Aside from the idioms, the set phrases, and
obvious cases concerning slang or whatever, the technique seems in a very general way to be a hedge, signalling that the writer feels some kind of uncertainty about a phrase's suitability in the context — even when that uncertainty is in fact groundless.
Not exact matches
Nicholas Wolterstorff's recent
case for same - sex marriage, delivered as a lecture at Neland Avenue Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids in mid-October, bears many of the virtues we've come to count on from the Yale professor emeritus of philosophical theology: lucidity, an intuitive and easy - to - follow structure, a winsome recourse to down - to - earth illustrations, a light touch, and an
obvious personal
concern for real, suffering Christians.
The real situation in which the Christian of today has to make his moral decisions is in any
case such that in very many and very important instances, the decision can no longer be the simple and
obvious application of the principles
concerning essences, even if he respects these as absolutely and universally valid.
I've also aimed to use gentle methods with getting my children to sleep where they worked (in some
cases they didn't, but that's another story), for the simple and
obvious reason that it's more pleasant for all
concerned.
Choking is an
obvious concern for most parents, but in the overwhelming majority of
cases, if your baby begins to gag on a piece of food, they will clear it on their own.
It's more than
obvious by now that getting to your executive meeting with a meticulously laid - out plan and responses to possible
concerns is of the utmost importance in making a Customer Training business
case.
My main
concern on this blog, is helping overcome the challenges facing indie authors, artists and entrepreneurs with creative solutions that aren't
obvious and in most
cases have never really been considered.
Combine that with the fact that an estimated 70 % of all abuse
cases go unreported each year (National Coalition of Domestic Abuse), and 25 - 40 % of domestic abuse victims stay in abusive homes or delay leaving out of
concern for the safety of their pets (American Humane Society), and it's
obvious that a new approach to breaking the cycle of abuse is desperately needed.
As noted by Professor Peers, the «
case should never have arisen at all, because the Austrian officials
concerned should have seen the
obvious human problems at stake in this
case and applied the humanitarian clauses in the law as they were always intended to be used».
Given the
obvious inequality of arms between the SRA and respondents, it seems that the answer to any SRA
concerns would be to ensure
cases of alleged disciplinary breaches are investigated properly and only presented to the SDT by way of clearly formulated allegations where clear evidence exists rather than rely upon a reduction in the burden of proof.
The facts of these
cases are highly topical, and
concern a very
obvious risk — taking children to Syria, a war zone, to join ISIS fighters — as well as any risk of radicalisation (in the UK or abroad).
For what should be
obvious reasons the
case law
concerning opening statements is
concerned almost exclusively with jury trials.
The most
obvious is to file a «Motion for Refusal» where a party to the
case polity outlines the biased
concerns in the
case and asks the judge to pass the
case off to another judge.
Nevertheless, perhaps, this
case demonstrates that in a
case where there is a clear breach of human rights and there is no
obvious counterbalancing public interest or competing rights, constitutional
concerns can be put to one side, to ensure a compassionate result is achieved.
I quoted with fairly
obvious approval the Court of Appeal in AG Ref 24 of 1994 saying «[t] his court is
concerned primarily with the criminality...»; and R v Stokes [1997] EWCA Crim 1885, where the Court of Appeal said the judge was «entirely justified in taking into account the consequences of the bad driving», while making the point that was a
case of dangerous, not careless, driving.