Sentences with phrase «do by any precedents»

Over a century ago Thoreau sounded this note from a hut beside Walden Pond: «Man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.»

Not exact matches

They don't work within traditional boundaries or allow themselves to be confined by precedent.

«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.

And because the issue of LLC ownership by IRA has no legal precedent, companies advertising home storage of IRA gold are careful to note that they don't provide legal advice, the Journal writes.

In November 2017, he achieved precedent - setting victories for investors, when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that direct evidence of price impact is not always necessary to demonstrate market efficiency to invoke the presumption of reliance, and that defendants seeking to rebut the presumption of reliance must do so by a preponderance of the evidence rather than merely meeting a burden of production.

TruthPrevails, it does seem that far to many Christians don't realize that one day they may not be in the majority, and that by trying to encode their beliefs into law they are setting a precedent that may be used against them in the future.

Historians have wrangled over whether George Washington established precedent by adding the phrase on his own during his first Inaugural acceptance, but the Library of Congress website states he did.

An interesting perspective... because we can still wonder whether the entire universe is controlled by an alien being who might at any moment do something for which there has been no precedent in all of human memory... we could still see beyond that practically all - powerful being a being that we could rightfully know to be God even to that other being to whom we are at their mercy.

We don't care if you put the cross in there, just don't doom us all by setting a legal precedent.

By the beginning of the nineteenth century... judges were abandoning the notion that they should adhere rigidly to precedent... [The difference] was less in what the courts did than in their understanding of what they properly could do....

We can only change bad legal precedent by forcing the issue, which my proposed tax would do.

Trustee Jeffrey Braiman said he didn't want to set a precedent for public sites — «for example, a park, and any people living by that park saying, «We want a ban.»»

While it is anxious not to set a precedent, and allow Assange to remain a fugitive in London in defiance of a European arrest warrant, it is also bound by the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations — a treaty which (in contrast to the treaty on diplomatic asylum) does enjoy widespread support as a core piece of the legal architecture governing modern diplomacy.

It is partly because of the precedent set by Narc that many do not believe that the Coalition for Reform and Democracy (Cord) will stay together, and that there has been such fevered speculation about when the current pact between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto will crumble.

Importantly, the Court did not overturn existing precedent that some in the camp favoring a limit to gun ownership rights point to as an indication that the militia clause is important, but rather found a way to uphold that precedent by clarifying its interpretation.

The holding in each case was substantively similar as McDonald primarily served to incorporate the 2nd Amendment via the 14th Amendment (since Heller applied to the District of Columbia only which is governed by the federal government directly) to the states and did not really set new gun ownership precedent.

Silver expressed hope that the rent control fight won't go down to the wire the way it has in years past, saying: «We set a precedent here, hopefully, by doing things early.»

But Obama set a very strong precedent of governing by Executive Fiat (far reaching and impactful executive orders - while he doesn't win on their amount, he wins on their impact and scope breadth), which the next President can happily use to do exactly the same thing and more.

However, now that I do, I expect to see that precedent be cited by the people who want Hillary to win the election and nominate Obama to the Supreme Court.

On - topic questions included the timing of the effectiveness of the laws signed today and when ICE will close it's office on Rikers Island, how many people currently on Rikers Island will be covered by these laws, details of Carlos Rodriguez (who was held on Rikers Island for eight months on an ICE detainer) path to this country and his thoughts during his eight month detention, what Mayor de Blasio would like to see the federal government do about immigration and what he will do absent such action, what he would tell Republicans who think his approach is a dangerous precedent, de Blasio and Melissa Mark - Viverito's positions on municipal IDs and voting rights for non-citizens, the number of people arrested on misdemeanors and then subject to ICE detainers and whether persons arrested on felony charges must first go through the justice system before being subject to an ICE detainer.

At the Democratic Party's lunchtime meeting in Tarrytown, Schumer spoke to his hopes for the future, including that he will become Senate majority leader and, in the event the Republican - controlled Senate does not relent in its opposition to an Obama nominee, «our madam president will surely nominate a person for the Supreme Court who is in the legal mainstream (and) will uphold fundamental rights and common sense precedents now so severely under attack by the right - wing.»

Technically it was within its rights to do so, both by convention and precedent, and it duly did.

He did away with the tights worn by Speakers in favour of dark flannel trousers and continued the precedent set by his predecessor as Speaker, Betty Boothroyd, by dispensing with the traditional wig.

Obviously polls like this do pose a risk of any old person pretending to be a party member to skew the results, or getting a very skewed group of activists, but the polls of Conservative party members done by Tim Montgomerie over on ConservativeHome did get their leadership election right, so we do at least have a precedent for a website running polls of party members in this way and getting good results.

The decision implies on page 17 that the precedent set in 1980 by John B. Anderson, who ran in Michigan's presidential primary and also ran as a minor party nominee, doesn't apply because Read more»

It sounds like a little thing, but it makes the film feel like it's made by an amateur — which Beatty is decidedly not — and doesn't seem to have a precedent in the older films it wants to emulate.

Newman's performance is deceptively stoic, his impassivity striking the correct tenor for the time, for his body of work to that point, and for the genre - perverting precedent set by Leone while predicting to a degree the darkness of Sam Peckinpah (as reflected in this exchange between Audra and a bandit she recognizes: «What are you doing here?»

Entertainment Weekly notes that while there's no franchise precedent for the beige helmet, it does bear some resemblance to those worn by Scout Troopers in «Return of the Jedi.»

After a precedent was set by the Supreme Court, federal law doesn't allow student loan debt to be discharged in bankruptcy, although other forms of outstanding debt such as credit cards have the potential for discharge in bankruptcy.

That time Kristine did her job and followed up on questions from the community, while James hasn't, so our expectations are backed by precedent and I'll be very angry at SCEA if next Tuesday comes and we don't get what we were promised.

By starting the story in the 1730s (with a long glance backwards) and continuing into the early career of A.W.N. Pugin, Lindfield makes it plain that Gothic changed and developed through the period he discusses; he does not devote a single chapter to Strawberry Hill, but returns to it at key points in his narrative, tracing how Walpole's Gothic evolved from a repertoire of ornament derived from pattern books to a style based on a study of medieval precedent.

There are precedents for «Austin» — for instance, Donald Judd's sprawling Chinati Foundation complex, which he worked on from 1979 until his death in 1994 to showcase his large - scale artworks and those of his contemporaries in the desert of Marfa, Tex.; Barnett Newman's 14 - part abstract painting cycle from 1958 to 1966 interpreting the stations of the cross; the Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence on the French Riviera, completed in 1951, which was designed by Henri Matisse and displays his work; and Le Corbusier's 1954 Notre - Dame du Haut, a Roman Catholic chapel in eastern France.

This is not to suggest that Chow's work is wholly without precedent, but, rather, that he doesn't seem to be stymied by looking over his shoulder at the immediate past.

But Nothing has been done before, by New York - based artist Mary Ellen Carroll, and the group argues that this precedent ought to be acknowledged.

BS I don't think I was conscious of following in their footsteps at the time, because my education was firmly grounded in precedents set by the diaspora.

Inspired by literary precedents such as automatic writing, by the resourcefulness of the bricoleur making do with what is at hand, and by the openness toward chance that all artistic production under severe constraint must necessarily incorporate, Cabinet's series invites a number of distinguished authors and artists to be incarcerated in its gallery space to complete a project from start to finish within 24 hours.

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The argument is based on precedent: Montreal has effectively done its job by phasing out some 97 percent of ozone eating substances, while simultaneously outperforming the Kyoto Protocol on climate.

Mr Pringle argued that Article 136 (3) TFEU did not respect either of the conditions in Article 48 (6) TEU (in addition to arguing before the national court that by approving the amendment by legislative act rather than a referendum, Ireland violated the Irish Constitution and the famous Crotty precedent).

Even though under exceptional circumstances it may be argued that legal requirements such as the publication in the Official Journal do not have to be met in a specific case, this method of adopting measures should at least have been criticized in order not to create a precedent for future «measures» taken by press release.

But there is no precedent for a non-party appeal by an expert witness — and Egilman does not appear to be so affected by Peterson's ruling that he has standing to appeal it.

The court was concerned that the UK policy set the threshold so high against the applicants from the outset «that it did not allow a balancing of the competing individual and public interests and a proportionality test by the secretary of state or by the domestic courts» because the applicants had to demonstrate as a condition precedent to the application of the policy, that the deprivation of artificial insemination facilities might prevent conception altogether.

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

While no - one wishes to protect inappropriate behaviour by lawyers, doing so through accessing the client's privileged material creates a dangerous precedent.

Stating that administrative decision - makers such as the FOIP Commissioner are entitled to alter precedents or completely depart from an earlier interpretation of legislation — as Justice Manderscheid states here (at para 84)-- was perhaps tenable in a legal system that did not employ a strong presumption of deference to substantive legal findings made by these persons.

Cs made their claim and in doing so, relied upon the commentary in Volume 38 (2) of the Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents that states the inclusion of a «call - in» clause should at least be considered in any case other than: «the very simplest cases such as an application for change of use or for the carrying out of relatively minor building operations where... it is unlikely that the grant of planning permission would be challenged by third parties by way of judicial review....»

Now, lower courts are bound by precedent, even if that precedent was set in the 1700s - indeed there are plenty of judgments where the judge says «I don't agree with agree with it but Lord Farquart said in Some Guy v Some Other Guy [1856]...».

Is STARE DECISIS (precedent) still part of the law in Ontario?The herein issue was dealt with in 2001, by the SCC, in a finding that the Charter does not apply to PRIVATE entities (TWU) and the Charter remains unchanged!The LSUC and lower Courts are bound by this precedent!Furthermore, the LSUC should not have proceeded herein, without specific authorization from a general Referendum and, at least for the sake of appearances, ON THIS ISSUE, the Bench, should have all been from out of Province, having absolutely no connection to the LSUC, as former Members, Benchers, etc..

Finally, although we do not have a justice of precedents, it is a fact that the volume of judicial disputes leads the Judges to create a base of decision criteria and it needs to be very well known by the law office to guarantee maximum performance in the defence of its clients.

The two «Doe» precedents followed by Klehr are precisely the leading cases on the issue of ordering ISP to reveal blogger's identity in the United States (now, you know what people mean by the phrase: «filing a Doe lawsuit.»)