How To Use Prefatory In A Sentence
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It's a book that's always beginning, where everything is introductory, liminal, prefatory.
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The content of a book or document exclusive of prefatory matter, codicils, indexes, or appendices.
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‘I am neither a historian nor a lawyer,’ Malkin reminds her reader in the book's prefatory note.
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Legal Adviser Koh alluded to the importance and, within the executive branch and the State Department, the independent weight of that traditional jurisprudence in the beginning of his speech, in which he made some important — but by the press largely not-understood as being important — prefatory framing remarks about the internal jurisprudence of the executive branch.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Harold Koh’s Defense of Drones Also the Defense of Targeting a US Citizen?
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The content of a book or document exclusive of prefatory matter, codicils, indexes, or appendices.
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There's the usual prefatory shenanigans with father Pod (Christopher Eccleston) mountain-climbing the stairs to get into a tin of Quality Street, while his bored teenager Arrietty (Aisling Loftus) sulks in her sleeping bag (a hiking sock) and missus Homily (Sharon Horgan) busies herself in a kitchenette fashioned from pencil stubs and bottle tops.
Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights
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In a characteristic Spielberg move, this prefatory sequence is conceived in miraculous terms: the horse and his boy surging triumphantly over the stony ground, driving their ploughshare through solid rock to a persistently soaring soundtrack.
War Horse – review
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The landlady first gave a kind of prefatory yell, which was only a prelude of war-whoop, introductory to that which was to follow.
Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
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The content of a book or document exclusive of prefatory matter, codicils, indexes, or appendices.
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The question-begging leap of logic here is Posner's interjection of "since," when dealing with the connection between the what's known as the prefatory and operative clauses of the 2nd Amendment.
Judge Richard A. Posner on the D.C. guns case (Heller): "In Defense of Looseness."
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The expectations raised by the prefatory dedications to this book are fully realised in both its felicitous prose and subtle readings.
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While others seem to have omitted the important detail of everything, what you put forward prefatory is unconstrained and perfectly stated.
Matthew Yglesias » The Internationalization of US Policy Paralysis and the Collapse of American Diplomacy
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But last year, and again yesterday morning, I became thoroughly fixated on one strange aspect of those moving, prefatory, deeply private moments in the Garden of Gethsemane (Mark 14: 32 – 42).
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The Amendment's prefatory clause, properly understood, is fully consistent with this interpretation.
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ...
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Everything here is true," he proclaims in a prefatory note.
Bright Lights, Flop City
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As Nelson writes in a prefatory note, ‘A requiem, by definition, is sad; the person it honors has died.’
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For good measure there is even a prefatory skiffle session and musical interludes by Grant Olding.
One Man, Two Guvnors - review
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After a prefatory reference to the ‘inherent dignity’ of all human beings, the Universal Declaration simply declares certain values to be human rights.
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The confluence in Browne's prefatory remarks of the topics of antiquarianism and medicine, and the rhetorical antitheses old-new and arising-burial is predictable in antiquarian discourse, where the gifted amateur reigned supreme.
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There was no prefatory statement (to my knowledge) saying “These things I believe, now and forever”?
Your thesis and you « Dating Jesus
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For good measure there is even a prefatory skiffle session and musical interludes by Grant Olding.
One Man, Two Guvnors - review
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By reading the amendment backwards, Scalia begins with an unfettered right "to keep and bear arms" (look, that's what it says!), and, having established such a right, the mere "prefatory" words of the first half of the amendment become nothing more than window dressing.
Adam Freedman: DC v. Heller: Scalia's Decision Will Backfire
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It goes without saying that I can expect your complete confidence and secrecy in keeping this matter under wraps prefatory to completion.