(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.