Sentences with phrase «facts than the law»

This is important because the court knows that in many cases, both parties won't have legal advice, so most small claims matters are decided more on the facts than the law.

They are usually more concerned with the facts than the law.

Not exact matches

There are more than 10,000 tax jurisdictions in the U.S., and that's not even addressing the fact that many tax laws are in constant flux.

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, Attorney General Sessions said that marijuana sale and use is still against federal law and said he does not think that cannabis is something that should be legalized, despite the fact that more than half of all states have some form of a regulated market already in place and the majority of Americans agree that marijuana prohibition should end.

This should be a no - brainer, and has in fact been the law in Canada for more than 60 years.

«Employers have to be careful because the law recognizes an employer - employee relationship is a different one, and the very fact that an employer creates a livelihood for an individual can give the employer more sway than other sources of information.»

In fact, one study from Stanford University that considered whether more guns save lives discovered that states with more relaxed gun laws had higher rates of gun violence than states with strict regulations.

This discussion also does not consider any specific facts or circumstances that may be relevant to holders subject to special rules under the U.S. federal income tax laws, including, without limitation, certain former citizens or long - term residents of the United States, partnerships or other pass - through entities, real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies, «controlled foreign corporations,» «passive foreign investment companies,» corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax, banks, financial institutions, investment funds, insurance companies, brokers, dealers or traders in securities, commodities or currencies, tax - exempt organizations, tax - qualified retirement plans, persons subject to the alternative minimum tax, persons that own, or have owned, actually or constructively, more than 5 % of our common stock and persons holding our common stock as part of a hedging or conversion transaction or straddle, or a constructive sale, or other risk reduction strategy.

In fact, many companies are making loans at higher costs than before the law passed under the Ohio Small Loan Act, Credit Service Organization Act, and Mortgage Loan Act.

In fact religious laws and rules are no different than kid's tree house ones.

Indeed, the claim that one can apply the law to the facts is seen as nothing more than a cover for judicial lawmaking.

In fact in Latin America, a region with highly restrictive abortion laws, one in three pregnancies (32 %) ended in abortion in 2010 — 2014, higher than any other region.

Fact is Islam usually is prevalent in illiterate countries that are over populated and have higher intolerance of opinions (e.g. Saudi Arabia and Iran) than in the western traditional democratic nations with christianity as our back bone to our laws and governess.

Rather than postulate a supreme being, one could suggest that a particular universe with OUR set of physical laws might in fact allow itself to become conscious, by making it possible for biologic beings to develop and allowing it ALL over our particular Universe.

Through a series of brief questions at the end of his book, Sigmund invites liberation theologians to seek ways of fusing capitalist market «efficiency» with the «preferential love for the poor,» to consider how private property is not always oppression but may in fact free people from it, to develop liberalism's ideal of «equal treatment under the law,» to nurture the «fragile new democracies» in Latin America, and, finally, to develop «a spirituality of socially concerned democracy, whether capitalist or socialist in its economic form,» rather than «denouncing dependency, imperialism, and capitalist exploitation.»

It could not then easily be foreseen that within two short decades human progress, in fact our very physical health or survival, would seem to depend more than ever on a return to laws set by the ever - living God.

The fact that you define this as a tragedy rather than emphasize the criminal aspects of the circumstances convinces me that you come from a place of grace, not law.

The mere fact that this law is applicable also to Jams, Buddhists and Sikhs clearly shows that from the beginning it should have been called Civil Code rather than Hindu Code» He adds, that it is not based on any Hindu Scriptures but on «modern concepts and progressive values and is applicable to all citizens irrespective of religion».

Its peculiarity consists in the fact that as a law it commands the spirit of love which must be something more than obedience to law.

This means that humanists should incorporate all kinds of species into their «moral sphere», says Law, and in fact most humanists are more than prepared to do that.

I think this could be the basis of a reworking of penal substitution based upon legal fact (Jesus broke the letter of the law), rather than legal fiction.

In an interview with Il Foglio Cardinal Scola, Patriarch of Venice and founder of the Oasis cultural centre for understanding between Catholics and Muslims, said that the Open Letter to the Pope and other Christian leaders by 138 scholars from various Islamic traditions was «not only a media event, because consensus is for Islam a source of theology and law... The fact that the text is rooted in Muslim tradition is very important and makes it more credible than other proclamations expressed in more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteem.

The inequality of laws concerning punishment of suspicion of adultery, the pervasiveness of polygamy, the fact that women were viewed as property, the lesser value ascribed to baby girls, and the suggestion that women are more easily deceived than men are all striking problems for modern readers... and as Christians we should not underestimate the impact they may have on unbelieving seekers.

On the other hand, God must so act in the interests of both the self and all others as thereby to establish the cosmic order of natural law that sets the optimal limits of all other action, where by «optimal limits» I mean limits such that, were they to be set otherwise than they are, the ratio between opportunities for good and risks of evil would be less rather than more favorable than it in fact is.

If any religion is in fact more universal than Christ's in love, truth, and law, I will join it.

Such was Paul's dynamic theology, and Erasmus had failed, so Luther judged, to understand on the one hand the relative dignity and goodness of the Law, on its own merits, and on the other the fact that in any case to keep it was useless, and indeed largely impossible for most men without Christ: «Fulfilment without faith in Christ, even if it creates men like Fabricius, Regulus and others [heroes of Roman history] who are wholly irreproachable in the sight of men — no more resembles righteousness than sorb apples resemble figs.»

What we are being provided with is a general caricature of this social class which is a statistical fact rather than an inviolable law On the whole the actions of this class exemplify modes of behavior determined by their social environment.

The conclusion that an innocuous disclaimer constitutes an establishment of religion needs more basis in law than a passing reference to unspecified «facts and circumstances of this case.»

Fact # 3, less than 15 % of the nation should have been impacted by the law at all (assuming full participation in Medicare expansion), because subsides would have offset costs.

And while it's undeniable that compliance with these protections has been problematic, the very fact that the laws exist gives breastfeeding moms in the workforce more power than they had before.

It is also a fact that most mother in laws are more than willing to help look after our babies.

In fact, on more than one occasion the in - laws stayed in their home when visiting from out of town.

Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said he's still getting up to speed on the facts, but the payment to Stormy Daniels did not require him to have a full accounting of the details, saying: «I am focused on the law more than the facts right now... The whole situation of the $ 130,000 doesn't require an analysis of the facts because it wasn't intended as a campaign contribution.»

An optimal size for a country as large as the United States would be approximately 700 delegates, and I would choose them by a more - or-less random lottery, counting on the laws of statistics to generate what would in fact be a more «representative sample» of the public than any election would produce.

He added that in realization of the fact that nothing can be more important in law enforcement than educating the people in charge of enforcing the law, the rebranded Neighbourhood Corps have been trained and equipped with the requisite knowledge and skills to complement the good work of the Nigerian Police.

The fact is that the European Union issue is more important than any of that, because it's about the decision of whether you want your laws made in Brussels and that march towards ever - closer union, or whether you want our country to make its own laws, our politicians to make the laws in this country, for us to be able to determine our immigration policy, to decide how we're spending our public money.

It is, therefore wrong for anyone to claim that some of the incidents are motivated by religion, ethnicity, tribalism and elitism when we are living witnesses to the fact that Sheik Ibrahim El - Zakzaky of Islamic Movement of Nigeria and Sambo Dasuki, the former National Security Adviser are both Muslims and Northerners, who have been in detention for more than two years against all conventional laws and court orders.

«On average, prosecutors remain the lowest - paid law enforcement professionals in Nassau County despite the fact that most starting ADAs have accrued more than $ 100,000 in educational debt for their training,» Tarek said.

Admit the facts... for many years Flanagan was on the payroll of a law firm for more than $ 120K while doing no legal work.

Prestige and power matter more than money (Money is related but is not synonimous with them) for most of them (why they would argue about office space and seating) but many do in fact want to pass laws.

«It had nothing to do with anything other than the fact that the person who brought me into the law office was Tom Twomey, who passed away,» Mr. LaValle said.

«I would rather have us move faster than we're moving to reform the ethics law, but the fact that we're in serious negotiations with the Assembly is a big step forward,» Schneiderman said.

It doesn?t help that experiments do not adhere to the usual laws of space and time — it is a fact that everything always takes longer than you expect, especially if you?re in a hurry.

While previous scaling laws predicted that humans» brains would be more resilient to blasts than animals», Radovitzky's team found the opposite: that in fact, humans are much more vulnerable, as they have thinner skulls to protect much larger brains.

The Birds have however interested me much more than the insects, they are proportionally much more numerous, and throw great light on the laws of Geographical distribution of Animals in the East... As an instance I may mention the Cockatoos, a group of birds confined to Australia & the Moluccas, but quite unknown in Java Borneo Sumatra & Malacca... Many other species illustrate the same fact.

The first accurate measurement of G was not made, in fact, until 1797, more than a century after the discovery of the law of gravity, and it arose from a classic experiment performed by the English nobleman Henry Cavendish.

Rather than claim a method of administering certain novel drug dosages, Prometheus chose to instead claim and assert a method that recited old steps and thinking about the FACT (law of nature).

In fact, a new law from Obama's health care plan mandates restaurants with more than one location to have nutrition facts available to their customers.

It is obvious these day - time television show doesn't work the same way a normal courtroom does, and the outcome of any case is influenced more by public opinion or show ratings than they are by the law and the true facts of the case.

Debate on the measure, which would rewrite the laws governing higher - education and financial - aid programs, lasted only about an hour — a testament to the fact that the Senate bill is less ambitious than its House counterpart and that many committee differences were worked out...