To ensure consistency, courts abide by precedents set by higher courts examining the same issue.
Notwithstanding Obama's protestations, his brand of pragmatism is an ideology, and his reconsideration of what it means to be a judicial liberal has come at the same time as some in the legal academy are examining the same questions.
The second-chance love story, from Persuasion to Under the Volcano, is a powerful device for examining the same characters in different phases of their lives but, again, it feels thinly conceived.
The seismic event at the centre of the drama is the suicide of the mother, with each of the four plays examining the same events from the point of view of one of the protagonists.
An American intelligence assessment, published two years ago, contended that Iran ceased that work in 2003; intelligence agencies in Britain, France, Germany and Israel, examining the same evidence, have concluded that the work has resumed, or never stopped.
Even after striking a $410 million settlement in July with the government over accusations it manipulated energy markets in California and Michigan, the bank faces an investigation by federal prosecutors who are examining the same activity.
Of the 26 randomized, controlled studies that were followed up by larger trials (examining the same therapy in a bigger pool of patients), the initial finding was wholly contradicted in three cases (12 percent).
In food standards, for example, the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe is far from alone, often examining the same issues as other U.N. bodies like the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization.
Biographies appear with astonishing frequency, writer after writer tirelessly examining the same known knowns and the same known unknowns, all obliged to rely on what should be called the speculative tense - "Shakespeare might have stood in this room... " - or the coy historical present: "He sits at his oak table, sharpening his quill... " They should all be subtitled "Climbing Mount Conjecture".
** The police pursue: **{:.break one} ** Yet at the same hour, at the Ramshorn site, because of the ashes from their fires left upon the shore, young Swenk, most eagerly and enthusiastically, like some seeking animal, approaching and examining the same and then going on — swiftly.
In 2009, in checking back on development patterns in the Amazon River basin, I examined this question: "Can Roads and Rain Forests Co-Exist?" Here's a Dot Earth Postcard from Erik Hoffner, a writer and photographer associated with Orion Magazine, examining the same question in the context of Russia's old forests and new highway plans.
