Both defendants had wanted separate trials, hoping to exclude evidence that did not directly pertain to them and thus weaken the force of the case.
We removed phyla/divisions that did not directly pertain to the learning goals.
But if you focus on the really important issues--the real accomplishments that directly pertain to your thesis--you'll be able to come up with a short list.
And, as Richard Florida points out, these elements need not directly pertain to crime fighting.
It is easy to find ourselves unconsciously rejecting the ugly realities that don't directly pertain to our immediate circumstances.
Medina excluded most of the material proposed by the defense because it did not directly pertain to the specific documents the prosecution had produced.
Welky's argument, though never clearly articulated, boils down to the claim that the late 30s and early 40s were a crucible through which Hollywood "became a mature industry, comfortable, to some extent, voicing its opinions on affairs that did not directly pertain to it".
These results directly pertain to on-going debates about the choice of ortholog prediction algorithms for downstream evolutionary, genomic and functional analyses [8], [10], [24], [25], [26].
