Sentence examples for brief challenging from inspiring English sources

The C.I.A. has composed a lengthy reply brief, challenging some of the Senate staff report's findings.

As I pointed out in a brief challenging the state system, this leaves the children of inmates at greater risk for aggressive behavior and criminal involvement.

Mr. Bush's own appointee as interior secretary, Gale Norton, once filed a brief challenging the constitutionality of the act, and now she is in charge of administering it.

Senate Republicans have filed a friend-of-the-court brief challenging President Obama's appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, reigniting a confrontation over presidential power.

He also worked long hours and late nights orchestrating the research needed for an amicus brief challenging the White House's executive orders on immigration.

HE has prosecuted war criminals from Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, advised the United Nations on criminal law in Cambodia, Guatemala and East Timor, and joined a legal brief challenging the indefinite detention of an American citizen at Guantánamo Bay.

Rather, the foundation's brief challenges the contractual and constitutional basis for the decision by New Jersey Superior Court Judge Harvey R. Sorkow, charging that the surrogacy agreement "promotes baby-selling," permits "an elite economic class to exploit a poorer group as breeders" and opens "the floodgates to commercialization" of emerging reproductive technologies.

Mr. Marcus supports scaled-back protections for transgender students and rejects that policies could have "disparate impact" on racial and other groups, and his organization has filed amicus briefs challenging affirmative action.

The city has affixed its signature to briefs challenging the Defense of Marriage Act in the past, including one case in Massachusetts and another in California, but this is the first time it has submitted its own brief denouncing the law.

Wise didn't have any pushback: Tommy's owners didn't appear in court, and they didn't file legal briefs challenging the case.

Then, early in the year, he faced a brief challenge to his position from Representative Bill Paxon of upstate New York.