Sentence examples for pivotal cases from inspiring English sources

That many black people living in London were, as the duchess implies, "things", slaves who did not have full agency over their lives, is evident in the two pivotal cases presided over by Mansfield.

Pivotal cases involving the surveillance powers of state security agencies, prisoners' voting rights and the ability to wear a headscarf at work have all been considered by the Luxembourg court.

But he adds, "Even blurry chalk lines delineate areas that are clearly out of bounds," and in some pivotal cases he felt compelled to stand up to the hardliners and insist that the administration's counterterrorism policies be put on sounder legal footing.

The Ku Klux Klan bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963 was a pivotal case.

Meanwhile, Mr. Blum has another potentially pivotal case waiting in the wings.

Lady Olson was more than just a minor behind-the-scenes player in this potentially pivotal case.

This could be a pivotal case in determining how much protection minority shareholders can expect in the wake of recent scandals.

The 35-year-old was sentenced to 14 years in jail earlier this week for rigging Libor in what was considered a pivotal case for SFO.

In a pivotal case in 2008, Karen Espíndola, then 22, learned in her 12th week of pregnancy that her fetus had holoprosencephaly.

His theory played a critical role in a pivotal case in the history of the debate, when Bill Bratton, then the police chief of Los Angeles, moved to reform the policy at California's largest police department.

But before the judge addressed that question, the case gave the Gore team a symbolic victory of sorts: for the first time in what now seems a long legal battle, the focus was shifted in a pivotal case from lofty legal points to details on how votes were cast and counted in Florida.