During her confirmation hearings, Justice Sotomayor powerfully asserted a straightforward "apply-law-to-the-facts" approach to judging, but she came off sounding almost indistinguishable from John Roberts and his riff on judicial umpires.
With this definition, which pretty much agrees with Weber's law, blotches become outliers and can be easily detected by straightforward thresholding applied on.
The implementation of the POD reduced-order method was straightforward when applied to the full order model to the complex model.
This method is a straightforward way applied at room temperature in a very short reaction time (i.e., 300 s) to obtain crosslinked network that remain partially biodegradable by lipase.
"It's a very straightforward paper, a very straightforward analysis, applying very well-known, standard techniques," says Michael Brauer, a professor at the University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health, who contributed to the IARC evaluation.
"It is straightforward to apply and doesn't cost anything.
The principle embodied in the second bulletpoint – the selectors' reserve right to make what are commonly described as "judgement calls" – is not so straightforward to apply, involving intuition rather than empiricism, subjectivity instead of objectivity.
"Federal fraud charges are fairly straightforward; they apply to any scheme to acquire money or property through deceit or misrepresentation," said Daniel C. Richman, a professor of law at Columbia University and former federal prosecutor.
The status of potential counterexamples will not always be straightforward to apply.
