Sentences with phrase «centuries old court»
Our culture has steered most divorces towards the centuries old court process.
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Lear's is a concrete court of 20th - century totalitarianism — a high - Stalinist aesthetic — with the withering old dictator losing his iron grip not only on the regime, but also his senses.
In that case, the State Court of Appeals cited several reasons for invalidating the nearly half century - old provision.
In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.
In the mid 19th century, Effie Gray (Dakota Fanning) has been courted by noted art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise) since she was only 12 years old, and he has waited for her to come of age to marry her.
For example, it fails to consider Hunter v. Pittsburgh, the century - old U.S. Supreme Court ruling that essentially renders districts (as well as other local governments) as subservient to state government, essentially making the very concept of local control a fiction.
A Canadian woman is to appear in court on Christmas Eve for posing as a witch in order to defraud a grieving Toronto lawyer in a case that invokes a century - old law, police said Thursday.
The defense, such as it is, boils down to this: As officers of the court, all defense lawyers are really on the government's side, having sworn an oath to uphold a vast, century - old conspiracy to conceal the fact that most aspects of the federal government are illegitimate, including the courts, which have no constitutional authority to bring people to trial.
Perhaps other religious authorities might take note and in future consider referring their centuries - old, persistent and difficult ecclesiastical disputes to the British Columbia Supreme Court for resolution.