Sentence examples for brief put from inspiring English sources

They also argued that Mr. Scrushy's appointment did not involve an "explicit quid pro quo," or exchange, as a brief put it.

Hence the stampede of occupational therapists, masseurs, chiropractors and many others to warn of dire consequences if the court disrupts "a 150-year tradition of regulation by practising professionals", as one brief put it.

In a footnote to a stinging 11-page opinion, he said the feds in one brief put quotes around testimony that in fact had not been said.

As the 49-state brief put it, "We do know that it's bad business to push a 2.4 trillion-pound gorilla out of his cage without any idea of where he's headed or what he's going to do when he gets there.” Which argues in favor of keeping the milk in the bottle, and the state income tax exemptions on the books.

This is backed up by the Department of Health and Human Services, which, according to this 2005 brief, put the number at 45.8 million.

We will then identify specific areas we believe where the content lives, identify assets we believe supports the brief, put them to the client.

The brief puts the Bush administration squarely at odds with the pharmaceutical industry.

The brief puts sexual relations between gays in the same category as necrophilia, bestiality and pedophilia, and argues that states have the right to punish people who engage in gay sex as criminals.

To its defenders, the law is a public safety measure that bans handguns "because they are disproportionately linked to violent and deadly crime," as the District of Columbia's brief puts it.

The harms are both expressive (relegating gays to "second-tier status" whose "families are less worthy than other people's families," as the Kentucky brief puts it) and tangible (preventing joint adoption, health-care proxies, medical visitation and inheritance rights, among other offences).

As the ACLU's brief puts it: "Each time a resident of the United States makes a phone call, the [National Security Agency] records whom she called, when the call was placed and how long the conversation lasted.