Sentence examples for by refusing to apply from inspiring English sources

Of course, the Court may, as it suggests, avoid this un-fairness by refusing to apply the exclusionary rule even to the defendant in the very case in which it announces a "new rule". But that approach would make matters worse.

For a judicial decision which sends a man to prison by refusing to apply settled law which always has been and so far as appears will continue to be applied to all other defendants similarly situated is far more than a mere misapplication of state law.

Republicans could accomplish this legislatively or maybe even through executive authority, by refusing to apply the mandate penalty or other elements of the law they don't like.

This often means letting foreign evils go unaddressed, and, in a commencement speech at Harvard, in 1978, Alexander Solzhenitsyn attacked Kennan, by name, for refusing to apply moral values to politics.

The court erred in refusing to apply the standard of reasonableness.

Mr. Hazare is being held at Tihar Jail after refusing to apply for bail.

Americans are refusing to apply any pressure on the Israelis.

Gorsuch was, in effect, refusing to apply the well-established "Chevron deference".

None of the interviewees in this study, however, refused to apply for benefits when this was suggested by the welfare rights advisor.

She refused to apply for parole because that meant apologizing.

"They applied the state standard and refused to apply the city standard".