Sentence examples for to the scopes from inspiring English sources

As a result, only the people in the courthouse got to see the stirring scenes of judicial tug-of-war that harked back to the Scopes trial.

He said another chamber official's reference to the Scopes trial "was wrong, inaccurate and obscured what the chamber is really doing".

Starting with Leopold and Loeb and going on to the Scopes 'monkey' trial, with its backdrop of evolution, and then defending a black doctor, Ossian Sweet, charged with murder, Darrow swept through a triangle of defining cases in quick succession.

Yet it is more complex than it appears.In Harrisburg a trial began last week that many are comparing to the Scopes "monkey" trial of 1925, when a Tennessee teacher was prosecuted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

This approach has the advantage to use a general theory and to adapt it to the scopes of this particular setting.

The "just a theory" slogan dates back to the Scopes era, of course, but it is still prevalent: in 2012, for example, New Hampshire's House Bill 1148 would have required the state's public schools to disparage evolution by teaching it "as a theory".

I began counting... thousand six, thousand seven, my eye to the scope.

This applies to the scope and pace of their operations.

The extravagance of efforts to enforce fairness testify to the scope of the problem.

It seems so minute in comparison to the scope of the problem.

He is totally oblivious to the scope of North Vietnam's concessions.