In the Committee's view, its information about him was reliable and adequate, his reputation would not be unjustly injured and he was therefore not entitled to a closed session.
If we say, the newborn human is a potential person, hence entitled to rights close to those of persons, the problem arises that in the future, when we have better genetic therapies available, and by applying expensive genetic treatment to a normal mouse, could endow it with rational agency capacity, the normal mouse looks likely to qualify as a potential person if the newborn or young human does.
If advice and consent is entitled to anything close to its plain, original meaning, the Senate is perfectly entitled to scrutinize nominees' judicial philosophies and to reject some on that basis.
From the beginning, whiteness has been a power play, a way of defining oneself as obviously, implicitly superior: entitled to deference, closer to the heart of the nation, a real American.
He is entitled to five guilders (close to $2) of pocket money daily.
Often they lose them forever," he forgets that some people don't want to maintain close relations with their families or high-school classmates, and that an escape from relatives and acquaintances is exactly what they're seeking — and I don't understand why Friedersdorf thinks that the folks at home are necessarily entitled to keep them close by.
Consider a case when, starting out agnostic, we become close to certain, but not quite certain, that A or B — say we become about 95% certain that A or B, and are about 50% certain that A. According to Supp, we are entitled to be quite close to certain that if ~A, B — 90% certain in fact.
His request would also entitle him to close certain accounts and transfer the money into his own name.
Beyond abortion, Blackmun was instrumental in developing the court's rationale on commercial speech, saying that advertising is entitled to First Amendment protection close to that traditionally allowed political speech.
