Sentence examples for consistently held that from inspiring English sources

Before 2004, the F.C.C. consistently held that occasional, spontaneous use of certain words that were otherwise prohibited did not violate its indecency standards.

But since then the courts, including the Supreme Court, have consistently held that laws forbidding the teaching of evolution or mandating the teaching of creationism side by side with evolution are unconstitutional — that they violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment, because they breach the separation of church and state.

American courts, following the English common law, consistently held that abortion before quickening was not a crime.

Those decisions--such as the EEOC's decision in Lusardi v. McHugh, brought by Transgender Law Center--have consistently held that transgender people must be permitted access to facilities like restrooms that match their gender identity.

The court has consistently held that imprisonment is a disproportionate response to defamation.

"Courts have consistently held that section 18C only captures conduct that involves 'profound and serious' effects, and not 'mere slights'".

Don Locke objected that materialists can consistently hold that zombies are possible provided they deny 'the empirical possibility of mere Zombies' (Locke 1976: for recent versions of a similar objection see Section 5 below).

For example, a nominalist might claim that a table is intrinsically rectangular, while claiming to consistently hold that there is no property of being rectangular.

One can consistently hold that an indicative sentence has truth value, and even that it may be uttered in such a way as to say something true, while denying that its utterance is an assertion.

Thus it is possible to consistently hold that there are, in the world, certain qualities that deserve to be called 'colors', though, of course, they are not colors, as understood in the traditional sense.

Perhaps the most important philosophical issue is whether one may consistently hold that the notion of problem-solving may be entirely divorced from truth and falsity: the realist may admit that science is a problem-solving activity, if this means the attempt to find true solutions to predictive and explanatory questions (Niiniluoto 1984).