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- adjective Not
descriptive .
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Examples
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This is the license to cheat: If a seller uses a non-descriptive mark to sell its product, no cause of action arises under the law of false advertising (because the mark is not descriptive) or trademark law (because there is no passing off).
Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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I think short, non-descriptive URLs will be the malware distribution pipeline of choice in the near future if someone doesn't take steps to make them illegal.
Long URL Please Replaces Shortened Links With The Real Thing | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Once interpretation through descriptive canons of construction has established the range of permissible meanings that can be ascribed to the text, then construction can legitimately rely on non-descriptive tools of interpretation because — by definition — the descriptive tools have been exhausted if there is still indeterminacy past the interpretation stage.
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My relief is nearly overwhelming ... and my hatred of short, non-descriptive URLs as intense as it could be.
Long URL Please Replaces Shortened Links With The Real Thing | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The look on his face needed to be non-descriptive.
Freedom Gyanban 2010
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Once interpretation through descriptive canons of construction has established the range of permissible meanings that can be ascribed to the text, then construction can legitimately rely on non-descriptive tools of interpretation because — by definition — the descriptive tools have been exhausted if there is still indeterminacy past the interpretation stage.
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So, a while back I teased you with a non-descriptive photo of my February bag for the BQL Bag challenge - as a moderator on the list, I get to test the bags out early, but of course, I can't show them until the actual month.
Bags & lotto blocks - revealed! katelnorth 2008
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Probably changed to non-descriptive without any racial overtones wash.
Sir Gus O'Donnell needs to wipe his chin clean. FIDO The Dog 2009
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Geoff likes this little church, which he finds very quaint and un-English (it doesn't look like an English church, it's true - most of them are of eitherthe old stone buildings with ivy type or the totally non-descriptive built in the 60's type).
Archive 2007-12-01 katelnorth 2007
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Geoff likes this little church, which he finds very quaint and un-English (it doesn't look like an English church, it's true - most of them are of eitherthe old stone buildings with ivy type or the totally non-descriptive built in the 60's type).
Advent Day 5: Church with Stained Glass Windows katelnorth 2007
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