Sentences with phrase «rather narrow place»

«Despite [the attorney generals»] unique insight and statewide grasp of the landscape and the laws, the legislature has limited their scope and put them in a rather narrow place between local district attorneys and U.S. attorneys,» Phillips said.

Not exact matches

We have already presumed to place the Yahwist within rather narrow limits — somewhere between David's mature years and the death of Solomon.

We presume further to place him within rather narrow limits of time, considering the relative antiquity of his epoch — i.e., before the death of Solomon and, at the earliest, the final years of David's reign.

Under NCLB - era accountability, too much focus was placed on a single measure (student assessment), casting a spotlight on too narrow a band of students (low - performing students near proficiency) rather than sparking higher performance by all students.

There are very few motor vehicles on the island and the roads are quite narrow as well as being rather steep in some places.

Embracing the appropriative stereotypes of femininity in drag queen culture as a place of comfort rather than exploitation, Rauth's goal is to establish power and strength in her own femininity through constructed identity and question the surprisingly narrow mindset of gender inclusivity in mainstream drag.

The particularly obvious wire mesh backing on the walls reconfigures the work into a contemporary context, rather unlike the Barnett Newman Zip painting haphazardly placed on a small narrow stairwell against white and yellow flowery wallpaper.

Finally, my purpose in taking issue with Cassese's position in Erdemović was not to condone the consultation of a narrow range of domestic legal systems or types of systems, but rather to condone the decision made by other judges to examine rather than ignore information on guilty pleas that had been amassed in a range of places over a long period of time.

At the end of his judgment he pointed to a clear need for reconsideration of this point at the highest level and also mentioned one definite loose end — in this case there had been no consideration of how the narrow principle fits in (if at all) with the statutory duty to mitigate loss in s 123 (4) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA 1996) which, after all, had been the basis for Hardy v Polk in the first place (rather than the later decision of the House of Lords in Dunnachie).