| 词汇 | example_english_dead-letter |
| 释义 | Examples of dead letterThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. For a variety of reasons such orders and decrees often remained a deadletter. In their legal discussions, the rabbis piled up legal technicalities, reducing the irksome biblical command to a deadletter. Clearing the deadletter file, however, required assigning programmers from separate divisions who had never worked as a team before. This bill may benefit organized labor, or it may be like many other laws now on the statute books - a deadletter. In other cases, those that had become a deadletter remained because it was not acceptable to change the laws of the ancestors. For a decade, however, this constitution was a deadletter. In many cases, "bad" practices persisted despite the official public announcements, which became no more than a deadletter. Reforms have ground to a halt and those implemented are basically deadletter. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English However, the time has come to move from words to actions so that the legislation in force ceases to be a deadletter. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I often feel that the legislation which exists at present is very much of a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In a great measure it will be a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Labour was saying that that was a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that to do so is likely to bring a law into disrepute, and even, eventually, to make it a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not a deadletter; if it is there they will appeal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The worst that could happen would be that it would remain a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would like to see this percentage stepped up until the whole system of class selection for officers is a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was almost a deadletter before it was printed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why is it that this housing and town planning business has been a deadletter in the town and in the country? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I can only say that, if he can, it is a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now it is a deadletter up to the present. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The old resolutions forbidding reporting have been a deadletter for many years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a deadletter, because it has never been invoked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The trouble is that it is a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He replied that his experts said that it had been a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other parts of the country they have been let lie as a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These are obviously not appropriate particulars as to managers, and the provision so far as the manager is concerned, has been a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But they put at the end of the clause a condition which makes the clause absolutely a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have been unable to make these taxes a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has not been a deadletter; there have been occasional prosecutions under it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If one did allow that, the code would be soon a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The company voluntary arrangement, which should provide a simple and inexpensive procedure for companies to co-operate with their creditors, has proved virtually a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It will become, in effect, a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If either side rejects it, it is likely to remain a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has since recognised that few people accepted his proposals and thay they are now a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They really were a deadletter from the start. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would not be to his interest to do so, and my fear is that the clause will remain a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not that the law was a deadletter, but that the law has been badly enforced and will continue to be so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Otherwise, it will become a deadletter and irreparable harm will be done. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would rather never see a law passed at all than pass one which will become a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Has this legislation now become a deadletter? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is why it has become virtually a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are just too frightened to use that machinery, and that is why it is a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The words in subsection (1) (b) "without due cause" should be removed because they would in my view make it rather a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is clear that the old legislation has become a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even at present the laws against extravagant expenditure at election times are practically a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unfortunately these recommendations are still a deadletter. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Otherwise, the majority of the good recommendations made herein will remain a deadletter. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I am giving her an example in which it would not be a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why is it that that is to so great an extent a deadletter? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unless these people who are called vexatious and unreasonable are enlisted in your aid, temperance legislation will be a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But that has, in fact, been a deadletter right through the centuries; it has not been used. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This plan, like many others, proved to be quite unworkable in practice, and after a few months it became a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was a deadletter from the start. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This provision, however, can be used only on application by the burgh, and it has been a deadletter since its enactment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it becomes a deadletter because the nuisance of rabbits is sufficiently abated that would be a happy consummation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, we think and hope that this clause will remain a deadletter so far as the church buildings are concerned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That has been a deadletter for four years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will he make sure that it does not continue to remain a deadletter? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The result is that that rule is a deadletter, and it has had a most deadly effect on the assistant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has been illegal for twenty-seven years, and the law has been allowed naturally to become a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Although model standards do exist, they have so far been a deadletter, and this power, if widely used, can only be beneficial. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, the provision has in effect been a deadletter ever since 1970–11 long years for disabled people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That ensures that the new clause is not a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If not, the legislation, frankly, becomes a "deadletter". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The practical result would be that the licensing system would become as it were a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is the point of having a clause which is a deadletter? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think it will prove to be a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Have we been labouring all these years on this issue simply in order to enact a deadletter? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This was done mainly on the ground that the need to prove annoyance had become a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This decree was not introduced in 1907 in order to remain a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have seen it referred to as a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Except in a few places the law is a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I submit therefore that in many cases the law becomes a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Otherwise, we are merely enacting a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But will the new mental health provisions for community care remain a deadletter? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unless there is the structure of administration behind all this, it will be a deadletter from the word "go". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whatever we may like to think, we know perfectly well that the machinery in the safeguard will in effect be a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But it did not take us long to find out that the veto was a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But thereafter it will tend to become a deadletter, because it will be comparatively easy to evade it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The ombudsman's recommendation is left as a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not say that this is not a good provision, but it is a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were certain trade union reforms that it could not repeal and it had to accept that nationalisation was a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does that mean that we will pass a subsection which is in part a deadletter? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Each one is a deadletter: there is no point in doing it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The law is far from being a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I gather it found its way into legislation as early as 1941, and has lain as a deadletter ever since. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How much more waste paper in deadletter documents, will pour through the post? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If sufficient financial resources are not available for these objectives, then the initiative will remain a deadletter. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English If we do not create an attractive framework, this directive will be a deadletter because no one will use it. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English In short, in this way the 1995 directive has become a deadletter. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Either this defence will be upheld in very many cases, or else it will be a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I only hope that it will not he allowed to become a deadletter but that it will be made really operative and effective. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If people are to be left to their own resources without financial help the measure will, to a large extent, remain a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That section has been a deadletter in that respect. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This missive which became notorious for its confusion, inaccuracies and its bombast now seems to have become more or less a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This has been much of a deadletter because there was not enough manpower. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That multilateral obligation has remained a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not see any reason whatever why it should become a deadletter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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