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These arguments do not apply with the same force to... the minor children of such illegal entrants". Plyler can be narrowly applied to illegal immigration children only, and then only in the absence of some compelling state interest.

Additionally, the Court noted in a footnote, the Tennessee Supreme Court has stressed that this "exception to the employment-at-will doctrine" "must be narrowly applied and not be permitted to consume the general rule... that employers need freedom to make their own business judgments without interference from the courts".

No sound argument has been or can be advanced for application of the 1904 Adams rule in today's entirely different judicial and legislative environment, even as the rule was first narrowly applied to a purely gratuitous carriage, except that it was unquestioningly accepted 34 and 25 years ago in cases where the rule's soundness was not challenged.

"It's technology that gets the science to come along behind it". But the "science" he refers to is the narrowly applied science done in most of industry today-from which few, if any, radically new innovations and points of departure will ever emerge.

The name Xi River is more narrowly applied only to its lower course.

The majority said a 1991 ruling of the court had been too narrowly applied to limit those who could bring such suits to immediate neighbors.

The bill, which has bipartisan support, would forbid governments from applying any land-use law to houses of worship unless the law was narrowly tailored and there was a compelling interest in applying it.

Fermi applied for a chair of mathematical physics at the University of Cagliari on Sardinia, but was narrowly passed over in favour of Giovanni Giorgi.

Each eventuality was narrowly avoided.

A brawl was narrowly averted.

Our motion was narrowly defeated.