My mind shudders when I think of her awful, awful situation, and that, near as she is to the grave, she should be so given up to vanity, licentiousness, profaneness, and folly." In fact, the old lady declined altogether to hear his hour's lecture of an evening; and when she came to Queen's Crawley alone, he was obliged to
pretermit his usual devotional exercises.
"I have been led farther than I had foreseen, and various subjects for annotation have presented themselves which, though I have no direct need of them, I could not
pretermit. The task, notwithstanding the assistance of my amanuensis, has been a somewhat laborious one, but your society has happily prevented me from that too continuous prosecution of thought beyond the hours of study which has been the snare of my solitary life."
sales, and financings, that those deals
pretermit or predetermine the
Stevens, (217) the Court justified its decision to
pretermit Eleventh Amendment immunity based partly on the fact that doing so would not "permit the court to pronounce upon any issue, or upon the rights of any person, beyond the issues and persons that would be reached" otherwise.
(52) In this light, a different solution that allows the agencies and challenging entities to reach a mutually agreeable solution and that relies upon alternative means of dispute resolution (53) in the event of a disagreement may
pretermit the need for a formal petition for rulemaking, though that device would remain available as a last resort.
I
pretermit addressing these arguments for two reasons: deontological arguments can cut both ways.
2003) ("We
pretermit discussion of Moody's other arguments ...
(436) Where an interpretation of a state constitutional affirmative right would create a conflict with overriding federal law, the best course of action for the court is to
pretermit the state constitutional issue with the case being controlled by the federal law, rather than embracing an unnecessary conflict.