They simply don't want to think through the complications of particular cases and reach for a rule or principle.
How that feeling is expressed in practice is to be determined, he writes, not by "a new set of general rules, canonical in nature and applicable to all cases," but by "a responsible personal and pastoral discernment of particular cases".
Throughout the book, as part of the contents of Fiona's awareness, he sets out a succession of particular cases from the family division in all their fascinating detail, along with the legal precedents and the issues they raise.
"By limiting the scope of our analysis" to the justices' votes on the merits of particular cases, its authors write, "we effectively 'stack the deck' against finding evidence of clerk influence".
They must look at the rights and wrongs of particular cases, where there is some "irregularity", and in that word much-used in Catholic circles, they must "discern" what is right.
The school prayer and obscenity decisions were rooted in the First Amendment's protections for free speech and religious freedom; even when social conservatives disagreed about the outcomes of particular cases, they could embrace the principles that supported them.
As applications, some equivalent forms and a number of particular cases are obtained.
Otherwise, it is possible to address a number of particular cases according to [29].
The results obtained for a number of particular cases show good agreement with those available in the literature.
Of particular cases, we take A(n) = 3, B(n) = 5, j = 3 and f ( n ) = cos n π 2.
