Sentences with phrase «power than a judge»

Separation agreements give parties more power than a judge has over their affairs.

Not exact matches

Its hands full with restoring power, Puerto Rico's beleaguered electric utility will not need to defend a contractor's lawsuit seeking damages of more than $ 4.5 million, according to the judge in the island's financial restructuring case.

The treatment of other religions by Islam must be judged by a simple test: How did the Muslim rulers behave for more than a thousand years, when they had the power to «spread the faith by the sword»?

When we lose faith in the essential goodness of life and our own humanity, seeing that which we judge «evil» to be more prevalent than that which we judge to be «good», then we have lost faith in either the goodness or the power of God to sustain that goodness and our God has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desires.

God being a power far greater than what we humans can comprehend and yet we judge on what we don't understand.

Griffin lists the similarities between Open free will theists and process free will theists as agreements that (a) the criteria for judging theological positions are broadly biblically based, rationally consistent, and consistent with the best knowledge of the contemporary world, (b) God is the supreme power and is perfect in power, (c) God created our universe, (d) God is active in nature and human history, (e) God is a personal, purposive being involving temporality and response to the world, (f) God is essentially love rather than power, and (g) there is salvation after death (10 - 14).

Paddy Power may think it's just 33/1 that the most insane move ever could happen, but given that Leicester City were priced at 5000/1, here's a list of things we'd judge as more likely to happen any time soon than Salah rocking up at Old Trafford...

In May 2016, Judge Valerie E. Caproni sentenced the former Albany power broker to 12 years in prison, fined him $ 1.75 million, and ordered that he forfeit more than $ 5 million in what the prosecution said were ill - gotten gains.

Though a vastly different character than the devastatingly tough Judge Dredd, Anderson has her own kind of steel and Thirlby taps into with astonishing power.

In his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluations.

No specific technical specifications have been released so far, but judging by the adopted powertrain, the Panther should be a fair bit quicker than its Ford - powered predecessor, but that is probably a given considering its conception in the early 1970s.

Judges liked this format better than the garish badging like what was found on the ’12 model, but we think the Power Wagon and Ram's Black package are the ultimate all - business exterior matchup we'd like to see.

Don't get me wrong, a well - judged power - assist on the steering rack makes the F - 250 pretty easy to maneuver, and reversing cameras are a godsend, but there's still a higher - than - average stress level in tight quarters.

Now, though, bazooka shots have so much weight behind them that judging shots has become a far trickier process than before, and even the strongest shots barely seem to have any power behind them.

People who buy just because of power are not gamers, its about games and as it stands one console has more variety and exclusives than the other, judging by E3, this will not be changing any time soon.

To put that into context, the xbox one has so far sold less than the ABBA dance game on Wii or the 3DS power adapter... it's clearly not going to come anywhere near matching the Wii U sales so far, it might not even match its sales for that particular month judging by that.

Now aged 40, he was recently judged in ArtReview magazine's «Power 100», to be more influential than Charles Saatchi, Christie's chief, François Pinault, or the million - dollar - a-canvas painter Gerhard Richter.

He also told the committee that the electric power industry, particularly the Edison Electric Institute, «thought their members would be better served by getting out in front and actively engaging» regulators trying to shape future controls, «rather than trying to fight what they judge to be inevitable.»

At this point, five years in, Obama should also be judged by his actions (tightened car emission standards; delayed power plant rules) rather than his words on climate change.

Solar advocates were popping corks when a New Year's Eve ruling by an administrative law judge in Minnesota said that distributed solar arrays were a more cost - effective resource than natural gas to meet Xcel Energy's peak power needs.

But getting back to my original question: are small - time judges more likely to abuse their power than those who play in the big leagues, such as those who sit on federal courts?

12Judicial deference to jury verdicts may have been stronger in 18thcentury America than in England, and judges» power to order new trials for excessive damages more contested.

For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before them.

Furthermore, uncontested divorces keep more power in the hands of the spouses, rather than a judge.

Although most appellate courts believe in the curative powers of a judge's instructions, I always say it's better to be safe than sorry.

The judge stated that the power of attorney was «no more than a tool which enabled the defendant to manage the sale of the property on his mother's behalf».

But my initial reaction is that it's unfortunate (but not surprising) that for both Supreme Court nominations, the president has chosen well - connected insiders with ties to the executive branch, rather than individuals who are more likely to bring a more «independent» perspective to issues of government and especially presidential power... On the other hand, I'm pleased that Miers is (a) not from an elite law school; (b) not a federal judge; and (c) spent the vast majority of her career outside the beltway.

As Scalia put it in Rita, ``... there will inevitably be some constitutional violations under a system of» [beyond a reasonable doubt because some judges are smarter than some juries and when that happens our balance of powers as exercised by the people can go take a dump].

Because more and more judges are reading briefs on computer screens, rather than on paper, in Part 1 of this program, attendees learned how to leverage technology as well as principles of document design and web usability to maximize the persuasive power of their briefs.

The investigatory powers under Pt 8 are a serious interference with a subject's human rights but they are a lesser interference with liberty than the power of arrest, a power that is often exercised by a constable on the spot without reference to a judge.

More specifically, they are seeking declarations that Québec could not, consistently with section 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867, grant its provincial court exclusive jurisdiction to hear cases where the amount at issue is more than $ 10 000 or any powers of judicial review over provincial administrative tribunals, because these powers are reserved for federally - appointed judges.

While I have heard these refrains before, I find them both odd and at odds with fundamental notions of separation of powers and federal sentencing judges» overarching command to impose a sentence that is «sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with the purposes» of federal sentencing.

This is not at all beyond the powers of IT folks at the moment; and word processors can be customized, if need be, to enable machine readable judgments to be crafted by judges or their assistants with no more fuss than they now encounter using Word.

In many ways, arbitrators have more power than state - appointed judges; they can't be appealed or corrected.

The provision would extend the powers and rights of audience of DCWs by enabling them to conduct: - summary trials in magistrates» courts; - certain proceedings in magistrates» courts, including proceedings relating to offences triable only on indictment by a judge and jury at the crown court; - applications and other proceedings relating to «preventative civil orders» such as anti-social behaviour orders; and - certain proceedings (other than criminal proceedings) assigned to the director of public prosecutions by the attorney general under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, s 3 (2)(g).

Not only judges take it upon themselves to wield the scythe heartlessly on mere mortals, unrestrained by and yea, contemptuous of any concept that there could be powers or laws greater than they.

Thus, most people find that it is much easier to go to court, where the rules are already established, and the judge has the power to decide everything, than it is to set all of the ground rules necessary to conduct an arbitration.

We know how important this is to you, which is why we are here to put the power in your hands rather than in the hands of a judge.

It gives the parents — who know their children best — rather than the judge the power to make decisions about their children.