Sentence examples for lofty legal from inspiring English sources

Political expediency superseded lofty legal and constitutional principles, and justice itself became the first victim of revolutionary justice.

"The amazing thing about these [bereaved] families [is] that they articulate all of these lofty legal principles in this incredibly human, normal way, because it's instinct," says Spurrier.

But before the judge addressed that question, the case gave the Gore team a symbolic victory of sorts: for the first time in what now seems a long legal battle, the focus was shifted in a pivotal case from lofty legal points to details on how votes were cast and counted in Florida.

So let's take a few steps back from lofty legal talk of open justice and look at practical examples of what this is all about.

The best line of defense is attack — and if you can couch your attack in authoritative legal language and attach it to lofty legal principles, so much the better.

Maybe there are lofty legal points to be upheld in these courts.

While his college roommate has perhaps reached loftier legal heights, Mr. Grais says he realizes that after three decades as a litigator, bouncing from firm to firm and subject area to subject area, he is having a moment.

But whatever the sentence, it will effectively bring to a close the career of the most infamous private eye in Los Angeles -- a man who insinuated himself into the loftiest legal and entertainment circles and even consulted on law enforcement cases until he became one.

All morning we were treated to the loftiest explications of how legal thinking is far too complicated for Americans to consume without their brains imploding from the effort.

In many ways it is a strange subject for a popular vote: 2,135 pages of dense legal text covering lofty hopes on the rule of law and human rights, to the humdrum business of trade tariffs on apricots to uranium ore.

That legal blessing — that loftiest of imprimaturs — has changed little between them but a lot around them.