"Boilerplate" refers to a pre-written standard piece of text or code that can be reused in multiple situations. It saves time by providing a ready-made template for common tasks or documents.
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In IRIS The Visual Group Western Canada Inc. v. Park, 2017 BCCA 301, the Court questioned the use
of boilerplate language and reminded employers that restrictive covenants must be drafted with care.
Julie — And you wouldn't always see a sneaky contract with a trad publisher... but the standard
boilerplate contract does seem to have non-competes right now.
I know that key terms differ for good reasons but variations
in boilerplate language serve no discernable legal or business purpose.
What comes clear very fast is that there is a LOT of faking going on, lots of winks from «cardboard» profiles
with boilerplate language and a GQ profile photo.
In dealing with many of them, you can save time by
using boilerplate responses that contain such details as directions to your office, statements of policy, and information about important products.
Related: 5 Questions That Reveal Whether a Job Candidate Is Startup Material Interviewees prepare for interviews by rehearsing
boilerplate responses to conventional questions.
Indeed, unconscionable terms have become
boilerplate for many photo stock agency contracts and book publishing contracts, because there are so many artists who unhesitatingly accept them.
Don't think that an objective statement is necessary for all resumes — they are usually used for specific situations rather than as a
standard boilerplate resume requirement.
If you're constantly looking for that killer contract clause you've used or some other snippet of
boilerplate text to pop into your latest magnum opus, let me introduce you to two time - saving Microsoft Word 2007 - 2010 features: Quick Parts and AutoText.
economic and appraisal reports in Wyoming typically contained generic
boilerplate statements about the possibility of coal exports in the future and the uncertainty surrounding them, rather than specific information on actual or predicted coal exports ---- even for proposed lease tracts that were adjacent to mines on federal leases that are currently exporting coal.
Attorney Sarah Rathke, partner at Squire Patton Boggs, and co-author of the upcoming book Legal Blacksmith: How to Avoid and Defend Supply Chain Disputes, says that retailers shouldn't depend
on boilerplate agreements.
He went on to share that that energy and contextual storytelling was what he felt had been missing from his old, traditional 1.5 - page
boilerplate resume.
Many outsourcing contracts contain
boilerplate clauses which require service provider to remind customer of pending expiry about six to nine months prior to the expiry date.
Melania Trump, the presumptive nominee's wife and Monday's headliner, delivered a lot of
boilerplate about Donald's greatness but none of the humanizing anecdotes that typically distinguish a speech from the person who knows the candidate best.
Stodgy
boilerplate phrases in your resume today mark you as uncreative and «vocabulary challenged.»
Boilerplate Formed in Toronto, Asteroid Base is an independent video game studio founded by three friends — an illustrator, an animator and a particle physicist.
Next of course comes the cover image, some
legal boilerplate text, and the table of contents.
Rather than trying to graft an unwieldy
boilerplate approach onto the group, a practice group blog flows naturally from the way things already work.
But many of those were, he writes, «legitimate public mailing campaigns,» which
provide boilerplate text for real people to submit.
Most newbies
get boilerplate marketing advice that wastes time and energy they could spend developing their craft and living their lives.
They are not intended to be used
as boilerplate contracts by publishers, writers, or agents, nor should such use be cited as being SFWA approved.
There are some contest rules, but they're the typical
boilerplate stuff: U.S. residents only, be 21 or older, we'll choose the winner thank you very much, yadda yadda yadda.
Although CS
offered boilerplate templates for my chosen trim size, I wanted to see what would happen if I simply gave them my source document to work with.
A clever tutorial can bolster a mediocre game and a clumsy one can distance you from a masterpiece, but even the greatest studios in the world persistently fail to explore
beyond boilerplate bouts of monkey see, monkey do.
When it comes to cover letters, it's easy to assume that you can get away with using a standard
boilerplate template for just about any job.
Many such vendors rely on their own
boilerplate agreements (often in pdfs with lots of hyperlinks to ever - changing web site policies) and are unwilling to make changes.
A whole lot of vagueness and dodging the question, massive downvotes, and
boilerplate PR drivel.
Much of the drafting work that attorneys do is repetitive, such as entering the same client data in multiple places and cutting and
pasting boilerplate text back and forth between documents.
Simmons
includes boilerplate anti-American invective but balances it with foreign criticisms of the genre.
Appearing before the CPC at the Museum of the American Indian auditorium in lower Manhattan, Mr. Diaz and Ms. Katz attacked what they perceived as the mayor's
boilerplate plan to rezone the entire city, and favored instead what they both called a «neighborhood by neighborhood» approach, even though they expressed sympathy with the mayor's aim of building and maintaining 200,000 affordable apartments.
Perhaps you're bummed about missing the presentation at Comic - Con today, but really, you mostly just missed standing in line to tiny celebrities far away on a stage
giving boilerplate answers stock questions (unless Lawrence adorkably goes off the script).
Unsurprisingly, it turns out that many of them offer lame
boilerplate advice that isn't helping anyone.
In Sean you have some nice, well spoken, political opportunist who thinks by sending out a bunch of ho - hum mailers about his haircuts and college money and filled with repeats of the same accolades from Bill Clinton and
boilerplate issue positions followed by a ton of robocalls.
Many of these are
boilerplate benefits you will find on most other credit cards and issuers, though one perk worth highlighting is Citi Price Rewind.
Ensure Consistency: Create a common format and style for each post in your series, and
add boilerplate text indicating that it's part of a larger series.
If your research problem involves contracts or other documentation, review those documents for details such as choice of law clauses, attornment clauses, and
other boilerplate clauses (such as «no amendments» and «entire agreement» language).
These changes address a concern that parties responding to document requests set forth a laundry list of
boilerplate objections, produce a large volume of documents, but then state that the production is «subject to the objections,» leaving the receiving party with no sense of whether anything was actually withheld on the grounds of any of the objections.
Similarly, Xerox spokesman Sean Collins was only willing to issue the same kind of
boilerplate comment on Icahn's share purchases.
The city failed to meet its obligation, the court wrote, «by providing nothing more than
boilerplate information about seat availability,» and officials abused the discretion allowed in the law by «limiting the information they provided to the obvious.»
The ISS further prescribes that the board gender diversity policy include a clear commitment to increase board gender diversity,
avoiding boilerplate or contradictory language.