But with jury selection nearly complete and opening arguments scheduled for Monday, there is little question that the city's culpability in the 2007 fire will be at issue during the trial, and will form a cornerstone of arguments by the defense lawyers that their clients — Jeffrey Melofchik, Mitchel Alvo, Salvatore DePaola and the John Galt Corporation — should be held blameless.
The NRA, for its part, cites the risk of governmental overreach as a cornerstone of its argument for subjecting any contested gun purchase to the scrutiny of a judge.
He also made a cornerstone of his argument the claim that Obama "funneled" $716 billion out of Medicare to pay for Obamacare.
A cornerstone of this argument is that management has no right to withhold dividends.
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay made is a cornerstone of their arguments for the new constitution in the Federalist Papers in the late 1780s.
Consider the rise of Women's Right to Know laws, a cornerstone of Sanger's argument.
A cornerstone of the buyers' argument is that the financing was rock solid, with few outs for the lenders.
Ms. Mosby's remarks, dissected in the courtroom on Wednesday, became a cornerstone of the defense argument that the prosecution had prevented the officers from getting a fair trial.
Eq. (1) is a cornerstone of the subject of damping.
Indeed, by this logic, CITES's most important tool is a listing in Appendix Two, which allows regulated trade, not Appendix One, which makes all trade illegal.The theory of sustainable use was, in fact, a cornerstone of almost all the arguments at the conference.
