Sentence examples for brief seeking from inspiring English sources

The government had already submitted a brief seeking to preclude that defense.

"For this," the lawyers wrote in their brief seeking a stay, "the state built its case on junk science, willful ignorance and profoundly problematic DNA evidence".

In a brief seeking to have its case certified as a class action, Aurelius said that MBIA had hidden the Lehman report from the insurance commissioner.

Two years later, George represented Mother Teresa before the Supreme Court in an amicus brief seeking the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Lawyers for New York State yesterday filed a brief seeking to overturn a landmark court decision that New York City's school system was constitutionally substandard and that its financing methods must be reformed.

"Surely federal habeas law should not be understood to establish a Kafkaesque regime in which a wrongfully convicted and actually innocent person may challenge continuing burdensome registration requirements only by committing a new crime that will return him to prison," Mr. Wilson's lawyers at the Yale Law School's Supreme Court Clinic wrote in a brief seeking Supreme Court review.

The brief seeks to overturn the law, which it said "trampled on Mrs. Schiavo's right to privacy, self-determination and personal dignity".

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. issued a statement that tied the government's argument into the fundamental struggle against discrimination and for civil rights, saying that the brief "seeks to vindicate the defining constitutional ideal of equal treatment under the law".

It also filed briefs seeking lower sentences for Merrill Lynch executives convicted in the Enron scandal.

Instead, they have pandered to their base by supporting a constitutional ban on gay marriage (Mr Bush), or railing against firms that outsource jobs (Mr Kerry).This series of briefs seeks to redress the balance by looking at the presidency issue by issue.

The issues that the policy briefs sought to address were decided based on explicit priority setting exercises, and a great majority of the respondents (93%) felt that the policy dialogues (which were on the same topics as the policy briefs) addressed a high-priority issue (Table  4).