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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Most businesses, especially small businesses, can not afford to squander vast sums of money on such refined legalistic nit-picking.
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The Inspector General's office took a severely legalistic view of the incident.
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The next he is a legalistic prude.
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The other weakness of the social contract model lies in its excessively rational and legalistic nature.
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The role of the Lawyer of course was to help in this task by giving interpretation and illumination in a legalistic capacity.
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Union resistance is no excuse for not making profit, nor is it an excuse for long legalistic job descriptions.
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Why the proliferation of these legalistic creatures in a society that has rarely embraced them?
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With the United States as its manager, it was an Anglo-Saxon rule-driven, legalistic system.