Sentence examples for its burden of proof from inspiring English sources

In other words, I--and almost all other criminal defense lawyers--do not condone crime; rather, we see our jobs as keeping the government honest and holding it to its burden of proof and to the rule of law.

The prosecution doesn't win, it merely meets its burden of proof.

"The government has met its burden of proof and surpassed it," he said.

"Not only will plaintiff not be able to carry its burden of proof, but the relief it seeks is itself anticompetitive, as it will severely set back growth and competition in the wireless industry," lawyers for AT&T wrote in the lawsuit.

Today, the attorney general's office notified local officials that it was abandoning the case because it did not have enough evidence to meet its burden of proof.

"But they always hammer away at the government's failure to meet its burden of proof".

Of these, an amendment by Congress to TSCA required regulation of PCBs, and the U.S. EPA's asbestos regulation, promulgated after the agency spent 10 years building its case, was overturned in its most significant aspects by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which concluded that the U.S. EPA had failed to meet its burdens of proof under TSCA (Goldman 2002).

Despite the Obama administration's insistence that the graphic images of the attack go far in making a case for military action in Syria, some experts said that the White House had its own burden of proof.

Here, the correct starting-point is that it is up to the opponents of cloning to make their case, not its protagonists: the burden of proof should lie with those who would regulate or ban.

The biggest problem facing the Obama plan, however, is likely to be the demand of many politicians for proof that the benefits of the proposed public spending justify its costs — a burden of proof never imposed on proposals for tax cuts.

Have we verified it?' The burden of proof is high".