Sentences with phrase «one's hands of the matter»

«As the clock ticks down on a looming Long Island Railroad strike, Mr. Cuomo is washing his hands of the matter,» Astorino said.

By now washing its hands of the matter and refusing to engage with these very intrusive national measures, the Court is, as Peers put it «undercutting its own ruling in Schwarz».

Through this Regulation, the EU requires the Member States to collect and store sensitive personal data of all EU citizens who wish to travel; but where the Member States go on to use those data in ways that may breach the fundamental rights of those EU citizens, the Court washes its hands of the matter.

If H's application were granted, said the judge, there was a very real risk that he would wash his hands of the matter and thereby prejudice W's position in the ancillary proceedings.

Without habitual residence in England on the critical date, the court may be obliged to wash its hands of the matter.

This, combined with another exception Twitter recently carved out for governments and military, allows Twitter to wash its hands of the matter.