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"There is a risk that an all-or-nothing approach and the highlighting of dubious cases to prominent news outlets and journalists will preclude legitimate claims from being fairly treated.
At Portsmouth University, student union president Grant Clarke says in a statement that policies aimed at defending students from racist, sexist and homophobic harassment don't preclude people from openly talking and discussing these issues, "but we don't accept these behaviours on our campus".
A beginner's guide to the privacy tool "Computer experts argue that any legislative attempt to preclude THS from being available in the UK over Tor would be technologically infeasible," Post states.
There have been some voices calling for Fifa to revisit the bidding process for 2018, notably coming from the English FA, but also in Kiev, where many feel Russia's actions in Ukraine over the past 18 months should preclude them from hosting the tournament.
Justice Crennan said the undertaking did not preclude Australia moving the asylum seekers on board "to some other place for processing", with counsel for the asylum seekers indicating they would move to submit further applications to prevent the asylum seekers being transferred for offshore detention.
Parliamentary conventions preclude an MP calling another a liar, though that rule has sometimes been flouted without rebuke – as when the Labour frontbencher Chris Bryant said in the house that Jeremy Hunt, then culture secretary, had lied to the house about his connections with the forces of Rupert Murdoch.
In one instance, the long sought-after drone memo references another legal memo that concluded that al-Awlaki's American citizenship did not "preclude the contemplated lethal action".
If there is a good reason, then why does it not also preclude carrying out that experiment on animals that closely resemble us?
The Nazi era activities, however should not preclude the Berlin Philharmonic from highlighting its positive legacy.
"But they all appear to be based on the erroneous notion that our editorial policies preclude people commenting on contentious issues like climate change if their views are considered by others to be inaccurate," Leavitt said.
For a nation that styles itself as beset by sexual secrecy, mired in taboos that preclude public discussions about intimate physical acts, these explicit descriptions and images were surprising, but only fleetingly.
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