Sentences with phrase «argue against the strike»

You can argue against the strike and you can certainly argue against current public pension arrangements, but it's hard to object to what took place today in London: people cheerfully coming together to defend their interests and make their views plain to government.

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Bolton, who is regarded as a foreign policy super-hawk, had previously argued for preemptive strikes against North Korea.

While it certainly is a strike against companies like DraftKings and FanDuel, which are trying to argue that their companies operate as skill - based competitions, the cease - and - desist letter is just the tip of a lengthy legal process.

Legal academics have argued that this sort of harm strikes at the heart of the common good, and that judges should count it against the moral and religious liberty claims of those seeking to avoid complicity with others» sins.

But purists like McKee worry the WFP's willingness to kowtow to Cuomo will cost the party its independence in the long run, arguing it would be better situated to push back against the AG's fiscally conservative agenda if it strikes out on its own.

«I believe that we should now take the decision to extend British air strikes against ISIL into Syria,» he wrote, ahead of a speech in parliament on Thursday where he will formally argue his case for war.

Some argue that carefully targeted strikes against the regime's military assets — air defences, command and control centres, and bases of Assad's elite Republican Guards — could weaken the regime sufficiently to engage in meaningful talks aimed at a political settlement.

While we can not rule out the possibility that the similar male gametogenic requirement in mice and Drosophila is a coincidence and both evolved independently, the striking similarity in the reproductive defects of loss - of - function mutants of Drosophila and mouse Boule homologs (male specific infertility, global arrest of spermatogenesis, absence of elongating spermatids and mature sperm) argue against such a possibility.

► A giant caged gorilla is placed into a military cargo plane, accompanied by a man and a woman in handcuffs who argue with soldiers and an agent; the gorilla growls, snarls, and roars, showing large sharp teeth until he breaks apart the cage and several soldiers and government agents fire rifles and handguns to no avail as the animal roars and throws pieces of metal, striking some of the men, tosses several men against the bulkheads of the plane, and stands on the chest of an unconscious agent, who wakes up and shouts; a sliding military vehicle in the cargo hold pins the gorilla to a wall, the man and the woman in handcuffs break free and don parachutes, placing one on the agent and after the plane crashes in smoke and flames we see few bloody footprints of the gorilla leading away from the crash site (we do not see the bodies of the other passengers) and the agent has a cut on his forehead and the other man has lots of blood on the back of head and his T - shirt while the woman's face is scraped on one cheek and one side of her forehead.

However, the government has argued that the strike is politically - motivated and is seeking an injunction against it.

What you said about arguing against charter schools on first principles struck me in a particular way.

While some are skeptical of the strike's potential impact, others argue that it's a necessary statement against «normalizing» the new president, while others purport that the proposed strike is only sowing seeds of divisiveness.

That's another strike against those, including a Cornell academic, who argue that so - called fugitive emissions from unconventional natural gas production offset the emissions advantages natural gas has over coal in power generation.

Finally, LawPRO successfully argued for the striking out of a pleading on the basis that it disclosed no cause of action against a litigation lawyer.

Also in the last couple of years, Justice Mosley, in NOV Downhole Eurasia Limited v. TLL Oil Field Consulting, 2014 FC 889, considered whether a pleading ought to be struck that referred to the file history to defend against infringement arguing that a feature added during prosecution and appearing in each of the claims did not exist in their device.

Cassels Brock and Hamilton argued the claim should be struck from the pleading because parliamentary privilege is absolute and there is no requirement to balance it against solicitor - client privilege.

Defendants argue that this court should strike the two sentencing allegations for three reasons: 1) The allegations are prejudicial surplusage; 2) The government does not have statutory authority to include sentencing allegations in an indictment; and 3) Presenting sentencing allegations to a jury for proof beyond a reasonable doubt to increase defendants» sentences violates the constitutional principles of separation of powers and the prohibition against the legislative branch delegating its powers to the executive branch.

With respect to the statement of claim, Howard Levitt wrote in The Financial Post that «Jian Ghomeshi's $ 50 - million lawsuit against the CBC has everything to do with strategy and PR — but nothing to do with legal entitlement,» going on to argue that the damages claimed were out of all proportion to anything that Ghomeshi could hope to recover and, in any event, the «suit will almost certainly be quickly struck down by the courts without Ghomeshi recovering a penny.»