Sentences with phrase «judging by their relative»

Simply judging by relative deliciousness against every other menu item in every town in America, one Carnitas Lonja taco probably should cost $ 15.

Judging by the relative box - office failures of 2001's equally dim - witted Pearl Harbor and A.I., I wouldn't be so quick with that assumption.

Not exact matches

The challenge of judging how much response was necessary has been complicated by the global credit turmoil, which has had the effect of pushing up actual borrowing costs relative to the cash rate the Reserve Bank sets.

@ Camel Toad: 1) you say evil is relative and give examples of situational ethics, but you still appear to be appealing to some over-arching notion of good & evil by which such situations are judged.

The custom recounted in the performance of levirate marriage in Ruth 4:8 (by which the brother or the next closest male kin takes the wife of the deceased relative) is, we should judge, considerably earlier than Deuteronomy.

Even before the massacre in Florida, Democratic lawmakers in New York were pushing legislation that would allow judges to confiscate weapons from individuals singled out as dangerous by their own relatives.

In the most recent election, as the original post notes, neither of the major parties changed their share of seats in local government offices by more than 0.3 %, which rounds down to 0 %, so it is fair to say that there was «no clear winner» judged relative to the status quo.

Also passed by the Senate — Peter Falk's Law — a measure sponsored by Sen. John DeFrancisco that requires judges who are appointing guardians to oversee the care of sick people to identify all of those individuals, children and other relatives, who are entitled to notice of the incapacitated person's death, funeral and burial arrangements.

A Connecticut judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack, delivering a blow to an ambitious effort to hold accountable the makers of the assault rifle used in the 2012 massacre before the case ever went to trial.

Former NYPD officer Peter Liang was cleared of manslaughter and given probation by a Brooklyn judge Tuesday in the 2014 killing of an unarmed black man in a dark stairwell — a ruling that set off tears and denunciations from the victim's relatives and police critics.

You aren't judged relative to your potential or your individual capabilities, but by what you can actually do.

Adequacy lawsuits have proved a serious threat to the right of citizens to have their taxes determined by elected officials who are in a position to weigh competing claims for public support and to judge the relative efficacy of spending for particular purposes.

Well - to - do families might still give it a look — and, judging by the X5's relative popularity, many of them have.

Rhode Island was unique in allowing divorce based upon other, more ambiguous grounds, as well... [as] an omnibus clause in the state's legal code authorized divorce based upon... «gross misbehavior and wickedness in either of the parties repugnant to and inconsistent with the marriage contract»... the relative vagueness of the terms «gross misbehavior and wickedness» left room for interpretation by Rhode Island judges.

Ford's situation, if judged by the asset markets (stock, bond and credit - default swaps), has worsened relative to GM.

By comparing your relative benchmark to your returns, it is an excellent way of judging your financial advisor's performance, while the absolute benchmark makes your expectations clear.

Judging by ZMNO's vastly superior relative performance, I wouldn't be at all surprised to discover investors are steadily gravitating towards it as a sector winner...

Extreme reserve should be exercised regarding dogs that are owned or cared for by the judge's near relatives.

The judge of which to use and what to paint is going to be both personal and also relative to what you can develop an audience for, but since you are more likely to find an appreciative audience by being authentic and true to yourself, that seems to me to come first.

One could argue with my representation of the Yamal series as a set reduced by delta > 2.5, but my point here is that I judge that by looking at the other Yamal factors with the highest deltas some insight might be gained as to the relative importance of the Yamal factors.

We examined the use of social media by lawyers, judges, witnesses, jurors, friends and relatives of accused persons and others.

These include: United States v. Resendiz - Ponce, which presents the question whether the omission of an element from a federal indictment can constitute harmless error (9th Circuit says no); Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc., on whether a provider of pay phone services can sue a long distance carrier for alleged violations of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations concerning compensation for coinless pay phone calls (9th Circuit says yes); Cunningham v. California, a sentencing case involving whether whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's picture on them.

If sample size is not masking a significant correlation, the greater readability advantage in federal courts may be explained by the factors that depress the summary judgment success rate in state courts: more restrictive state summary judgment standards, the lack of state court resources compared with those in federal court, and state court judges» relative reluctance to grant summary judgment.111 Although greater readability could still influence the outcomes in some state cases, which would be consistent with the slight readability advantage in our sample, on the whole the anti-summary-judgment factors would reduce the potential readability effect on summary judgment outcome.

«Member of a judge's family residing in the judge's household» means any relative of a judge by blood or marriage, or a person treated by a judge as a member of the judge's family, who resides in the judge's household.

A comment from one judge specifically highlights the importance of being careful with humour when people affected by the case are present, even if not directly party to the action: «One has to be very careful about judicial humour because you've got victims and you've got relatives of families».

A «member of the judge's family» means any relative of a judge by blood, adoption, or marriage, or any person treated by a judge as a member of the judge's family.

As Jane Fedoretz, one of our judges, noted after reviewing some of the nominations: «I was struck by the fact in - house lawyers take significant steps to add value and be creative (when given the opportunity) relative to the companies they work for.

The chief issue raised by the judiciary in the so - far abortive negotiations with the government concerned the relative powers of the minister, HM Courts Service (HMCS) and the judges in regard to the funding and the running of the courts.

«If retained, Chief Justice Castille vows ethics push»: In today's edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Craig R. McCoy has a front page article that begins, «Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Wednesday that if reelected next week, he would push to ban judges from hiring relatives or hearing cases brought by lawyers who have made substantial contributions to their campaigns.»

It appears that now that times have changed, that CREA feels that the «dominant position» scenario and alleged abuse thereof will be judged in a different light, by a court of law if need be, due to the recent relative birth of alternative models now at play, in addition to those continuing to come onto the scene across Canada.