The inquiry the Court summarized in Chevron Oil represents longstanding doctrine on the application of nonretroactivity to civil cases.
Alive to their own interests, Chinese leaders have started to inch from their longstanding doctrine of non-interference in imbroglios in far-flung places.
The statement appeared in many ways to reflect the Brotherhood's longstanding doctrine, still discussed in classes like Mr. Abu Salama's and in the group's women's forums.
When national implementing measures are assessed by the EU, the article contradicts the longstanding doctrine of EU supremacy by deferring to a local standard of protection.
David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who recently spent time in Israel talking to government officials, said that Israel's longstanding doctrine of self-reliance makes American promises to act later if all else fails less effective.
The government is arguing that despite longstanding doctrine to the contrary — doctrine reflected in the Uniform Code of Military Justice — American courts should not consider international law to be the exclusive basis for defining a war crime and thus for limiting the jurisdiction of a military commission.
A longstanding doctrine of the common law was that a husband could not commit the offence of rape against his wife.
In the book I only noticed two omissions, but alas one constitutes an important, longstanding doctrine that most observers would not intuit on their own: the teaching that one's conscience is essential to one's Catholic faith.
Three longstanding philosophical doctrines compose the theory: (1) Platonism (the view that goodness is coextensive with reality or being), (2) perfectionism (the view that the highest good consists in the development and perfection of one's nature), and (3) hedonism (the view that the highest good is pleasure).
This article expands the analysis beyond voting rights, examining other recent decisions that rewrote longstanding constitutional doctrines while perpetuating racial marginalization, restricting reproductive freedom, diminishing political equality and politically entrenching established class interests.
