At one point, Stanford asked about an ambiguous clause in the city's proposal request: would the university have to indemnify the city if it were sued for, say, polluted water on Roosevelt Island?
Israeli law prohibits public representatives from receiving any gift that isn't "of small value and reasonable in context," a somewhat ambiguous clause that will no doubt play a role in the Attorney General's weighing of a potential indictment.
Because of these "extraordinary" factors, the Court itself decided the meaning of the ambiguous clause at issue in the case, without deference to the executive branch.
On Supreme Court and Burwell-King: The Host asks Justices Frum and Shrum how they'd rule on the issue argued this week before he Supreme Court whether to uphold one ambiguous clause about subsidies not going to federally created Exchanges in three dozen states.
One way to resolve doubts about the meaning of an ambiguous constitutional clause is to read it in the context of other provisions in the Constitution — most notably, the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
The hope is that this phrase will provide a legal basis to argue that sport can, in certain circumstances, be exempted from the usual strictures of the EU's single-market rules.What such an ambiguous qualifying clause will mean in practice is a matter for conjecture and argument.
An owner can take the insurance company to court and request an order for the company to pay a claim, but unless the owner can show that the clauses are ambiguous or fall within certain exceptions, it is likely the owner will not be successful.
International water law provides only hints and suggestions as to how states should resolve their water disputes, since legal principles and clauses are ambiguous and contradictory.
It supersedes the ambiguous wording of Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 of the Constitution, which does not expressly state whether the Vice President becomes the President or Acting President if the President dies, resigns, is removed from office or is otherwise unable to discharge the powers of the presidency.
The relationalist might claim that-clauses are ambiguous, and in particular that they pick out different kinds of entities depending on which attitude verb they complement.
In the examples below, we see the clauses that were ambiguous between Verbal (gloss 15b) and Mental (gloss 15c), and those between Material (gloss 16b) and Relational (gloss 16c).
