Sentences with phrase «important dictum»
New Zealand has yet to sort out where the Treaty of Waitangi fits within the structure of the New Zealand legal system, notwithstanding important dicta in the Privy Council in New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney - General, a case in which the present Chief Justice appeared as counsel for the Maori Council.
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Perhaps it's telling that Manifesto's best segments extol the virtues of conceptual art, in which, as Lewitt - via - Blanchett puts it, the idea behind the work is far more important that its execution, and artistic appropriation, via the (probably apocryphal) Godard dictum, «It's not where you take things from; it's where you take them to.»
From the point of view of the AGW Consensus, the most important applications of Feynman's dicta would be in GCM design and testing, and in making sense of the historical instrumental record.
Nonetheless, Asermly is important, very important and perhaps groud breaking because essentially, in dicta the RI Supreme Court acted as a legislative / administrative body and issued rules.
But here there is a split among federal courts of appeals on an important constitutional question — the D.C. Circuit and the Fifth Circuit take the individual rights view (see here and here for why the Fifth Circuit's decision can't be dismissed as dictum), while I think nine other circuits take the collective rights view.
In so doing, the court made two potentially important rulings: (i) Whether or not the threshold is crossed may well depend on the context; in a statement echoing one of the most famous dicta in the law of nuisance («what would be a nuisance in Belgrave Square would not necessarily be a nuisance in Bermondsey»: Sturges v Bridgman (1879) 11 Ch D 852, per Lord Justice Thesiger) it was suggested that what might not be harassment on the factory floor or in the barrack room might well be in the hospital ward, or vice versa.
However, the decision should be approached with some caution, as the most important parts consist of obiter dicta.
According to the presentation «rule of three» dictum, if you want to get important messages across effectively and gain support, condense what you want to say into three points, and explain each of them thoroughly.