precatory overtures. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : precatory overtures. From Dictionary.com.
Siegfried called that wording "precatory" -- a suggestion -- and not mandatory, leaving open the possibility that the money could go out after the specified date. From Wordnik.com. [timesunion.com: Local Breaking News] Reference
Therefore, this provision will be treated as precatory. From Wordnik.com. [Statement By The President On Zachary Baumel] Reference
Barnett thinks Congress may make precatory resolutions. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax?] Reference
Accordingly, I will construe these provisions to be precatory. From Wordnik.com. [President Statement On Cuban Liberty Act] Reference
Finally, the militia clause is what is referred to by lawyers as "precatory language.". From Wordnik.com. [Latest News Media Claim: U.S.] Reference
Whether the 2d Amend's introductory phrase is precatory or limiting, the amendment says that "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.". From Wordnik.com. [What effect will the Supreme Court's gun case have on the '08 election?] Reference
Note that if legislators were somehow! required to read all bills passed into law, they would just withdraw into precatory vagaries, and leave all the detail to bureaucrats. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Just Read the Bill:] Reference
You see, unlike advisory resolutions, or precatory proposals on the shareholder ballot, this resolution will enact a bylaw (a law of the corporation) and codify "sustainability.". From Wordnik.com. [John Harrington: Apple: Al's Gorey Mess] Reference
This provision unjustifiably intrudes upon the President's constitutional authority and discretion to appoint executive officials, and, therefore, I will treat this provision as precatory. From Wordnik.com. [President Signs Veterans Entrepreneurship Act Of] Reference
Although I support the policies underlying this provision, it can be read to interfere with my discretion over matters of foreign policy, and I will therefore construe the provision as precatory. From Wordnik.com. [President Signs Holocaust Victims Redress Act] Reference
To the extent that those provisions would require Administration officials to provide Congress with policy recommendations or draft legislation, I direct these officials to treat any such requirements as precatory. From Wordnik.com. [Statement By The President On Signing Into Law Hr] Reference
Carter objected that Congress "cannot mandate the establishment of consular relations at a time and place unacceptable to the President," and accordingly stated his determination to construe the provision as merely precatory. From Wordnik.com. [Presidential Signing Statements] Reference
I shall treat the language of this provision as precatory and construe the provision in light of my constitutional responsibilities to conduct foreign affairs, including, where appropriate, the protection of diplomatic communications. From Wordnik.com. [Statement By The President On Religious Freedom Act Of] Reference
The view that the Confrontation Clause and the Right to Trial by Jury are merely precatory, to be ignored whenever a prosecutor wants to admit an “Expert” report, or when a factual issue can plausibly be characterized as merely a sentencing factor?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Reflections on Day 1:] Reference
His prayer is partly descriptive and precatory, partly eucharistical. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
He spoiled it a little by giving it a methodistical and precatory intonation. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861] Reference
For this reason, recommendatory or precatory words used in a bequest are frequently treated as an express direction. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)] Reference
Still this sense has pleased the editors, and they have made "of goodnesse" a precatory and interjectional expression. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
To this may perhaps be added the threefold blessing of (Numbers 6: 24-26) couched as it is in a precatory form, and the short prayer of. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Similarly, the staff emphasize the use of precatory proposals as a means of avoiding exclusion under Rule 14a-8 but these proposals, if adopted, can be ignored by management. From Wordnik.com. [theRacetotheBottom - Headline News] Reference
The U.S. Supreme Court made it clear that the Apology Resolution was merely an expression of regret offered in precatory terms and that it was without substantive legal effect. From Wordnik.com. Reference
But they may in ge - neral be clafled under three heads, precatory, fenitentiaU and eucharijlical '. and confidered in this light they are an excellent fyftem of thofe great devotional duties. From Wordnik.com. [Notes critical and explanatory on the Books of Psalms and Proverbs, intended to correct the grammatical errors of the text from the collations of the mss. by D. Kennicott on the Psalms and by him and De Rossi on the Proverbs; and to restore and elucidate some corrupt and obscure passages, by comparing the mss. with the antient versions, the parallel places of scripture, the proposed emendations of many able critics, and submitting some further conjectural readings to the judgment of the learned] Reference
Board, the Board believes Yucaipa's proposal to elect its nominees, together with its precatory shareholder proposal to weaken the Rights Plan, are part of a larger effort to obtain control of the Company. From Wordnik.com. [Business Wire Travel News] Reference
As EV suggests, the courts haven’t really interpreted this provision, and my guess is that, if forced to, they would either conclude that it is precatory despite the “shall” or that it doesn’t mean much. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Chemerinsky Matter and the California Constitution:] Reference
I will therefore treat it as precatory. From Wordnik.com. [Statement By The President On Signing Of The Hr] Reference
As such, I will treat them as precatory. From Wordnik.com. [Statement By President On Global Aids And Tuberculosis Relief] Reference
I will interpret these provisions as precatory. From Wordnik.com. [Statement On Dept Of Defense Bill Signing] Reference
(Article II, section 3 of the Constitution), the specified officers and I shall treat these directions as precatory. ". From Wordnik.com. [Bench Memos] Reference
Examples of "watered down" proxy access proposals include those are merely precatory (fancy legal word for "optional") and those with prohibitively high ownership and length-of-holding-requirements). From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
A precatory letter from Gillies. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
precatory surplusage. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Second Amendment Cert Petition:] Reference
It’s purely precatory. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Constitutional Right to Self-Defense?] Reference
Argumentative, -- precatory, -- pathetic, above all, pertinacious. From Wordnik.com. [Political Pamphlets] Reference
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