Sentence examples for procedural argument from inspiring English sources

The hours of procedural argument had been an indication of "snares, dangers and absurdities".

Ms. Burton slyly delivered my favorite lines of the episode, during a procedural argument with David Lee over the legal status of preserved sperm: "If we agree to call it property, your honor, then it was abandoned property.

In advancing a procedural argument about how a constitutional democracy best functions with average people, not judges, dictating the nature and pace of social change Michigan and Kentucky are long on political theory and short on real life.

But according to a person briefed on the appeal, Sherman's argument was based on "slam-dunk facts" and, as in the case of the baseball player Ryan Braun, on a procedural argument: that the chain of custody of his urine sample was broken, negating the test result.

So we have strong legal, factual and procedural arguments.

The first day of the trial today will be given over to procedural arguments.

Critics of the bill mostly sidestepped a fight on the merits of the measure, retreating behind procedural arguments and dire warnings of damage to national security to oppose the bill.

But, Mr. Reichmuth said, "at some point in some argument where a real case is going on, they won't be able to fall back on their procedural arguments and they'll have to state what the content of the right is".

The Obama administration made several procedural arguments that the suit should be dismissed in addition to arguing that the courts cannot intervene in its decision to target Awlaki, because it is a tactical military decision by the commander-in-chief based on the doctrine of imminent self-defence and congressional authorisation of necessary and appropriate force against AQAP.

Like Miliband, they could couch it in subtle procedural arguments rather than sticking a simple two-fingers up.

It's been nearly impossible to follow all the arcane procedural arguments being made in the 9/11 military commission pre-trial hearings at Guantanamo Bay this week.