Sentences with phrase «somewhat high handed»

While the parties failed to communicate properly with each other and the Defendant's actions were somewhat high handed, there was no award for punitive damages.

Not exact matches

At the same time, there are religions, and some of them among the «higher» religions, which so emphasize the mystical, or it may be the ritual: aspect of religion (to use the imprecise but serviceable terms) that social ethics seem hardly to count, On the other hand, there are systems of ethics, and some of them very fine and idealistic systems, which either repudiate religion, or, like Confucianism, treat it with a distant and somewhat ironical respect.

Political pundits often see the NYC mayor's seat as somewhat of a dead - end to holding higher political office; becoming district attorney for the state's largest county, on the other hand, could put James on a fast - moving political trajectory toward statewide office.

This somewhat hands - off approach has benefited my high - flyers, who have then brought others along in their wake.

Regular loans on the other hand carry somewhat higher interest rates but nevertheless lower than other unsecured personal loans.

This reminded me somewhat of my original, sky - high idea of what a service like Xbox Live, in the hands of an equally idealistic (entrepreneurial?)

Now, unlike certain skeptics, I realize that even «plausible» is a fairly strong statement (eg, if I said it was plausible that my current hand of cards * was the highest hand of cards that had been observed at my table in the last 1000 games, that would be a fairly strong statement), but I thought it was somewhat lower than «likely», maybe due to somewhat increased uncertainty bounds?

This goes somewhat hand in hand with «take the high road.»