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However, cabining the solution to the piracy quandary to the sphere of public force is unnecessarily limiting.
David Isenberg: PMC to Pirates: "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?" David Isenberg 2010
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I wonder if "log-cabining" will enter the lexicon.
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For example, cabining it to enumerated rights only?
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I suspect that reviving P or I but not cabining it will be seen by several of the Justices as akin to loading a gun and leaving it on the table for a future Supreme Court to use.
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For example, cabining it to enumerated rights only?
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The Eleventh Amendment voided specific provisions of the Treaty of Peace that states feared would grant British creditors actionable claims against them and, by cabining the Treaty Power, additionally prevented the national government from negotiating a new treaty that would have held states accountable for their denials of British claims.
Archive 2008-03-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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This means that the whole effort of cabining substantive due process by looking at history and tradition may well be circular since history and tradition just point us back to natural law as it was understood in 1868.
Archive 2008-04-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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If by rationalism we mean the attitude which consists in cabining ourselves within the zone of geometrical light in which language evolves, we must admit that rationalism supposes something other than itself, that it hangs suspended by a generating act which escapes it.
A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy 1912
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I am cabining with a young fellow named "Sammy" Hillyer, about twenty-five, the only son of his mother -- like me -- and loves her dearly, and writes to her every week -- part of which is like me.
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Surely, surely the very climax and bad eminence of folly is shutting the eyes to that future that we all have to face; and to live here, as some of you are doing, ignoring it and God, and cribbing, cabining, and confining all our thoughts within the narrow limits of the things present and visible.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868
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