"clear cut cases" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
The term is typically used to describe a situation where there is a definitive answer or solution. For example, "In this clear cut case, the court ruled in favor of the plaintiff."
Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test revealed many examples of where even the most "clear cut" cases showed complexities and inconsistencies that confuse and cloud the issue.
Jonathan Arkush, president of the Board of Deputies, an umbrella organisation representing British Jews, said earlier this month: "In the last few weeks we have witnessed a stream of clear cut cases of antisemitism in the Labour party, which can't just be fobbed off as differences over Israel".
Such clear cut cases are a rarity in this business.
Since military equal opportunity policy does not allow for "disparate" treatment consideration, discrimination cases continue to go unsubstantiated, even in clear cut cases of xenophobic behavior.
Instead of securing guilty pleas in clear cut cases of corporate criminality, the Justice Department caves to the demands of corporate criminal defense attorneys and enters into deferred and non-prosecution agreements.
21 These less clear cut cases of euthanasia are often not perceived as euthanasia by the physicians and are consequently not being reported.
Casuistry typically uses general principles in reasoning analogically from clear-cut cases, called paradigms, to vexing cases.
War is allowed only in the very restricted and clear-cut cases of self-defence and when authorised by the security council.
Parker says there are clear-cut cases, such as when payment protection was sold to people who could never claim, self-employed or seasonal workers, for example.
JJ Barea of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Donald Sloan of the Cleveland Cavaliers earned these dubious honours in two clear-cut cases of over-embellishment.
Especially clear-cut cases of division are those in which geographic isolation has played the principal role e.g., Australian English or Louisiana French.
