Sentences with phrase «practical matter controlled»

The high court declared, «In view of our decision that the Constitution prohibits the states from maintaining racially segregated public schools, it would be unthinkable that the same Constitution would impose a lesser duty on the federal government,» which as a legal and practical matter controlled the affairs of the nation's capital.

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As a practical matter, investors will typically end up with a significant amount of control due to the protective provisions and the drag - along provision, aside from board composition.

An «election» could, however, include a situation like that surrounding the adoption of the Magna Carta or the assembly of representatives of the various estates that was convened by the monarch shortly before the French Revolution in which the franchise is quite limited (e.g. limited only to aristocrats, or to elders, or to clergy, or to members of a political party, or to members of a particular tribe or caste, or to a council of leaders of tribes or castes) who are not all members of the incumbent's extended family and whose appointment was not primarily within the control of the incumbent as a practical matter.

Thus as a practical matter, it doesn't really matter whether the inertia is climatic or societal or technological or economic because the globe will continue to warm under all realistic scenarios (what we do have a possible control over is the magnitude of that warming).

Moreover, as a practical matter, if race is going to be a factor used to measure school success, then it stands to reason that schools should be able to consider race through such programs as controlled choice when addressing apparent school failures.

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As a practical matter, disputing an error can be a time - consuming, nearly impossible three - party negotiation between the credit bureau, the creditor and the individual — a negotiation for which the outcome is ultimately controlled by the sometimes arbitrary decision of the agency.17

As a practical matter, attorneys can not control whether any given client decides to file a legal malpractice lawsuit.

As a practical matter, there is little difference between exercising control over the hard drive of a computer while on the premises where the computer is located and exercising control over of the on - line space of a Web - based hosted service.

This was especially common in the days when research was primarily done with books, as a matter of practical necessity in controlling size and expense, but it's still used by many US state courts to filter which decisions become precedent.