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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
statement . - adjective UK, education To have been provided a Statement of Educational Needs.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Other common ploys include having children "statemented" for special needs, which gives them priority in many entrance policies.
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Freddie is a 'statemented' child, which means the local authority has to provide the funding for a school which they feel meets his special educational needs.
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It would be reassuring to imagine that once a law, or a portion of a law, makes it onto the books without being signing statemented, it is then safely and securely a law.
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It would be reassuring to imagine that once a law, or a portion of a law, makes it onto the books without being signing statemented, it is then safely and securely a law.
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An arrogent lawer who will not even review the case unntil all witnesses have been statemented, never mind just the key ones.
Teen Imperial « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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Why can't this administration do the same, when they also could have had laws rewritten even more than they did (or signing statemented away)?
Balkinization 2007
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Rather than rewarding whistleblowers who had been punished for their good deeds, Obama has signing statemented away constraints on his power to retaliate against whistleblowers by firing them.
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Why can't this administration do the same, when they also could have had laws rewritten even more than they did (or signing statemented away)?
Balkinization 2007
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He said that he opposed the secret memos written by the Office of Legal Counsel purporting to authorize torture, not because they violated existing law, but because they would have rendered moot an amendment proposed by Senator John McCain (and signing-statemented away by President George W. Bush) to redundantly re-criminalize torture by the military while allowing it for the CIA.
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President Obama has signing statemented away constraints on his power to retaliate against whistleblowers by firing them.
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