An inspection regimen that began with wide international support, and the U . N . sanctions that were put in place to keep Hussein from reconstructing future weapons of mass destruction, gradually fell into desuetude.
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Unfamiliar words have their moment in fashionable discourse, resonate in the think tanks and on the talk-show circuit and then sink back into dim desuetude . ( And why am I still using resonate?
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Now that he's 30, though, he's starting to shed the bonds of desuetude, mindful that getting a life is helpful in getting a wife, or at least a meaningful relationship.
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Once the custom was encouraged, but now is much neglected, and perhaps soon will fall into desuetude . " Another conjecture about its origin is that the hobby horse was the ancient King of the May.
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The desuetude which has overtaken Vice President Al Gore's effort since he clinched the Democrats'nomination three months ago enabled George W . Bush to plow on ahead in the elemental categories of money, momentum and morale.
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This raises the question ( no, not begs the question, which has to do with circular obfuscation ) : Where do words like chorine go when they fall into what Grover Cleveland called " innocuous desuetude "?
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Consignation ( payment into court with notice to the creditor ) appears to have fallen into desuetude, and is in any event impossible or impracticable in many cases ( as in the case where perishables are to be delivered ).
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The British magazine Isis looked with disdain at " the desuetude of the traditional grey flannel ` bags'of the undergraduate " and announced that " plus fours have succeeded them . " ( Note the plural have .)
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Slanguists J . S . Farmer and William Ernest Henley in their 1890 dictionary defined the term as " to fondle; bill and coo; indulge in endearments, " its synonym firkytoodle, a verb that seems to have slipped into desuetude.
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The seminal modern case under U . S . state law is a West Virginia opinion regarding desuetude, " Committee on Legal Ethics v . Printz ", 187 W . Va . 182, 416 S . E . 2d 720 ( 1992 ).
