And no less than Thomas Jefferson argued with the court's 1803 decision in Marbury v. Madison, in which the court conferred upon itself the power to rule an act of the legislature to be unconstitutional.
Even if the government hesitates to invoke the powers it conferred on itself in May to block such a deal in defence of its strategic interests, the public sector is still Alstom's main customer in France.
Age can by itself confer a sense of trustworthiness: brewers and bankers are fond of flaunting deep roots.
Prof. Joshua Dressler of the Ohio State University law school said, however, that the failure to be convicted in a criminal trial does not, by itself, confer innocence on someone.
A majority in Parliament will not in itself confer a mandate to carry out emergency surgery on the state if that is not what was advertised in the campaign.
On the available evidence, he concludes that Mumia Abu-Jamal may well be guilty as charged -- he allows for the possible verdict "guilty but framed" -- and in any case, "Being victimized by the state should not in itself confer political stature".
(It doesn't matter how long an undocumented person lives in the US, a lengthy period of residency doesn't by itself confer any status).
Judge Wright, when he dismissed the case, said that a simple violation of the Federal Credit Reporting Act does not by itself confer standing because if it did, "the federal courts [would] be inundated by Web surfers' endless complaints". But the 9th Circuit, in its ruling, said that all a plaintiff would need to show to get into court was that a statutory right had been violated.
The use of surrogate markers as endpoints presents some study feasibility advantages [52], but improvement in a surrogate endpoint does not itself confer a definitive proof of patient benefit (i.e., a decrease in risk of AAA rupture) [53].
Each of these mutations did not confer resistance by itself, but in combination with thimydine analog mutations the fold change in resistance to AZT was from 2.5 to 6.5 times higher when compared to viruses carrying only TAMs [29].
