Sentences with phrase «landed the case of»

He thinks he's landed the case of a lifetime when he's hired to defend a rich playboy (Ryan Phillippe) who stands accused of rape and attempted murder, and eagerly accepts his new client and the massive payoff that's sure to come with him.
McConaughey next played a criminal defense attorney operating his practice out of a Lincoln Town car who lands the case of a lifetime in the understated courtroom thriller «The Lincoln Lawyer» (2011).
He lands the case of a lifetime when a Beverly Hills playboy is accused of murder, and naturally, the trial turns into a deadly game of survival for the unlucky lawyer.
In Lawyer, Mickey lands the case of his career when he is hired to defend Louis Roulet (Ryan Phillippe), a spoiled, rich socialite charged with the brutal assault of a prostitute who propositions him at a nightclub.

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His case was brought to the clinic's attention by a group called Families against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), which works to reform the kind of extreme sentencing laws that landed Tyler behind bars for life.
Still, even defenders see the best - case trajectory under Whitman as one of soft landings, not interplanetary ascents.
Bridge or no bridge, Deluce was determined to get hold of the island airport's landing slots, and the best - case scenario was to have them all to himself.
This is also true in the case of travelers who take up residence on your land.
Beyond Meat increased its distribution sevenfold over the summer when it landed in the meat case of some Kroger (kr) and Albertsons locations.
Money is moving out of iron ore but where it goes next is the more interesting question, because it seems that some investors are developing a taste for agriculture — a shift that might prove to be a case of leaving the frying pan to land in the fire.
The worst case scenario is that the country will experience what economists call a «hard landing,» essentially a major slowdown in GDP growth, to less than 5 % or the approximate rate of inflation.
In the case of Blue Origin, the company's smallest vehicle can be used to practice flying and landing techniques that can then be applied to larger rockets that can launch satellites, Bezos said.
The scores that landed companies on our Top Company Cultures list were clustered very close together, meaning, in some cases, the ranking depended on the feedback of just one or two employees.
In case you've somehow missed it, the envelope Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway read from when announcing Best Picture winner was the wrong one, and it took until midway through round of impassioned acceptance speeches for the producers of La La Land to realize they hadn't won the top prize, after all; Moonlight had.
Another recent estimate was released in November of this year by Andy Yan of Bing Thom Architects, which conducted a case study of single - family home sales in the neighbourhoods of West Point Grey, Dunbar and the University Endowment Lands.
If Gender Mattered: A Case Study of Inuit Women, Land Claims and the Voisey's Bay Nickel Project: http://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection/SW21-39-1999E.pdf
If any of the court cases against Kinder Morgan land in our favour, the public will need to mobilize quickly to force governments to respect the decision.
Two companies that guaranteed payments on Detroit bonds and were the last major holdout creditors in the case, Syncora Guarantee Inc [SYCRFS.UL] and Financial Guaranty Insurance Co [FGIC.UL], received options to develop parcels of land.
If Gender Mattered: A Case Study of Inuit Women, Land Claims and the Voisey's Bay Nickel Project:
The product matches to lots of irrelevant queries, and even the relevant queries typically don't perform very well due to dynamically generated ads and in many cases sub-par landing pages.
That's clearly false — only a small area of the oil sands deposit — about 4,750 square kilometres, or 3 times the land area of Los Angeles — is mineable, with the remainder accessible only with in situ extraction or, in some cases, not recoverable at all with current technology.
The above are crowdfunding landing page recommendations from Clay Herbert; you can get into the details of landing page design by reading his case study here.
The collateral might be land and building (in the case of a mortgage), vehicles, or equipment.
For instance, in the case of Moses, when he confronted God in Exodus 32:11 - 13 after God had threatened to destroy Israel for their sins, Moses confronts God and recounts the promises that God made to Abraham, Isaac, and Israel to multiply them and give them the land as an inheritance forever — and this was exactly what God intended him to do, intercede for God's people — of course God did not forget His promises that He had made to His people, but with the threatening of an omnipotent God, Moses was even more resolved to lead this people in righteousness.
If it were the case that the Jews acted wrongly by taking land from the Palistinians by force... it would be of course, one of the most understandable acts of aggression in History... after what was bestowed upon them in WWII what people wouldn't suffer a temporary loss of sanity?
From the link to «Lost and found: Missing in Rishikesh, India, the «Land of Gods,»» above: [«They become delusional and, in extreme cases, disappear - often during quests for enlightenment.»
Thus, by your logic, you should have no problem with Muslims making up 80 - 90 % of your country's population, voting primarily for Muslim candidates, and constantly striving to make their belief system the law of the land - as is the case with Christians in the United States.
In case you are wondering, Constantine was also the one that carried out the destruction of Rome and all Romans... even going as far as to burn then salt the land so they couldn; t even grow crops.
In either case he was culturally alien to the British possessors of the land.
And as also in the case of Abraham, these tensions were resolved at length in an act of faith which resulted in the partial substantiation of the promise — the acquisition of a land.
Most faiths are minority faiths, held by only a small portion of the culture in which they are located, and to proclaim them is usually a case of «singing the Lord's song in a strange land» (Psalm 137), whether «the Lord» is the one described by Mark or by Marx.
The investigation into Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leader Richard Land's racially charged and plagiarized radio commentary on the Trayvon Martin case concluded with two official reprimands and the cancellation of his weekly radio program.
In this case, the Chief Politician of the land has implicitly challenged the churches to a public debate over the application of Christian principles to the war he has launched.
In those cases, land reform will take the direction of consolidating holdings to make them large enough to be viable subsistence farms.
It is the female figure in each case who makes the journey to the land of death, or takes whatever steps are necessary to bring about the return of natural vitality to the earth.
Sin just means missing the perfect mark (in this case, God's holiness; in our justice system's case, breaking the law of the land).
The examples were simply educed in order that while they were shown in their own proper sphere they might at the moment of variation [from Abraham's case] indicate as it were the boundary of the unknown land.
This is particularly the case with a myth which, with all its other disadvantages is outspokenly pragmatist and propagandist in character, and which ignores the question of truth to such an extent that it no longer exists even in untruth, but in a chilly no - man's - land between God and the devil.
However, the monks in Celtic lands do seem to have had a greater awareness of the Creation as a revelation of God than has often been the case.
Meanwhile, as the old song has it, back in the jungle — which was in this case a land called Germany — there were Hitler and his minions, revving up among other things to alter the course of Jewish history forever.
Or will it be Richard Land, the denomination's longtime Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) president disciplined by his board today — including the cancellation of his radio show — over racially charged comments about the Trayvon Martin case?
For in this case Christians did not take the land by might of arms but by persuasion, and ruled not as foreign conquerors but as inhabitants and natives, harvesting the fruit of earlier centuries during which the bulk of the local population gradually adopted the new religion as its own.
BMWs and Land Rovers filled the driveway, and cases of Moët champagne were stacked by silver buckets of ice.
In the case of others, however, there were special mitigations: «Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a sojourner in his land.
The image is especially ironic considering the fact that his father, Liberty founder Jerry Falwell, famously sued Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt for a satirical depiction of him in his porn magazine, in a case that landed in the Supreme Court.
The predicted limits of the land (verse 31: from the Reed Sea - in this case undoubtedly the Gulf of Aqabah - to the Mediterranean, and across the desert eastward to the Euphrates River) represent approximately the extent of the Israelite kingdom in the tenth century, at the close of David's reign - the peak period of Israel's political power.
It would presumably be better to spend time actually «cultivating and keeping» a plot of land rather than deliberating with your neighbor (even in complete good will) on a case - by - case basis where his «cultivation and keeping» leaves off and yours begins.
In case one assumes that all the many parsons here and in foreign lands who deliver and write sermons are believing Christians, how can it be explained that one never hears or reads a prayer which in our time especially is so pertinent: «God in heaven, I thank Thee that Thou hast not required it of man that he should comprehend Christianity; for if that were required, I should be of all men the most miserable.
Right now I'm pretty much tapped out at 10,000 cases I think, and that is using every single inch and corner of my land.
Then, in 2004 while still in college (aka the land of processed food), I was diagnosed with a severe case of Lupus which caused my kidneys to fail.
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