borderline case
collocation in Englishmeaningsofborderlineandcase
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borderline
noun[S]
uk/ˈbɔː.də.laɪn/us/ˈbɔːr.dɚ.laɪn/
something that separates two ...
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case
noun
uk/keɪs/us/keɪs/
a particular situation or example ...
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(Definition ofborderlineandcasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofborderline case
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The judge can exhibit similar candor if he instead believes that the procedural infraction freed aborderlinecaseof a guilty man.
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But once the teacher has verified that the student is a genuine, absoluteborderlinecase, then he must make the best of a bad situation.
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Reasoning about a structured object : three # and four year olds' grasp of aborderlinecaseand an unexcluded middle.
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Imagine a possible world in which the consideration of theborderlinecaseis added to the authors' mental states.
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No absoluteborderlinecaseis a relativeborderlinecase.
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This motive competes with other high-minded concerns, so judges sometimes acquiesce to the moral problem presented by aborderlinecase.
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The resulting decision about a relativeborderlinecasedoes change law by adding a precedent.
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Indeed, they are in an especially good position to detect aborderlinecase.
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In this example, there is agreement about the core instances of what constitutes an art form, but disagreement about aborderlinecase.
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The typical cases calling for counter factual reasoning are cases in which authors did not envisage aborderlinecase.
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Another account is epistemic, according to which eachborderlinecasehas a correct answer, but we suffer from irremediable ignorance about what is the correct answer.
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Theborderlinecasek = 0, which has no conditions, is called a fact.
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As we have seen, the decision of aborderlinecasein law often implicates legal standards and values that reach beyond the particular legal concept being applied.
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If two fisher men disagree whether a fish conforms to the size limit, that ver y disagreement is evidence that the fish is actually aborderlinecase.
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Animals, however, remain aborderlinecase.
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I repeat that if this had been aborderlinecaseanother decision might have been possible, but it was very far from being so.
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