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- adjective Not
inclusive enough; tending to include too little.
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Examples
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Seems easy in a policy debate, but often much harder when it comes to writing the regs to not be overinclusive and underinclusive (which this rule is at the same time).
Matthew Yglesias » Obama Administration Cracking Down on Human Rights Lobbyists 2009
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But you are either overemphasizing them or you have an underinclusive definition.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism 2010
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The takeover market is both underinclusive and overinclusive with respect to the companies that face discipline.
California Energy Tax Proposal, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But you are either overemphasizing them or you have an underinclusive definition.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism 2010
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I'll just add that a fundamental problem with any no-fly list is that it's simultaneously overinclusive (all the Walter Murphy's in the world are on it) and underinclusive (some unknown terrorist is not).
Balkinization 2007
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I'll just add that a fundamental problem with any no-fly list is that it's simultaneously overinclusive (all the Walter Murphy's in the world are on it) and underinclusive (some unknown terrorist is not).
Balkinization 2007
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Moreover, by eroding a principle so fundamental as the prohibition on torture, underinclusive prosecution renders more palatable the full range of other international law violations.
Shahid Buttar: Losing Wars We Already Won (Part I): Torture vs. WWII 2009
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I'll just add that a fundamental problem with any no-fly list is that it's simultaneously overinclusive (all the Walter Murphy's in the world are on it) and underinclusive (some unknown terrorist is not).
Balkinization 2007
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I'll just add that a fundamental problem with any no-fly list is that it's simultaneously overinclusive (all the Walter Murphy's in the world are on it) and underinclusive (some unknown terrorist is not).
Balkinization 2007
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I'll just add that a fundamental problem with any no-fly list is that it's simultaneously overinclusive (all the Walter Murphy's in the world are on it) and underinclusive (some unknown terrorist is not).
Balkinization 2007
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