Not the legalistic and grating speeches that Ted Cruz makes.
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Not everyone has been chastened by this legalistic language, though.
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This legalistic approach has proved a red rag to British ministers.
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"His report was legalistic and so was his testimony," Ohlin said.
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But the European Union is legalistic, bureaucratic and runs by precedent.
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Germans have long argued over whether this legalistic strategy has worked.
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In eleven pages of legalistic prose, the F.T.C. demanded proof of compliance.
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Yet the Republican nominee could not maintain that legalistic tone for long.
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The impeachment process is thus also inherently political, despite its legalistic structure.
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Critics contend that focusing on the 50% ownership threshold is overly legalistic.
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Yes, Clinton has been disingenuous and legalistic in her explanations of emails.
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Bureaucratic and legalistic expediency do not justify this breach of good faith.
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This is legalistic gymnastics meant to justify what is clearly a political decision.
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Some American concerns are difficult to deal with under the WTO's legalistic processes.
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Don't be lulled by the legalistic veneer offered by Trump's team on Saturday.
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Second, compliance procedures would shift from legalistic box-checking toward meaningful economic criteria.
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The IWGB, which was founded in 2012, embodies British trade unions' new legalistic approach.
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Do you think that the pre-Vatican II church was too stuffy, legalistic, rigid?
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Mr. Buttigieg has admitted that his initial response to the crisis was overly legalistic.
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That's because this triggers legalistic issues related to the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
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For Mr. Shapiro, Ms. Mogherini's reaction was quintessentially European, legalistic and reluctant to judge.
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Sex is too powerful, too primal, too uncertain to be chained to legalistic consent rules.
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The ones currently in use, they acknowledge, are too legalistic and not sensitive to survivors.
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It was not mere "legalistic argle-bargle" or "interpretive jiggery-pokery," to quote two recent witticisms.
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Making a legalistic argument -- he didn't lie when there was a criminal penalty for doing so!
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This legalistic approach to end-of-life decision-making also creates unreasonable expectations of legal guardians.
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When they do not like what a pope says, they constrict his authority to a legalistic minimum.
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"They were trying to be legalistic about it," said Gregory, who has mapped racial covenants in Seattle.
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After a series of exchanges, the talks disbanded with Malaysia saying Singapore was being unreasonable and legalistic.
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South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham adopted a largely legalistic defense of the president's conduct over the weekend.
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Lauer was a flop, but Clinton's performance, though informed and thoughtful, was at times detached and legalistic.
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Investors no longer trust that failing banks will be dealt with in an orderly and legalistic way.
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The Gulf carriers are fighting back, both with legalistic responses to the airlines' allegations and less formal rhetoric.
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"We were minimalistic and legalistic in our behavior," Mr. Creagh said of the state Department of Environmental Quality.
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The production also included a lawyer who buried concerns about conflict of interest in a lengthy legalistic monologue.
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On a legalistic reading, it is therefore targeting net migration of, at most, 270,2000 (but preferably far lower).
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But negotiations between an implacably legalistic EU and a politically weakened Mrs May might not always be rational.
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The clamour for direct democracy thus fosters the legalistic jiggery-pokery to which it has been a reaction.
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Dissenters, including John Roberts himself, miss the point when they niggle over legalistic, slippery-slope abstractions, Cole explains.
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Political analyst Rosendo Fraga said that the president's legalistic focus is not helping him deal with the scandal.
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" Jaclyn Friedman, a consent educator and author, said that in the end, "Consent is not a legalistic construction.
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It seemed legalistic and self-protective, imported more from the courtroom than from a true sense of caretaking.
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And Robert Mueller himself invited a certain measure of confusion by telling his story in dense, legalistic prose.
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On Thursday, Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, dismissed the decision as a mere legalistic dispute between agencies.
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Here are a few examples of campaign technicolor translated into the black and white of legalistic, government documentation: 1.
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Britain sees no need for the legalistic or (worse) European idea of writing down its constitution in one place.
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But the intent is already clear: to create a legalistic tool to intimidate foreign organizations or shut them down.
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" The Washington Post's fact checker said Clinton has relied on "excessively technical and legalistic answers to explain her answers.
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Republicans quickly jump to the most legalistic defenses, as though prosecution is the sum total of what's at stake.
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In congressional testimony, Pruitt's answers are often focused on legalistic posturing, rather than the actual intent of the law.
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This is not a "free speech" issue — using "free speech" in the broader, less legalistic sense of the term.
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The theater, she argues, should be more akin to poetry and pageantry than (as she sometimes despairs) legalistic argumentation.
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We won't be able to copy America's unique liberalism, and the United States probably won't adopt our legalistic approach.
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Styling himself as an anti-terrorist commander, Mr. Obama buried the legalistic multilateralism that he had taught at Harvard.
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When in power, they tend to come up with legalistic ways of justifying the policy or outcome they'd prefer.
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But much of the testimony, especially in the morning, involved reading back long stretches of the report's legalistic language.
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Coerced confessions served no apparent intelligence-gathering purposes, but they did lend a legalistic veneer to the detention process.
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But that doesn't work if Congress and the public are trained to assess presidential conduct in narrow legalistic terms.
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He abided by Roman law but eschewed legalistic interpretations of Jewish rules, as when he healed people on the Sabbath.
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Why it matters: It's a distinct possibility given Putin's penchant for using legalistic steps to maintain a semblance of legitimacy.
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She tried to leaven the legalistic atmosphere at the town-hall-style meeting with realistic-sounding examples, defying gender stereotypes.
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On what basis would Congress then proceed to oust him from office under the legalistic conception of the impeachment power?
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In legalistic religious traditions, like Judaism and Islam, this problem occurs when religion is reduced to the practice of rituals.
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The problem with viewing this in an excessively legalistic way is that making a formal bribery case is extremely difficult.
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Or, better put, it is a hugely legalistic answer to the question of whether Barr misled Crist and the broader country.
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This suggests the second criterion: legalistic adherence to "constitutional barriers" even if we accurately recognize that such adherence poses significant threats.
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That stands in contrast to the legalistic Watergate equivalent, which was made public only last year, 45 years after its completion.
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For most laypeople, this is a legalistic quibble, but it was enough to send Judge Smith ranting for pages and pages.
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But that's the typical legalistic evasiveness of authoritarian regimes when they do something they know is hard and embarrassing to defend.
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"China says it has 'traditional fishing rights,' but Indonesia is doing things in a legalistic way right now," Mr. Connelly said.
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Democrats hope that Mr. Mueller will paint a more vivid picture of presidential misconduct than the report's dense, legalistic language supplied.
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Trump administration officials denied family separation was a "policy" for legalistic reasons, but they affirmed that "zero tolerance" prosecutions were a policy.
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Twitter said it is expanding and revising the privacy policy content to make some legalistic or technical language as clear as possible.
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The big picture: The public's indifference to privacy policies may stem in part from how long, legalistic, and unintelligible they typically are.
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British officials think that, by insisting on little more than a Canada-style agreement, the EU is being too rigid and legalistic.
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Yet now their selectively legalistic "free speech" strategy helps turn collegial contentions into rhetorical battlefields by hyping and even provoking progressive offenders.
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He often sided with them against the religious authorities of his day, men who were powerful, controlling, legalistic and devoid of mercy.
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The WTO is not as legalistic as you might think, says Mr Winters; countries that stay in others' good books find things easier.
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All voters have heard is legalistic language about grand juries, leaving the door wide open for the Republican narrative of a partisan witch hunt.
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Mark Dawson, professor of European law and governance at the Hertie School of Governance, said the European Commission's procedures were too weak, and highly legalistic.
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The demise of CEU in Hungary, a kind of legalistic murder by a thousand cuts, is the story of democracy's death in Hungary in microcosm.
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The language on the Claim Form is formal and legalistic, but it is a necessary part of the process as we work to resolve the situation.
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That has made a bad situation worse—not least because many countries where Boeing operates do not appreciate its buttoned-down, legalistic approach to crisis management.
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To the Orthodox believer, Catholic theology seems excessively categorical and legalistic; to the Catholic mind, Orthodox thinking in its mystical flights can seem vague and ambivalent.
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But critics warned of a disconnect between the technical, legalistic inquiry process and the ongoing ordeal of traumatized former Grenfell Tower residents still awaiting new homes.
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Some bankers have argued that focusing on violations of mortgage terms is overly legalistic, and beside the point given the widespread defaults during the financial crisis.
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"My parents raised me right," she said, at one point, after being scolded by a Democratic senator for addressing "fundamentally moral questions" with "very legalistic" explanations.
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Glendon is concerned about what she views as an overreliance on legalistic rights talk: I would describe the evolution of the Democratic Party a little differently.
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"An attorney general whose slipperiness and legalistic hairsplitting had frustrated Democrats for several hours finally appeared to be caught off-guard," The Atlantic's Russell Berman writes.
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"I wonder if behind the scenes, they need to invest not just more money but more authority in their teams to overrule cold, legalistic language," he said.
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The 90-day response period for the SEC's proposals is relatively brief considering the nearly 1,000 pages of technical and legalistic rules commenters will have to cover.
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But Mr Mueller, who stammered, asked for questions to be repeated and answered questions with either clipped one-word replies or legalistic language did not help their case.
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Ziegler said the highly legalistic nature of the concept can make it difficult for the public to understand, especially since it doesn't seem to apply to Roe v.
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"He recognizes that 'war crimes' has a very legalistic definition, and that, and that's why he wants it to be investigated," State Department spokesman John Kirby said Thursday.
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But I still like the "only murder is bad" morality, because it feels like the kind of legalistic precept you'd totally find in The Outsider's weird folk religion.
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The legalistic framework surrounding every aspect of your life and job serves to separate you from your own morality, replacing it with a series of rules and regulations.
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Asked whether his lawyer had lied on his behalf in denying outright any sexual relationship between the president and the intern, Clinton jumped down a legalistic rabbit hole.
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Tish becomes pregnant, and they plan to get married, to the joy of the Rivers family and the chagrin of the pious, legalistic women of the Hunt family.
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Here again, I'd think, was writing that stemmed from outrage, and often shame, but remained impeccably well-mannered and sure of itself, almost legalistic in structure and presentation.
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My best guess is they did not want to get drawn into a complex, legalistic debate about the nuances of the elements required to prove a statutory crime.
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Impeachment is a political process as much as a legal one—and it duly involves two linguistic struggles, one rhetorical and the other legalistic, waged simultaneously and overlapping.
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The causes of the delays included the companies taking a "legalistic approach", poor recording keeping, and failure to adopt effective ways to identify and compensate wronged customers, ASIC added.
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She fiercely defended the agency's counterterror chops and her own "moral compass," as Democrats repeatedly pressed her on the morality of torture — and criticized her for providing "legalistic" answers.
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She fiercely defended the agency's counterterror chops and her own "moral compass," as Democrats repeatedly pressed her on the morality of torture -- and criticized her for providing "legalistic" answers.
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The debate is less about legalistic definitions than a way to examine which groups society is willing to protect, and what kind of violence it is willing to tolerate.
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The tone of the letter however was far more partisan in tone than legalistic, reflecting that the battle over Trump's fate will now come down to a vicious political fight.
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But she has maintained that she never received or passed on information that was marked classified at the time -- a legalistic position that has exposed her to significant political fire.
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Instead, they basically condone them as long as these homes take some legalistic steps to explain and disclose the clauses and do not make signing them a condition of admission.
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In the aftermath, corporate spokespeople resorted to an overly legalistic response — airline employees followed proper procedures, as if a bloodied passenger being dragged off an airplane was a desirable outcome.
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A company that wants to restore consumers trust after the Facebook/ Cambridge Analytica scandal should not hide behind complicated, legalistic jargon on how it is making billions on people's data.
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In an effort to find lawful ways to address such events, some Black people made legalistic appeals to convince police and civic leaders their rights and lives should be protected.
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Though the ACLU was founded as an explicitly left-wing organization in the 1920s, it shifted in the 1930s toward the more legalistic posture for which it is now well-known.
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We believe such disclosures need to be brief, ongoing and fully understandable descriptions of the sales relationship; not some longer, one-time, legalistic missive delivered only when an account is opened.
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In cases where a school system has been racially segregated by gerrymandering district lines or by other legalistic means, Biden said he supported desegregation by any legal means at hand -- including busing.
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The causes of the delays included the companies taking a "legalistic approach", their poor recording keeping, and their failure to set up effective methods to identify and compensate wronged customers, ASIC added.
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The unspoken implication is that the suspect would somehow be guiltier of terrorism if he contravened them—the sort of surreal legalistic jump that wouldn't be out of place in "The Trial".
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Working in his aftermath, political philosophers have tended to emphasize ideals of consensus-seeking deliberation, legalistic formulations of political problems, and the dilemmas of individual choice in terrible situations such as war.
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The administration's response — that Congress has authorized DAPA and DACA by giving the president so much discretion in the first place — is a legalistic argument that avoids rather than addresses the problem.
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It is extremely challenging to untangle this regulatory mess, in large part because the federal Administrative Procedure Act (APA) governs the highly legalistic process under which regulations are written, amended or repealed.
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Lower courts took a legalistic approach in rejecting the claim, ruling that intersexual Germans were not discriminated against by the law, that regardless of the term, all laws applied to them equally.
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Mr. Trump has sent a strong signal that he intends to fight the health law, but he sent signals that were strong on the campaign trail, too, just in less legalistic language.
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Review processes and legalistic language, Rudalevige explained, exist to help get everyone onboard, let the president know what he can legally achieve, and protect him from the unintended consequences of imprecise language.
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Yet even as legalistic an institution as the EU ought to be able to find a way around snags such as this, if the prize is a better Brexit outcome for all parties.
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Gorsuch praises Finnis for arguing that certain very subtle distinctions in the law — distinctions some find legalistic and arbitrary — are nevertheless morally important and relevant to a sound moral reading of the law.
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"As the guardian of the treaty, I would be legalistic," Stubb told CNBC, suggesting that if justified, the European Commission should apply the law and fine countries that do not respect fiscal rules.
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The long-serving justice preferred peppery prose to legalistic jargon, and it shows with his longer dissents, opinions and his short "ninograms," which were little memos sent to his colleagues on the bench.
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At some point, however, violent clashes in the street — of the sort that we've seen in Berkeley already, and in Charlottesville — threaten to render legalistic discussion of the First Amendment beside the point.
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Liberal regulators in northern EU countries like Ireland would not see eye-to-eye with their more legalistic German colleagues or statist French, and therefore would not want them looking over their shoulders.
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Although the Congo he grew up in was a desperate place, racked by a civil war in which millions had died and despots had dug themselves in, he kept Lucha both idealistic and legalistic.
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Groups are defined in the most legalistic way possible, and hate speech isn't based on what's actually likely to harm people or even seem offensive, but on what's easy to define in a manual.
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Brokers can still sell proprietary products to clients — products for which they get paid a commission and/or that will benefit their own firm's bottom line — as long as they provide dense legalistic disclosures.
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Francis said he would change current Vatican procedures to severely limit chances of appeal for pedophile priests convicted by church tribunals, saying they often were overly legalistic, allowing for reduced sentences on procedural grounds.
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In the view of the president's supporters, it will reflect a less-inhibited flexing of American national security muscle that was confined during the Obama Administration to high-tech but ultimately legalistic tactical operations.
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It was widely understood that the WTO was meant to create a fair, legalistic trade dispute system overseen by international bodies of judges that would replace the need for unilateral tools like Section 301.
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The president's tweets on Thursday had far more formal and legalistic language than his typical morning messages to the world, which often include words in all capital letters and are punctuated with exclamation points.
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"After decades of demobilization, many unions have become legalistic, service-focused organizations that overly rely on paid staff to lobby elected officials," Chris Brooks of the labor organization and publication Labor Notes pointed out.
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The new system should not be built solely on a thicket of narrow rules, Ms. Hackitt argued, because a legalistic adherence to those rules could still result in buildings like Grenfell that were unsafe.
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Our tendency to read the impeachment power in an overly legalistic way, which is ratified by 230 years of excessive timidity about its use, obscures the political rather than juridical nature of the device.
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"Our very legalistic approach has not really addressed the issue of culture and climate," Paula Johnson, president of Wellesley College in Massachusetts and co-chair of the panel that wrote the report, told BuzzFeed News.
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But by pursuing a meticulously legalistic process and a lengthy investigation, Democrats have, as was the case with the Mueller investigation, implicitly set a high bar for what they hope the impeachment process might uncover.
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Op-Ed Contributor For all of the attention that we pay to our constitutional rights, we devote stunningly little attention to the more legalistic — but no less important — topic of how those rights are enforced.
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Those who know Mr. Mueller, a former F.B.I. director, had predicted a concise, legalistic report devoid of opinions — nothing like the 445-page treatise that Ken Starr, who investigated President Bill Clinton, produced in 1998.
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The tweets had far more formal and legalistic language than his typical morning messages to the world, and came after one of his attorneys, Rudy Giuliani, said the same during an interview on Fox News.
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The latter, because it could only be accomplished by means of complex parliamentary and legalistic maneuvers to get a second referendum — carried out by the people who always claim to know what's true and right.
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The House Judiciary Committee would do well to develop articles of impeachment not just on narrow legalistic grounds but also on the broad ground of violation of the Constitution and the undermining of American democracy.
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The legalistic reading of the IPCC's statements was frustrating to Allen, he said in an interview with The Verge after the tutorial concluded, because to scientists, the evidence and context are more important than the language.
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"Your organization will become less diverse, not more, if you require managers to go to diversity training, try to regulate their hiring and promotion decisions, and put in a legalistic grievance system," states Harvard Business Review.
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A clear majority of Americans favors abortion rights in some circumstances — a view that calls for a very different approach than the transparent attempts in some states to shut down all abortion providers, using various legalistic excuses.
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Investors are becoming more aware of the potential consequences of overlooking certain terms (often couched in dense legalistic language and well hidden in loan documents) due to the work of research firms, including Covenant Review and Debt Explained.
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Boland and Horobin both note that linguistic ambiguities or grammatical goofs can, when parsed by legalistic minds, complicate the implementation of an order, or open opportunities to use it in a way the authors may not have intended.
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With its legalistic language, this pre-emptive strike against student protestors is different in tone to President Donald Trump's jeering call for NFL team owners on September 23rd to fire any "son of a bitch" who "disrespects our flag".
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"In cases where a school system has racially segregated by gerrymandering district lines or by other legalistic means, Biden said he supports desegregation by any legal means at hand — including busing," the Wilmington News Journal reported at the time.
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But many of the trends that Brill identifies, like political polarization, have their origins in the erosion of norms, not laws, and the real question is whether Americans can trust one another enough not to abuse less legalistic systems.
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Aren't you fed up with being asked to read lengthy legalistic disclosures in small print that are impossible to decipher but constitute the surrender of privacy that should be protected, instead, by a clear new privacy bill of rights?
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Another working paper by Mr Leibbrandt and others finds that when firms show the importance of diversity more convincingly, by including a human-sounding statement from the CEO rather than affixing a perfunctory, legalistic equal-opportunity statement, minority applications increase.
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In a wood-paneled, chandeliered courtroom, the language was legalistic, and the case could hinge on an interpretation of what actually happened when Britain joined the predecessor of the European Union in 1973, a step that was approved by Parliament.
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While not every society will have all these categories contained within it (most tribes don't have citizens, for instance, because they don't have legalistic systems where this distinction matters) this is how people are divided and defined within Imperator right now.
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Should the dispute end up in a W.T.O. tribunal, the Canadians could cite the White House news conference as evidence that the decision was driven not by a legalistic analysis of the facts, but by the desire to score political points.
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Mr. Trump can be confident that few people will actually read the dense, legalistic prose of the Horowitz report — just as relatively few Americans read the entire Mueller report — which shows the F.B.I. largely fulfilling its mission in extraordinary circumstances.
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In his fourth month on the job, he fired South Bend's first black police chief, the root of some African-American residents' distrust of him, and a decision he admitted later was made on dryly legalistic grounds, without concern for the human fallout.
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But, as resistance to the revolution mounted, the term acquired a far more lethal and legalistic meaning with the adoption of a 1794 law that set up a revolutionary tribunal "to punish enemies of the people" and codified political crimes punishable by death.
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Kravis' point, made for the first time near the end of his closing arguments, was intended to head off legalistic points from Stone's defense that he's not guilty because any possible misstatements or withheld emails were not "material" to the House committee's probe.
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But if politicians only take one small legalistic step away from democracy at a time, each one narrow enough to be justifiable to their political allies, then a systematic shift away from democracy and constraints on presidential power never ends up truly galvanizing the opposition.
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The new director of the department, Keith Creagh, testified at that hearing that its staff members had been "minimalistic and legalistic in our behavior," interpreting federal regulations as allowing up to two years after Flint switched water sources for corrosion control treatments to begin.
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Roy L. Brooks, a law professor at the University of San Diego and the author of "Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations," has reservations about what he calls the "settlement model," a legalistic approach that looks backward to compensate victims for demonstrable financial losses.
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"The law must be general, but this is a rather legalistic approach," Ms. Jourova told reporters, warning that Hungary had also moved "to decrease the power and the influence of civil society" and to inhibit "political pluralism," or the free expression of multiple and competing positions.
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This sort of legalistic approach has often permeated the "both sides" debates of the last several years — typically at the urging of those who benefit most from taking questions of power and harm off the table, and want to reframe punching down as a boxing match between equals.
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"I did not appreciate the tsunami of legalistic notices landing on the account of millions of users, written in an obscure language, and many of them were entirely useless, and in a borderline even with spamming, to ask for unnecessary agreements with a new privacy policy," he tells us.
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Mr. Trump shook up the ranks of his top immigration officials after spending months demanding that they take tougher action to stop the surge in migrant families at the border and seething about what he considers their overly legalistic refusals to do what he has said was necessary.
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WASHINGTON — When all the partisan posturing, parliamentary wrangling and legalistic arguing are stripped away, the impeachment process that dominated Washington for months produced a set of facts that is largely beyond dispute: The president of the United States pressured a foreign government to take actions aimed at his political opponents.
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Calling her comments "legalistic," he said he wanted to know what she would do if the Justice Department was once again willing to secretly invoke esoteric theories of presidential power to say that the president was lawfully overriding statutory restrictions on torture — or some other activity seemingly barred by statute.
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And that would be a sign that we are moving away from a more legalistic hearing type thing or towards a purely political process, where we are just going to have the people who can shout the loudest and put them at the forefront here and that's going to be the defense strategy.
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The battle brewing over his extradition promises to be just as legalistic, and was complicated by a ruling last week by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City, which held that a defendant who is extradited to the United States had no standing to question whether the Rule of Specialty was properly applied.
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I would like for our workplaces to have a space where women can speak openly and honestly about the culture there — the things that make them feel seriously harassed or assaulted, but also just a little creeped out, or knocked off balance, or diminished — that falls outside the legalistic, bureaucratic, totally intimidating experience of reporting to the H.R. office.
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They stop and start and are frequently interrupted by voice-over actors bragging at you about what J.D. Power and Associates said about a given truck's warranty, they are simultaneously over-coached and defined by willful checked-out dumbassery, there are too many rules and too many penalties and entirely too much legalistic fine-parsing going on given the candlepower of all involved.
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The question now is why Bonds and Clemens seem well-positioned to receive the voters' pardon over the next few years but Sosa—one of the biggest stars of the 1990s and early 2000s and a player who, unlike Bonds and Clemens, was never connected to PEDs with legalistic certainty (he reportedly failed the imperfect 2003 survey test)—does not.
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But when you look at what the independent fact-checkers who have given her a "pants on fire" or "four Pinocchios" rating on this issue actually have to say, it's remarkably weak: She stands accused of being overly legalistic or overstating the extent to which she has been cleared, but not of making major claims that are completely at odds with reality.
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Because Herbalife's conference call transcript and its SEC filings are publicly available, securities law experts said the company probably did not violate the SEC's disclosure rules such as Regulation FD. Corporate filings are often more legalistic and technical than what executives say during presentations to analysts and investors, when they may sound optimistic about the company's outlook, law professors and private lawyers noted.
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ALEXANDER M. SANTORAHOBOKEN, N.J. The writer, a priest, is dean of the Roman Catholic churches in Hoboken and Weehawken, N.J. To the Editor: The most notable omission in Ross Douthat's legalistic scolding of Pope Francis was any recognition that Jesus intended to found a loving community of believers whose members would follow the teachings and philosophy of a poor, humble carpenter from Nazareth.
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Mr. Trump and his inner circle have benefited enormously from this coalescing around the word "collusion" — a term with a legalistic feel but with close to "no legal meaning whatsoever" said Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor and now a defense lawyer who has written a dissection of every public statement that a Trump associate has made to congressional investigators.
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Europe is drawing fresh battle lines around the ethics of big data The European Union's data protection supervisor, Giovanni Buttarelli, tells TechCrunch that tech giants are flouting new privacy regulations and he's not going to take it anymore: "I did not appreciate the tsunami of legalistic notices landing on the account of millions of users, written in an obscure language, and many of them were entirely useless, and in a borderline even with spamming, to ask for unnecessary agreements with a new privacy policy," he tells us.
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President Moon picks a fight with Japan over a historical issue that his predecessors came close to solving, and stokes a territorial issue over a tiny island of zero strategic importance; Prime Minister Abe, who this week will become the longest serving Prime Minister in Japan's history, takes a legalistic and self-justifying approach to historical issues rather than leading their resolution with the humility, generosity and imagination befitting a former colonial occupier and currently more powerful of the two contending parties; President TrumpDonald John TrumpOvernight Defense: Ex-Navy secretary slams Trump in new op-ed | Impeachment tests Pompeo's ties with Trump | Mexican president rules out US 'intervention' against cartels EXCLUSIVE: 2020 Dem Andrew Yang releases tax returns Giuliani calls Trump to say he was joking about 'insurance policy' MORE with his erratic actions in the Middle East and the cancellation of military exercises that underpin Alliance deterrence, undermines the strength of American security guarantees to both countries, while at the same time demanding upwards of 300 percent mark-ups on cash payments for deployments of American forces in both Korea and Japan, deployments that are in America's own interest.
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