Bound Roots Exercise

Answers

1. Because she spotted the flaw in the merger proposal before anyone else did, the chair described her as unusually perspicacious.
2. The engineers could not reopen the road until the floodwater began to recede from the village square.
3. In public meetings he was so deferential that he rarely challenged senior colleagues, even when their figures were wrong.
4. Once the court found the fee unlawful, the refund order required remission of the surcharge rather than a token discount.
5. Her testimony was credible partly because she had a remarkably retentive memory for dates, clauses, and footnotes.
6. The restoration team hid the wiring by installing a narrow conduit through which fibre-optic cables could pass.
7. The late injunction was not merely inconvenient; it was abruptly disruptive to the process, stopping interviews midstream.
8. His apology had such an abject tone that even his critics looked uncomfortable as he begged to keep his post.
9. After three days of public negotiations, she needed silence rather than celebration because she is profoundly introverted.
10. The judgment was notable for being a rare concurrence among all nine judges, with no separate opinions filed.
11. The leaked correspondence had a compelling force that made continued denial politically impossible.
12. The contract forbade resale in unequivocal terms, so the clause could not be reinterpreted as permission.