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  • He is no longer under your jurisdiction," said Stanley's lawyer.†  (source)
  • Obviously she'd hoped to claim jurisdiction over the missing runaway.†  (source)
  • Ever since Barkley Cove had been settled in 1751, no lawman extended his jurisdiction beyond the saw grass.†  (source)
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  • The Chilean farmers who unwittingly risked their lives were ignorant peasants; the government of Chile had an economic crisis to worry about; and the American authorities had no jurisdiction.†  (source)
  • A sampling: "Despite grading's great promise, we show that the regulatory design, implementation, and practice suffer from serious flaws: jurisdictions fudge more than nudge.†  (source)
  • We both knew Burns from our last "multijurisdictional" case.†  (source)
    multijurisdictional = subject to multiple authorities
  • 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)
  • Your embassy has no jurisdiction except on their own property.†  (source)
  • White neighborhoods in Baltimore blockaded their streets, attempting to confine the damage of the Riots to its poorer, darker jurisdictions.†  (source)
  • Since you're already outside the multijurisdictional mess, and therefore immune to it, why don't you keep it that way.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • You are a common cyborg, and one who is under my legal jurisdiction.†  (source)
  • Now I'm running point between three jurisdictions.†  (source)
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