The sole exception to this no-evidence rule is that a judge may take judicial notice of specified narrow categories of facts or documents ( such as public records ) that either contradict the face of the complaint or are material facts not subject to challenge.

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

The sole guidance given the Court for discharging the task committed to it was this: ``

She was the daughter and sole heiress of either a cattle baron or an oil millionaire and, having arrived in New York with a big bank roll, became a dabbler in various fields.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

Being the Harbor's sole doctor, Abel was also its Medical Examiner.

Lincoln refused to allow any negotiation with the Confederacy as a coequal ; his sole objective was an agreement to end the fighting and the meetings produced no results.

The United Progressive Party government was re-elected with nine seats and supported by the sole member from Barbuda, affiliated to the Barbuda People's Movement.

Thus the possibility of re-incorporating Portugal ( up to then Southern Galicia ) into a Kingdom of Portugal and Galicia as before was eliminated and Afonso became sole ruler ( Duke of Portugal ) after demands for independence from the county's church and nobles.

This marriage was an attempt to inherit the throne of Castile as Joan was the sole daughter of Henry IV.

That he enjoyed warfare there can be no doubt ; yet he was not like the ordinary fighting bishops of the Middle Ages, whose sole indication of their religious role was to avoid the shedding of blood by using a mace in battle instead of a sword.

The artist for whom he showed particular sympathy and regard in London was Benjamin Haydon, who might at the time be counted the sole representative of historical painting there, and whom he especially honored for his championship of the then recently transported to England and ignorantly depreciated by polite connoisseurs Parthenon's marbles.

By 1835, he was the Advocate < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s sole owner.

The sole survivor ( Cindy Mosey ) was travelling with her family and the other from Nelson to Wellington to attend a gymnastics competition.

Abiathar was deposed ( the sole historical instance of the deposition of a high priest ) and banished to his home at Anathoth by Solomon, because he took part in the attempt to raise Adonijah to the throne.

In Adrianople ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá was regarded as the sole comforter of his family – in particular to his mother.

It was only later that tin was used, becoming the sole type of bronze in the late 3rd millennium BC.

By the end of his sole rule ( AD 14 ), Augustus had expanded the empire to the line of the Danube river, which was to remain its central / eastern European border for its entire history ( except for the occupation of Dacia 105-275 ).

Labour was determined to destroy the Liberals and become the sole party of the left.

Under the terms of the Bank of England Act 1998 ( which came into force on 1 June 1998 ), the bank's Monetary Policy Committee was given sole responsibility for setting interest rates to meet the Government's stated Retail Prices Index ( RPI ) inflation target of 2. 5 %.

His early operas ( Gli equivoci nel sembiante 1679 ; L ’ honestà negli amori 1680, containing the famous aria " Già il sole dal Gange "; Il Pompeo 1683, containing the well-known airs " O cessate di piagarmi " and " Toglietemi la vita ancor ," and others down to about 1685 ) retain the older cadences in their recitatives, and a considerable variety of neatly constructed forms in their charming little arias, accompanied sometimes by the string quartet, treated with careful elaboration, sometimes with the continuo alone.

The initial, and perhaps even sole task of philosophers, according to this view, is not to establish and demonstrate theories about reality, but rather to subject all theories — including those about philosophy itself — to critical review, and measure their validity by how well they withstand criticism.

On their 1960 descent, the crew of the Trieste noted that the floor consisted of diatomaceous ooze and reported observing " some type of flatfish, resembling a sole, about 1 foot long and 6 inches across " lying on the seabed.

With Conté as president, the CMRN set about dismantling Touré's oppressive regime, abolishing the authoritarian constitution, dissolving the sole political party and its mass youth and women's organizations, and announcing the establishment of the Second Republic.

The expedition conducted in 1960 observed ( with great surprise because of the high pressure ) at the bottom large living creatures such as a sole or flounder about 30 cm ( 1 ft ) long, and a shrimp.

This relationship formed the bedrock of his success and meant that there were few doubts about his status as the team's sole wicket-taker.

Debates in Parliament had included expressions of concern about Russian naval expansion in the northern Pacific, pointed out that the sole naval defence consisted of one 24 gun frigate, and the time it would take for Britain to come to the colonies aid.

Although Barre managed to recover enough to present himself as the sole presidential candidate for re-election over a term of seven years on December 23, 1986, his poor health and advanced age led to speculation about who would succeed him in power.

Charles Darwin talks about envisioning evolution as a " tangled bank " in On the Origin of Species ; however, the book's sole illustration is of a branched diagram that is very tree-like.

The adoption of Latvian by minorities was brought about by its status as the only official language of the country, its prominence in the education system, its sole use in the public sector and by changes in the society after the fall of the Soviet Union that shifted linguistic focus away from Russian.

Gull takes John Netley, his coachman, sole confidant, and reluctant aide, on a tour of London landmarks ( including Cleopatra's Needle and Nicholas Hawksmoor's churches ), expounding about their hidden mystical significance, which is lost to the modern world themes had also been explored in detail by Moore's near contemporary Peter Ackroyd in his novel Hawksmoor, published five years before From Hell.

Swiss scientist Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lt. Don Walsh reached a depth of and were surprised to discover sole or flounder about 30 cm long.

World stocks of large predatory fish and large ground fish such as sole and flounder were estimated in 2003 to be only about 10 % of pre-industrial levels, largely due to overfishing.

The connections discovered would explain about 20 % of the cases studied, indicating that this is a highly significant but not the sole genetic factor determining sexual orientation.

" These assertions were part of cultural discussions about how different peoples can interpret the past and whether any one group has sole ownership of any portion.

Father José Maria Zalvidea left San Juan Capistrano on or about November 25, 1842, when Mission San Luis Rey de Francia's Father Ibarra died, leaving the Mission without a resident priest for the first time ( Zalvidea had been the Mission's sole priest ever since the death of Father Josef Barona in 1831.

" The first proposals of organized suicide attacks met resistance because while bushido called for a warrior to be always aware of death, but not to view it as the sole end, but the desperate straits brought about acceptance.

Finished sole leather was hauled by horse-drawn wagon south about to Little Bear Creek, where it was exchanged for " green " hides and other supplies brought north from Montoursville.

The machine was not actually shipped until the following December, because, as the sole fully set-up model, it was needed for demonstration purposes, and the company was apprehensive about the difficulties of dismantling, transporting, and reassembling the delicate machine.

" Still, a three-judge panel found 25 % of the State's elementary students attended nonpublic schools, about 95 % of those attended Roman Catholic schools, and the sole beneficiaries under the act were 250 teachers at Roman Catholic schools.

She is sole heir to her late mother, who inherited about half the fortune of Aristotle Onassis.

Holden shares a fantasy he has been thinking about ( based on a mishearing of Robert Burns ' Comin ' Through the Rye ): he pictures himself as the sole guardian of a group of children running and playing in a huge rye field on the edge of a cliff.

" Gibson and his Icon Productions company provided the film's sole backing, spending about $ 30 million on production costs and an estimated $ 15 million on marketing.