Sentences with phrase «weak case which»

A prosecutor faced with a seemingly weak case which will probably not stand up in court if it is contested now has another option other than either persevering with the investigation or, more likely, dropping it altogether: why not offer a DPA?

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Still, despite what he feels is a weak case against him, he thinks the odds are he'll be found guilty, at least during this first trial; Japan, which has a more than 99 % conviction rate, is also one of a few countries that allows prosecutors to appeal an acquittal twice.

A case in point: Beauty products, which generate about 15 % of department store visits, became a chronically weak spot for Macy's about five years ago, as it ceded market share to the likes of Ulta and Sephora.

Of course, electronics are the cornerstone of promotional events like Black Friday but just as was the case with department store chains Kohl's (kss), Macy's (m), and J.C. Penney (jcp), which all reported strong Black Friday business too but weak overall Christmas sales, Target shoppers held back outside of that period.

In Chappelle's recent stand - up special «The Bird Revelation,» which premiered on Netflix New Year's Eve, the comedian did an extended bit on the women who accused Louis C.K. of unwanted masturbation, calling them «weak» for letting C.K.'s behavior affect them — or in one woman's case, stopping her from pursuing a career in comedy.

First, if growth did not recover and surprise on the upside (in which case high asset prices would be justified), eventually slow growth would dominate the levitational effects of liquidity and force asset prices lower, in line with weaker economic fundamentals.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Either the claim he makes is weak enough to seem credible, in which case it is insufficient; or else he makes a claim strong enough to seem sufficient, in which case it is incredible.

You call Wenger weak but when he sticks to his conviction, which in this case was to not re-sign players that didn't stick by him, you still criticise him.

It is not the case because of Wengers mentality which has grown weak over the years.

This is considered to be particularly the case on occasion of «asymmetric shocks» which may hit weaker «peripheral economies» in a monetary union, but not stronger «core ones».

My instinct would be that the best (and pretty weak) case for good faith, reasonable proportionality, etc would relate not at all to the group of protestors who were contained, but either to some argument relating to the resource pressures of policing adjacent events, fears of the risks of issues involved in one becoming mixed up in the other, etc, etc which (at its very best) would be a highly pre-emptive and precautionary approach to a situation where there was no existing problem to be contained.

He said the NPP has exhibited «a weak understanding of economic concept... they mix various concept as they go along and they pick and choose which one makes their case strong... so there's no consistency in the way our opponent have analysed the national situation.

The case for an additional station at Heathrow, which would cost an extra # 2 billion, was dismissed as «weak», although the transport secretary said there may be a «strategic case» for considering the link.

There is no reason to build a # 50 billion line which does not go further than Leeds and Manchester and does not link to the continent — and the case is so weak the government does not dare publish its own report.

Posselt writes that, in some cases, including astrophysics and biology, admissions committees made allowances for certain «specific «underrated» universities whose reputations for strong training in the field surpassed their college or university's relatively weak overall ranking,» but she provides no hints about which programs these may be, so it is not clear whether any are at institutions that enroll significant numbers of students from non-elite or minority backgrounds.

Just like currents in simple electrical circuits, these moving charges induce a magnetic field, which, in Mars» case, is quite weak.

Additional blinded screening of the 51 cases and 53 controls at the Robert Koch Institute using an ELISA employing recombinant Gag and Env XMRV proteins identified weak seroreactivity in one CFS case and a healthy control, which was not confirmed by immunofluorescence.

In simpler terms, osteoporosis is a condition in which the bones become weak and can break from a minor fall or, in serious cases, from a simple action such as a sneeze or bumping into furniture.»

The point I keep coming to is that, yeah, if everything is seen through the prism of what makes an Oscar contender (which is, frankly, such a manipulative pursuit it shouldn't be the gauge), then yeah, maybe a case can be made for a «weak» year for lead actresses.

On the other hand, it's often said that a weak dress rehearsal ensures a good opening night, in which case MacFarlane may well emerge victorious in his own right.

Prior reviews in this domain have suffered from a paucity of studies, which in some cases necessitated the inclusion of studies whose weak designs failed to rule out threats to validity.

But the more this degree attainment is divorced from knowledge attainment (and test scores), the weaker this effect might become over time (unless employers really just care about conscientiousness, which may very well be the case).

«When this is the case, it often falls to the government - which is usually weak - or the private sector.

But the worst bias against Florida's popular school scholarship programs runs throughout an new Orlando Sentinel series («Schools Without Rules,» which debuted Wednesday) that seeks to relitigate the questionable case against well - proven private schools: weak oversight, underqualified staff, falsified records and more.

The Honda HR - V was originally introduced in Japan as the Honda Vezel in 2013 but at that time, a weak Rupee value and the high price of the vehicle didn't make a business case for the market, which led them to introduce the BR - V that didn't stand a chance with the Mahindra Scorpio and the Hyundai Creta.

In the case of the Eee Pad, once you separate it from the keyboard, you still have a slim and elegantly designed tablet, which is one of it's strengths: there doesn't seem to be a weak link in this forging of tablets and netbooks, except perhaps that the keyboard retains it's hinge - style dock once the tablet is removed.

Arguably, by investing now when the dollar is strong I am also exposed to the risk of the dollar depreciating against the Euro, but a weaker dollar would mean higher sales in dollar terms, which would compensate in large measure for any loss of value from a weaker currency: it's a case of swings and roundabouts.

You are protecting it so it will not feel such a need to scare off passing people and dogs unless it thinks that you are weak and frightened, in which case it will step in to protect you.

In more advanced cases, pets can become very dehydrated, weak, and even comatose which...

I feel what matters more is the execution than anything, as Danny Phantom used that «kid [or teenager in DP's case] balances school life and secret superhero identity» concept too and that show was actually great at least for the first two seasons thanks to one of the head writers (said writer left after season 2, which is why the third and final season was rather weak).

I thought that maybe if I played some VR Missions — which you unlock by discovering data cases strewn about the linear path to completion and only serve as a weak attempt at adding exploration — that I could hone my skills, get used to the awful parry system, and have a less frustrating time.

I'm only on the second episode, which is by far the weakest case in the history of the series.

In this case, the technique wasn't employed as a weak rhetorical device, but rather as a necessarily informative one, which I will recreate here: a skeuomorph is an «Object or feature that imitates the design of a similar artifact made from another material,» according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Two additional weak points are worth mentioning, the first of which is its plastic construction (which is unfortunately the case with many new products).

In the case of Bastrop the weak narrative is that the fires were caused (in part) by weather conditions which were caused (in part) by climate change which was caused (in part) by the culture and behavior of Bastrop residents.

Which would be a pretty weak circumstantial (not empirical) case at the best of times.

During daylight hours, there's always a minimum amount of solar power available, but this is not the case for wind, which can be absent or too weak for days or even weeks at a time.

In which case, half of the global warming in the last three decades is due to the negative feedback of increased poleward oceanic heat transport as a result of weaker solar activity.

Other conditions have to be satisfied too, and the case for those other conditions is weak, the main one being indistinguishable particles, which fails when so many vibration and rotation states are available at the temperatures being discussed.

This is an extremely weak case, which — though — is different than no case.

The weakest parts of the design, in my view, is the lack of a cover for the USB port, the lack of a carrying case or cover for the entire unit, and the incredibly vague red LED charging light (which only shows that light is hitting the surface of the panel, not the strength of the charge).

It also shows the weakest point in the Court's argument, which is the claim that if it did not decide the case in this way, «it would not be possible to put a stop to the active contribution of an undertaking to a restriction of competition».

The Samaroos were acquitted of all charges in a 2010 criminal trial where the trial judge found the Crown's case «weak» and supported by «unreliable» and «highly uncertain» evidence which contained «significant flaws» and «discrepancies».

This deficit is problematic as a weak start often makes crooked and - as we have seen at the ICC - broken war crimes cases which undermine trust among victims, donors and the public.

Many criminal justice systems place such distinct power in the hands of the prosecutor from the moment he or she possesses incriminating information, even when the prosecution service is the weakest link of the system which has often been the case in international criminal justice.

If fees are awarded in appropriate cases (i.e., not simply loser pays, but cases in which the merits were exceptionally weak or other conduct, as a whole, made the case stand out), then over time the award of fees will alter patent litigant in positive ways.

Now plug in your most favorable numbers at each node,» and when they did, they saw that they still had a pretty weak case, which led to a pretty quick settlement.

And while it seems likely that you'll be able to play music from another service to HomePod through the newly announced AirPlay 2 system, that's still the weakest music support of any of the HomePod's competitors, all of which support direct playback of services like Spotify, Pandora, and, in Sonos» case, just about every music service ever made.