Sentences with phrase «not against defense»

When this case comes to the High Court, the Court may want to consider issuing sanctions — not against defense attorney Brass, but against state's attorney Brunker for bringing this matter to begin with.

Not exact matches

The beefed up protections should prevent hackers from creating counterfeit credit cards, but they are no defense against fraudulent «card not present» transactions, such as occur online.

Second, the electoral college got stuck in to provide a last line of defense against public stupidity — in case you didn't know it, the electors aren't legally bound to vote as their state's majority has.

In fact, in December 2017 a Virginia district court judge ruled against a female plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation against defense contractor BAE Systems, in part, because she «did not take advantage of BAE's harassment reporting procedures of which she was well aware.»

«Requiring the banks to pay treble damages to every plaintiff who ended up on the wrong side of an independent Libor ‐ denominated derivative swap would, if appellants» allegations were proved at trial, not only bankrupt 16 of the world's most important financial institutions, but also vastly extend the potential scope of antitrust liability in myriad markets where derivative instruments have proliferated,» the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York said in the ruling.A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived private antitrust litigation accusing major banks of conspiring to manipulate the Libor benchmark interest rate, in a big setback for their defense against investors» claims of market - rigging.

In 2017: It wasn't a great season for the Alabama defense, but Payne continued to prove his worth, recording 45 tackles against some brutally tough matchups.

Turns out those human aliens don't love Earth very much, as the off - world Settlement Defense Front decides to wage war against the third rock from the sun.

Not only will it help you serve your clients and show your professionalism; it may be your best defense against fallacious legal claims.

But if your only defense against invading armies is a moat, you will not last long.

A judge has ruled that Uber can't present a key argument in its defense against an Alphabet lawsuit.

But, as it happens, we have a defense against this barbarity, an old way of thinking about these things that has not quite gone out of fashion.

That it is so is not surprising because the defense of life against death was the heart of Richard's life.

My piece was not a «lament,» but essentially a defense of Pope Benedict (as was my brief follow - up here) against just the type of over-the-top criticisms cited elsewhere in Allen's article, even as I raised one respectful question about the pope's prudential decision not to meet with leading dissidents — a legitimate, good - faith debate among sincere Catholics.

Atheism is not defense against barbarism.

The first line of defense against tyranny is free elections and a free press, not Saturday night specials.

As for the «narrow public witness» against which John Murdock rightly cautions, I really don't think «prioritizing» equals «ignoring,» such that to prioritize the defense of religious freedom and the right to life excludes other issues from the Church's social witness and public policy advocacy.

This he could not do, and so, in self - defense against the moral challenge from his brother, Cain engaged in «Just War» against Abel, and murdered him.

Recovery of that which has been wrongly taken and punishment of evildoing are not explicitly named as justifications for the use of armed force by states in international law, but arguably they have been subsumed into the concept of self - defense: the former being recast as defense against an armed attack still in progress, as in the recovery of Kuwait from Iraq in 1991, the latter being recast as the right of retaliation.

Not explicitly named here is the sole just cause for a state's resort to force on its own authority that is clearly allowed in our contemporary positive international law: self - defense against an attack under way or clearly imminent.

Of course, the best defense against fatigue won't be found in the refrigerator but in at least seven hours of sleep.

That Aquinas does not follow the canonists in explicitly naming defense against attack as a just cause for resort to force follows, I suggest, from his commitment to this larger conception of defense.

But though Article 2 of the Charter sought to outlaw any use of armed force between or among states except in defense against aggression, it did not clearly define what counted as aggression — a matter that remains unsettled, as the recent debate over what counts as legitimate preemption testifies.

Like it or not, pre-emptive strikes are our ONLY means of defense against this kind of enemy.

Romney still hasn't figured a defense against Santorum's critique that will work with right - leaning voters.

Each point might have been expanded; each of them also needs, what there has not been space to provide, a defense against criticism.

,» it's past time to learn that irony, like shame, is no defense against those who don't recognize it.

Madison's Federalist No. 10 should be seen not as a defense of radical individualism against moral majoritarianism but as a defense of republican self - government.

And even the rule against murder is not exactly the same as the Commandment: We recognize exceptions, such as self - defense, that the Commandment simply does not.

One can not finish this well «written and pleasantly accessible defense of Hellenic civilization without wondering if the fierce resentment against Attic superiority (and Thornton quotes a great deal of such resentful scholarship in the early chapters) does not conceal a closet nihilism» a hostility to the light of Being first honored and brought to expression by the Greek philosophers.

Thornton's defense against the charge that he denies Christ's humanity is not wholly convincing:

TIME bristled against GoT «s showrunners» defense of the scene, saying «This is not a gray area.»

The main issue is not whether sex abuse occurred, as defense attorneys have pointed out, but how the Archdiocese of Philadelphia - Monsignor William Lynn in particular - handled the allegations against priests in the diocese.

The government should be more concerned about military equipment than bed nets because providing for defense I emphasize defense) of the people of the US against those who would threaten our lives, liberty or property with force is one of it's primary roles; being a charity is not.

... Irreducible complexity is a negative argument against evolution, not proof of design, a point conceded by defense expert Professor Minnich.»

Plantinga's famous «Free - Will Defense», Griffin points out, is by Plantinga's own admission not a theodicy — an attempt to explain the existence of evil — but rather simply a defense against the charge that «A good God exists» and «Evil exists» are logically incompDefense», Griffin points out, is by Plantinga's own admission not a theodicy — an attempt to explain the existence of evil — but rather simply a defense against the charge that «A good God exists» and «Evil exists» are logically incompdefense against the charge that «A good God exists» and «Evil exists» are logically incompatible.

Against this background of militant feminism, which did not hesitate to advocate counterviolence — at least in self - defense — to male violence against women, pacifists in the women's movement were made to feel isolated and defAgainst this background of militant feminism, which did not hesitate to advocate counterviolence — at least in self - defense — to male violence against women, pacifists in the women's movement were made to feel isolated and defagainst women, pacifists in the women's movement were made to feel isolated and defensive.

... Above all, do not attempt to use science... as a defense against Christianity.

Ironic isn't it... that he uses bullying tactics in his defense against being labeled a bully and seems totally oblivious to it.

Theologians in the «60s, discovering that the biblicism and antiscientism of their Barthian forebears would no longer serve as a defense against secular attacks, cast: about for a preserve of true religious experience that could not be explained away as just one of many parochial perspectives on the universe.

The result is that religion becomes a defense against God or, at least, a defense against a deeply intimate experince of God that challenges us to become what we are — image bears of God, called to become sacraments of Divine Love in this world, not just waiting for God to «come down» and do the transforming work FOR us instead of THROUGH us.

What I am against is the use of Scripture as a defense for the practice, especially when these passages are used to lay burdens of guilt on others if they don't give more, tithe more, and «joyfully» sacrifice more.

Against them, Reagan stands up for his economic and defense record, and argues for school prayer, tuition tax credits and abortion restrictions — not to impose any religious establishment but to restore religious freedom, strengthen traditional «social mores» and protect the unborn.

Since this is an aspect of our national defense against terrorism, as long as Snowden is visiting Hong Kong and Moscow and not Tehran or some secret headquarters of Al Qaeda, then what is the big deal?

This defense should not only be directed against governmental actors.

Not just the Hindu, but also the Buddhist and the Jam, the Christian, the Muslim and the Sikh, and even earlier than these, the primal cultures of dalits and tribals provided both a defense against cultural domination and possibilities of mutual enrichment.

After the allegations against Bishop Finn's surfaced, a number of conservative Catholics rallied to his defense, arguing that he was being unjustly persecuted, not least because he was «orthodox.»

Though defense mechanisms act to protect functional attitudes against threat and change, these defense mechanisms are not absolute.

They did not prioritize defense against armed attack, and certainly did not define just cause in terms of such self - defense, reflecting Augustine's conception of just war [as one in which] a Christian might justifiably use force to protect an innocent neighbor against harm.

The Church can not deny all violence in the world, particularly it can not deny the violence of self or communal defense against violent attack.

how come «defense of marriage» only applies against gay marriage and not against «adultery»?