The court's analysis points the way forward: it explains that youth are categorically "less culpable" than adults, and it requires states to give youth "meaningful opportunity to obtain release based on demonstrated maturity and rehabilitation".
In Roper v. Simmons, Graham v. Florida, and Miller v. Alabama, the U.S. Supreme Court relied on adolescent development research in banning the juvenile death penalty and constraining the imposition of juvenile life without parole sentences, finding that children are categorically less culpable than adults.
In reality, today's South Africa, for all its manifest disappointments and its unabated violence, is categorically less unjust and less unjustifiable than it was under apartheid, and Flanery knows better than to hoist his novel to any decisive moral or political conclusion.
"I can categorically tell you that I can't speak about it until the player has signed," he said, a reference to his categorical statement less than three weeks ago that Balotelli would not sign for Liverpool.
Rather than asking whether beverages categorically deliver less satiation than solid foods, a more practical approach may be to evaluate the satiation of different beverages against the continuum of satiety responses that might otherwise be observed in a range of solid foods.
Brendan Rodgers, who categorically stated he had no interest in the problematic striker less than three weeks ago, performed the volte-face after concluding Milan's £16m asking price was too tempting to refuse.
In his imagined script, Mr. Sorkin said, the president would declare categorically: "There is no way to prohibit same-sex marriage without saying that homosexual love is something less than heterosexual love.
The legislature "is not categorically barred" from issuing a subpoena ordering the governor to testify, Judge John J. Langenbach wrote in a four-page ruling he released less than four hours after hearing arguments in the lawsuit Monday morning.
Less than 10? Less than five?
Speaking less than three weeks ago on the club's pre-season tour of the United States, the Liverpool manager said: "I can categorically tell you Mario Balotelli will not be at Liverpool.
