barring

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Many companies will stand behind a customer barring a court order, but for Amazon this clearly is not the case.

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the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto

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noun

the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto

Definitions

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noun

the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto

Example sentences

Many companies will stand behind a customer barring a court order, but for Amazon this clearly is not the case.

The judge acknowledged the inherent unfairness of barring a party that had lost in a court proceeding from contesting the ruling and from publicly claiming that the ruling was wrong.

What if Becquerel put his photographic plate and uranium rock in a drawer, saw anomalous results, and did not report on them on fear that perhaps somehow the plates were exposed in some other manner?The point is that barring gross negligence or fraud, scientists should be encouraged to share results that perhaps are inexplicable or against current thinking.

They are supposed to take things that would otherwise remain secret and get inventors to disclose this secret know-how so that it can be absorbed into an ever-broadening public pool of knowledge for society's benefit and, as a trade-off, give the inventor a limited monopoly barring all others from using the invention for a limited time even if those others developed it entirely independently of the efforts of the inventor.