"I believe that case is ongoing, and, as such, we are precluded from commenting on it," said Lisa Bull, a spokeswoman for the New Haven office of the F.B.I.
He did not give specifics, saying, "We are precluded from debating the specifics of The Times's assertions by overriding concern for the privacy of our employees and the confidentiality of personal information".
"They provide a colorful alternative to trees, which we are precluded from planting in many parts of Midtown because of subsurface conditions like vaults, the subway and Metro-North," Mr. Cerullo said in an e-mail.
Regrettably, we are precluded by SFA rules from outlining the significant mitigation and from explaining the Judicial Panel's findings.
We are "precluded from skepticism" (presumably the view that moral judgments are all false) "by the mere fact we will and act".
In calling on others to take up our projects and give these projects a future, we are precluded from forcing others to become our allies.
Thus we are led to atomism on strictly a priori grounds: in positing bodies as substances, we are precluded from attributing parts to them, for if we did, they would no longer be substances.
For example, if it is true that all sinners will go to hell when they die, but we are precluded from appealing to this truth in developing our political principles, we may endorse a political principle that permits people to engage in various sinful activities.
So if China, for example, buys logs taken from forests at gunpoint by criminal gangs in Indonesia, and then turns those logs into coated paper for export to the U.S., we are precluded by the WTO from simply refusing to take paper from China unless we first set up our own elaborate processes.
