Sentences with phrase «clear precedent for»

The clear precedent for Franco's project is Tim «Speaking of Bad Movies» Burton's Ed Wood (1994), about the cheapo 1950s cult filmmaker Ed Wood (played by Johnny Depp), whose ingenious sense of trash was a source of inspiration for Burton himself.

Those iconic words, heard in each episode of The Adventures Of Superman, established a clear precedent for the superhero genre.

The solution isn't visible as of yet, but there is a clear precedent for the format to change.

Not exact matches

«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.

According to Carlyle documents filed with the SEC, the proposed IPO «involves complex provisions of U.S. federal income tax for which no clear precedent or authority may be available.»

New initiatives like nation - wide delivery are a clear source of execution risk, but precedents are in place for investors to be optimistic.

Using history as a guide, all - out trade wars prove to be devastating and this recent shift is a clear departure from trade policy that has held precedent for over 80 years.

Since 1972, the year after Lemon, the Supreme Court has rejected every claim by an individual to a free - exercise exemption, with the sole exception of claims for unemployment compensation, which are controlled by clear precedent dating back to 1963.

Last week, insurers including Aetna Inc questioned the precedent set by Obama's plan that would force them to pay for coverage with no clear way of recouping the expense.

Its signals will not be picked up by a receiver wired only to accommodate that for which there are clear precedents.

Competition policy (SME focus; need for equity; treat SMEs as «consumers» when dealing with larger businesses - extend unfair terms contracts to small business; need «legal precedents or statutory definitions» as part of unconscionable conduct framework); competition laws (focus on unfair terms and unconscionable behaviour; mention of MMP but not in context of s 46; access - call for broader access; price signalling (not clear)-RRB-; administration

Although it is not entirely clear how this will work in Scotland, there is precedent for including such incentives in migration policy, particularly in Canada.

U.S. Senate Republicans deployed the so - called «nuclear option» and changed longstanding rules to clear the way for the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the Supreme Court, bypassing a precedent - breaking Democratic filibuster by allowing the nomination to go forward on a simple majority vote.

From a later but still pre-Enlightenment era, the English common law notion of precedent, developed by such as Edward Coke (1552 — 1634), is a clear influence on self - conscious conservatism (Pocock 1989) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conservatism/ One could add Taoism (Lao Tzu) to the list above for similar reasons.

Those legal precedents cleared the way for private school choice programs that didn't single out particular religious groups.

That is obviously a fairly ridiculous example for the purposes of illustrating where industry watchers already fear this precedent could lead, but what is clear is that the tax structure surrounding the entire book industry has been called into question in Europe for some time, largely with the advent of corporations like Amazon having one set of rules, and local booksellers being subjected to another.

The forex market doesn't have any clear rules or precedent on how it will behave and this creates a good opportunity for those who are skilled in analyzing the market to score a profit.

I think the precedent today for»em erging» artists is far less clear and far more blurry, ambiguous and harder to define.

Whether it is through the oblique nature of our informational channels which function as echo chambers reminiscent of the earliest ways Nationalism spread through print media or the conflation of meaning with sacrifice, it is clear that there are precedents for how Nationalism as a construct has led to and sustained cycles of violence.

Precedent H is an inadequate document for showing incurred and forecast costs and the Notes for Guidance are not clear (and are occasionally contradictory), while the parallel existence of «assumptions» and «contingencies» is causing confusion.

Despite the exercise in direct democracy, the answer of whether the United Kingdom must now withdraw is not clear from the country's constitution because there is no precedent for the withdrawal from a multilateral treaty regime which creates directly effective legal rights for citizens.

The highly practical features of the book include its step - by - step structure, the clear examples of rules, tactical insights, useful precedents, templates for drafting key documents and essential forms.

By the terms of the lease I'm responsible for the utility, this much is clear to me, but I'm more curious how this would likely play out in court if I wanted to push the issue given the landlord has assumed responsibility and there's a five year precedent for such.

Would it leave the company open to legal challenge, or is there clear grammatical precedent for interpreting such a clause?

«It gives a whole new meaning to the consequences of not having a safe and healthy work environment because the court is sending a very clear message that employers can be held criminally responsible for the actions of mid-level managers, and that's a pretty significant precedent,» she tells Legal Feeds.

In so holding the Court stated that Alberta precedent is clear on the fact that lack of financial motivation does not, alone, mean that trafficking is not «commercial» where it is clear from the sheer quantity of drugs that its ultimate purpose is to be distributed for sale (at para 15, citing R v Marshall, 2012 ABCA 160 (CanLII) at paras 8 - 9).

Therefore the property characteristics of what in this precedent is called «E-material» are not altogether clear and, where the computer or device is used for business, are likely to be mixed.

Others were open to the idea, but think this assertion creates a mixed context for discussion, because, from an academic perspective, it may not be clear which businesses are best suited for the use of a blockchain, a technology created by bitcoin and with little past precedent.

Now there has been this change, without any clear reason or any precedent for the change.