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example and Court's
In Atkins v. Virginia, for example, the majority cited the fact that the European Union forbid death penalty as part of their reasoning, while Chief Justice Rehnquist denounced the " Court's decision to place weight on foreign laws.
The dissenting minority held that this example of the Warren Court's policy of incorporation at the local-government level exceeded the Court's constitutional authority.
The Court's decision is the basis for the European Commission decisions, for example: when the Court found problems in the management of EU funds in the regions of England, the Commission suspended funds to those regions and prepared to fine those who did not come back up to acceptable standards.
In this role the Court has to remain independent yet remain in touch with the other institutions, for example a key role is the presentation of the Court's annual report to the European Parliament.
In his 1958 Holmes Lectures, for example, he voiced doubts about the constitutionality of the Warren Court's civil rights rulings.
After the Supreme Court's decision in Blakely, the reduction of Watson's sentence was cited by U. S. Senator Orrin Hatch as an example of the " havoc " caused by that decision.
An example of this is found in the United States Supreme Court's decision in Legal Services Corp. v. Velazquez in 2001.
For example, he dissented from the Court's holding in Escobedo v. Illinois, that the police could not refuse to honor a suspect's request to consult with his lawyer during an interrogation.
For example, the Court's rendering of the purposes behind the Constitution have led it to express a preference for broad interpretations of individual freedoms.
For a prime example of how this rule limits the Court's powers under the Equal Protection Clause see McClesky v. Kemp.
A notable example of this line of jurisprudence was the High Court's disallowance of a Commonwealth Act which had the aim of nationalizing the banking industry < sup > 16 </ sup >.
They cite, for example, the U. S. Supreme Court's comment in 1892 that " this United States is a Christian nation ," after citing numerous historical and legal arguments in support of that statement.
For example, the Reporter of Decisions for the U. S. Supreme Court is the person authorized to publish the Court's cases in the bound volumes of the United States Reports.
William Safire, in Safire's Political Dictionary, offered the example of Bush's criticism during the 2004 presidential campaign of the U. S. Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision upholding slavery.
For example, " the lawyer's position on segregation is supported by the ipsissima verba of the Supreme Court's holding in Brown v. Board of Education.

example and treatment
For example, the level of improvement noted in a recent experiment with a short course of immediate treatment for parent-child relationship problems compared favorably with the results reported by typical child guidance clinics where the hours spent in purely diagnostic study may equal or exceed the number of hours devoted to actual treatment interviews in the experimental project.
The final example of the failure to use available evidence, though evidence of a different kind from that which has so far been considered, comes from Fromm's treatment of some other writers who have dealt with the same themes.
For example, the model for a simplified ANOVA with one type of treatment at different levels.
For example, " aloin " is derived from Aloe vera and Aloe ferox and has important medical uses ( e. g. as a laxative and in the treatment of burns ) as well as cosmetic uses ( e. g. in skin and hair products ).
Inappropriate antibacterial treatment, for example, is the prescription of antibacterials to treat viral infections such as the common cold.
This means that one drug can have more than one code: acetylsalicylic acid ( aspirin ), for example, has as a drug for local oral treatment, as a platelet inhibitor, and as an analgesic and antipyretic.
Many studies now indicate that chronic treatment with antipsychotics affects the brain at a structural level, for example increasing the volume of the basal ganglia ( especially the caudate nucleus ), and reducing cortical grey matter volume in different brain areas.
Likewise, it is unclear whether prophylactic treatment of chronic infection is beneficial in persons who will undergo immunosuppression ( for example, organ transplant recipients ) or in persons who are already immunosuppressed ( for example, those with HIV infection ).
For example, a court might certify a case for class treatment where a number of individual bond-holders sue to determine whether they may convert their bonds to common stock.
The Advisory Committee Note to Rule 23, for example, states that mass torts are ordinarily " not appropriate " for class treatment.
For example, a Bahá ' í who refuses to follow guidance on treatment of Covenant-breakers is at risk of being named one.
For example in a paper reporting on a study involving human subjects, there typically appears a table giving the overall sample size, sample sizes in important subgroups ( e. g., for each treatment or exposure group ), and demographic or clinical characteristics such as the average age, the proportion of subjects of each sex, and the proportion of subjects with related comorbidities.
For example, 330 for economics +. 9 for geographic treatment +. 04 for Europe = 330. 94 European economy ; 973 for United States +. 05 form division for periodicals
Small, stable specimens such as carbon nanotubes, diatom frustules and small mineral crystals ( asbestos fibres, for example ) require no special treatment before being examined in the electron microscope.
In general, NNT is always computed with respect to two treatments A and B, with A typically a drug and B a placebo ( in our example above, A is a 5-year treatment with the hypothetical drug, and B is no treatment ).
His treatment of heresy, for example, is limited, and he knew very little about the Western church.
In a meta-analysis, effect sizes that represent, for example, the differences between treatment groups in a set of similar experiments, are averaged to obtain a single aggregate value representing the best estimate of the effect of treatment.
For example, in his writings about a young man afflicted with the plague, he concentrated on the treatment of internal and external ulcerations.
The fruit companies continued to receive favorable treatment at the hands of the Gálvez administration ; for example, United Fruit received a highly favorable twenty-five-year contract in 1949.
Having a patient sit with their stronger side next to a wall and instructing them to lean towards the wall is an example of a possible treatment for pusher behaviour.

example and frivolous
Pearson v. Chung, the case of a Washington, D. C. judge, Roy Pearson, who sued a dry cleaning business for $ 67 million ( later lowered to $ 54 million ), has been cited as an example of frivolous litigation.
Right before this happened, one of the cast would generally be giving a monologue ( or several would be having a group conversation ) that was interrupted by another cast member with something that would ( generally ) be opposite what the monologue ( or dialogue ) was about, all present cast would say, " It must be the introduction to the opposites ", and then the inversion fade would happen ; several sketches would follow that were a tongue-in-cheek reversal of the show's subject of the day, and also in which the normal principles of daily life were reversed, often with children having authority over adults or with adults encouraging children to behave badly ( for example, eating sweets instead of vegetables, or wasting money on something frivolous rather than putting the money in the bank ).
The case was noted by some as an example of frivolous litigation ; ABC News called the case " the poster child of excessive lawsuits ", while Myron Levin of LA Times stated that the claim was " a meaningful and worthy lawsuit ".
Not all humanists of course followed his example in all things, but Petrarch contributed to a broadening of his time ’ s ‘ canon ’ ( pagan poetry had previously been considered frivolous and dangerous ), something that happened in philosophy as well.
The Boston media saw this as frivolous, or even biased, due to the public's indifference towards the issue, the specific use of Francona as an example, and the fact that the representative appeared during an important in-division matchup.

example and arguments
Although his paper was widely cited, a random selection of 60 of these citations revealed that 29 of the papers were direct rebuttals or criticisms of Jensen's arguments, 8 cited the paper as an " example of controversy ," 8 used it as a background reference.
The practical motivation for partial application is that very often the functions obtained by supplying some but not all of the arguments to a function are useful ; for example, many languages have a function or operator similar to.
The superficial consistency of most beetles ' morphology, in particular their possession of elytra, has long suggested that the Coleoptera are monophyletic, but there is growing evidence that this is unjustified, there being arguments for example, in favour of allocating the current suborder Adephaga their own order, or very likely even more than one.
For example, invoking police power arguments, he upheld a Georgia statute requiring electric headlights on locomotives, including those engaged in interstate commerce.
For Scotland he used different arguments, even the opposite of those he used in England, for example, usually ignoring the English doctrine of the Sovereignty of Parliament, telling the Scots that they could have complete confidence in the guarantees in the Treaty.
He wrote for example, " Mr. Locke divides all arguments into demonstrative and probable.
One of the main arguments for capitalism, presented for example in the book The Improving State of the World, is that industrialisation increases wealth for all, as evidenced by raised life expectancy, reduced working hours, and no work for children and the elderly.
Another example of the textual arguments against the Testimonium is that it uses the Greek term poietes to mean " doer " ( as part of the phrase " doer of wonderful works ") but elsewhere in his works, Josephus only uses the term poietes to mean " poet ," whereas this use of " poietes " seems consistent with the Greek of Eusebius.
For example, the following arguments fit the slippery slope scheme with the inductive interpretation:
The most well-known example is the transformation of < CODE > let </ CODE > into the application of a function to a set of arguments.
For example, the comp. os. ms-windows Usenet hierarchy has a group reserved solely for advocacy — the Guide to the Windows newsgroups exhorts Usenet posters not to " get involved in arguments about Windows vs. OS / 2 vs. Macintosh vs. NeXTSTEP except in the comp. os. ms-windows. advocacy group.
Though the term had a wide range of application ( as a memory technique or compositional exercise, for example ) it most often referred to the " seats of argument "— the list of categories of thought or modes of reasoning — that a speaker could use in order to generate arguments or proofs.
For example, a function might modify a global or static variable, modify one of its arguments, raise an exception, write data to a display or file, read data, or call other side-effecting functions.
A function template behaves like a function except that the template can have arguments of many different types ( see example ).
The Age of Reason presents common deistic arguments ; for example, it highlights what Paine saw as corruption of the Christian Church and criticizes its efforts to acquire political power.
Citizens ' rights groups, for example, have taken parts of Open Law's legal arguments and used them elsewhere.
Even in daily, physical action, the flourishing human ’ s “… Act is determined by the higher phase of the Soul .” ( Enneads III. 4. 6 ) Even in the most dramatic arguments Plotinus considers ( if the Proficient is subject to extreme physical torture, for example ), he concludes this only strengthens his claim of true happiness being metaphysical, as the truly happy human being would understand that which is being tortured is merely a body, not the conscious self, and happiness could persist.
For example, the extension of a function is a set of ordered pairs that pair up the arguments and values of the function ; in other words, the function's graph.
Adam Smith, for example, opposed free interest rates before he was made aware of Bentham's arguments on the subject.
Many languages show mixed accusative and ergative behaviour ( for example: ergative morphology marking the verb arguments, on top of an accusative syntax ).
For example they could read the National Rifle Association's and the Brady Anti-Handgun Coalition's arguments on gun control.
Methods are objects containing code in addition to slots ( which they use for arguments and temporary values ), and can be placed in a Self slot just like any other object: a number for example.
For example, XML attributes are typically provided as extreme name and value arguments passed to element events, but can also be provided as separate events, or via a hash or similar collection of all the attributes.
For example in Erlang, all arguments and variables are allocated on the heap, but references to them are additionally stored on the stack.

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