exigent

vaativa urgent Urgent; needing immediate action.
2003, s:Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations|Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations, U.S. Department of Defence

Article 2 also provides that acts of torture cannot be justified on the grounds of exigent circumstances, such as state of war or public emergency, or on orders from a superior officer or public authority.

These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent, \ Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent;

Therefore as one complaineth, that always in the Senate of Rome, Cicero 5° de finibus. there was one or other that called for an interpreter: so lest the Church be driven to the like exigent, it is necessary to have translations in a readiness.

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