Sentence examples for contention justice from inspiring English sources

The hearing yesterday was punctuated by a pointed exchange between Mr. Saland and Mr. Colon (pronounced like cologne), who contended that Mr. Yates had not been treated fairly because he was black, a contention Justice Goodman vigorously denied.

Your contention that Justice Antonin Scalia would be a disastrous choice to be the next chief justice because of his strict constructionist views about constitutional law is flawed.

The question of irreparable harm was evidently the question in contention for the justices today.

Their position was that the particular contemptuous acts charged did not in fact have the effect of obstructing justice, a contention which cannot be urged here.

"It is my contention," Mrs. Webdale, speaking before Justice Carol Berkman of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, said, "that if Andrew Goldstein had been held responsible many incidents ago, there would not have been 13 assaults and one homicide committed by him.

Second, this Comment responds to Justice Scalia's contention that, despite the proliferation of standards, there are no judicially manageable standards.

On Monday, the country's highest court began considering a prosecutor's contention that Mr. Erdogan's party, Justice and Development, or A.K., had brought Islamic practices into politics in violation of the founding principles of the Turkish republic.

Justice WHITE's contention that there is no clear statement is given plausibility only by his methodology of considering CERCLA and SARA separately, finding that first the one and then the other does not necessarily import monetary liability to private individuals—CERCLA because, as we held in Employees v. Missouri Dept. of Public Health and Welfare, 411 U.S. 279, 93 S.Ct.

Their confinement at the airfield detention center for more than a decade prevented them from speaking earlier about their torture – a consequence of judges' support for the US justice department's contention that wartime detentions in Afghanistan were beyond the jurisdiction of federal courts.

Schubert's B flat Sonata was the evening's food for thought, if not bone of contention.Which instrument would do justice to this mind-bending farewell to both life and music?

Seabrook tends to place the blame for violence in Rikers on unsafe conditions for corrections officers a contention flatly rejected by local criminal justice reform advocates.