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  • Precluded from standing for a third term, his party was due to choose a new leader next year.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Precluded, therefore, from advancing in a straight direction, he resolved to avoid the English military and endeavour to join his friends by making a circuit to the left, for which a beaten path, deviating from the main road in that direction, seemed to afford facilities.

    Waverley 2004

  • Precluded from within-industry mergers, they opted for “conglomerate” mergers, acquiring firms from completely different industries.

    The Rule of Three Jagdish Sheth 2002

  • Precluded from within-industry mergers, they opted for “conglomerate” mergers, acquiring firms from completely different industries.

    The Rule of Three Jagdish Sheth 2002

  • Precluded, in my quality of national guest, by motives of taste and discretion, from dealing with any question of immediate and domestic concern, it seemed to me wisest, or at any rate most prudent, to choose a topic of comparatively abstract interest, and to ask your indulgence for a few somewhat generalized remarks on a matter concerning which I had some experimental knowledge, derived from the use of such eyes and ears as

    Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

  • Precluded from expending money not appropriated, the Departments would have to suspend the service so far as the appropriations for it should have failed to be made.

    A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 1: Ulysses S. Grant 1878

  • Precluded, therefore, from advancing in a straight direction, he resolved to avoid the English military, and endeavour to join his friends by making a circuit to the left, for which a beaten path deviating from the main road in that direction, seemed to afford facilities.

    The Waverley 1877

  • Precluded from the endless variety of individual nature and character, they could not but run into great monotony: in fact, the whole thing was at best little more than a repetition of one fundamental air under certain arbitrary variations.

    Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

  • Precluded from the endless variety of individual nature and character, they could not but run into great monotony: in fact, the whole thing was at best little more than a repetition of one fundamental air under certain arbitrary variations.

    Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850

  • Precluded by their neutral position from interfering in the question of right, the United States have recognized the fact of foreign sovereignty only when it was undisputed, or disputed without any rational prospect of success.

    Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Seward, William H 1849

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