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Expedients such as control orders may be acceptable in extremis by providing short-term abeyances from criminal justice but should not be adopted as long-term solutions to troublesome friends or foes.
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I used it in extremis as a pillow when sleeping out with sleeping-bag and poncho to keep my head above ground level.
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Private property should only ever be subject to compulsory purchase orders in extremis; they should be avoided whenever possible.
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In extremis, the territorial boundaries of limited statehood are coterminous with the sovereign boundaries of the state.
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However, a legal challenge resulted in the bells being saved in extremis at the foundry.
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They are always in extremis, always on the edge: of sanity, of safety, of survival.
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Not just ordinary passion either, but human passion in extremis -- passion where it combusts, or levitates, or mutates into an experience of the supernatural.
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Background details are rarely the pressing concern in extremis (they didn't help with this man's problem: an overdose).
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But none of us, even in extremis, can really know.
psychcentral.com
Only after then would he contemplate, in extremis, a snap election.
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