Sentences with phrase «narrow issue before»

The narrow issue before the Supreme Court was the meaning of the term «circumstances» and whether the lost opportunity for early release and parole in pre-sentence detention can be such a circumstance, capable of justifying enhanced credit at a rate of 1.5:1

I almost landed in another federal agency's appellate office that practiced a very narrow issue before federal circuits across the country, but chose my current job because of the very broad swath of constitutional criminal issues we routinely litigate, which is endlessly fascinating.

The court encourages pretrial motions in limine and for summary judgment to narrow the issues before the trial.

Not exact matches

The issue we see from e-commerce entrepreneurs is a lack of pre-planning and research before diving into a niche that is either too broad or too narrow.

Fourthly, Lib Dem and swing voters especially will not forgive Lib Dems for precipitating the demise of the Coalition government, probably two years before it is due to end, not on a point of principle, such as on tuition fees, tax policy, social policy like gay marriage, Trident, the European treaty veto or the health or welfare bills but on... an issue of narrow partisan electoral self interest, i.e. unhappiness at boundary changes (which they had already voted for in February 2011).

«There's a danger in overstating the extent of the ideological shift because the range of issues that we tackle at the municipal level are much narrower than those that are tackled at the state and federal level and I find that there's a broad based consensus on most of the subjects that come before the City Council,» he said.

Small colleges have limited recruitment budgets, so often a shortlist of candidates is interviewed over the phone or through video - conferencing to narrow the pool before in - person invitations are issued.

A higher - education lobbyist who follows biomedical issues said shortly before the vote on Smith's bill that her organization wasn't even aware of the narrow definition of STEM fields, and another said her organization had taken no official position on the issue.

After diagnosis it looks like the ignition switch, when it does the no crank I can hold the key in the start position and wobble the key - lock cylinder around and it will crank, its like it does not quite engage the switch when the interior temps get to a certain point, strange issue I have never run into before but think I found the problem or least narrowed it down to the switch or gears.

When another driver suddenly jumped into the narrow gap in front of me, the CT6 braked strongly but smoothly, keeping me a safe distance behind before accelerating back up to speed (for now, Super Cruise is just a tad slow on regaining the throttle, so other drivers are quick to pounce in front before you're back to cruising speed — but it's a minor issue).

At most, as plaintiffs have stated before and will state again at the risk of redundancy, the only relevant issue in this case with respect to global warming is the much narrower issue of what impact, if any, the A.B. 1493 Regulations will have on global warming.

As a preliminary point, the AG narrowed the rights concerned down to two rights — the Charter's Article 7 right to privacy and the its Article 8 right to data protection — before concluding that the compatibility issue should be assessed primarily from the perspective of an interference with the right to privacy [67].

Lord Phillips summarised the key issue, which he emphasised was a narrow one, before the Supreme Court at para 57 as «whether the Relevant Charges constitute «the price or remuneration, as against the services supplied in exchange» within the meaning of the Regulation.

In my opinion, the reasons show that both counsel, in essence, made no attempt to narrow the issues that Justice Myers was asked to decide even though, when one reads the reasons, counsel ought to have known that much of what was before him wasn't germane to the issues he was asked to decide.

The issue before the tribunal was narrow; it was not if the Internet provides a competitive advantage, Forbes said.