Sentences with phrase «as the defence of»

That kind of flawed logic lets anyone create any absurd make - believe world they can think of and use the absence of evidence as a defence of the possibility that their delusion is real.

A) Terms of services are ridiculous, when it would take over 250 hours (6.25 full work weeks) to read all the terms of service that you agree to in a year, saying «you consented» as a defence of their behaviour is a little silly.

So will today be an important day for the Premier League title challenge as well as our defence of the FA cup trophy?

The defence is only as good as the defence of the whole team.

Instead Clegg framed Europe's total capitulation to the markets as a defence of the poor.

His archives include a 2013 article in which Milne suggested that the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby «wasn't terrorism in the normal sense» as well as defences of communist regimes and a suggestion that Slobadon Milosevic shouldn't have been tried for war crimes.

Bowling's role as curator and contributor to the seminal «5 +1» exhibition in 1969, as well as his defence of abstraction as a viable creative language in the face of criticism from artists such as Chandler, place him at the centre of this moment.

My statement above wasn't «complaining» to you about those individuals — I was merely observing that your good behavior didn't mean that the other boys hadn't behaved badly and could not be put forward as a defence of the bad behavior of the other boys.

At civil law, the website might sue you for making a defamatory statement, but as long as the statement is true, then you are still permitted to make the statement, and even if the statement turns out to be false (that the website turned out to be legal), then the defence of reportage (now known as the defence of Publication on a Matter of Public Interest, Defamation Act 2013 s. 4) would protect you, since you are arguably spreading information which is in the public interest.

Accordingly, it is properly discussed in chapters concerned with the assessment of damages rather than alongside rules such as the defences of voluntary assumption of risk and illegality.

As a defence of the impoverished experience that law schools would, under Harry Arthurs» proposal offer their students, it is grotesque.

Not exact matches

Defence Issues Minister Paul Papalia says Western Australia has been dudded in the federal government's $ 89 billion naval shipbuilding plan, of which WA will receive just over $ 3 billion of work, while the prime minister has lauded it as «unashamedly nationalistic».

The PQ has been on the defence in the last couple of weeks as both of the other major parties have continued to attack its handling of the economy.

Dalradian, as a notice party, will also be submitting evidence in defence of the decision - making process.

Just a few months ago, this column's critique of one company's marketing professionalism was met with a vigorous defence on Twitter, even as the company was posting a recruitment ad for a marketing manager requiring just two to five years» experience (which didn't even have to be in marketing).

Defence minister Tobias Ellwood said he had died from his injuries but did not offer any further detail as to the nature of the incident.

In the defence filed in Anita Bell's lawsuit, O'Leary Funds said the market was slowing as early as the end of 2009.

Many of these suppliers also sell to the defence sector, where spending is likely to decline in coming years as countries, especially the U.S., try to reduce their deficits.

The title's not - so subtle biblical reference is a hint at Stursberg's view of the Ceeb as the place that business common sense forgot, and the book serves largely as a catalogued defence of his belief that audience numbers, not an ambiguous cultural mandate, would define the network's success.

Royal Navy frigate HMS Westminster was sent to monitor four Russian vessels over the weekend as they passed close to British waters, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said, and will stay with the warships as they head north.

A similar strategy for defence procurement of the U.S. government fast - tracked the development innovations such as commercial aircraft, computers and the Internet.

Retrieving the dead is itself a potentially lethal endeavor: Last week, a member of the Civil Defence Force was killed when a bomb buried under the ruins of a home exploded as he tried to free bodies trapped there.

Their go - to defence as to how such titles were allowed to be sold in the first place is that they slipped through screening processes, mainly because of the «massive amount» of self - published material, as WH Smith put it in a statement.

In rejecting U.S. defence giant Alliant Techsystems» takeover of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates» aerospace unit, Industry Minister Jim Prentice is using the Investment Canada Act as a pretense to claim the $ 1.3 - billion all - cash deal isn't in this country's best interests.

As political theorist Jacob Levy points out in a blog entry, the anti-gay-marriage camp has historically been not just aggressive in defence of its take on religious freedom, but viciously and hatefully so.)

The fact that Canada might be included on the initial hit list had become a political sore spot for the administration, as U.S. critics of the move ridiculed it by zeroing on the idea of national - security tariffs against a peaceful next - door neighbour and defence ally.

As the vision for the connecting tunnel between Folkestone and Calais became more concrete, Ministry of Defence (MoD) civil servants and senior military officers drew up the nuclear plan in order to thwart a possible invasion by the Soviet army from Calais, The Independent has discovered.

At the post-Budget Treasury briefing yesterday there was definitely smell of blood in the water as it became clear that Hammond's spokespeople had no real defence for the broken promise.

Among the many well - known Canadians scheduled as «participants» were Stephen Harper's Conservative cabinet ministers Stockwell Day (who at first denied attending) and the then - defence minister Gordon O'Connor, deputy ministers (Defence) Ward Elcock, Peter Harder (Foreign Affairs), Associate Deputy Minister William Elliott (Public Security), Liberal continentalist Anne McLellan, Canada's former deputy prime minister and a defender of the oil patch, the Alberta minister of energy, Greg Melchin, General Rick Hillier, Canada's chief of defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj.defence minister Gordon O'Connor, deputy ministers (Defence) Ward Elcock, Peter Harder (Foreign Affairs), Associate Deputy Minister William Elliott (Public Security), Liberal continentalist Anne McLellan, Canada's former deputy prime minister and a defender of the oil patch, the Alberta minister of energy, Greg Melchin, General Rick Hillier, Canada's chief of defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj.Defence) Ward Elcock, Peter Harder (Foreign Affairs), Associate Deputy Minister William Elliott (Public Security), Liberal continentalist Anne McLellan, Canada's former deputy prime minister and a defender of the oil patch, the Alberta minister of energy, Greg Melchin, General Rick Hillier, Canada's chief of defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj.defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj. - Gen.

Retired general Rick Hillier's outspoken pride in Canadian troops made him, as chief of defence staff, the voice of patriotism.

Budget 2012 included, as part of the restraint measures, an updating of capital defence funding, amounting to savings of $ 2.3 billion over the 2011 - 12 to 2016 - 17 period.

The increased prison terms for Canadian nationals including officers and directors of Canadian corporations, the elimination of territorial jurisdiction test by explicitly providing for a «nationality» test, the increased risk exposure to CFPOA penalties by adding a books and records provision, and the elimination of exceptions and defences such as those for facilitation payments and businesses not earning profits, all point towards continuing vigorous enforcement by the Canadian government of the CFPOA.

If Trump succeeds in getting more favourable terms of trade from his trading partners, along with perhaps relief on his defence budget, he will emerge as the winner in the noisiest trade quarrel the world has seen in the last couple of decades.

The prospect of missiles flying across the Pacific has opened, yet again, the debate over joining the United States» ballistic missile defence system, as much for the prospect of intercepting missiles directed or misdirected toward Canada as for bolstering our North American alliance status.

Sir Michael Fallon resigned as defence secretary last night amid suggestions of inappropriate behaviour towards female journalists.

From 2003 to 2012, Rick served as Executive Director of Environmental Defence Canada.

He currently serves as Executive - in - Residence at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and is a Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.

New Democrat defence critic Jack Harris accused the government of not only keeping the public in the dark, but watchdogs such as the parliamentary budget office, which had a tough time compiling its own estimate on the war earlier this winter.

The client's defence, if it counts as one, is their lack of education.

I would argue that our standard line of defence against inflation is not Index - Linked government bonds as suggested, but is actually our diversified stock portfolio.

As a result of these back - to - back meetings, India and the U.S. are moving ahead on a whole range of issues, including regional security, defence, nuclear power, smart cities, and even climate change.

Other economic policies include reducing the regulatory burden for small businesses and northern development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development strategies.

Affleck told defence counsel that although he understood that the sheer number of people charged «imposed layers of complexity» on the trials, he was prepared to move as quickly as possible.

The FES forecast an increase of 6.2 % for the year as a whole — it did not provide separate forecasts for expenses by Crown corporations or defence.

«Everyone around that table understood the need for Ontario as a province to get out as soon as possible and articulate our interest in defence of Ontario workers, Ontario businesses and Ontario's economy,» the senior official said.

By ignoring the chief of defence staff's «appraisal of the insurgency as a complex and challenging entity» and seizing on his «rosy assessment» of the mission's progress, the Ottawa press gallery almost seemed to still be «mourning the departure of the last chief of defence staff and venting that emotion on poor old Natynczyk,» Taylor suggests.

The Fiscal Monitor provides a breakout of transfers and subsidies by department as well expenses for defence, Crown corporations and other operating expenses.

«Mr. Speaker, as I indicated and as the member knows,» Ms. Ambrose offered the NDP's Matthew Kellway, «the Auditor General asked that the Department of National Defence refine its cost estimates.

Was the decision by Mike de Jong on behalf of the B.C. Liberal government to offer to pay the defence costs, estimated at $ 6 million, made before the special prosecutor's offer of reduced charges and could that have operated as...

Trump seems to view NATO's aspirational goal of 2 per cent of GDP for defence spending as a condition of membership.