Examples of moot

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When the notion of the conference was first mooted, the demand for central bank co-operation was a vague and ill-defined one.
The opposite view is taken by those who press for rapid change to minimise the capacity for resistance to the mooted new pattern.
When reconciliation became a possibility, it too was mooted through the women.
The chance to convert a proposal long mooted into reality was too precious to let slip.
A conference is mooted, keeping public officials well supplied with club-class tickets and limelight.
The rebuilding of the cathedral, as was often the case, had been mooted some time before.
The need for regulatory change had been mooted for some time.
If insufficient moots are organised, try to get a law teacher or barrister to judge a private one for yourself and friends.
While such proposals were being mooted, it is no wonder licensed dealers were still in demand.
All the various approaches to statutor y interpretation mooted above can, with different degrees of emphasis, be understood as paying regard to the enactors' intentions.
The success of compulsory dipping, mooted since the 1870s and finally introduced in 1895, depended on fencing to quarantine clean flocks.
Two variables have been mooted as possible determinants of success in making plural reference.
As moots fell into desuetude, the inns' educative function also fell into abeyance.
Proposals for projects in other sectors, like agriculture, transport, and nuclear energy, had been mooted, however, and debated on and off.
The first mooted no principles, but was a series of improvised measures, often local, that nowhere changed the fundaments of the state.
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