Sentence examples similar to winning technicalities from inspiring English sources

It's regrettable that he belongs to a party that demonstrates an unseemly enthusiasm for keeping people from voting and for turning the exercise of democracy into a game won on technicalities.

Perhaps the biggest problem facing the project is the distinct possibility of them losing the important eminent domain case that they "won" on technicalities on Nov. 24 -- without which they cannot proceed as planned at all.

Orton wasn't willing to go that far, calling the state Senate win a "technicality".

Already regarded as a fevered maverick, he was denied the prestigious Prix de Rome on technicalities three times before winning it in 1830.

He won on a technicality; there's no other way to say it.

The left would stand triumphant, the war won on a technicality, without a single shot fired in anger.

Howard Dean won on a technicality when he entertained supporters at a campaign rally with a rather shaky rendition of their 2001 hit 'Ms Jackson'.

"In the end I won on a technicality because I found that three classrooms weren't being used, which showed the school was not full".

But will gay marriage in California win on a technicality?

Although they had prevailed, Henry Holt and Company asked all of the appeals court's judges for a rehearing en banc to establish that they had not just won on a technicality.

That covers just about everyone, but Braun cited four others by name: Commissioner Bud Selig and a top lieutenant, Rob Manfred; the union leader Michael Weiner; and Dino Laurenzi Jr., the urine-sample collector whose reputation Braun tried to smear after winning the appeal of his positive drug test on a technicality in 2012.