Sentence examples for by a technicality from inspiring English sources
Like most of the others, K.K. is a noncitizen only by a technicality.
ACQUIRERS of German firms may think they have a done deal, only to find themselves snared by a technicality.
Collegiate athletes are denied the legal protection afforded by our government to form a union by a technicality – their unjust classification as "student athletes".
"To seek to escape those responsibilities and avoid their obligations, by exploiting a technicality, is not only a slap in the face to the workers and pensioners who have sought to work with the company to find a resolution, but it should trouble us all".
The audience was originally meant only for the two izinDuna and their interpreter, as Maund could not attend such a meeting as he was a British subject, but Knutsford arranged an exception for Maund when Babayane and Mshete refused to go without him; the Colonial Secretary said that it would be regrettable for all concerned if the embassy were derailed by such a technicality.
Only days before Mr Morsi's inauguration, the most senior constitutional court infuriated the Brotherhood by ruling, on a technicality, to disband the parliament itself.
By Chester T. Crowell and E. B. White The New Yorker, May 6 , 1933P. 15 Comment Booth Tarkington received word that a book addressed to him from an English publishing house was held by Customs on a technicality.
By relying on a technicality that hinges on the mere passage of time, it's almost as if the suspect is admitting he did it.
But the signing of Martin Erat to a seven-year, $31.5 million contract (which was at first rejected by the NHL on a technicality, but reworked successfully by the Preds brass) signals a new era of stability in Nashville, according to a story by the Canadian Press "A year ago at this time, I didn't know whether to take a step forward or two steps backward," GM David Poile said Friday.
Poe was thrown out by the Supreme Court on a technicality.
He was sprung on a technicality by a panel of Mexican judges, under circumstances that struck many observers as suspicious.
