Sentence examples for mass claims from inspiring English sources

Merrill and another large brokerage firm, the Smith Barney unit of Citigroup, are in the latter stages of a protracted process to resolve mass claims of sex discrimination that were filed in the late 1990's.

Other observers, like Joseph A. Grundfest, a professor at Stanford Law School, agree that the high-profile prosecutions come at a bad time for trial lawyers, especially with companies like Merck taking a harder line in recent suits over deaths linked to its drug Vioxx and with judges insisting that liability cases be tried individually, rather than as easier-to-negotiate mass claims.

If this fund works, it could serve as a model for disposing of mass claims.

And there is the critical mass claiming never to have read anything like it.

The latest mass claim was brought by lawyers for prisoners or ex-prisoners who were unable to vote in various elections between 2009 and 2011.

Supporters of the mass claimed that the eucharist was a true sacrifice, while Zwingli claimed that it was a commemorative meal.

It's a love letter to the individuals who reject being part of a crowd, even when the masses claim to be doing something radical or different.

Part of this mission involved bolstering, along with the Central Intelligence Agency, the White House's claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction — claims later shown to be largely false, as "Pretext for War" amply demonstrates.

4. In later work (1990) Quine would revise this to the view that the unit of testing is a "critical semantic mass" of claims, but would continue to insist that this is a perfectly general feature of knowledge claims or beliefs. 5.

The reality, he said, is that mass injury claims often have value only in the aggregate.

The move is a loss for Skadden, which under Ms. Birnbaum's leadership has built a premier product liability practice, defending companies from complex mass tort claims.