Sentence examples for be controlling in from inspiring English sources

118, 96 L.Ed. 138, were not controlling in Rea v. United States, supra, they should not be controlling in this case.

A Committee member raised the issue again; the Secretary repeated that "State laws would be controlling in the situation," though he suggested that there "would be few, if any, situations" where state law and § 13(c) could not be reconciled.

The present case is "poles apart from Grable," in which a state court's resolution of the federal question "would be controlling in numerous other cases". Empire HealthChoice Assurance, Inc., 547 U. S., at 700.

The dispute there centered on the action of a federal agency (IRS) and its compatibility with a federal statute, the question qualified as "substantial," and its resolution was both dispositive of the case and would be controlling in numerous other cases.

The Court of Appeals in the first Bernstein case, supra, a diversity suit, plainly considered the decisions of this Court, despite the intervention of Erie, to be controlling in regard to the act of state question, at the same time indicating that New York law governed other aspects of the case.

If you tend to be controlling in a judgmental way while making love, this may be a turnoff to your partner.

Seizures can be controlled in most patients.

Even his final gesture was controlling, in his own way.

Underwater travel is controlled in several ways.

Each was controlled in the same way.

Rats and cats are already being controlled in some areas.