Sentences with phrase «legalistic way»

Your blog started me on my way, and I'm SO thankful yours is the first I read, because you softly set the tone for my often too legalistic ways of making decisions.

In the process he merged the two days and transformed the character of the Christian Sunday into that of the Jewish Sabbath in the most legalistic way.

This explanation confirms that in relation to the negotiation of consent determinations the government's policy is to apply the law in a narrow legalistic way.

To argue the matter in a more legalistic way, would the expression of concern about immigration and free movement constitute xenophobia in that sense, as publicly inciting to hatred, especially if based on misinformation?

Not accountable in a legalistic way; accountable in a deeper, social way that comes with the feeling that people around you are aware of your behaviour.

Not everyone uses the english language in a legalistic way and their meaning isn't literal.

At least part of the reason the commissioner's inquiry into Miller's expenses took so long was the legalistic way in which she engaged with the probe.

It says Mrs Miller tried to «argue a case in a legalistic way» rather than responding «fully and frankly» to the Commissioner's inquiries.

There is a legalistic way in which this claim can be said to be true.

Divorce mediation tends to move the process along relatively fast, it is much less costly than the legalistic way, and in most cases people come out of it satisfied.