They won on a technicality and now I am supposed to pay a lot of money which I won't pay. |
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The only people it really helps are those accused of crime in the courts, to allow them sometimes to get off on a technicality. |
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He skilfully manages to convey the meat of the science without undue technicality, but also without any dumbing down. |
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The life of a prosecutor is not an easy one especially when offenders are acquitted on a technicality. |
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Like a disreputable character who wins a libel action on a technicality, he should be given a ha'p'orth of damages, if any. |
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And in a third major terrorism case, the Justices ruled on a technicality, sidestepping the merits of that case. |
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In any event, no serious artiste should want to enter any level of competition purely on the basis of a loophole or technicality. |
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But this is all a matter of procedure and technicality, not the moral heart of the matter. |
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He was acquitted on a technicality last month, but has been asked by the government to provide a full explanation for his conduct. |
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The nature of average war cinema is one that trivializes the human consequences of war for a focus on pure excitement, strategy and technicality. |
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This is due to a calendric technicality whereby Rosh Hashana, the first day of Tishrei, never occurs on a Wednesday. |
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He uses the money to enter Lisa in a beauty pageant sponsored by a tobacco company, where, through a technicality, she wins. |
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Often, forensic testimony is dismissed on a technicality, like an assumption the investigator made or the way he described something to the jury. |
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Catching him up on a financial technicality is akin to nailing Capone on tax evasion. |
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His lawyer told him he could not understand why the Justice Department would bring up a charge on the technicality of one misdated check. |
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The rule developed during a period of extreme formality and technicality in the preferring of indictments and laying of informations. |
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The fact that it is technically in breach of the car hire agreement is, surely, a civil matter and thus just a technicality? |
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So it's a formal legal rule that has saved them, rather than a technicality. |
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A charge was brought against the officer who was found not guilty on a technicality. |
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Charges of making false medical aid claims against him were dropped on a technicality and he instantly claimed he was innocent. |
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I'm glad he's shut out on a technicality because that saves me the trouble of resolving my own internal conflict. |
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He denied all knowledge of the bank robbery, but police were able to detain him on a technicality. |
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If that is the case, the treaty was shoddily written by allowing the wriggle room on a technicality. |
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Last year, two North Yorkshire Police officers escaped speeding charges in neighbouring Cleveland because of a technicality. |
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Traditional ballet as a whole is being laid to rest in the ethereal stage technicality of rolling smoke and the dancers playing dead. |
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The Court must rule on a technicality about the institution's legal status, not that the director was a serial abuser. |
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Denied the opportunity to vote on anything of substance, fifty-three Labour members registered their protest on a technicality. |
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Info: our rates apply per word or per line and are calculated according to the delay and technicality of the texts. |
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Who knows, maybe something good will come of this, or maybe, as often happens, the whole process will get stuck in some kind of regulation technicality or other. |
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So the Fund's objection was largely a technicality, because the assets and contingent liabilities of the whole of the public sector remained unchanged. |
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The last thing we wanted was for one of these predators to get off on a technicality. |
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They go through the exercise, but when they go to court, the accused persons often get off on a technicality. |
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They could plead that the change is just a technicality, but their lenders may turn a deaf ear. |
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But this immoderation is for sure a part of this sport with a very surprising technicality that is fatal. |
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Truth was, I snogged plenty of girls at school discos – but I did like musicals, so I guess they had me on a technicality. |
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The civil case was dismissed on a technicality but was later revived. |
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The schoolteacher John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution and fined, although the case was later dismissed on a technicality. |
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The DfE reportedly views the setback as a mere technicality that will be put right by the forthcoming education bill. |
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Scott lost her suit on a technicality, however, and, given the witch-hunting atmosphere of the times, the case certainly harmed her. |
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Natasha Lamb, director of shareholder engagement at Arjuna Capital, called the ruling bizarre, confusing and based on a technicality. |
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They were very concerned early on in the process that they may be caught in some of the technicality of this directive. |
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I am concerned that the motion may fail because of a minor technicality or a small nuance that had not been detected. |
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The main reasons for the use of quasi-legislation are always the same: flexibility and lack of technicality. |
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Quarterly and even monthly periodicals are available from several organizations, and publications can be obtained in a range of technicality. |
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I realize that the Claimant is bound to feel that he is being denied compensation on the basis of a technicality and, in a sense, this is true. |
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The big technicality of our apparatuses and technical solutions make it necessary to structure our catalog in specialisation fields. |
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In my mind, the issues of excessive procedural technicality and the lengthy delays in dealing with files are related. |
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Today thanks to a high level of technicality of our products, the fire-proof doors are lighter and close to traditional doors. |
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We never want an administrative technicality to interfere with saving lives. |
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But acquisition of a land title was often a dispensable technicality for those too poor to purchase one, or who were not inclined to do so because of the vastness of the land. |
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Except that when that happens, I conveniently find some bogus excuse or lame technicality to avoid paying your damages or to weasel my way into only paying part of them. |
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Having decided the decision between borrowers and lenders on the legal interpretation of a single word, he then hides behind another technicality. |
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The case was then sent back for a retrial on a technicality. |
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The band's strong technicality is vividly evident throughout. |
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He was initially barred from enrolling for a degree in computer science at the University of Maryland due to a technicality, but managed to sign up and complete the course. |
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It will not be your legal responsibility, but you're simply winning on a technicality. |
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The effect would be to knock down California's gay-marriage ban on a technicality, without affecting the rest of the country. |
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Thus, before a military tribunal, a known terrorist could not walk because of a legal technicality, such as the arresting officer's failure to give him a Miranda warning. |
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In yet another egregious political machination, however, Fujimori supporters in congress unconstitutionally thwarted this popular initiative on a dubious technicality. |
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The opening song sets the perfect tone for the whole album, combining sheer heaviness and technicality with a towering chorus that utilizes the full range of her voice. |
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The parties fully anticipate receiving such a letter and consider such a bringdown to be a mere technicality. |
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Edwin van der Heide is closely linked with optical art and turned toward a new and advanced technicality that calls upon research within both electronic music and digital art. |
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To play the above roles to the full, National Commissions need to be well aware of the complexity and technicality of the United Nations common country processes. |
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Egypt's judges have serially and petulantly interfered with the creation of better democratic institutions, disbanding an elected parliament on a technicality and threatening to scrap the constitution-drafting body. |
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In the case of Ms. Abubakar, the conviction was overturned and the death sentence against Ms. Hussein was commuted by the court on a technicality. |
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Due to 40 years of experience and thanks to the capacity and technicality of factory at Tourcoing, WESTAFLEX is able to provide all the requirements by offering products of different technologies, adapted to each requirement. |
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These difficulties may even be considered relatively marginal, given the complexity and technicality of European law and the amount of players that are involved in its drafting. |
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Of course, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favour of the government, but on a technicality, saying that the government has the authority to legislate to levy taxes. |
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As these are matters of high technicality that are adopted on the basis of commonly agreed principles, they should be trusted to the Commission for the sake of efficiency and simplification. |
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I apologise for not spotting the technicality in committee. |
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I was afraid he'd get off on a technicality, given that if the babies had died in utero moments before he snipped life away, he'd only have been convicted of ending the child's life too late in the gestational cycle. |
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In December, he refused to license a new grammar school in Kent while – with characteristic ambiguity – suggesting this refusal was merely a technicality. |
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That is, at best, a technicality. As for Mr Graves, the holdup in his case rests on another technicality: the state comptroller's office, which controls the money, noted that Mr Graves had not actually been declared innocent. |
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An acknowledged master chocolatier was furious when his chocolate antique gramophone was eliminated from a major contest on a technicality, the prize instead going to a pipe organ modelled by a rival. |
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In view of the technicality that I may not have been in my seat at the proper time, I did vote in support of the motion but if I was late then I would stand on record as having supporting this motion. |
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First, I would beg to differ with regard to characterizing the Iran case, as he called it, as a mere technicality not relevant to the work of this Conference. |
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They are sometimes criticized as a legal technicality, but are an important part of the system for achieving a just result. |
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He was arrested, tried and, thanks to a technicality, acquitted. |
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He was reported for not wearing a seatbelt, and you shouldn't help him wriggle out of paying on a technicality. |
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It would be unacceptable and outrageous if any party chooses to play games with such a life-or-death issue and derails Bill C-393 on a procedural technicality. |
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Instead, Whistler found simplicity and technicality in the Japanese aesthetic. |
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The case was tossed out the following year on a technicality. |
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Rotherham were once denied promotion on a technicality and owner Michael Yarlett believes this precedent should be observed by ERL when considering Worcester's application. |
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Technically, and it is only a technicality, we can still anger Antipodeans living over here by describing ourselves us world champions but it has a very hollow ring to it. |
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The police claimed that they had done nothing wrong, that the men had been released purely on a technicality of law, and resisted all calls for the case to be reopened. |
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If you can avoid getting lost in the technicality and get past the tendency to reify mental disorder, the chapter appeals to the fanatic in logic. |
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First off, how could I ever be a totally slamming, hot French expert on free-running. But, that technicality aside, I honestly don't want to be Henri. |
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He initially walked free from Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court in June last year after a legal technicality led to the salvage firm operator being acquitted of the charges against him. |
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