Sentences with phrase «at stake in the outcome»

They apply standards, yes, but less to principles, procedures, historical backgrounds, and political effects than they do to individuals they can identify as at stake in the outcome.

August 18 Ilya Somin «Traditionally, conservative scholars and judges have advocated narrow views of constitutional «standing»: the level of «interest» litigants must have at stake in the outcome of a case in order to give them a legal right to sue.

Traditionally, conservative scholars and judges have advocated narrow views of constitutional «standing»: the level of «interest» litigants must have at stake in the outcome of a case in order to give them a legal right to sue.

Not exact matches

The third outcome is that — should the VC and entrepreneur succeed at creating the next Facebook or Research In Motion — the government's coinvestment stake will earn the same handsome return as is being made by the private sector.

After working briefly at Warburg Pincus, the private equity firm that owned an equity stake in Mattel, and at Island Records, where he was director of corporate development, he joined Lafer Equity Investors, a New York hedge fund, where he learned the «craft» of risk arbitrage — betting on the outcome of mergers and acquisitions and other «event driven» opportunities.

3) «The European wars are the inevitable outcome... what is really at stake in them is the dividing up of the world, even when their immediate cause is some European quarrel.»

Lion boss Stuart Irvine, who was in Geelong on Monday morning to launch the nation's biggest brewer's new Little Creatures brewery, said his company's lightening purchase of a 10 per cent stake in takeover target WCB two months ago would deliver it a «seat at the table» and influence over the direction of the outcome.

Super Bowl XLVIII kicks off at 6:25 p.m. ET, and while two fan bases have an interest in the outcome, a sizable portion of America will have a financial stake in the result.

Despite factors that should drive up interest — control of the board being at stake, big money flowing into some campaigns, and outside forces trying to steer the outcome — history shows School Board races rest in the hands of relatively few voters.

Undoubtedly, Western interests are at stake in Syria and the region more widely, but we are not going to advance or protect them by unilateral military action — not only because such action would be in violation of international law but also because it can not achieve desirable outcomes.

For Canadian singles, there's no contest - in a complementary study, those surveyed revealed that swimming is # 1 in the sexy stakes (we can only guess at whether or not Speedos have something to do with that outcome!).

We get the setup to the climactic Big Fight, and of course, we get the payoff to that setup in an extended, brutal bout that has much more at stake than the outcome of the fight (It's so effective that even the annoying, on - the - nose commentary becomes background noise).

These days, he's jumping into a new research project based in Texas and Massachusetts that looks at the impact of high - stakes testing on outcomes other than the actual test scores.

To sum up: 1) low - stakes tests appear to measure something meaningful that shows up in long - run outcomes; 2) we don't know nearly as much about high - stakes exams and long - run outcomes; and 3) there doesn't seem to be a strong correlation between test - score gain and other measures of quality at either the teacher or school level.

What's at stake is the classroom experience and outcomes for over 40 million kids, as states and local school districts find themselves caught in the middle of this debate and continue to face troubles transitioning to a complex new system.

This is expected for expert witnesses at trials, but it is disturbing for someone who pretends to be an academic, and is not transparent that he gets paid for reports by parties with a direct financial stake in his outcomes.

In this day of high - stakes accountability teachers must implement effective assessment strategies to meet intended performance outcomes, determine what students know, and clarify which instructional approaches are most successful at raising achievement s.

If people want to borrow money to invest, they must have a meaningful stake at risk in the outcome.

Virginia Rutledge, counsel for The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (which filed a friend of the court brief in the case), told A.i.A., «The outcome can't be predicted based on questions raised during oral argument, but the Court has before it very compelling arguments for Prince's transformative use of Cariou's imagery and the significance of the First Amendment speech interests at stake, and was openly dismissive of allegations of market harm.»

I know your tongue is planted firmly in cheek, but I did some research on the matter, and found that the fossil fuel industry, automobile industry, and wal - mart - like fossil - fuel - based mega-scale consumer goods distribution industry have many thousands of times more money at stake (~ $ 10 trillion annually) on the outcome of this debate than do the scientists in question.

Even recusing all those with a stake in the outcome in the Climate Wars, there are still hundreds of thousands of scientists at large in America.

Success, for example, might look like: Achieve a good outcome while keeping cost to 10 % of what is at stake in the matter.

We know that your future is at stake and will fight aggressively to get the best possible outcome in your criminal case.

At O'Meara Law, we have a proven track record of achieving positive outcomes in high - stakes cases.

We know that your future is at stake and will aggressively fight to get the best possible outcome in your arson case.

Corcoran offers a more nuanced perspective citing the importance of outside counsel getting to know the business people in certain matters to fully understand what is at stake and the underlying business goals and desired outcome.