingly comes up when the government alleges corporate misconduct, and prosecutors are using the threat of severe penalties to
waive the privilege in exchange for leniency.