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- adjective Able to be
sectioned .
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Examples
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There were many to whom this had always appeared the most hopeful remedy for the sectionable trouble.
A History of the United States Cecil Chesterton 1898
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In character as a sectionable man called Maurice Clark, I'd improvise stories on the audience's suggestions.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Millions are disenfranchised at best and at worst alienated to the point that they'd vote for sectionable cases like the BNP.
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David Burrowes, the shadow Justice minister and Mr McKinnon's MP, said he would be tabling an urgent question in the Commons on Tuesday to ask why medical evidence suggesting Mr McKinnon was "sectionable and suicidal" was ignored.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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We are being 'governed' by a right wing fascist who is probably sectionable under the Mental Health Act but is getting away with it because even his own party is too gutless to do anything about it.
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I wasn't suggesting the Police were the bad guys in fact when I've had patients who I thought were sectionable the mental health teams aren't interested - It's only the Police that seem to give a fcuk.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, has asserted - with almost sectionable silliness - that the BBC is somehow "not allow [ing] people to show their compassion".
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How can it be proportionate to allow extradition of a UK citizen who is suicidal and sectionable.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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How can it be proportionate to allow extradition of a UK citizen who is suicidal and sectionable.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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"the leader" and "a very big star" but also "a desperado", this has been a vintage year for sectionable delusions of grandeur among football players.
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