Sentences with phrase «with weak cases»

Patent trolls with weak cases can, of course, still file elsewhere.

A prosecutor with a weak case could offer, in exchange for a guilty plea, to recommend a lesser sentence such as probation to the judge.

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The probe, known as «Operation Weak Flesh», had uncovered some 40 cases of meatpackers who had bribed inspectors and politicians to overlook unsanitary practices, such as processing rotten meat and running plants with traces of salmonella.

Of course, electronics are the cornerstone of promotional events like Black Friday but just as was the case with department store chains Kohl's (kss), Macy's (m), and J.C. Penney (jcp), which all reported strong Black Friday business too but weak overall Christmas sales, Target shoppers held back outside of that period.

Cases have been settled with consent decrees, decrees that many criticized as too weak.

With its warnings of depleted bank reserves, weak governance, and political uncertainty, the IMF's account reads more like the analysis of a war - ravaged economic basket - case than the prospects for a developed economy in one of the richest economic zones in the world.

Removing those companies (just 3 in this case) that each had at least a 5 % impact on the r - squared value, along with the companies that had negative book values, reveals a weak, 27 %, correlation.

Because China begins the process with the highest investment level in history, the extent of the transformation must exceed that of any other case, and it must occur at a time when weak Chinese demand is compounded by weak global demand, thereby reducing productive investment opportunities for the private sector.

The Case for Banning Payday Lending: Snapshots from Four Key States (June 2013) This report outlines the battles against the payday lending industry in states with strong usury cap protections, such as New York and North Carolina, and in states like California and Illinois with weaker laws that allow payday lenders to charge triple - digit APR loans that trap people in a cycle of debt.

First, if growth did not recover and surprise on the upside (in which case high asset prices would be justified), eventually slow growth would dominate the levitational effects of liquidity and force asset prices lower, in line with weaker economic fundamentals.

The labour market has also remained weak, with the unemployment rate continuing to hover around 5 1/4 to 5 1/2 per cent, as has been the case for the past 18 months or so.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Even if we are doing something good, others with weak conscience might perceive it as a stumbling block, the means of another's downfall: in that case we are in some sense partly responsible for that stumbling.

At the end of the day, the prosecution's case was weak to begin with and I believe that the verdict of «not guilty» was the correct one due to a lack of evidence.

Like I said, it isn't a matter of opinion.WShat you «rte treaching in that case is to ignore facts and come up with weak conclusions.

In the case of an extremely violent suspect sprayed with weak spray, or a spray that does not mist, the suspect will not be adequately subdued.

But in any case we need a new winger if want to play with four defenders again against the weaker teams.

We don't look very strong defensively and with Ighalo's pace we may hear another case of being weak and naive.

As Elliott and his lawyers have jostled with the league over the legality of the discipline, Jones has taken aim at the commissioner he once championed, calling his suspension an «overcorrection» after years of weak rulings in similar cases.

In the case of Mancity being invincible and can cope with the lost of any player is quite untrue, is noticed that when company or toure is not playing mancity tend to be a lot weaker, and that has been seen in many games for the past 2 years.

The Capital One Cup tie against rivals Tottenham Hotspur was a particular case in point, with Mauricio Pochettino's side pointedly targeting Debuchy as a weak link.

«With wages squeezed and inflation increasing, fans paying out for tickets, club merchandise and TV packages want the most value they can for their money — a weaker pound means that just isn't the case.

But if he decides to sell Gibbs, Debuchy, Jenkinson and Perez in this current window for the sole aim of to recoup and to rationalize his current first team squad and also to strengthen any weak position in his current first team squad with new incoming signing additions, no Gooner will pull any case with him for doing that.

The weak side of this product is the lack of a bag / case provided with the pump.

The UK Childhood Cancer Study investigators23 published in 2001 a study that provided 1636 leukemia cases and indicated a weak evidence of borderline statistical significance that ever (compared with never) having been breastfed was associated with a small reduction in leukemia risk (OR, 0.89; 95 % CI, 0.84 - 1.00).

In the current case, prosecutors joined unrelated allegations into a single indictment to heighten the appearance of wrongdoing, «with weak evidence of one scheme propping up weak evidence of another,» Williams argued.

However, the state Senate has blocked any action on that proposal or a weaker resolution by Senate GOP leader Bob Huff to formally suspend the members with pay until their criminal cases are resolved.

That wasn't always the case though, as New York's blue sky law was initially weaker than that of many other states, until the New York Supreme Court determined in People v Federated Radio Corporation (1926) that the act's purpose was to «defeat all kinds of fraud in connection with the sale of securities and commodities and to defeat all unsubstantial and visionary schemes in relation thereto whereby the public is fraudulently exploited,» even if the fraud can't be proven to have «originated in any actual evil design or contrivance to perpetrate fraud or injury upon others.»

In 2013, researchers showed that in some cases, people with autism are unusually good at perceiving motion, and this counterintuitive result is actually consistent with weak normalization in the visual system3.

Instead, they found that resonance could be the key to long - distance communication in networks with relatively few and weak connections, as it is the case in the brain.

They can also open their jaws unusually wide but their bite is relatively weak — as modelling studies have suggested was the case with sabre - toothed cats.

But that doesn't explain why senior citizens, with generally weaker immune systems, and young children, with no immunity to influenza whatsoever, tended to get cases of H1N1 that were milder than their healthier counterparts.

(A) Normal case: negative Cyclin D1 - immunostaining in the ductal epithelial cells, (B) Benign case: few nuclei with weak expression of Cyclin D1 of ductal epithelial cell, and negative one in stromal cells, (C) IDC GII case: a strong positive expression of Cyclin D1 in invasive ductal epithelial cells and stroma, (D) IDC GIII case: moderate positive expression of Cyclin D1 in trabeculae malignant cells, and absent in the vesiculated polymorphic nuclei.

There is a peak at 32 days with an even higher false alarm probability value, the fit does converge to a sensible eccentricity but it is going to be difficult to make a case for its existence based on such a weak signal.

Although it's true that your grip will naturally improve if you perform most lifting exercises correctly, in some cases lifters are stuck with a weak grip despite managing to build a relatively strong upper body.

I have always considered the weak muscle to be the primary problem in most cases, with the tightness a secondary problem.

They kept it with them in case they became too weak to carry on because they knew the therapeutic effects could keep them alive longer.

If this is the case, then you need to bring the weaker muscle groups up to par with the stronger ones.

The rest of the cast does mostly fine work with Ewan McGregor a relatively weak point and Abigail Breslin, younger than nearly everyone in the cast by about twenty years (or much more in many cases), simply unable to hold her own against such towering thespians.

I'd have mustered up the weakest, croakiest laugh my poor, disappointment - withered frame could muster and gestured limply toward the last few years» Q4 release schedules with all the zesty fervour of a broken seaside claw crane swinging listlessly in its case.

Instead - as was clearly the case with the double feature of The Fly / The Fly II - it looks like the weaker sequel has been pinned to the more popular original film to move additional DVDs.

The Honda HR - V was originally introduced in Japan as the Honda Vezel in 2013 but at that time, a weak Rupee value and the high price of the vehicle didn't make a business case for the market, which led them to introduce the BR - V that didn't stand a chance with the Mahindra Scorpio and the Hyundai Creta.

The price of the car without optional accessories is 86,000 euros, but in GeigerCars believes that in this case is an excellent relation «invested — gained», If the price of the strongest challenger is compared with prices of considerably weaker European competitors in the same class.

While that may bothersome with weaker eyesight, I didn't mind because most of your time is spent within apps, where text and visuals are usually larger or, as in the case, of iBooks customizable.

They also illustrate arguments, weak and strong sides of the solutions to the problem, and offer customers worthy custom case studies that are marked with the highest grades.

It was true that the studies proving the case for patent restoration — for laws that would give pharma additional compensatory patent time — were weak and inconclusive, but the essence of the industry argument struck a nerve with Engman: here again was a case of overregulation hurting the economy of the nation and depriving the consumer of an improved product.

Backward looking can lead to investments that may never generate a positive return; additionally, this can lead to an oversupply of these cases with weak financial investments.

Agin it: Japan is a special case because it has weak shareholder rights and a culture that regards corporations as «social institutions with a duty to provide stable employment and consider the needs of employees and the community at large, not just shareholders.»

In either case, the CDS clearinghouse is dealing with weak counterparties in an event of default.