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  • noun informal, UK A person who is the subject of a control order

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Examples

  • The Institut National des Appellations d'Origine (INAO), the French authority that oversees wines that bear the appellation controlee imprimatur, prohibits such practices as adding flavorings or aromas and restricts the use of chemicals.

    Vins D'angleterre? 2007

  • Some 19 months after first setting foot on Burgundy's 177 square miles of tightly knit vineyards known for making some of the most expensive wines in the world, Walker has emerged as something of a local hero: The first black American vintner to be embraced by the coterie of distributors and growers who rule 600 separate "appellation controlee" wines.

    InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines 2010

  • City walls intact, barbarians largely remain mostly outside them. appellation controlee, no doubt).

    The Cranky Flier 2010

  • Charon interviewed me this morning about Wednesday's House of Lords judgment in Home Secretary v AF, in which they ruled, applying the ECtHR judgment in A v UK, that there is a breach of the article 6 Convention right in proceedings under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 if a control order is imposed and, on appeal to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission a "controlee" is unable to effectively to challenge the order because the essence of the case against him is kept secret for reasons of national security.

    Charon QC podcast: Home Secretary v AF 2009

  • Charon interviewed me this morning about Wednesday's House of Lords judgment in Home Secretary v AF, in which they ruled, applying the ECtHR judgment in A v UK, that there is a breach of the article 6 Convention right in proceedings under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 if a control order is imposed and, on appeal to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission a "controlee" is unable to effectively to challenge the order because the essence of the case against him is kept secret for reasons of national security.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • We must at one time or another in our lives be actor or director, controlee or controllor (is there such a word?) and spectator.

    mise-en-scène - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • We must at one time or another in our lives be actor or director, controlee or controllor is there such a word? and spectator.

    mise-en-scène - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • This time there can be no doubt the Lords have decided - nine of them, unanimously - that a controlee must be gven sufficient information about the allegations against him if his appeal to SIAC under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 is to be fair.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • This time there can be no doubt the Lords have decided - nine of them, unanimously - that a controlee must be gven sufficient information about the allegations against him if his appeal to SIAC under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 is to be fair.

    Lords judgment: Home Secretary v AF 2009

  • And how the controlee, almost feeling she deserves this treatment, becomes subversive rather than rearing up and fighting it out or simply scuttling away in the night ...

    Sheila Ortego: The Road From La Cueva 2009

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