Sentence examples for improper standard from inspiring English sources

It did, however, reject Texas's request for summary approval of its maps, saying the state had used "an improper standard or methodology to determine which districts afford minority voters to elect their preferred candidates of choice".

The court rejected the state's request for summary judgment, saying officials there had used "an improper standard or methodology to determine which districts afford minority voters to elect their preferred candidates of choice".

In its reversal yesterday, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court said that Justice DeGrasse had applied "an improper standard" to what constituted a sound basic education and that the equivalent of an eighth- to- ninth-grade education was sufficient for New Yorkers to function as productive citizens.

C. The Plaintiff's Burden of Proof It is immediately apparent, in reviewing the trial court's ruling here, that the trial court failed to apply the statutory standard and instead applied an improper standard in determining the contestant's burden under the contest statute.

Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin told reporters on Thursday that "James Comey's comments during the campaign were not only harmful to the Hillary Clinton effort, but were improper under FBI standards ….

"James Comey's comments during the campaign were not only harmful to the Hillary Clinton effort, but were improper under FBI standards," Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin told reporters on Thursday.

These two types of error will occasionally cause improper transitions in a standard HMM (without the mixture) that result in false positive predictions or site breakage.

One must never personally handle the removal of a fetus, as it is improper, even by Continental standards.

"There was common use of a system of penalties (at our suppliers in China) for being late or producing faulty products, which is improper practice under global standards but somewhat okay under local regulations," said Mok Jangkyun, who led the team of over 100 auditors to inspect Samsung's 105 suppliers in China.

Although the analogy is not perfect, supposition performs many of the same functions as what we would call the theory of reference.[13] Traditional accounts divided supposition into proper supposition, where a term is used with its typical or standard meaning, and improper supposition, where a term is used in some metaphorical or figurative sense.

Federal and California health agencies accused the company of violating labeling standards and using improper sales practices.