(1) They are to be found in the 1689 bill of rights, in Blackstone, and in the work of more recent jurists such as AV Dicey.
(2) According to a PBS Frontline documentary last week, even the NSA’s top attorneys found the warrantless domestic surveillance regimen a dicey legal call, although they ultimately approved it.
(3) Sustainably speaking, taking a cruise is a pretty dicey proposition.
(4) Environmentally speaking, however, ocean travel can be a dicey proposition: every year, the industry consumes millions of tons of fuel and produces almost a billion tons of sewage.
(5) The dynamics of speaking at a convention are a little dicey.” Trump to meet with NRA over barring guns for those on terrorism watch lists Read more The NRA’s big campaign blitz has been partly fueled by an aggressive fundraising operation which in recent years has targeted mega-donors.
(6) The proposed move would leave the current company’s most valuable joint ventures in a separate holding company and split them from Yahoo’s dicey advertising businesses.
(7) Lean times in store for new Sainsbury's boss So, how dicey is the hospital pass about to be received by Mike Coupe, the Sainsbury's commercial director who will succeed Justin King as chief executive next month?
(8) Journalists who covered war and conflict over the past few decades can recall instances in which they talked their way out of dicey situations by arguing that if militants killed or kidnapped them there would be no one to tell their story.
(9) Three points from a dicey assignment at Southampton means a first title in 24 years is a fantasy with an increasing chance of becoming reality.
(10) Alan Greenspan has seen more than a few dicey days on global markets in his time.
(11) He had some very dicey moments, including a very close shave in Lebanon in 1983 when a knife was held to his throat, and resolved to find a less traumatic career before it was too late ("There are very few happy, old news cameramen").
(12) In contrast, the great jurist AV Dicey (1835-1922) had proposed that such votes were, in essence, conservative devices that enabled the voters to restrain the follies of the political class.
(13) When the producers of the Harry Potter franchise split Deathly Hallows down the middle in 2010 (that's 3.5 horcruxes a film, stats fans) it still felt like a dicey manoeuvre.
(14) Fear-mongers might say the neighbourhood is dicey, but Lavapiés is really a lively slice of authentic Madrid.
(15) But the rule of law is what Conservatives in particular were brought up to believe in: a bit of the imperial history ( Magna Carta , Blackstone , Dicey , etc) for which they display such enthusiasm.
(16) Prosecutors said DuPont was unwilling to sell its method to China, so it was stolen and sent to a company called Pangang Group Co Ltd, according to testimony during the diplomatically dicey proceedings.
(17) "It all looked rather dicey before it came out," he recalls.
(18) The referendum is the people’s veto,” Dicey declared.
(19) It’s been billed as a bit of a return to form for the actor, who has made some dicey choices of late, from The Expendables 3 and Paranoia to Cowboys & Aliens – but it still doesn’t match his all-time greatest performances.
(20) Pass that level and, climate scientists tell us, things get dicey: soils dry out, damaging food production.
Dickey
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Dicky
Example Sentences:
(1) Jay Dickey, a former US House representative from Arkansas, called for the scrapping of his 1996 amendment that banned the federal agency the Centers for Disease Control from engaging in research aimed at reducing gun deaths.
(2) Should Jose Reyes and the rest of the lineup stay intact, and the starters, including the disappointing former Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey , bounce back, there’s a chance the Jays will too - but unfortunately for them, they’re in the wrong division.
(3) 14, 721-735) genes and of a bullfrog cDNA (Didsbury, J. R., Theil, E. C., Kaufman, R. E., and Dickey, L. F. (1986) J. Biol.
(4) Dickey and S.C. Stone attempted an evaluation of progestational potencies of OCs based upon such criteria as subnuclear vacuolization and delay of menses.
(5) The problem right now is they’re hamstrung.” Thompson also released a letter in which the original sponsor of the amendment – Republican Jay Dickey, a former House member – said it was time to reinstate funding for gun violence research.
(6) Therefore, Enterobacter cancerogenus (Urosević, 1966) Dickey and Zumoff, 1968, is a senior subjective synonym for Enterobacter taylorae Farmer et al., 1985.
(7) In 2012, the Republican who wrote the provision, Jay Dickey, urged its removal, writing in an op-ed that, unlike health researchers studying car accidents or infectious disease, “US scientists cannot answer the most basic question: what works to prevent firearm injuries?” Obama made a similar plea on Thursday, saying: “We spend over a trillion dollars and devote entire agencies to preventing terrorist attacks on our soil, and rightfully so.
(8) Dickey and Stone have attempted an evaluation of progestational potencies of oral contraceptives based upon such uterine criteria as subnuclear vacuolization and delay of menses.
(9) Hours after the San Bernardino rampage Dickey wrote in a public letter: “Doing nothing is no longer an acceptable solution.” Having recently expressed his regrets about the legislation he championed, Dickey went further and argued that from now on the CDC should be allowed to conduct research designed to reduce gun violence.
(10) Dickey cited its other important work in investigating how to cut fatalities from car crashes.
(11) Research could have been continued on gun violence without infringing on the rights of gun owners, in the same fashion that the highway industry continued its research without eliminating the automobile,” Dickey said.
(12) Dickey, citing the current opinions of the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, views the physician's behavior as unacceptable by legal, social, and ethical standards.
(13) Dickey and Berger discussed the incidence of post-pill amenorrhea over various time periods and reported an estimated 2-2.6% at 6 months after cessation of OCs.
(14) It's been a struggle from the start, from losing Jose Reyes for most of the season to watching RA Dickey get lit up over and over, recover, and then get lit up again (repeat) – his inconsistency fits in perfectly with the Jays, who showed what was possible in June, only to slide in July.
(15) In two days we were able to watch RA Dickey , David Price , Clayton Kershaw , Matt Cain , Justin Verlander , CC Sabathia , Stephen Strasburg , Félix Hernández , Cole Hamels , Jered Weaver , Johnny Cueto , Adam Wainwright and Chris Sale ( Yu Darvish didn't open up for Texas but he did pretty well , more on that below).
(16) I have recently expressed my regrets that we didn’t continue that research with the provision that nothing shall be done in this project to infringe the rights of gun ownership as guaranteed by the US Constitution in the second amendment,” Dickey wrote.