prefatory

• “While others seem to have omitted the important detail of everything, what you put forward prefatory is unconstrained and perfectly stated.”

  Matthew Yglesias » The Internationalization of US Policy Paralysis and the Collapse of American Diplomacy

• “The question-begging leap of logic here is Posner's interjection of "since," when dealing with the connection between the what's known as the prefatory and operative clauses of the 2nd Amendment.”

  Judge Richard A. Posner on the D.C. guns case (Heller): "In Defense of Looseness."

• “By reading the amendment backwards, Scalia begins with an unfettered right "to keep and bear arms" (look, that's what it says!), and, having established such a right, the mere "prefatory" words of the first half of the amendment become nothing more than window dressing.”

  Adam Freedman: DC v. Heller: Scalia's Decision Will Backfire

• “The landlady first gave a kind of prefatory yell, which was only a prelude of war-whoop, introductory to that which was to follow.”

  Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.

• “Legal Adviser Koh alluded to the importance and, within the executive branch and the State Department, the independent weight of that traditional jurisprudence in the beginning of his speech, in which he made some important — but by the press largely not-understood as being important — prefatory framing remarks about the internal jurisprudence of the executive branch.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Harold Koh’s Defense of Drones Also the Defense of Targeting a US Citizen?

• “There's the usual prefatory shenanigans with father Pod (Christopher Eccleston) mountain-climbing the stairs to get into a tin of Quality Street, while his bored teenager Arrietty (Aisling Loftus) sulks in her sleeping bag (a hiking sock) and missus Homily (Sharon Horgan) busies herself in a kitchenette fashioned from pencil stubs and bottle tops.”

  The Guardian: Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights

• “For good measure there is even a prefatory skiffle session and musical interludes by Grant Olding.”

  The Guardian: One Man, Two Guvnors - review

• “Everything here is true," he proclaims in a prefatory note.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Bright Lights, Flop City

• “There was no prefatory statement (to my knowledge) saying “These things I believe, now and forever”?”

  Your thesis and you « Dating Jesus

• “But last year, and again yesterday morning, I became thoroughly fixated on one strange aspect of those moving, prefatory, deeply private moments in the Garden of Gethsemane (Mark 14: 32 – 42).”

  Archive 2009-04-01

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