Sentences with phrase «general backs his case»

Not exact matches

Certainly, it remains the case that the initial giver and society in general exert pressure on the recipient to give back, in the name of justice.

The governor has been sabre - rattling for some time about calling the Legislature back to Albany between the primary and general elections in hopes of getting lawmaker to act (in some cases yet again) on his property tax cap proposal.

Just as in 2008, Obama will be able to go back to his small donors again and again throughout the primary and general election process, while his chief opponents (in this case, Romney and Perry) are relying (overwhelmingly so far) on a relatively small group of geographically or professionally restricted donors who'll hit their legal maximum on campaign giving quickly.

The U.S. solicitor general fired back that McDonnell's case was a routine example of an official taking personal benefits to influence government matters, and the evidence at the trial «amply supported» his conviction.

The order issued for Schneiderman in the Small case is similar to efforts backed by Cuomo, including granting the attorney general's office the authority to investigate the death of Edson Thevenin in Troy and of Raynette Turner in Mount Vernon.

And as a proud Unionist, I take comfort that the General Election saw the threat of nationalism set back, the case for a second referendum in Scotland denied.

Both agencies acted with official city and state misconduct, and in both cases, honest, credible evidence was repeatedly dismissed and ignored, and so was the corruption that remains to date — where knowingly false statements were made to discredit me (then later completely reversed during oral argument by my accusers), and both the DOI investigators (who appeared at my doorstep many times to collect evidence) and MTA Office of the Inspector General investigators invited me back to their headquarters (more than six times), from 1989 to 2008), and continued to take no action to restore and reinstate my city job, pension and social security contributions.

Lentol noted that during his speech, Cuomo urged the Legislature to back Assemblyman Keith Wright's bill to make the attorney general the permanent special prosecutor in the police cases in question.

Vance fired back that same evening, issuing a two - page letter to Cuomo saying the only conflict was created by Cuomo when he asked the attorney general to review the handling of the Weinstein case by the Manhattan district attorney and the NYPD.

In his Aug. 17 letter to Cuomo, Soares — citing the executive order and public comments by the governor and attorney general about a perceived conflict of interest for district attorneys in such cases — said he was stepping back.

DNR spokesman Bill Cosh said the opinion was being reviewed and that the agency will work with the attorney general's office on the next steps when the case goes back to circuit court.

The way to do it seems, then, all mapped out: to observe, experiment, and analyse, take a step back and design a model, try it out in a real - life situation, and, in the most favourable case, identify general rules.

«Measles has been eliminated in the U.S. since 2000, which means that all measles cases in the country can be traced back to an imported case — either a foreign visitor or a U.S. resident returning from international travel,» said study lead author Dr. Emily Hyle of Massachusetts General Hospital's division of infectious diseases.

So in general just kinda going back and letting the listeners know a little bit more about your history in case they're coming into a this a little bit late.

The relationship between an athlete personal best in competition and back squat, bench press and power clean 1RM was determined via general linear model polynomial contrast analysis and regression for a group of 53 collegiate elite level throwers (24 males and 29 females); data analysis showed significant linear and quadratic trends for distance and 1RM power clean for both male (linear: p ≤ 0.001, quadratic: p ≤ 0.003) and female (linear: p ≤ 0.001, quadratic: p = 0.001) suggesting how the use of Olympic - style weightlifting movements — the clean, in this particular case, but more in general explosive, fast, athletic - like movements — can be a much better alternative for sport - specific testing for shot putters (Judge, et al, 2013).

He's frustrated that he's been bounced from the case by the Prosecutor General, a serious, stone - faced legend of dogged duty who has the unlikely nickname «Minty» (because he keeps popping breath mints while working a case) and is played by American star Arthur Kennedy (dubbed in Italian of course), so when his drug investigation winds back into the bombing he conducts his own investigation.

The Supreme Court issued a long - awaited decision yesterday in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, a seven - to - one ruling (Justice Elena Kagan recused herself because she had worked on the case as U.S. Solicitor General) that sends the affirmative action case back to a lower court for further review.

Last month, the New York state attorney general filed a motion to combine two related New York cases, one filed by a group called the New York City Parents Union and one brought by Partnership for Educational Justice, a group backed by former CNN anchor Campbell Brown.

In case you feel that your paragraphs do not follow the general flow of your thoughts, you may want to go back to the outline for your essay to get a better perspective on how you can fix some things.

There are use cases when that makes sense, but in general, we don't recommend you use this button to import because it will strip out even the «good» formatting, and you'll have to put it back.

In any case if you can get the card Orchard Bank for 2 % for everything is the best cash back you can find for things not in general.

General 2 % cash back may not be the most optimal card if you spend more on special categories (or use the card for such purposes): in that case, the 3 % from Chase or the 5 % from Discover may go a longer way for you as a rewards card.

In other cases, your pet may be in the care of the emergency and critical care specialist for the duration of the emergency and recovery, but then referred back to your general practitioner veterinarian for follow up and routine care.

In the case of airline frequent flier programs and their credit card - based programs, attempts to regulate them years ago through the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) failed as it kicked the regulatory process back to Congress, which pretty much gave airlines immunity from these types of laws.

Chris in 124 went back to the specific case of «climate states» but Eli's original phrasing was not climate - specific and it is the general claim that I have trouble with, not the specific case of climate.

The trust in that case would be more along the lines of the less informed public, and that includes many of those persons responsible for policy, «trusting» the advocacy of climate scientists, in a general way, being backed, more or less, with hard science evidence.

Meanwhile back at the ranch... or at least what is happening here in Charlottesville, VA with climate - record - modifier M. Mann / UVa / vs. Ken Cuccinelli, I will be attending the 1:00 PM Albemarle County Courthouse judicial proceedings to see if the Attorney General's fraud case can go forward.

The first reaction was that it made sense, but after thinking about it, the legal team went back to the general counsel and made the case that McCarthys should be part of the review.

As Secretary of Defense, General James «Mad Dog» Mattis has said, his philosophy of life and his primary lesson for those in the military, is: no matter who it is that you meet, and deal with, always treat them with professionalism, be courteous and cordial, but always... repeat, always... in the back of your mind, have a plan for how to KILL them, in case you need to!

The outcome of the appeal is clear: the judgment by the General Court is set aside and the case is referred back to the General Court so that it can rule on the pleas that were not dealt with in the l judgment in first instance.

Until recently general jurisdiction over a defendant (i.e. jurisdiction over any lawsuit against a defendant without regard to the particular facts of the case) was present in any state where a company has a permanent office for the conduct of business, under half a century of precedent on the issue that traced back to a U.S. Supreme Court case known as International Shoe v. State of Washington, 326 U.S. 310 (1945).

The CJEU has looked again at the case law on how abuse of dominance works and has remitted the case back to the General Court.

We reported on the case of King v Sash Windows back in June when the Advocate General gave an opinion on the case.

In order to understand the background of this appeal case, one has to go a bit back into the history and have a look at the first case, where the Court of First Instance (CFI, now the General Court) dealt with an action from an unsuccessful petitioner.

While I don't know of any solid data to back claims for the value of applying project management standards to legal work, the Project Management Institute has sponsored research to make the case for the value of Project Management in general.

That line of cases started with Martin & Martin (1976) Fam 33 in which it was ruled that «a spouse can not be allowed to fritter away the assets by extravagant living or reckless speculation and then to claim as great a share of what was left as he would have been entitled to if he had behaved reasonably», the general position of the court has been that in an appropriate cases (which usually include where the parties assets exceed their needs) the Court has been prepared to add back as a result of reckless and wanton expenditure by a party.

Twenty years later, in Carter v. Canada (Attorney General), a case eerily similar to Rodriguez, the issue is making its way back to the top court.

Other justices indicated sympathy with the solicitor general's view that the case should be sent back to lower courts for further review.»

Although the court is permitted to go back as far as the Judge decides is appropriate, the general rule in the case law is that the court should not go back more than three years unless the payor parent has engaged in «blameworthy conduct.»

Today, in the case of Canada (Attorney General) v. Whaling, 2014 SCC 20, the Supreme Court of Canada pushed back against one small element of the government's «tough on crime» agenda, namely, the retroactive abolition of early parole for offenders already serving their sentences.

KAREN MACKAY: It's interesting because I do hear it from both sides — from general counsel and from managing partners, who are trying to cope with all of this — and in so many firms, because general counsel, the client, has grown up in an hourly rate environment, in many cases, they'll come back with an alternative fee arrangement, it's just a lower hourly rate or a lower hourly rate by volume.

The case dates back to 2009, when about 200 General Motors dealers were eliminated during the federal auto bailout.

A lawyer tweets back in forth with another lawyer in a general manner about a recent experience that they had on case.

The various issues holding back IoT deployment in general «are resolved for the use cases being deployed,» she told the E-Commerce Times.

The rationale boils down to perception: There's a big difference between being the president of a one - person company and being the president of General Electric, and, in most cases, it's wise to «dial it back» to avoid being seen as exaggerating your role, he said.

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