Sample Sentences for
jurisdiction
(editor-reviewed)

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    Obviously she'd hoped to claim jurisdiction over the missing runaway.†  (source)
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    You are a common cyborg, and one who is under my legal jurisdiction.†  (source)
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    He recognizes no jurisdiction, you see, and he is never held to account.†  (source)
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    "He was under our jurisdiction," says Tori.†  (source)
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    White neighborhoods in Baltimore blockaded their streets, attempting to confine the damage of the Riots to its poorer, darker jurisdictions.†  (source)
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    We both knew Burns from our last "multijurisdictional" case.†  (source)
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    They hoped to do their business quickly, cleanly—and get out before they were required to explain their presence to the local authorities, which would at least tangle them in inter-jurisdictional paperwork and might result in troubling questions about what legitimate laws they were enforcing.†  (source)
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    She felt somehow humiliated by this public revolt in her area of jurisdiction.†  (source)
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    The crux of that problem involves an ongoing partition of the island between British and Irish jurisdictions, and an equally persistent partition of the affections in Northern Ireland between the British and Irish heritages;†  (source)
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    Since you're already outside the multijurisdictional mess, and therefore immune to it, why don't you keep it that way.†  (source)
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    When they made dinner together she hit Albert's hand every time he got in the way, a jurisdictional tap on the back of the hand.†  (source)
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    Officer Carter still had jurisdiction over that area and did not look kindly on our being there.†  (source)
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    He now spent much of his day going from one crisis to another—working with families from dozens of countries, including the Ziatys, and educating local police departments about the refugees in their jurisdictions.†  (source)
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