Sentences with phrase «for vagueness»

But the forms leave plenty of room for vagueness, and since the responsibility is on the Realtor «to be sure the seller is telling the truth» — I find myself confused as to its use.

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Is that the same as saying in more general terms, that if the rules of professional conduct were laws, many of them would be «void for vagueness,» or in need of express additional «reasonable limits prescribed by law»?

Indeed, such a confused approach by the Ohio Supreme Court, referring in one part of its opinion to «lewd exhibitions of nudity» and in another to «lewd exhibitions of the genitals,» would create a great deal of uncertainty regarding the scope of § 2907.323 (A)(3), and likely would render that statute void for vagueness.

The Court in Fraser held that student conduct codes need not be as detailed as a criminal code which imposes criminal sanctions, and found the code in that case was not void for vagueness.

In addition to finding a First Amendment violation for the discipline, the court held the school policy was void for vagueness because the terminology did not allow the student to determine the nature of prohibited conduct in advance.

However, policies that are not sufficiently precise can be ruled unconstitutionally void for vagueness, and attempts to regulate the content of speech can violate the First Amendment.

Among its multiple arguments, J&M asserted that the rule violates the state constitutions, violates the separation of powers, is void for vagueness, and is an excessive burden on the flow of interstate commerce.

On March 5, 2017, I blogged about the importance of challenging criminal laws for vagueness and overbreadth.

He ruled, sua sponte, that the statute was unconstitutional and void for vagueness because it was not written «in language that the people upon whom it is designed to operate or whom it affects can understand» because it essentially required a borrower to apply an algebraic formula to determine the legality of the rate he or she was being charged.

Without such clarification, if such obligation existed it would be void for vagueness.

The latter is a novel justification for the vagueness doctrine.

While the DOE's reasoning for linking fuel stores to grid resiliency has been widely criticized for its vagueness and gaps in logic, its idea for a solution is clear: «full cost recovery» for those power plants now playing by the rules of the energy and capacity markets run by interstate grid operators serving about three - quarters of the country.

sorry for the vagueness..

is not at all clear, and laws may be «void for vagueness» - we as citizens have a right to know when we cross a line — and that is long before the grand jury tells, or alleges to us, that is, into a coercive plea bargaining system — and we might want to let our Peers decide that, as in «Trial By Jury Of,» western - civilization - foundation department

Despite the numerous attacks on Obama and the record of his administration, Romney's political offerings to America still seem vague and confused How do we account for the vagueness?

Many readers have informed me, and in rather schoolmarmish tones to boot, that I have missed the point by criticizing Phillip Johnson for the vagueness of the identity of the Designer, since it is the job of special revelation to identify the Unknown Designer.

But for all their vagueness, for all their lack of definition, these controlling presences, these sources of power, these things with an inner life, with their own richness of content, these beings, with the destiny of the world hidden in their natures; are what we want to know about.12

European radicals rejected Schweitzer's cultural philosophy for its vagueness, and his personal example as a cop - out; he fled when the heat was on.

The best thing about Smart Contracts is that they are precise, and do not allow any room for vagueness and ambiguity - everything is clear cut.

Not exact matches

Invited to give a speech in 2009 setting out her vision for Europe's future, she admitted that her vagueness about her intentions was a deliberate strategy, not an accidental oversight.

The vagueness of the term «deep - seated» allows seminary rectors room for manoeuvre.

In terms of mysticism and other related forms of looking inward and finding the collective unconscious, the over-soul, the transcendental, god or God... in its vagueness it leaves out the forgiveness won for us by Christ, and that, I guess, on purpurse.

In Brightman's view, that is always knowledge of the given; for Hartshorne only God can know the given with complete clarity, and the rest of us can not be certain (due to the vagueness of the given to our consciousness) what we know when we reflect upon, imagine, and infer things from the given.

This vagueness in the ideational superstructure paid off at the organizational level too, for it meant, among other things, that men and women with new angles of interpretation were able to jockey for dominance and rise to the top.

Thus, using the vagueness of the past self as a test case, we can also see that there is a difference of «distinctness» in the way the datum self is given as opposed to other selves.43 Yet, literal participation of the one in the other is maintained, for Hartshorne, since the present self must at least literally participate in its own past self — otherwise, personal identity is problematic, and this threatens personalism with precisely the sort of solipsism Hartshorne indicated from the beginning.

Today, admittedly, the vagueness of 2 and its ultimate basis upon inner - change has been dropped by many progressivist idealists in favor of 3a or 3b: a very - tight system of International Law, or an «EU for the world,» will save us.

This declaration limits itself, as given its assumptions and method of proceeding it was inevitable that it should, to claims of such vagueness and generality that it would be hard for anyone to disagree about them, but equally hard for anyone to get excited about them — much less to structure his life around them or be prepared to die for them.

For all of its shortcomings, mainly vagueness and the tendency to invite contention, the language of costs and benefits, or risks and benefits, or good and bad consequences (a language whose value Kass minimizes) does a reasonably good job of helping us make prudent judgments.

«Thus chaos is not to be identified with evil; for harmony requires the due coordination of chaos, vagueness, narrowness, and width.»

It is true that the variations in the formulae and the vagueness of the terminology is a warning that when we have stigmatized them as mythological we have not pronounced the last word on the subject: all the more need then for an interpretation in non-mythological terms.

Yet the same leaders remain quite unconcerned about their own ambiguity or vagueness on the moral issue of concrete justice for homosexual people and their need for sensitive and competent pastoral care.

For all the differences between Christianity and humanism in the widest sense of the word, (I use the word «Christianity» because it is traditional, though I am aware of its vagueness and false associations.)

Franciscan Whereas Keep Watch takes refuge in an overabundance of images and metaphors to make up for unsubstantial content mired in unescapable vagueness, Sr Patricia takes refuge in the idea of charism over consecration as the main aspect of religious life: «While every Christian is called to make visible the characteristic features of Jesus, Religious, through a vowed life of poverty, chastity and obedience, do this in a specific way through the charism of their Institutes» (p. 28).

This vagueness is equally found in Keep Watch, the latest document from the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, which Sr Patricia Jordan wrongly attributes to Pope Francis.

The disdain for mystery implied in these two intimately connected standards of exploration has dramatically negative implications for how we regard the natural world in a scientific age.2 Even though initially the quest for clarity and simplicity seems innocent enough, unless carefully contained it can become a weapon of power wielded ruthlessly to hack away the rich undergrowth of vagueness that goes along with any cherishing of mystery.

In any case, the endemic vagueness of fundamental concepts points up the need for an essentially metaphorical treatment of the ideas they convey.

6 --(yawn) Not sure what you are talking about due to your usual vagueness, but I'll take a stab at it — If I am right, and there is no heaven and no hell, you, as a believer and minister lose nothing by wasting years and years of your life preaching a lie, and convincing hundreds, perhaps thousands to believe that same lie, and waste millions, no, billions of dollars to pay for the continued propagation of that lie...?

Thus we come again to the recognition that it was the very vagueness of Whitehead's formulation, at least as read by Wieman, which made it possible for Wieman to be so excited by it.

Bernard Meland, reflecting on Wieman's period of enthusiasm for Whitehead, remarked that «It is often the very vagueness of an idea which makes it so attractive.»

Her vagueness, although frustrating, is consistent with her emphasis upon conversion as the prerequisite for concrete, local solutions: «Only by understanding how the web of life works can we also learn to sustain it rather than destroy it.

In Process and Reality «the right chaos, and the right vagueness are, jointly required for any effective harmony» (112).

I'm pretty sure (allowing for the current vagueness of my memory) that this was the first actual record I bought in my life, c1955... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q66yTkrzosI

One of the reasons for this apparent vagueness is Romney's aspiration, rhetorically, to return power to the states.

In fact, this combination of vagueness and ferocity is the worst possible news for Labour.

Amendment 2 «is a lawyer's dream» because of its vagueness, says Joshua Rosenau, programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California, which tracks efforts by groups that oppose evolution.

And so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of scientists sort of see the squishiness or the fuzziness or the vagueness here and back away, and retreat to health and safety claims that are much more comfortable for them.

This pattern gave Sarah a sense of vagueness, a habit of daydreaming and a difficulty being fully present in her interactions with her husband, despite her deep love for her him and strong desire to start a family.

The viewer is never sure, but for some reason ambiguity in «Trees Lounge» doesn't feel like vagueness but restraint.

Making movies steeped in vagueness these days is proving to be an excellent way to earn critical praise, but being artfully ambiguous strikes me as a way to cover for not being able to finish the job.