Sentences with phrase «year narrowing the definition»

Lawyers for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver asked a three - judge panel to reverse his corruption conviction following a Supreme Court ruling last year narrowing the definition of public graft.

Both father and son were convicted during a first trial, but a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year narrowing the definition of an «official act» led to an appeals court vacating the conviction in September 2017.

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Darwin's rejection of religion was based mainly on a narrow definition of it: the dubious religious doctrine of a six - thousand - year - old earth and the constancy of species since creation.

In recent years the courts have been especially sensitive to the establishment clause, and in doing so they have greatly narrowed the definition of free expression.

But to have such a narrow definition of beauty, based on the image of a 15 - year - old boy, is perverse.

Silver's convictions were overturned last year based on a Supreme Court decision which narrowed the definition of an official act and how it can be used in a corruption trial.

In recent years, the Supreme Court's conservative majority has steadily chipped away at restrictions on political donations while narrowing the constitutional definition of corruption.

Both are facing new charges after their convictions on fraud and corruption were overturned last year based on a narrowed definition of theft of honest services.

The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan overturned Silver's 2015 conviction in a ruling that cited a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year that narrowed the definition of bribery.

Jurors found Silver guilty on all counts, but his conviction was overturned based on a US Supreme Court ruling last year that narrowed the definition of an «official act» in government bribery cases.

A federal appeals court overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, citing a United States Supreme Court ruling last year that narrowed the definition of the kind of official conduct that can serve as the basis of a corruption prosecution.

That's based on 200 official federal cases that fit a narrow definition that counts only fraud, data fabrication, and plagiarism, out of a community of 2 million active researchers over 20 years.

Because this all - encompassing definition is obviously not useful, I offer a narrowed one appropriate for the high school level based on my nearly fifteen years of experience as a PBL teacher and coach.

ON THE WEST COAST, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art had something of a banner year with an exhibition of Catherine Opie's «O Project,» portraits that document the love and dignity of people who defy narrow definitions of sexual normalcy; an exhaustive retrospective of Robert Mapplethorpe (in collaboration with the Getty) and a survey of the horror movie polymath Guillermo del Toro.

But with the confetti cleared, it's apparent that the Whitney is still pretty much what it has always been, apart from a few years in the 1980s and 1990s: an institution often flat - footed in its programming and compromised by its narrow definition of «American.»

Using content analysis procedures to assess media portrayals based on a narrow and therefore reliably measurable definition of bias, they found that across these years, 52 percent portrayed a falsely balanced view of the reality and human causes of climate change.

Using content analysis procedures to assess media portrayals based on narrow and therefore measurable definition of bias (see question 2 above), they found that across these years, 52 % of articles falsely balanced scientific consensus views on the reality and human causes of climate change with dismissive views.

They further note the EnerGuide R - 2000 standard — which forms the basis for both the training of Built Green builders and the bar above which Built Green platinum homes must rise — was drafted 30 years ago by the federal government, and represents a narrow and outdated definition of green building.

Our brief overview of the vocabulary associated with A.I. also serves to demonstrate that those who claim that artificial intelligence will not be useful for lawyers for a few years are using a very narrow definition of the term.

Peisley points out that the facilitative / evaluative divide has been almost an article of faith in mediation circles for the past 15 years (citing Professor Leonard Riskin's theory of mediator orientation as facilitative or evaluative and the problem definition as either «narrow» [position - based] or «broad» [interest - based]-- Riskin, «Understanding Mediator Orientations, Strategies and Techniques: A Grid for the Perplexed» (1996) 1 Harvard Negotiation law Review