Sentences with phrase «narrow construction»

The Court considered that the general doctrine of narrow construction of exemption clauses does not apply in the instant policy, and therefore it was necessary to consider the construction of all relevant terms.

If we expect certain kinds of behavior and we expect everyone to conform to them, that is a really narrow construction of society and it's a really narrow conception of public space,» they say.

James Madison advocated for the ratification of the Constitution in The Federalist and at the Virginia ratifying convention upon a narrow construction of the clause, asserting that spending must be at least tangentially tied to one of the other specifically enumerated powers, such as regulating interstate or foreign commerce, or providing for the military, as the General Welfare Clause is not a specific grant of power, but a statement of purpose qualifying the power to tax.

Most archaeologists have deciphered history in 200 - year increments, but Finkelstein now can narrow construction, destruction and other events in antiquity to within as little as three decades, helping him refine the archaeological clock.

It can park itself automatically via a remote - control app, allow the driver to briefly take hands off the wheel at speeds up to 130 mph, adapt to what the vehicle in front is doing, steer itself through obstacles like a narrow construction lane at speeds up to 80 mph, and overtake traffic automatically.

Still, their narrow construction of signs and symbols has something to do with the limits of their art.

However, the court adopted a narrow construction of the canons and deleted a part of the commit clause that stated that candidates could not «appear to commit» the candidate on issues.

Osborne contends that it was impermissible for the Ohio Supreme Court to apply its construction of § 2907.323 (A)(3) to him — i.e., to rely on the narrowed construction of the statute when evaluating his overbreadth claim.

In Graven v. Vail, the Colorado Supreme Court adopted a narrow construction of statutory inherent dangers and risks, and thus adopted a third approach to the handling of downhill accident cases.

Contractual provisions relating to notification of warranty claims will be treated by the courts as a form of exclusion clause and a narrow construction will be used to resolve ambiguity — lawyers drafting such clauses should consider them carefully and ensure that they are as clear as possible.

This narrow construction of «exceptional circumstances» has raised the question of compatibility with the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998).

A judge construing such a clause might be put off by its wordiness and tend towards a narrow construction.

Since the 1940s, courts grappling with the meaning of ambiguously - worded FLSA exemptions have invoked the narrow construction rule as an often outcome - determinative facet of their decisions.

Finally, the dissent criticized the Court for rejecting the narrow construction principle for FLSA exemptions «[i] n a single paragraph... without even acknowledging that it unsettles more than half a century of our precedent.»

If the court had accepted the narrower construction of the series of similar acts test, the result would have been a proliferation of protective applications to tribunals, intended to ensure that potential early detriments would not be ruled out of time in the event that a discriminatory situation later escalated.