Sentence examples for decide an issue from inspiring English sources

The majority vote of the unit became its vote, and a majority of unit votes was needed to decide an issue.

Minnesota has a companion rule, not directly at issue in the case, that prohibits candidates from pledging or promising to decide an issue in a particular way.

Long after all play had ended, it had to decide an issue that would determine the result of the Reisinger Knockout Team Championship.

2427, 85 L.Ed.2d 791985985), this case does not present a proper occasion for us to exercise our discretion to decide an issue despite petitioner's failure to preserve it.

(To whom do we owe an additional explanation for declining to decide an issue, once we have explained that it makes no difference?) It also seems to me exaggerated.

In an opinion piece for Guardian Australia published on Thursday, Joyce said the "expensive and unnecessary" plebiscite was both harmful for LGBTI people and the wrong way to decide an issue of "basic equality and rights".

or by deciding an issue of first impression whose resolution was not clearly foreshadowed.

They are no substitute for sober evaluation of the relevant facts in deciding an issue.

Deciding an issue on a point on which the parties have not had a reasonable opportunity to present submissions breaches the rules of procedural fairness: Amacon Property Management Services Inc. v. Dutt, 2008 BCSC 889 at paras.

"First, the decision to be applied nonretroactively must establish a new principle of law, either by overruling clear past precedent on which litigants may have relied, or by deciding an issue of first impression whose resolution was not clearly foreshadowed.

Sierra Club and NWF argued for an injunction -- or halt -- in constructing and pumping tar sands through Flanagan South until the legality of issuing a Nationwide Permit 12 is decided, an issue still awaiting the decision of Judge Jackson.