Sentences with phrase «persons is in contention»

According to him, the court can not proceed to trial when the plea of the firms which are in joint trial with the other accused persons is in contention.

Robert Clemente, 53, on Tuesday announced he will be running for mayor on the Green Party line — meaning five people are in contention for the position.

Not exact matches

A main point of contention in the race was the state's stance on the «bathroom bill» which denies transgender people the right to use the bathroom of their choice.

Finances will cause contention when there isn't enough, when there's too much and at every point in between, no matter how great a person you are or the lender is.

At the heart of To Empower People is the contention that those most immediately affected by the decision (notably parents and families) are in the best position to decide which institutions will best serve their needs - in education, health care, housing, and other areas.

Some people see nothing more than the headline and even though it is a small thing it creates a misconception that creates divisions and contention in our society.

And while I'm not sure I agree with the Distributist Review «s contention that this tradition «[remains] as vibrant as ever,» it's foolish to bet against its continued relevance or even resurgence in a world where much of political and economic life is emphatically not conducted as if people — or God — matters foolish to bet against its continued relevance or even resurgence in a world where much of political and economic life is emphatically not conducted as if people — or God — matter.

This contention is reminiscent of the «bomb shelter» logic advanced by many persons in the late 1950s.

Recently there was a Court judgment in Madras which granted the contention of a person who affirmed that he was a Christian by faith without change of community by conversion and therefore entitled to benefits ofthe scheduled castes of the Hindu community.

No — it's not hard to imagine — and if more people took your route their would be way less contention and division in churches.

There are still people who dispute that contention but not as many as there used to be» so few, in fact, that Stricherz does not feel compelled to go through all the copious evidence for it.

As noted, the majority of the audience of religious television programs are people who are already actively involved in a local church and there is therefore little empirical evidence to support the contention that religious programs on television are «draining people out of the local churches.»

The reaction of any person who begins to leaf through this illustrated chronicle of human gestation will surely be extraordinary as well, and the book should be helpful in promoting «bonding» of all readers with all unborn babies, as it graphically documents the contention (made, for example, in this issue by William Saunders) that from zygote to embryo to fetus to birth, each human organism is nothing but human.

His extortionate fee is often why he is in contention for lists such as this, but people seem to forget that the Argentinean was coming into a midfield containing Giggs, Scholes, Beckham and Keane.

Here is a guy who likes to run in St. Ann's Cemetery, near his Cranston, R.I., home, because «it's peaceful» and because he likes to mock the contention of many that in amassing what he claims is a 22 - 0 record, Pazienza has fought nothing but dead people dug up by his manager, Lou Duva.

But... regardless... there are people in contention that i'd rather see him fight first before either diaz.

«It (the driving range) has been a bone of contention with many people in the park district.

Challenging the Supreme Court's order at the African Court on Human and People's Rights in Tanzania, the lawyers of Woyome said: «The contention of the applicant is that following from the earlier concurring opinion to the decision of the review bench, the court can not be said to have been impartial.»

A question I raised before is what to make of the contention that increased benefits and tax credits in the past decade have successfully raised many people from just beneath the poverty line (60 % of median income) to just above it; However, these gains are said to disguise real and more entrenched increases in poverty - if the poverty line were 40 % of median income rather than 60 %, three quarters of a million more people would now be in poverty than in 1997 -LRB-?)

Yes it is more staggering that a politician like Ken Livingstone was ever seriously in contention at all The system was designed to make it harder for the Conservative Party though the assumption being that Conservatives are the second choice of relatively few people.

«Our contention is very simple, it is that the young people of this country deserve a say in the decision which will chart our country's future,» he said.

This is something that was first used in the big PoliticsHome polls of marginal seats back before the last election — it makes hardly any difference when you ask people in most seats, but makes the world of difference when you ask people living in seats where the Lib Dems are in contention, presumably picking up tactical voting considerations.

«I've been taken to task by a couple of people within London Labour for my contention in several recent posts that Ken Livingstone is a near certainty in this summer's race for the party nomination to take on Boris in the next London mayoral election -LSB-...] Oona King was an MP for a London East End seat until she was ousted by George Galloway in 2005.

Some may debate the connection between disorder and usefulness, but it is beyond contention that the rise in the number of persons incarcerated has been yoked to the rise of disordered persons incarcerated.

Breakfast is sort of a hot topic in the Intermittent Fasting world, and in fact seems to be the first point of contention for people looking in on intermittent fasting from the outside.

(That a match between Seabiscuit and goliath Triple - Crown champion War Admiral on November 1, 1938 was heard by a ridiculous 40 million people seems to support the contention that there was something significant about this story; it's a great shame that none of that really comes through in Ross's hurdy - gurdy telling of it.)

I'm not entirely certain that wasn't just festival fever getting to people's heads, but Gerwig's screenplay is definitely in contention, as is Laurie Metcalf's sterling supporting turn.

Since sexuality can provoke so much contention in people, developing a film around these topics can be like walking through a minefield.

The same people who raised procedure as a point of contention in court would do everything possible to preserve the procedure in the law in order to maintain that the program is void.

Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in Mao II that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who «alter the inner - life of the culture.»

Since they are the main point of contention surrounding Star Fox Zero, few people have really given the rest of the game a fair and in - depth analysis, which Austin has attempted to do here.

The key contention is saleability: in the age of smartphones, will people still pay morre than # 200 for a dedicated piece of gaming hardware any more?

These preferences are a point of contention with activists like Kevon Martis, who has helped people in Michigan and Ohio oppose local wind farm development.

This article is an absolutely perfect example of the logical fallacy of argumentum ad hominem, the deliberate focus upon the persons of those articulating points of contention in order to duplicitously evade addressing the substance of the points these persons are making.

This tactic must be understood to be not only greatly misleading given what is not in contention about climate change but also an attempt to manipulate people and governments to protect the economic interests of the members of the American Petroleum Institute..

We were able to glean some updates through the plenary sessions, press briefings, and our own interpretation of the texts in contention... (Somehow, people have started approaching us for the latest intel on what the «Tuvalu situation» is).

My contention is that people who encamp in the extremes of a discussion or opinion really have difficulty with assimilating uncertainty into their daily lives.

So if the price of power to drop in Hawaii, is it your contention that people would use as much power as they do now?

The deadline calculator application LawToolBox is in the running for a 2017 Office App People's Choice Award — notable because, of the nine apps in contention, it is the only one designed for legal professionals.

Argument: A presentation in a legal case that attempts to convince people that their contentions are right.

At the conclusion of the two - day trial, the twelve - person jury awarded his client the full extent of her medical expenses, as well as compensation for her pain and suffering, all despite the insurance company's contention that that she was not injured in the crash.

This dispute arose as the Crown was attempting to advance opinion evidence to buttress its contention that the accused Sicurella was, in fact, one of the persons whose voice was intercepted.

At least, that's the contention of many micropayment enthusiasts, whose impatience for the Lightning Network has led to an influx of real bitcoin being transacted over the network, even though developers caution people against doing so since it's still in the testing phase.

Diligent recruiters will investigate facts that don't add up, and if you get caught telling fibs you will be out of contention for that role, and probably all future roles in that person's remit.

Most people are afraid to bring up a weakness in front of a prospective employer for fear that it will put them out of contention.

(4) In a United Nations» review of 68 studies on the effects of sexual health education on young people's sexual behavior, «little evidence was found to support the contention that sexual health and HIV education promote promiscuity.»