precatory

• Similarly, the staff emphasize the use of precatory proposals as a means of avoiding exclusion under Rule 14a-8 but these proposals, if adopted, can be ignored by management. —  theRacetotheBottom - Headline News
• The Eighth Circuit, however, upheld the requirement that attorneys, as debt relief agencies, advertise using specific precatory language. —  Credit Slips
• Because the Constitution gives the President the discretion to recommend only "such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient" (Article II, section 3 of the Constitution), the specified officers and I shall treat these directions as precatory. —  AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09
• The U.S. Supreme Court made it clear that the Apology Resolution was merely an expression of regret offered in precatory terms and that it was without substantive legal effect.
• [FN#160] The little precatory formula would keep off the Evil —  Arabian nights. English

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