Sentence examples for for a technicality from inspiring English sources

But for a technicality, Russia arguably should have won the game in regulation time.

Mr. Brunelli said: "Except for a technicality the property was zoned commercial.

It would reportedly have also taken the top Golden Lion prize for best film but for a technicality.

The decision enraged administrators, students and parents at the school, Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights, who said they were being punished for a technicality.

(Michael Pollan's new pro-vegetable manifesto, "In Defense of Food," might be on my list were it not for a technicality: Its publication date is Jan . 1 , 2008

He said the appeals judges had "dismissed the case for a technicality, although we know they got a lot of the facts wrong, but they're the ones who decide what the facts are".

Unfortunately for Washington, a technicality meant that legal efforts in service of that larger cause "did more to hurt his case than to help it," prolonging his time in prison.

Frosty Bites, however, argued that Dippin' Dots had been selling its ice cream for more than a year before applying for a patent, a technicality that would invalidate its exclusive claim to the technology under a patent law provision.

Reporters who invade privacy for no good reason sit alongside celebrities who take money to be "spotted" on holiday, wealthy power-mongers who sue for libel on a technicality, rapists who (having got off in court) malign the victim in interviews, and anyone who writes nasty things anonymously on the internet.

This week, when he was due in court, an unprecedented event for the fifth republic, the judge suspended the case for three months on a technicality.Mr Chirac is charged with "misappropriation of public funds", using fake jobs paid for by the Paris town hall.

As Thomas Kaplan reported on the City Room blog last week, the city is shrugging off the delayed start date for the system as a technicality.