In many practice areas, including large and lucrative bankruptcy cases, prior court rulings (including the United States Supreme Court's 2010 opinion in Perdue v. Kenny A). essentially require lawyers to use the billable-hour approach if they want to assure approval of their fee petitions.
He helped assure the approval of the Declaration of Independence (1776) in New York, where he was a member of the provincial Congress.
Approval of an operations permit covering one phase of operations does not assure future approval of, or the terms of future approval for, an operations permit covering a subsequent phase.
In this, master Marclay is most assuredly a follower of mine, and in turn assures my approval of The Clock.
The council's recommendation virtually assures formal approval of 16 different types of low-dose pills from nine pharmaceutical companies within about a month, Japanese media reported.
TRY IT!" Often, over the years, when I've succumbed to "doing the right thing," that would make someone else happy, or assure their approval of me, it did not work out for the best.
Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the majority leader, plans to bring the measure before the full Senate next week as a part of an antiterrorism package that is all but assured of approval.
It now goes to the Senate, on October 27th, where it is assured of approval in a similarly raucous manner.The opposition's ire is understandable.
Yesterday, the offices of both Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Gov. Eliot Spitzer offered statements of support for the transportation authority's proposed fare structural changes, making it all but assured of approval.
Mr. Blair was assured of parliamentary approval because of the support of the Conservative Party, but his authority in British political life would have been called into serious question if he and his government had ended up having to depend upon the opposition Tories.
