Sentence examples for brief refers from inspiring English sources

Although the brief refers to the specific instance of California and the wording of Prop 8, it is difficult to see how this reasoning could be restricted to California alone.Why?

His brief refers to a 1991 Supreme Court decision in which the justices interpreted another federal law, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to bar employers' "fetal protection" policies that kept women, whether pregnant or with the potential to become pregnant, from jobs that might endanger a developing fetus.

"Of the dozens of Supreme Court decisions to which the brief referred, there were some that I know well, and others I recall only hazily," he wrote.

Mr. Cuomo's position drew a supporting brief from the other 49 states that was harshly critical of the comptroller's office, which the brief referred to by its initials.

"As amended by S.B. 5, Texas's voter ID law both guarantees to Texas voters the opportunity to cast an in-person ballot and protects the integrity of Texas's elections," the Justice Department lawyers write in the brief, referring to the bill number of the new voter ID law.

"I think that this could still fail," the officer said at the briefing, referring to the American enterprise in Iraq.

"Would they take the case?" Mr. Phillips mused at the same briefing, referring to one along the lines of Bush v. Gore.

"America needs a raise," Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif). said at the briefing, referring to a raise in pay, not interest rates.

This very brief paper refers interested readers to several sets of recent publications which describe both the scientific and the technical features of Spitzer in detail.

A brief introduction refers to a paper by Lemeshow and Legall, and a French-language review is provided.

The term "Brief Intervention" refers to time-limited, patient-centred counselling that focuses on changing patient behaviour and has been shown to empower people to control their alcohol use and its effects on sexual behaviour [ 36].