Sentence examples for by preponderance from inspiring English sources

2411, 2418-2419, 91986Ed.2d 67 (1986) (upholding constitutionality of sentencing scheme requiring proof of additional facts by preponderance of evidence).

The Administration for Children's Services — A.C.S., as child-protective services is known in New York City — has to prove its allegations against you only by "preponderance of the evidence".

As to the $5,975, the residue of the loan, we are of the opinion that the defendant has not made it appear affirmatively by preponderance of proof, as she was bound to do, that the money was borrowed by her with the knowledge or connivance of Godchaux to pay off the debts, or for the use of her husband.

The UVTA places the burden on proving a defense under §8(a) and (d) upon the transferee, by preponderance of the evidence.

In response, a plaintiff can show by preponderance of the evidence that the legitimate reasons offered by the defendant were not its true reason, but were a pretext for discrimination.

In Freeman, jurors specifically found last week that the plaintiff proved by preponderance of evidence that DuPont did not act - with regards to its use of C-8 - as "a reasonable corporation would [have] at the time based on what they knew at the time". This finding brought the jurors to a verdict in favor of Freeman on negligence due to DuPont specifically causing Freeman's testicular cancer.

The Bulgarians refused to be intimidated -- by history, by glamour or by the preponderance of German fans in the crowd of 72,416 at Giants Stadium.

In their number and their variance, they look like a stop-motion capture of one frenzied soul crazed, perhaps, by technology, by a preponderance of inputs and outputs.

Any dispute as to the proper amount or type of restitution shall be resolved by the court by the preponderance of the evidence.

This extraordinary endurance is all the more remarkable because the Byzantine empire was favored neither by geography nor by military preponderance.

Rich countries have completed the shift from an epidemiological era characterized by the preponderance of communicable diseases to one characterized by NCDs (Frenk et al. 1994).