Sentences with phrase «original meaning rule»

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The term «democracy» these days has lost its original meaning of majority rule.
Every Hebrew scholarly interpretation of the original Hebrew is that the word means «rule over».
By that time, in the latter days of antiquity, democracy had long since ceased to carry its original explosive charge — something like dictatorship of the proletariat, in Marxist terms — and its meaning was reduced to «riot,» a characteristically Byzantine misreading of democracy as merely ochlocracy or mob rule.
A spokesperson for Burnham said that renting out the original flat was necessary to «cover his costs» as parliamentary rule changes meant he was no longer able to claim for mortgage interest expenses.
«The judges in the original ruling independently confirmed what our members and supporters have been saying for years — the system is unfair for some of the most vulnerable people in our society and is failing the very people it is meant to be supporting.
I think there are institutional problems with courts» evaluating the length of confinement under the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause; it's hard to see a good legal rule that courts can sensibly apply in a wide range of cases, and to my knowledge there isn't the sort of textual or original meaning evidence that strongly points to requiring courts to engage in such a mushy judgment.
That means — unless you have the sort of subscription legal research tool that is unaffordable to most legal aid lawyers — the only way to work out the current rules is to cross-reference the original and amending regulations.
«That is, it's not much of a stretch from the existing caselaw, but it produces a rule that seems inconsistent with the original meaning of the constitution, and common sense.»
In this case, the court said «When two words are used in a contract, the rule of construction is that the words have different meanings», which caused the court to assign distinct meanings to the words (which are typically used as though they mean the same thing), which doesn't seem to have been the original intent.
The FNCFCS has since requested the commission register the original January 2016 ruling with the Federal Court as a means of initiating filing contempt proceedings against the federal government.
When Justice Abella blessed, as a priest would, the constitutional right to strike, she undermined the rule of law and the separation of powers by going well beyond the original meaning of the constitutional provision at issue.
While your original plan allowed you to use your own repair company or visit your garage of choice, a bundled plan might have its own rules, and that could mean being dissatisfied with service you're paying for.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH)- Bitcoin cash is a hard fork of the Bitcoin network, meaning a new cryptocurrency with altered rules was spun off from the original bitcoin.
a soft fork is a protocol change that is backward compatible which means the changes will be interoperable with the original blockchain's rules.
If in fact the original ruling of the Competition Tribunal was correct, simply put, it would mean the Competition Act does not apply to TREB and its rules relating to how the «sold data» may be used.
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