Sentences with phrase «plain english movement»
David Mellinkoff's book, published in 1963, is credited with starting the plain English movement in American law.
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The plain English movement has been going on for a long time.
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His use of the watercolor as an ideal medium for plain air paintings and the production of the startlingly atmospheric and expressive paintings of the English countryside anticipated the Impressionist movement by over 50 years and turned landscape painting into a vital discipline.
Citing examples from contracts to courts to the SEC, she refers to the drive for plain English in the law as «a movement.»
In the last 50 years, the plain - English movement — which emphasizes simplicity, clarity, and concision — marginalized the remaining defenders of the Asiatic legal - writing style.
For what it's worth, given the expanding plain - English movement in legal writing I'll be surprised if 20 years from now most judges and lawyers don't occasionally use contractions in opinions and briefs.