Sentences with phrase «by narrowing the issues»

Furthermore, preliminary inquiries can save a lot of time down the road by narrowing issues, shortening trials and sometimes even eliminating the need for trials.

Bill's clients value this approach because it allows for efficient trial preparation by narrowing the issues in dispute, reducing the scope and cost of discovery, and reducing the risks at trial.

Not exact matches

But cross-country differences in equity returns declined to pre-crisis levels while the range of yields on debt securities issued by banks and by non-financial corporations also narrowed, suggesting that there is some integration at least in prices of financial instruments.

Coming of Age in the Asian Century: The Need for a National Conversation By Sarah Eaton, Post ‐ Graduate Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Political pundits tell us this federal election will be fought not over big ideas but along a narrow set of economic wedge issues.

Market breadth was slightly negative, as declining issues outnumbered advancers by a narrow margin on the NYSE.

Former communications director Hope Hicks, one of Trump's closest advisers, was not interviewed by Mueller's team until December 2017; son - in - law Jared Kushner has been interviewed only on one narrow issue: his meeting with a Russian ambassador during the transition.

Although Commerce normally investigates and applies punitive duties on narrow categories of products from specific locations, at public hearings conducted by Commerce in May, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross articulated the issue in sweeping terms.

His merit is to avoid narrow concepts and to refrain from making the antagonisms under which he himself had to suffer by the center of his theology.22 Looking at his dealing with ecological issues it becomes clear that Boff is not fixed on his context but willing to take up issues from outside and translate them into his context.

Each of these matters was decided by margins that might be comfortable in politics but were disturbingly narrow when matters of the church's faith and order were at issue.

If the later legislation thus modifies and narrows the covenant faith, at the same time and for the same reasons it adds to the concept a new dimension and suggests again that legalism's silence on social issues is by no means indifference but rather a sober and deeply concerned pessimism.

In the least, they will more likely tend to focus on narrow issues critical to their view of the world as colored by their evangelical faith, rather than logically solving the problems that need to be solved.

However, some double side by side strollers have issues with manoeuvrability and their larger size can be a hindrance for getting through narrow passages.

The Family Court Review Special Issue edited by McIntosh provided a misleadingly narrow view of attachment theory and of previous attempts to explore the implications of that theory and related research for family court professionals.

GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino was on Staten Island today (one of two NYC boroughs he actually likes) hoping to woo voters by coming down on the right side of a long - standing local issue: The Verrazano - Narrows Bridge.

Indeed, can't I equally argue that Neal Lawson risks narrowing his coalition of support for electoral reform by suggesting that the existence of a national campaign on PR means postponing or vetoing any consideration of party reform issues on their merits (where he seems to argue that the principle would be one he would support, were it not for this context)?

The group won approval of a statewide initiative amendment in a state constitutional convention in 1986, but voters, probably not comprehending its meaning due to a lack of publicity on the issue, rejected it by a narrow margin.

But New York has a long history of minor parties pushing narrow issues or ideologies, then achieving disproportionate influence by pledging their ballot lines to major - party pols — in return for future considerations.

If the Conservatives look like getting 305 seats at the next General Election but could get an extra 20 - 30 seats by forming a short - term narrow pact with Ukip, and if Ukip believe they can force Miliband to promise an in - out referendum by forming a short - term narrow pact with the Conservatives, we should not allow personality issues to prevent us from doing the deal.

By continuing to focus on these niche issues, Labour and the Tories continue to give the impression that they are only concerned with topics which affect their own narrow party interest.

On other issues, Clegg found an ally in then Foreign Secretary William Hague during «behind - the - scenes debates about Israel and Palestine or the Middle East or China, where [Clegg] would customarily push for a harder line than the narrow realpolitik espoused by Osborne» (202), a poorly drafted sentence that makes it unclear whether Clegg's dispute with Osborne ranged over all these issues or solely China.

Saying issues like crime, education and affordable housing drove them to the polls Tuesday, Queens residents helped to re-elect Helen Marshall as borough president and Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the city's highest office by a narrow, while sending John Liu (D - Flushing) to the comptroller's office as the first Asian American to win a citywide office.

This strategy was intended to help narrow the complex NCD issue by focusing on four diseases: diabetes, CVD, respiratory disease, and cancer, and four risk factors: tobacco, physical inactivity, alcohol, and diet.

Many guys have narrow shoulders and chest by nature and they want to fix this issue.

Yes, you may have «sleep - disordered breathing» due to some issue that affects your airway by making it narrow or occlude when your body attempts the deeper phases of sleep.

We are committed to helping Issue singles discover love every day by narrowing the field from thousands of singles to a select group of compatible matches.

• Commitment to federal laws established by Supreme Court rulings: OCR's current reading of its authority under Title IX goes beyond the narrow interpretation adopted by the Supreme Court in two decisions that addressed the sexual harassment issue, even explicitly rejecting the rulings in guidelines issued under the Clinton administration.

Unionized collective bargaining might also have addressed those issues, but it would have been done mostly behind closed doors and would have been accompanied by provisions to protect the narrow interests of the unions at the expense of the public interest.

Certainly issues that have to do with poor parenting can not be fully addressed by schools; but they address the illiteracy and other learning issues that are often culprits for kids going off the straight and narrow.

But the new guidance issued by the Department for Education in England clarified that there would be no need to give non-religious beliefs «equal air time» in lessons, saying the court defeat had been on a «narrow, technical point».

In CEQ's NEPA regulations, «' tiering» refers to the coverage of general matters in broader environmental impacts statements... with subsequent narrower statements or environmental analyses... incorporating by reference the general discussions and concentrating solely on the issues specific to the statement subsequently prepared» (40 CFR 1508.28).

A continuously variable transmission can also avoid the issues of a narrow power band by keeping the engine running at an optimal speed.

O'Brien's article took a much narrower view of the issues facing publishing by focusing on a single e-reader and comparing it to the traditional book publishing market:

Apps like PDF - reader GoodReader avoid the landscape issue by keeping the reading area narrower even when more real estate could conceivably be devoted to the text.

When you get a topic for your term paper (either you choose it by yourself or your tutor provides you with it), you should make your mind on a narrower issue that you want to study.

Sort offers by rewards, features, issuing bank and more; so you can narrow down your choices, and find most favorable conditions to repay your balance; then apply immediately through our direct secure connection.

The big picture: by identifying what rewards currency you want to concentrate on earning you can easily narrow in on the cards that issue your selected currency.

Elsewhere, Electronic Arts has bypassed the issue by setting its Battlefront: X-Wing VR mission in the cockpit of a spacecraft, while Ubisoft (which has invested heavily and relatively early in VR experimentation) has discovered that narrowing the player's field of vision in its interesting sim Eagle Flight reduces instances of nausea.

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In a 1998 book, edited by Bill Nordhaus (Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change), Dick Schmalensee wrote about «Greenhouse Policy Architectures and Institutions,» and lamented that the Kyoto Protocol exhibited narrow scope (covering only the Annex I countries) but aggressive ambition for that small set of nations.

Next, BOEM will issue an area identification, which will further narrow in on which areas may be able to be leased, followed by the publication of a draft Environmental Assessment.

The reason these would be helpful is that not only would they narrow the debate, but the necessary combination of confrontation and co-operation is a very good way for both parties to test and refine their own opinions as well as understanding the issues raised by the other Expert.

On the narrow issues of the «effective equivalence» of the two methods and whether the alternate was «tested in the paper»: in general terms, the two methods are clearly not «effectively equivalent», though this doesn't exclude the possibility that, by coincidence, they yielded similar results in a particular case, but this would have to be demonstrated.

Th: It's a common error by narrow minded biased social media jockeys who lack the verbal intelligence to comprehend complex interconnected issues.

For example, when the Apple / Samsung global patent litigation disputes started a few years ago, some commentators attributed the parties» decision not to litigate in Canada to inter alia, our lengthy discovery process and our apparent reluctance to narrow the issues early on (for example by providing claim charts (for both validity and infringement) at a preliminary stage).

Legal Action Group (LAG) welcomes the increased pressure on the government regarding this issue, but we are warning that action needs to be taken urgently, as civil legal aid is becoming a narrow collection of specialisms dominated by child protection, with shrinking provision for the type of early advice services needed by the general public.

Justice Nordheimer first narrowed the information at issue to information provided by the interveners through the «proffer process» of the Immunity and Leniency Programs.

In a decision issued on October 24, 2010, a panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal came down firmly on the side of the narrow view espoused by the House of Lords.

Finally, my purpose in taking issue with Cassese's position in Erdemović was not to condone the consultation of a narrow range of domestic legal systems or types of systems, but rather to condone the decision made by other judges to examine rather than ignore information on guilty pleas that had been amassed in a range of places over a long period of time.

It first narrowed the multiple questions referred by the Irish and Austrian courts down to one over-arching issue, whether the Data Retention Directive is valid in light of Articles 7, 8 and 11 of the Charter (setting out the rights to privacy, data protection and freedom of expression respectively).

In a recent case called Regnier v. Regnier, the court considered a narrow issue: whether a wife's decision during the marriage to go back to school automatically meant that the husband suffered financial disadvantage, for which he should be compensated by way of spousal support....