Sentence examples for * technicality in from inspiring English sources

The case was dismissed on a technicality in 2006.

Pamuk was acquitted on a technicality in January.

Small wonder, then, that they are latching onto every technicality in sight.

It's as if tax increases were a mere technicality in any deficit-reduction plan.

In 1975, a court disqualified her from holding office for a minor technicality in election expenditure.

The case was dismissed due to a technicality in March 2007 but without a ruling.

By terminating the 1972 European Communities Act, "parliamentary sovereignty" will be restored only as a technicality: for in fact and in spirit the referendum drove a stake through its heart.

The SeaTac referendum was nullified in court on a technicality, but in Seattle the progressives clearly had the political momentum.

There isn't a drop of Lithuanian blood in the mix, but why let a technicality get in the way?

Actors in the play shipwreck on this same technicality, and in an inadequate performance of the musical version, the comparative weakness of every other line of text seems to sap every other line of music, too.

(Note the way the legal "technicality" sneaks in there).