Sentence examples for categorical rule from inspiring English sources

It bluntly rejected the Supreme Court's "categorical rule making such offenders ineligible for the death penalty".

There is no good justification for a categorical rule against corporate liability.

Mr. Roach added that there was no need for a categorical rule against a little romance.

The court ruled 6 to 3 that such a categorical rule would make land use planning prohibitively expensive and was, in any event, not required by the Constitution.

The appeals court was correct to reject a categorical rule of exclusion if that was in fact what the district court invoked, Justice Thomas said.

The opinion stopped short of adopting a categorical rule that Congress can never do what it claimed to do in this law: address the aggregate economic effect of activity that itself may not be inherently economic.

Convergent evidence supporting cultural diversity has been found in scene perception [10], [11], description [10] and categorization [12], showing that Westerners focus analytically on salient objects and use categorical rules when organizing their environment.

"This case is ill-suited for announcing categorical rules," Justice Kennedy wrote.

If Alison's doctor responds to a recurrence with surgery and Diane's with a drug, we talk about it without formulating categorical rules about better and best.

For, on a common view, individual rights just are a special case of categorical rules.

A special case of this perceived conflict between categorical rules and utility is the perceived tension between utility and rights.