Sentence examples for act of citing from inspiring English sources

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Knowing full-well the follies of secondary sources, even Wikipedia progenitor, Jimmy Wales, warns students from committing the all-too-common act of citing an encyclopedia, writing, "Citing an encyclopedia for an academic paper at the University level is not appropriate – you aren't 12 years old any more, it's time to step up your game and do research in original sources".

As much as it pleases me to see statistical data introduced in the Supreme Court, the act of citing statistical factoids is not the same thing as drawing sound inferences from them.

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In tossing out the board's decision, the appeals court said genital cutting was not necessarily a "one-time act" of persecution, citing the case of a woman from Sierra Leone whose vagina was sewn shut with a thorn and then cut open each time her husband wished to have sex.

She was noted for voting against the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, citing concerns about insufficient oversight and excessive earmarks.

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And the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001 cites voice stress analysis as a potential tool in airline security.

COURT LIMITS LAW USED IN GOLDMAN PROGRAMMER CASE The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit restricted the use of the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 cited in efforts to convict Sergey Aleynikov, accused of illegally downloading computer code, Mr. de la Merced and Peter Lattman reported.

In it, Sen. Dirksen, who a few weeks before had played a key role in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, cited Goldwater's opposition to the civil rights legislation an example of "that quality of moral courage which has won [Goldwater] the admiration of the citizens of this land".

The grinding last scene of the first act, to cite an egregious example, could surely have been finessed into better shape by a director with a little distance from the sometimes overripe oratory.

In April, for example, in a 5-to-4 case, the court allowed a lawsuit to proceed against the Environmental Protection Agency for its refusal to regulate global warming under the Clean Air Act; by citing several of Kennedy's previous opinions in his own opinion, Stevens persuaded Kennedy to stay in the liberal camp.

One of his most heralded acts of bravery, cited when he received the Medal of Honor, occurred in January 1945 near Holtzwihr, France.

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