Sentence examples for a narrower ground from inspiring English sources

The court then affirmed the trial judge's decision but on a narrower ground, saying voters were not entitled to withdraw a constitutional right once it had been established by the State Supreme Court.

"It is well established that a federal court should avoid resolution of constitutional questions when the case may be decided on a narrower ground," the documents read.

Ian had to walk a narrow ground.

He added: "We cannot embrace a narrow ground of decision simply because it is narrow; it must also be right".

But the court, in a unanimous decision by Justice Clarence Thomas, resolved the case on a narrow ground.

Some of the justices seemed inclined to decide the case on a narrow ground, that of whether the police had acted unlawfully simply by attaching the device.

In affirming the trial court's decision striking down Proposition 8, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, relied on a narrow ground, saying that the state's voters were not permitted to withdraw the right to marry once it had been established by the state Supreme Court.

Hewecker, the last criminal certificate of division case, declined to reconsider the question on the grounds that Rider could have been decided on the narrower ground that a certificate of division could not issue on a matter committed to the district judge's discretion.

The breadth of Thursday's decision, the chief justice said, was a consequence of "the absence of any valid narrower ground".

The tricycle undercarriage retracted into the fuselage, which meant that the aircraft had a very narrow ground track.

The chief justice raised doubts about the section's constitutionality in a 2009 Supreme Court opinion that resolved a Texas voting case on narrower grounds.