Sentence examples for A substantial connection from inspiring English sources

"There is a substantial connection between my client and his family and this country," Mr. Harris said.

The law's definition of a "US person" includes green-card holders and anyone with a substantial connection to the country, whatever that means.

But under the new legislation, the government can confiscate property only if it first shows there is a substantial connection between the property and the crime "by a preponderance of the evidence," a higher burden than probable cause.

Three years later, Congress passed the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act (CAFRA), requiring that federal prosecutors prove "a substantial connection between the property and the offense," and allowing people who can prove themselves "innocent owners" to keep their property.

In 1992, the court ruled in Quill Corporation v. North Dakota that the Constitution bars states from requiring businesses to collect sales tax unless they have a substantial connection to the state.

In urging the Supreme Court not to hear the case, the Justice Department said the Boumediene decision "did not overturn the court's prior rulings that the individual-rights provisions of the Constitution run only to aliens who have a substantial connection to our country and not to enemy combatants who are detained abroad".

However, our research also suggests that only a small proportion of firms see any substantial connection between the national living wage and other changes to taxes and national insurance contributions.

Both parties, increasingly bereft of any substantial connection with the broader community, continue to their own internal dynamics to determine who sits and draws a parliamentary salary.

Among its many provisions is one to limit damages in patent lawsuits and another to require a more substantial connection between a business and the court where it brings a patent lawsuit.

The department's ethics rules define a "personal relationship" as "a close and substantial connection of the type normally viewed as likely to induce partiality". And it's here where the temporary nature of Whitaker's appointment boomerangs.

As with his other books, I would have been more satisfied with a more gradual and substantial connection between the main subject and its modern counterpart.