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Fallen out of use, discarded. This expression usually is put as go by the board , as in With all the crime around here, the practice of leaving the house unlocked has gone by the board . The board here is the board of a ship, and the expression has been used since about 1630 to signify something that has fallen overboard and been carried away. [Mid-1800s]

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Kuehl’s 2022 proposal, approved by the board, ordered then-Sheriff Alex Villanueva not to change the county’s gun permitting process until state and county attorneys could weigh in, and asked the county auditor-controller to issue a report on potential improvements.

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Its recommendations for the funds will be subject to a vote by the Board of Supervisors.

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If approved by the Board of Supervisors later this month, it will be the largest sex abuse claims settlement in U.S. history.

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Unsurprisingly, the immigration judge then denied Khalifah’s bond request, a decision affirmed by the Board of Immigration Appeals.

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Jennifer Shaffer, who retired last year as the executive officer of the Board of Parole Hearings, said the updated guidelines would follow the comprehensive risk assessments used in parole hearings by the board — whose commissioners include former wardens, correctional officers, criminologists and psychologists — to determine public safety risk.

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