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Categories of RTBF requests/requesters that are accepted or presumptively accepted (e.g., health information, address or telephone number, intimate information, information older than a certain time) and how those categories are defined and assessed.
Here is what we think, at a minimum, should be disclosed What we seek Categories of RTBF requests/requesters that are excluded or presumptively excluded (e.g., alleged defamation, public figures) and how those categories are defined and assessed.
America's Justice Department has called such deals "presumptively unlawful" and has vowed to prosecute them with vigour.
After looking at the history of presidential recess appointments, and finding only a few "anomalies" where chief executives made appointments during short Senate breaks of 8 or 9 days, the majority settled on a number: We conclude, in light of historical practice, that a recess of more than 3 days but less than 10 days is presumptively too short to fall within the Clause.
We add the word "presumptively " to leave open the possibility that some very unusual circumstance a national catastrophe, for instance, that renders the Senate unavailable but calls for an urgent response could demand the exercise of the recess-appointment power during a shorter break.
Thus, across a wide range of issues and themes and in addition to overseeing human rights treaties deemed legally binding in theory, the UN has adopted human rights instruments that are presumptively not legally binding, as is, in contrast, a treaty or a resolution of the Security Council.
The purpose of the law is to see whether such a child has a legal right to stay, as, perhaps, a political refugee; for that reason, it is wrong to presumptively call the border children illegal.
Often, discussions of N.S.A. excesses concern only Americans; what it is doing with foreigners is treated as presumptively reasonable.
The chairman should, as just suggested, toughen up his proposal to presumptively outlaw fast lanes and degradation schemes.
The State Department declined to take action, noting that the children were presumptively Muslim, because Aboud herself was and had stated in the course of the custody proceedings that she planned to raise them in a Muslim household.
For centuries, the sky in paintings was heavenly (azure, angel-stuffed) or else was rendered unobtrusively, as a backdrop for the presumptively more important activities on the ground.
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The primary grammatical function of "presumptively" is as an adverb . It modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs to indicate that something is assumed to be true unless proven otherwise. This is supported by Ludwig's examples, which show it modifying adjectives like "unlawful" or verbs implicitly.
Expression frequency: Very common
