predication

Example Sentences

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FBI assistant director Jill C. Tyson replied in a December 2021 letter that although the bureau’s assessments “do not require a particular factual predication, they do require an authorized purpose.”

From Washington Times • Jan. 14, 2022

He scoured the F.B.I. guidelines to find the rules against investigating someone based on false predication, presenting his supervisors with copious examples of claims that didn’t add up.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2021

“Notwithstanding whether there was sufficient predication for the leak investigation itself, including family members and minor children strikes me as extremely aggressive,” said David Laufman, a former Justice Department official who worked on leak investigations.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 10, 2021

“There’s no question that predication existed” for the FBI to talk to Flynn, said Susan Hennessey, a former attorney for the National Security Agency and the executive editor of Lawfare.

From Washington Post • May 7, 2020

And must not the conditions on which reality verifies the predication be determined by the mind?

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter