Sentence examples for a technicality that allowed from inspiring English sources

In addition, Seitz had ruled a year earlier in favor of Jim (Catfish) Hunter in his breach-of-contract grievance against Finley, a decision based on a technicality that allowed the Oakland pitcher to sign with the Yankees.

Santorum said he was suspending his campaign rather than quitting, a technicality that allows him to continue fundraising to clear his campaign debts.

In the end, the judge departed from the guidelines and imposed a term of one year plus one day (a technicality that allows a defendant to be released slightly early for good behavior).

Is this just a legal technicality that allows Bank of America to avoid liability?

It found technicalities that allowed it to declare an election in which immigrants ran for union positions invalid.

The Oscar nomination for Obaid-Chinoy's film has again galvanized debate about honor killings, putting pressure on the Pakistani government to close the legal technicalities that allow the killings to continue unpunished.

The spokesman called the filing a "technicality" that would allow the Living History Centre time to refinance a loan on its 240-acre site in Novato.

But the Republicans insisted on applying a technicality in the Senate rules that allowed for 30 more hours of floor time after a successful vote to end debate.

"It's a technicality, that's all.

All that the Kerry people were proposing to do, really, was to use one arbitrary technicality to correct another arbitrary technicality — a technicality that, uncorrected, creates a gross and obvious unfairness.

They claimed on a technicality that their terms would not expire until 1965 instead of in the spring of 1963.