In many national security cases, he added, the government has prevailed at the outset by citing lack of standing, the state secrets doctrine or officials' immunity from suit.
But from the outset, I cite both fields as struggling not only with the volume of knowledge -- which checklists can help address -- but also with the lack of it, which checklists cannot.
Second, and again at the outset, McKenzie cites with approval the declaration of his teacher, the biblical scholar P. Kyle McCarter: "The Bible is our only source of information about David.
From the outset, the government cited the formidable challenges it faced: the limited federal jurisdiction in some cases, the statute of limitations in others, and, of course, time's passage.
Administration officials have sought to counter Iraq's diplomatic efforts to end the sanctions imposed at the outset of the Persian Gulf war in 1990 by citing Iraqi intransigence and threats as evidence of Mr. Hussein's hostile intentions.
At the outset of the gathering of finance ministers and central bankers last week, the I.M.F. lowered its global growth forecasts, again citing weakness from Europe.
Thrall, citing sources on diplomatic teams present for the negotiations, writes that these talks were doomed, in part, because Kerry misled both Palestinians and Israelis about what the other side had agreed to at the outset.
Others may be persuaded by Shell's argument that it has spotted extra savings and the cash arithmetic now works once oil returns to $50, rather than the $70 figure cited at the outset.
Each of the challenges Rouhani cites at the outset of his piece: "terrorism, extremism, foreign military interference, drug trafficking, cybercrime, and cultural encroachment" sound like a list of grievances, when in fact the clerical regime currently ruling Iran has been credibly and repeatedly charged with perpetrating each of these misdeeds over the past three decades.
At the outset of the report, the MRC subcommittee cited Kay, Beamish and Roth's work when it claimed that dementia 'constitutes one of the biggest problems facing the health and social services today, largely as a result of the increased number of people achieving longevity'.
