Sentence examples for down on a technicality from inspiring English sources

It was struck down on a technicality.

Uganda passed a law that stipulated life imprisonment for "aggravated" homosexuality; a court struck it down on a technicality, but some Ugandan parliamentarians have pledged to revive it.

Last month, a Wyoming federal district court judge ruled in favor of the industry and struck down -- on a technicality -- one of the oil and gas leasing reforms put in place by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.

Reacting to Friday's development, McQuaid put the decision down to a "technicality".

A recent ballot initiative to give street people care rather than cash was struck down on a legal technicality, though the voters had approved it.Two rather nuanced lessons can be drawn from Pelosiville and Hastertland.

The DREAM Act was recently before the U.S. Senate as an amendment to S. 3454, a military authorization bill, which was voted down on a procedural technicality 56-43 -- deferred, you might say.

But state courts struck down the measure on a technicality, because it violated a clause in the Oklahoma Constitution requiring bills to deal with a single subject.

There may be viable policies but they will be time consuming and expensive to design, and there is no guarantee the WTO's principal court won't slap down any such policy on a technicality.

Even though Uganda's high court struck down the anti-homosexuality law on a technicality in July 2014, "nothing changed immediately," said the Ugandan priest, who had continued to help dozens of Ugandans find temporary shelter in houses on the outskirts of Nairobi while their cases lingered.

While the 2006 verdict in that case came down against the industry, the decision was overturned two years later based on a technicality.

Even during Supreme Court hearings, the topic only comes up when partisans promise a nominee will crack down on those technicalities crime hawks (mistakenly) believe have turned prison gates into revolving doors.