Sentence examples for judicial defeats from inspiring English sources

Since presidential overreaching has repeatedly provoked judicial backlash, the Bush administration may have itself to blame for its recent judicial defeats.

Unable to be beaten at the polls, the parties have instead suffered a series of judicial defeats: about 150 Shinawatra-linked politicians have been banned from politics in the past 10 years, among them four prime ministers.

The court's decision was a new setback for the Bush administration, which has suffered a string of judicial defeats on Guantánamo policy, most recently in a Supreme Court ruling on June 12 that dealt with a separate issue of detainee rights.

Allowing a judicial nominee defeated in committee to receive a floor vote is rare.

This sensibility reached its apotheosis in Bush v. Gore, which many conservatives seemed to view as a kind of culminating rebuke for decades of judicial and cultural defeats.

But despite this flurry of military defeats, judicial activity and detective work, those who know al-Qaeda best say it would be wildly premature to write the movement off.The very fact that the eight people detained in Madrid stayed in one country suggests that they cannot have played a central role in the network.

The Criminal Justice and Courts Act, which received the royal assent this month, is not perfect but the worst of Mr Grayling's attempt to limit judicial review was defeated by a well-argued campaign by Lord Pannick, the lawyer and crossbench peer.

That is why, as I have argued on this floor many times, it is wrong to use the filibuster to defeat judicial nominees who have majority support, who would be confirmed if only we could vote up or down.

Perhaps conservatives are grateful to have O'Connor convert their political defeats into judicial victories.

In autocracies, oppositions can't win elections".Some feared Ivanishvili might be tempted to emulate Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych and mete out judicial punishment to his defeated political enemies.

"They will get out that big map with red and blue, and where President Reagan did well, and who is up for election, and what happened to Senator Daschle," Mr. Specter said, referring to Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the former Democratic majority leader who led fights against Republican judicial nominees and was defeated in 2004 by a conservative Republican who made that an issue.