Sentence examples for use a technicality from inspiring English sources

That is what Ehud Barak will be doing if he carries through with his plan to use a technicality to block Mr. Netanyahu from running, so that Mr. Barak can run instead against the much less popular Ariel Sharon.

Money thought they had a strong argument and that this was a case of an insurer using a technicality to avoid paying out.

Pinise Saul recalled how bored white cops would stop her on the streets using a technicality of the pass laws, just to ask if she knew the South African singer Miriam Makeba.

A Canadian company that is waiting for a federal permit to build an oil pipeline through the High Plains has used a technicality in U.S. environmental regulations to begin removing an endangered species the black and orange American burying beetle from the proposed route.

The other 26 member states objected, arguing that the UK was using a technicality to stop the EU mission from functioning properly and to prevent the EU from speaking in one voice on important issues even when all the members were in full agreement.

They have used a technicality here I feel to keep Woods in the tournament.

He was given a residency permit using a technicality decree intended for humanitarian or political purposes, German media report.

She was a white South African from a racist nation, using a technicality - her grandfather's English birth - to pursue personal ambition.

Exploiting users' trust — and using a technicality to unhook people's privacy — is proving pretty costly for Facebook right now though.

British citizens are bypassing immigration regulations to get their relatives into the UK, using a technicality that means that if they work in another European country for three months, they can be considered under EU rather than British law on their return.

It was sparsely attended, according to proxy-holding activists who called me to say that the company used a technicality to keep them out.