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How to use precatory in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word precatory? Here are some examples.

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It is not clear whether this provision was mandatory or precatory in nature.
Finally, what is the incentive of accountants to follow the precatory guidance of the organisation?
Two extremely toxic plants are castor bean and precatory bean or rosary pea.
If you give shareholders something meaningful to vote on — something that isn't precatory only — they will step up to the plate.
The vehicle whereby the preliminary draft Protocol sought to answer these needs was in its precatory provisions.
This is a fiddly process, with lots of tricky details, compared with the usual precatory motions.
Other positive changes have been better mechanics for voting, proxy contests and precatory proposals, the elimination of staggered boards and the advent of majority voting.
Consideration should be given as to whether Chapter V of this Protocol ought to include an associated precatory provision requiring compensation in the case of government confiscation, condemnation or requisition.
Such a provision is of a precatory nature and probably does not add much to the already existing obligation to interpret international Conventions in a consistent and uniform manner.
Examples from Classical Literature
The primitive forms of absolution, when confession was made to a priest, were precatory rather than declaratory.
For this reason, recommendatory or precatory words used in a bequest are frequently treated as an express direction.
Many of the examples quoted by Roman controversialists are not precatory at all, but simply declarative.
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