In the words of John Robb, a lawyer for several Kansas school districts: "Just because the checkbook is empty doesn't mean that the constitutional standard is swept away".
Rodgers is the Packers' best goal line rushing weapon, and the Steelers cannot assume the Packers are passing just because their backfield is empty.
"I do not believe that I was required to take this to Congress but I did not take this to Congress just because it's an empty exercise.
"Just because the checkbook is empty doesn't mean that the constitutional standard is swept away," said John S. Robb, a lawyer for the school districts, adding that Kansas had cut taxes as it cut education spending.
Cathedrals, bus stations, diners, bowling alleys, subway tunnels, endless basement corridors — they all seemed profoundly pointless to him, not just because they were generally empty and unused but as a basic fact of their existence.
Cathedrals, bus stations, diners, bowling alleys, subway tunnels, endless basement corridors they all seemed profoundly pointless to him, not just because they were generally empty and unused but as a basic fact of their existence.
"Some blokes been arrested just because he likes to empty his lawnmower into plastic bags," wrote one Facebook user.
But these draconian state powers have allowed councils to seize private homes in perfect condition, including their fixtures and fittings, just because the homes have been empty for a short while.
From Mark Wallinger's Christ humiliated on the vast equestrian plinth, to Hans Haacke's apocalyptic Gift Horse, the best works make sense of what can otherwise seem a gratuitous decision to put modern art – which long ago abandoned such Victorian things – on an empty plinth just because there happens to be one handy.
"The suffering that I have is not just because I see his room empty," Mr. Gonzalez said in an hourlong interview this afternoon at the offices of the Cuban National Assembly, which has taken the lead in Cuba's fight to bring the boy home and arranged the interview.
