Sentences with phrase «writing the case against»

But in the meeting, several White House officials said Trump gave Sessions and Rosenstein a directive: to explain in writing the case against Comey.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, May 1 - A District of Columbia federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by state bank regulators against the U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich wrote in her decision tossing out the case, issued late on Monday.

As Lindzon writes, «Jason has taken a few weeks away from running Mahalo into the ground to write «The Case Against Apple - in Five Parts.»

«In many cases, we succee [d] in doing what we believ [e is] more convenient for us, even when this [is] against our parents» will,» writes Rascon - Ramirez.

A YouTube video soon followed in which Left, wearing a mauve shirt with one too many buttons undone, excitedly talks through his case against Shopify, often referring to written notes.

How Trump's remarks against AT&T / Time Warner merger could affect the case, and other important points, writes Prof. Harry First.

Meanwhile, Netflix's success with the Avery case has even paved the way for an Investigation Discovery follow - up television special on the case that aired last month, while former Wisconsin District Attorney Ken Kratz is reportedly writing a book about his experience leading the state's prosecution against Avery and Dassey.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- A lawsuit filed by drivers against ride service Uber should not proceed as a class action, the company argued in a court filing on Thursday, citing written statements of support from hundreds of other Uber drivers in a case that could decide whether they are independent contractors or employees.

A Glaxo spokeswoman wrote us that «we do not believe this case has any merit and will vigorously defend against the allegations.»

«Like a little baby who looks cuddly and cute, this proposed initiative would grow up to be the hulking teenager who eats everyone out of house and home,» writes Mr. Kesselman in a report titled Double Trouble: The Case Against Expanding Tax - Free Savings Accounts, published Tuesday by the left - leaning Broadbent Institute.

Solzhenitsyn encountered a startling case of rationalization when the Soviet editor Lebedev said to him, «If Tolstoy were alive now and wrote as he did then [meaning against the government] he wouldn't be Tolstoy.»

Iqbal wrote a long letter to the Pandit in which he made out a case against the Qadianis, the main charge being that the Qadianis did not look to Mecca as their spiritual home but to Qadian.

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.»

Parkman, like Foote, wrote history from a point of view: in Parkman's case, the Whiggish conviction that, when Wolfe defeated Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham in 1759, North America was won for liberty against popish authoritarianism.

Before the federal court as we write is a case brought by the U.S. Attorney against a co-op building on the Lower East Side for refusing a woman permission to keep a stray pit bull she adopted.

In The Case Against Perfection, Michael Sandel writes, in (despite himself) a kind of Rawlsian spirit, that «if our genetic endowments are gifts, rather than accomplishments for which we can take credit, it is a mistake and a conceit to assume that we are entitled to the full measure of the bounty they reap in a market economy.»

Marannis writes of it, «In the ledger of his life, here was a day for the case against sainthood.»

Thakur's appointment was «like a beacon of hope for those living in fear,» wrote Anto Akkara, who wrote a book about the Kandhamal events and started a petition protesting the apparent discrepancies and injustices in the case against the seven Christians who were found guilty of Saraswati's murder.

«The gravamen of the case against Mr Wood is that he planned to be cautioned, told personal acquaintances of that plan so that they and others to whom the information was passed placed bets,» read the FA's written judgement.

When she wrote her «Case Against Breastfeeding», I responded.

In the couple of years since I wrote my own case against breast - feeding, I have gotten hundreds of emails from mothers in a similar panic looking for comfort.

I actually thought the article «The case against Breast Feeding» was well written and very thoughtful.

Hanna Rosin wrote «The Case Against Breastfeeding» for the Atlantic.

Journalist Hanna Rosin waded into that this past spring, when she wrote «The Case Against Breast - Feeding» for The Atlantic magazine.

«I believe that we should now take the decision to extend British air strikes against ISIL into Syria,» he wrote, ahead of a speech in parliament on Thursday where he will formally argue his case for war.

«Marsh's behavior was a blatant abuse of law and market power: price - fixing, bid - rigging and kickbacks,» Spitzer wrote in the piece, which he said he penned to counter a Wall Street Journal editorial that sought to «disparage the cases my office brought against Marsh & McLennan.»

Spitzer wrote the column in 2010 in response to a Wall Street Journal editorial he said disparaged the cases he brought against Marsh.

In describing prosecutors» case against their defendants — including Buffalo businessman Louis Ciminelli and former SUNY Polytechnic Institute President Alain Kaloyeros — the team of lawyers wrote of the government's «untenable» legal theory, «meager allegations,» and «ill - conceived and improper interpretation of the law.»

The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.

«He understands how abuse of power undermines our democracy and has made it a top priority to uphold the integrity of our government by removing bad actors, bringing corruption cases against 40 New York public officials,» she wrote of Schneiderman.

He wrote: «In this compensation case, a victory for the MoD in October at the court of appeal would come against the backdrop of a giant neon sign saying spelling out the word «Pyrrhic».

Any test case against a CBD seller would draw attention to both the absurdity of a law which even the department who wrote it and are tasked with enforcing it don't understand, and the truly arbitrary nature of our drug law enforcement.

In a ruling issued earlier this month, but was made known yesterday, a Livingston County court judge allowed a lawsuit against the state's same - sex marriage law to continue, writing in scathing opinion that New York's notoriously narrow Open Meetings Law could be reviewed in the case.

New York has finalized guidelines for commercial fishing boats seeking safe harbor in storms and other adverse conditions, eight months after the state lost a court case against one East End fisherman because the rules weren't in writing.

The letters, dated 18 and 19 January, were written for the governor by his lawyer, Mahmud Magaji (SAN), wherein Yari threatened to sue the publications for defamation, in which he would demand N100 billion (in the case of the first publication) and N10 billion (against the second publication) should they fail to retract the publication and tender apology within seven days.

«The question in these difficult cases is not whether a local prosecutor, including one with understandably close ties to his or her fellow local law enforcement officers, is capable of setting aside any personal biases in deciding whether to, or how vigorously, to pursue the case,» Schneiderman wrote, adding, «the question is whether there is public confidence that justice has been served, especially in cases where homicide or other serious charges against the accused officer are not pursued or are dismissed prior to a trial by jury.»

It was learnt that although the anti-graft agency had challenged Justice Nganjiwa's suit at the Supreme Court, it decided to also write to the NJC so that fraud cases against other judges would not be scuttled.

Emojis may not make up a language but these cases leave no doubt that they can convey meaning, writes Evans: «they can and will be used in a court of law against you».

Dr. Robert Lustig makes a damning case against sugar, especially fructose, in his viral video presentation Sugar: The Bitter Truth (viewed nearly 6 million times as of writing) and his book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Dagainst sugar, especially fructose, in his viral video presentation Sugar: The Bitter Truth (viewed nearly 6 million times as of writing) and his book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and DAgainst Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease.

Incidents of rabid machismo accumulate at the mine (as to be expected, though, the offenses detailed in the actual case are considerably more egregious), with the initial salvos against the women taken in stride until the writing - with - excrement on the wall and the tipping of portable toilets becomes epidemic, pushing noble Josie to the stand.

Marielle Heller, who made her directorial debut with the highly - praised The Diary of a Teenage Girl last year is set to write and direct a feature - film adaptation of HBO's documentary The Case Against 8.

SE: In his seminal 1972 study titled Inequality, the Harvard - based sociologist and statistician Christopher Jencks wrote, «The case for or against desegregation should not be argued in terms of academic achievement.

Education Next's legal beat columnists Martha Derthick and Josh Dunn wrote about the case as it worked its way through lower courts in Colorado, noting that a state supreme court ruling against the vouchers on Blaine Amendment grounds could open the way for a challenge to Blaine Amendments before the U.S. Supreme Court.

A book that made a case for their vision of the purposes of education against those of «corporate reformers» might have been very interesting, but that is not the book they wrote.

Third, while making a legal case against the inclusion of faith - based schools, Markell wrote that «the government should not be in the business of funding programs or institutions that promote one religion over all others.»

The campaign to take on The System and its schools also enjoyed the services of a handful of intellectual spokesmen whose written works outline a case against education bureaucracy that remains brilliant in many small ways, if repulsive in several big ones.

Instead, as the authors of The Case Against Homework write, «Homework overload is turning many of us into the types of parents we never wanted to be: nags, bribers, and taskmasters.»

The report came under criticism recently in an opinion piece written by Paul E. Peterson, director of Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance, in a report that challenges the «case» against Rhee and can be found on the website of the publication Education Next.

The CT Mirror has a story entitled, «Malloy's school reforms may be headed for trial,» Ken Dixon, a reporter for the Connecticut Post and Hearst Media wrote, «Court hears case for, against dismissal,» and the CT Newsjunkie ran «Education Adequacy Case Headed Back To Court» last wcase for, against dismissal,» and the CT Newsjunkie ran «Education Adequacy Case Headed Back To Court» last wCase Headed Back To Court» last week.

As a follow - up to our most recent post, for those of you interested in reading more about Kane's testimony in the Vergara v. California case, please see the following post written by John Thompson in another blog titled «Does the Gates Foundation's Evidence Argue For or Against Vergara?»