Sentences with phrase «by precedent in»

Jones cited an ESPN Radio interview that Birch gave, saying «we are bound in large part by precedent in prior cases, decisions that have been heard on appeal in the past, and notions of fairness and appropriateness.»

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It may set a precedent in other British lawsuits as well — for example four messenger companies are currently being sued by bicycle messengers who claim they should have employee status.

Wheeler's decision also flies in the face of a legal precedent set by the Supreme Court in 2005, notes Downes.

«A ruling by a single judge in one circuit can not and does not undo the years of clear legal precedent nationwide establishing that transgender students have the right to go to school without being singled out for discrimination,» said a statement from five groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that have filed «friend of the court» briefs on behalf of transgender students.

There was plenty of precedent for this, as Helmut Kohl had paid one Deutschmark for every worthless East German Ostmark at reunification, and it caused a serious inflationary burden in the Federal Republic, though it was generally assimilated by the force and the executive and engineering quality of the German manufacturing industries.

When asked about the SaaS sector in the country and the startup scenario, from a fundraising viewpoint, Subramanian stated that ventures like Freshworks (backed by Google Ventures) and BrowserStack (Secured $ 50 Million from Accel) have set precedents in terms of raising the bar for fundraising in India.

As Businessweek writes, «Tech giants and other corporations that have grown by serial acquisition fear the Actelion precedent could expose them — at least in California — to open - ended liability over licensing disputes involving the smaller new - technology companies they are wont to gobble up like so many cocktail nuts.»

«Even though public universities are not affected by the endowment tax, they are very much opposed to it, for fear it would set a precedent that would be applied to them in the future,» Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education told NPR in December.

A lawyer for ride service Uber, which has been sued by drivers who contend they should be considered employees and are seeking class action status, said it would be preferable to have a trial just on the three drivers who filed the complaint in order to avoid setting a risky precedent.

A gas strike made by the Department of Minerals and Energy in the Officer Basin in WA has set a precedent — it is the first recorded occurrence of gas in that area.

The cultivation of team - approaches popular in the mid-2000s for every type of activity owes much to the precedent set by quality circles.

By being an empathetic leader, Mark set the precedent in his business for his standard of customer service.

WASHINGTON — Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

Tech giants and other corporations that have grown by serial acquisition fear the Actelion precedent could expose them — at least in California — to open - ended liability over licensing disputes involving the smaller new - technology companies they are wont to gobble up like so many cocktail nuts.

For a province that relies on free, unfettered trade of resources, measures such as this set a precedent as bad or worse as those set by BC Premier John Horgan's intention to regulate bitumen shipments in BC.

From a historical standpoint, however, when the equity market has joined persistent overvalued, overbought, overbullish extremes with deteriorating market internals, with a cherry on top featuring two - tiered speculation in glamour stocks and heavy new issuance of stock by companies that predominantly have no earnings, we find it difficult to find any precedent that hasn't worked out quite badly.

In making its decision to disallow MLPs from collecting an income tax allowance (essentially, for assumed taxes paid by the underlying MLP holders), the FERC reversed a multi-decade precedent.

Assuming — hoping — that yesterday's Boston Marathon bombing is not followed by a string of similar attacks, the most apt precedent might be the July 7, 2005, blasts in London, when three trains and a bus were targeted, 52 victims were killed and 700 were injured.

In November 2017, he achieved precedent - setting victories for investors, when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that direct evidence of price impact is not always necessary to demonstrate market efficiency to invoke the presumption of reliance, and that defendants seeking to rebut the presumption of reliance must do so by a preponderance of the evidence rather than merely meeting a burden of production.

And the rate of fund - raising by Uber — and across the start - up landscape — has little precedent, driven by money pouring in from hedge funds, strategic investors and more, and by the willingness of entrepreneurs to embrace the cash.

I'll tell you why: It's because these groups are religious and they want to violate the Constltution and try to set a legal precedent by which they can continue their illegal activities in other public areas.

The precedent for blending a scholarly reading of Tocqueville with personal narrative was set by Poulos's graduate school mentor, Joshua Mitchell, in his Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in a Democratic Age (2013).

Central to this Court - led revolution is the idea that the Constitution is in a state of more or less perpetual evolution, whence it follows that judges need not be bound by the precise words of the document, or by prior precedent, or by settled historical meaning.

Judge Rothstein conveniently ignored the fact that virtually all states forbade assisted suicide, either by express statute or well - settled common law precedent» which fact the Supreme Court noted without reservation in the one case it has heard dealing, albeit peripherally, with a so - called «right to die.»

Faith that the sun will rise is more of a resonable expectation than a belief despite evidence — there is a precedent set based on long observation by not only the person making the belief statement, but also by everybody else in the world (except maybe the Inuit).

There are no precedents by which to discern its meaning, hence the readiness of some Christians to apply the ancient words of the prophets to events in our time.

TruthPrevails, it does seem that far to many Christians don't realize that one day they may not be in the majority, and that by trying to encode their beliefs into law they are setting a precedent that may be used against them in the future.

There is good precedent for this approach in the magnificent editorials which Fr Edward Holloway wrote for Faith in the nineteen seventies and eighties, some of which have now been republished by Family Publications.

Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the consti.tution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance.

Grounded heavily in the precedent set by the US Supreme Court's significant Hosanna - Tabor decision in 2012, the verdict maintains that IVCF could legally fire an employee headed for divorce.

An interesting perspective... because we can still wonder whether the entire universe is controlled by an alien being who might at any moment do something for which there has been no precedent in all of human memory... we could still see beyond that practically all - powerful being a being that we could rightfully know to be God even to that other being to whom we are at their mercy.

17 ff., clearly had pointed significance in Israel after the establishment of Jerusalem as the capital by David and the building of Solomon's temple (Salem, v. 18, = Jerusalem; Melchizedek is not only king, but «priest of the God most high» to whom Abraham gives «a tenth of everything») The later Temple tax (tithe = tenth) is here given ultimate precedent and example in Abraham.

It must in fairness be noted that there is ample historical precedent of holy men and women who were unjustly treated by church authorities.

In fact, there is venerable precedent for a role by the laity in the selection of bishopIn fact, there is venerable precedent for a role by the laity in the selection of bishopin the selection of bishops.

Informations without the accuser's name subscribed must not be admitted in evidence against anyone, as it is introducing a very dangerous precedent, and by no means agreeable to the spirit of the age.»

We don't care if you put the cross in there, just don't doom us all by setting a legal precedent.

However, the Church's theological discourse can not be so intimately bound to any one scientific theory, as «the final way» to explain something, that it becomes difficult to separate itself from such a theory, either because a theological doctrine itself can no longer be explained without it (which it can) or because a scientific theory has been superseded by a more coherent scientific theory (better able to explain reality) as is the nature of progress in science.There is a precedent for this in the Galileo controversy from the 1600s.

It turned out that the decision was not so much rooted in the Constitution as in the doctrine of precedent and» ironies begin to pile up at this point» in the Justices» perception that a contrary decision would undermine the Court's legitimacy by making it appear to be an institution influenced by politics.

In attempting thus to establish analogy, of course, Hartshorne follows a precedent long since set by classical metaphysics and theology.

«Occam, and following him Biel, thought out the idea, without precedent in tradition, that justification, properly speaking, consists only in the acceptance of man by God, and that this acceptance in itself is independent of any change in the person justified... that God could also «justify» the sinner and leave him in his sin.»

She writes that the website and video produced by the official committee in charge of the inauguration say George Washington set a precedent by saying «So help me God.»

It was no easy business then, any more than it is today, and the parallels between the attempts by various regimes, both reactionary and liberal, to get control of the Catholic Church suggest that today's battles for religious freedom in full are not without their 19th - century precedents.

but it is only because of the precedents set by other men of God that have been reported by the press that you would even be lumped in with such poor excuses for human beings.

I think the words spoken directly by God, take precedent in these matters.

(See H. V. Williams Jackson: «Ahriman» in Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, edited by James Hastings) The problem of evil was thus carried back to a precedent, continuous conflict in the cosmos, with God and his attendant hosts of angels contending against the prince of darkness and his devils.

Christian theology thus retains its priority over the evidences of natural religion, which are simply incorporated into the old scheme with a minimal adjustment — an adjustment, by the way, that was not without precedent in the theology of the Reformation era.

Each of these has biblical precedents and each has been advocated by some of the leading thinkers in the tradition.

The leaders of the second school, whom Cantor acidly labels «the Nazi twins,» Percy Ernst Schramm and Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz, were wildly different from Maitland; inspired by the «disturbed ambience» of interwar Germany, they looked backward to Germany in the Middle Ages for heroic precedents.

He himself, although chosen by an assembly in Germany at the instance of Henry III, refused to assume the functions and title of Pope until after he had entered Rome garbed as a humble pilgrim, his election was confirmed, according to long - established precedent, by the people and clergy of the city.

By the beginning of the nineteenth century... judges were abandoning the notion that they should adhere rigidly to precedent... [The difference] was less in what the courts did than in their understanding of what they properly could do....