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  • adjective Alternative spelling of unfinalized.

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Examples

  • I guess of course that the point is that unlike a traditional narrative which orders its materials and leads to a causal ending, we are given lines of possibility which we can pursue ourselves and reach our own unfinalised positions on.

    A Bit of an Experiment « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

  • As for the rest, Brown has failed his own first test, producing, where a coalition was loudly promised, nothing more than an unfinalised offer to Shirley Williams of a mere advisory position.

    The Cabinet Starts to Take Shape 2007

  • With sexual crimes though, concern is expressed about the number of cases remaining unfinalised - where no acquittal, conviction or decision not to prosecute is reached.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • He said reporting on the evidence of witnesses from the public service had been selective "to an extent of blurring the distinctions between allegations, perceptions, unfinalised arguments and facts".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Among other things, the report found that at the time, a massive backlog in the processing of claims had resulted in more than 22 000 applications, dating as far back as eight years, being unfinalised.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • "The total cost of the staff departures already completed or anticipated over the next 12 months is £43,071, 280," Baroness Wilcox admitted, saying further moves to "deliver greater efficiency" could lead to further as-yet unfinalised costs.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph James Quinn 2012

  • Mr Miliband has said the as yet unfinalised plans for a graduate tax - levied as a percentage of a graduate's annual income - would more closely reflect an individual's ability to pay than higher fees.

    BBC News - Home 2010

  • With the release of the funding document midweek, the WHO completed most of the unfinalised actions.

    Intellectual Property Watch 2009

  • I already know that the machine has a finalisation problem, since on the one hand it is showing the discs as having been finalised, and yet on the other hand the discs won't play on my VCR / DVD combo (of another make) and nor will they play on my lap-top except under Dell Media Center (which I know from experimenting will read an unfinalised disc).

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

  • I already know that the machine has a finalisation problem, since on the one hand it is showing the discs as having been finalised, and yet on the other hand the discs won't play on my VCR / DVD combo (of another make) and nor will they play on my lap-top except under Dell Media Center (which I know from experimenting will read an unfinalised disc).

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

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