Sentence examples for case turns on from inspiring English sources
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked Mr. Sekulow a question that she described as "really what the case turns on".
Dianne Nicol, a professor of law at the University of Tasmania, observes that "this case turns on whether an isolated gene sequence has markedly different characteristics from a gene that occurs in the human body.
The case turns on whether Goldman had a legal obligation to disclose Paulson's involvement in its subsequent issuance of a complicated derivative security known as a "synthetic collateralized debt obligation," whose value was tied to dozens of subprime-mortgage bonds.
"If they really believe that their case turns on being able to surprise a witness, I think their case rests on fairly thin threads to begin with," Ms. Coakley said.
"Cases based on circumstantial evidence can be as powerful as cases based on physical evidence," said Joan McPhee, a former federal prosecutor in New York who is now in private practice in Providence, R.I. "The strength of the case turns on how many interlocking pieces of evidence the prosecutor has".
The case turns on whether a profit-making corporation is a "person," for purposes of RFRA and can therefore claim an exemption based on the religion of its shareholders.
The question of statutory interpretation at the heart of the case turned on what Congress meant by "any requirement".
The case turned on the use of forged documents to try to defame Mr. Sarkozy and others by linking them to secret accounts supposedly containing kickbacks from arms sales to Taiwan.
A daily cycle (2.5 °C range) is caused by the lights at the bottom of the display case, turned on each morning.
The case turned on questions of historic preservation and a town's mandate to uphold its own statutes rather then bend them to the wishes of a single, powerful local property owner.
A key issue of the case turned on whether or not Veoh should lose DMCA safe harbor protection because they transcoded user uploaded videos to the Flash format, something every online Flash video site does as a matter of course.
