Sentences with phrase «defense against the facts»

Not exact matches

In fact, in December 2017 a Virginia district court judge ruled against a female plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation against defense contractor BAE Systems, in part, because she «did not take advantage of BAE's harassment reporting procedures of which she was well aware.»

It is their defense against constantly confronting the fact of their own deeper misery, a valiant and — thank goodness — sometimes successful effort to deny and hide from the inescapable tragedy of their own lives.

The fact that Lewis had fortified such a rigid defense against Christianity before his conversion makes everything he wrote that much more powerful.

Because no matter how many times you have been presented with facts on top of facts, you can't fathom a world where the defense did enough to win the game against PIT on Sunday.

Opponent - adjusted numbers are unstable just five weeks in, but the fact that Iowa State had a little bit of success against Baylor's defense and moved from 88th in Off.

I thought (and I am still trying to understand) that Walcott can't be prolific in front of deep defense but the game against Stoke proved the fact that is exactly this lack of comfort defense have when playing against him is what is needed.

An opening night road game against a physical opponent is likely to be more frustrating than fun, and the fact that TCU won (while its retooled defense held Minnesota's retooled offense to 4.6 yards per play) is good enough.

We are in a great run of form and have a strong team but breaking Chelsea's defense is no easy task given the fact of our lack of ability to score against tight defenses.

Despite one of the largest spreads of the week, the betting public remains overwhelmingly confident in Houston covering against the 2 - 8 Green Wave, mostly due to the fact that the Houston offense looks unstoppable and Tulane ranks near the bottom in points allowed and overall defense.

Percoco's defense against the federal bribery charges — that one has to be a state employee in name, if not in fact, in order to act as a public official — troubles good government groups.

But Mr. Silver's defense attorney Steven Molo said the government simply disapproved of the entirely legal fact that Mr. Silver and other state lawmakers can hold outside employment and, instead of trying to change such laws — which he said will present «inherent conflicts of interest» — the government was «leveling false criminal charges against one of the senior legislative officers, senior government officials in this state.»

In fact, evidence is clear that they are, in fact, helpful and important, particularly as a defense against kidney stones (by absorbing excess calcium), lowering cholesterol, (2) as an antioxidant, (3) and even protecting against cancer.

In fact, ongoing research has implicated the gut microbiota in all sorts of health - related processes like nutrient uptake, defense against pathogens, production of neurotransmitters, immunomodulation, and intestinal barrier function.

In fact, I would be surprised if Apple or Amazon didn't drop their royalty rate to 25 % or even 20 % in the next year or two — if only to combine a market - share grab with a well - timed and plausible defense against further federal scrutiny.)

Amid all the internet clamor over the lowest rate credit cards, zero interest transfers, and of course, rewards points, it's often easy to forget the fact that good, old fashioned cash is your best defense against identity theft.

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«I was on my cell phone,» is not a valid legal defense for drivers, and in fact, only contributes to their negligence against an innocent pedestrian.

If the damage was due to the suit, then the salient fact is true, which is a defense against the lawsuit.

In theory, there might be other isolated circumstances where self - defense against a police officer is legal, but they involve fact patterns so quirky that they would almost never happen in real life, or would almost never be possible to prove in a manner that the courts would believe.

We use our past experiences and legal expertise to craft custom defenses that highlight (1) facts that are favorable to your defense, and (2) facts that poke holes in the prosecution's case against you.

It's a process of finding the elements of each claim and defense, and testing them against available facts and evidence.

The referring court essentially asked whether the fact that a defense of invalidity of a patent has been raised in interim proceedings for a cross-border prohibition against infringement, is sufficient, and, if so, under what formal or procedural conditions, for Article 22 (4) to become applicable (questions 2 and 3).

After years - long discovery in a defense of a False Claims Act action brought against a large healthcare company, including personally taking and defending more than twenty depositions of fact and expert witnesses, successfully excluded testimony of plaintiff / relator's experts and obtained complete summary judgment on all False Claims Act claims.

In fact, the strongest defense against a defamation claim is if the statement in question is actually true.

Therefore the fact that a document is negotiable insulates the accepting party from the primary party's (the original writer or issuer of the document) attempt to assert any legal defense against any transferee.

Insurance companies understand that hiring defense attorneys and going through trial can be a very expensive proposition, particularly when the facts are against them.

When an individual has been accused of a violent crime against his or her partner, whether male or female, representation by counsel from a criminal defense firm can help assure a fair and complete assessment of the facts.

In fact, many people now see civil court decisions as having momentous implications, acting as the last line of defense against a possibly law - breaking President and a Congress that refuses to perform its «checks and balances» function.

As an accomplished and experienced criminal defense attorney in Fresno, he knows how to assemble a solid defense against allegations and present the facts of your case in a way that may make it possible to get your charges reduced or even dismissed.

It will be a matter for a trier of fact, a jury or a judge, to determine if the use of force was reasonable and if, therefore, the level of force used was justifiable as an affirmative defense against the charge of murder.

Would someone be able to come into court and use the fact that the defendant was within the «warn limit» to support a negligence per se action, when the defendant never had the opportunity to mount a defense against this non-crime?

Fair comment is a defense against defamation claims where the statement at issue is an expression of opinion, reasonably based on (preferably disclosed or well - known) true facts, which is on a matter of public concern, and which is the honest opinion of the speaker which was not made specifically to cause harm.

But would the fact that this is «in line» with other scuttlebutt make it «fair comment,» thereby providing a defense against «defamation?»