Sentence examples for normal step from inspiring English sources

This was, after all, an appeal of a district-court decision straight to the Supreme Court, skipping the normal step of going to the appeals-court level before the Supreme Court grants certiorari, as its review is called.

Six-and-a-half hours later, still in his pinstriped suit, he walked stiffly into court -- those shackles don't really accommodate a normal step -- to arrange bail, signing the papers with a cuffed hand.

The parent company HSBC, which faces a separate ongoing French investigation, said: "This is a normal step in the judicial procedure and the outcome of the matter is not determined as of today".

According to Allfirst's and Allied Irish's description of what happened, Mr. Rusnak went wrong because he did not take the normal step of hedging his positions -- offsetting the risk of trades made for customers with option contracts that took the opposite position, limiting the bank's loss if the market moved adversely.

Olivier Metzner, a lawyer for Mr. Messier, played down the detention, saying in a statement that it was "a normal step in the ongoing procedure, is part of the request made by Mr. Messier himself, three months ago on March 29, to be placed under formal investigation so as to be able to explain himself and better defend his former colleagues".

The C.I.A., in urging a District Court judge to dismiss the lawsuit, had argued that it should not be required to produce even an index of the relevant documents in its possession — a normal step in such litigation — because it would harm national security even to confirm or deny whether it had an "interest" in such operations.

Stone steps need more tread (the measure from the front lip to the back of the step) than normal steps.

Normal steps can have a 9-inch tread, but stone steps should be at least 12 inches from front to back; 16 inches is even better.

"The F.T.C. apparently has decided that in this case the normal steps in the analysis should be ignored," lawyers for the companies asserted.

Malone said that the snap was clean, that he took his normal steps and that he felt good about the ball off his foot.

a Normal pulsatile flow: systolic upstroke with normal step-down of diastolic flow.