Sentences with phrase «contending parties»

But something happened on the way to the chancery - something more than just the back - and - forth struggles between contending parties arguing and appealing and re-arguing.

As the Obama Presidency comes to an end, with a departing President finally placing great emphasis on US leadership over addressing climate change, the current Presidential campaign takes on considerable significance as to the views and lobby backing of the two contending party nominees.

The specious virtue, which, as we have seen, could rightly be claimed by all contending parties, was mixed up with the basest vices of our nature: greed, spite, envy, cowardice, treachery, brutality, and the rest.

The two contending parties — the traditionalists and rationalists — concentrated on one set of attributes to the comparative neglect of the other.

The interest was primarily political, but the contending parties gave their views a religious coloring, and there was much persecution and bloodshed in the name of religion.

But he distances himself from the kind of relativism that draws the further mistaken conclusion that, in the absence of modes of reasoning that can resolve conflicts in principle, the contending parties must alter their own modes of justification and reject all substantive conceptions of truth.

Methodological disputes have flourished, but no consensus has yet emerged from among the contending parties.

When an agreement was reached the two contending parties would clasp hands and swear in the name of the Lord that they would be true to their word, that they would abide by their contract.

I expect the Norwich North by - election could be rather bizarre under FPTP and excessively dominated by tactical claims between 3 or 4 contending parties.

This year's election is seen as an extremely critical one, particularly coming on the back of the 2012 election which was fraught with controversies, and for an unprecedented turn of event, took the tactful intervention of the country's highest court - the Supreme Court, with a verdict that all contending parties were satisfied with.

The ex-Nigerian leader urged the contending parties to embrace compromise and negotiations as a way out of the current challenge.

«Is a re-run of the election between the contending parties the only permissible remedy in an election petition or may the court order drastic remedies like a re-count or a re-vote in the constituency?

In the case of Attorney General v. Pearson, cited before, the proposition is laid down by Lord Eldon and sustained by the peers that it is the duty of the court in such cases to inquire and decide for itself not only what was the nature and power of these church judicatories, but what is the true standard of faith in the church organization and which of the contending parties before the court holds to this standard.