adv. sporadically Syn. erratic The radio communications were subject to sporadic sunspot interference. Violent storms occur sporadically in the southwest. superior adj. excellent quality; above all the rest n. superiority Syn. exceptional This is a superior fossil of a trilobite. The restaurant's superiority was established shortly after it opened. wanton adj. done without thought or consideration adv. wantonly Syn. senseless Her wanton disregard of the rules was unexplainable. The jealous man was wantonly impolite to the winner. weak adj. not strong; incapable adv. weakly Syn. ineffective v. weaken n. weakness The weak light was inadequate for reading. Most people have at least one area of weakness. widespread adj. found everywhere Syn. extensive
Grave breaches of IHL, especially of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention: Wilful killing; Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments; Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health; Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly; Compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power; Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial; Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement; Taking of hostages. Tribunals: Nuremberg and Tokyo, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda International criminal court
unwillingly, but I demand it of your justice. "Two offenses of a very different nature, and by no means of equal magnitude, you last night laid to my charge. The first mentioned was, that, regardless of the sentiments of either, I had detached Mr. Bingley from your sister, and the other, that I had, in defiance of various claims, in defiance of honour and humanity, ruined the immediate prosperity and blasted the prospects of Mr. Wickham. Wilfully and wantonly to have thrown off the companion of my youth, the acknowledged favourite of my father, a young man who had scarcely any other dependence than on our patronage, and who had been brought up to expect its exertion, would be a depravity, to which the separation of two young persons, whose affection could be the growth of only a few weeks, could bear no comparison. But from the severity of that blame which was last night so liberally bestowed, respecting each circumstance, I shall