(n.) Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
(2) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(3) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(4) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
(5) Neil Blessitt Bristol • We need to establish what the legal position is with regard to the establishment by the government of a private company co-owned by the Department of Health and the French firm Sopra Steria.
(6) This article discusses the advantages, clinical uses, limitations, and legal aspects of this mydriatic antagonist in optometric practice.
(7) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
(8) In view of many ethical and legal problems, connected in some countries with obtaining human fetal tissue for transplantation, cross-species transplants would be an attractive alternative.
(9) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
(10) The HKSAR government will continue to follow up on the matter so as to protect the legal rights of the people of Hong Kong."
(11) According to the Howard League for Penal Reform, which is backing the legal challenge, every year 75,0000 17-year-olds are held in custody.
(12) She successfully appealed against the council’s decision to refuse planning permission, but neighbours have launched a legal challenge to be heard at the high court in June.
(13) What’s needed is manifesto commitments from all the main political parties to improve the help single homeless people are legally entitled to.
(14) We believe our proposal will save taxpayers about £4m and reduce by about 11,000 the number of legally aided cases brought by prisoners each year.
(15) Defendants on legal aid will no longer be able to choose their solicitor.
(16) We now look forward to a judicial process which will apply impartial analysis and clear legal standards."
(17) Ethical, legal, and practical implications of this problem are discussed.
(18) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
(19) We are confident that the European commission’s state aid decision on Hinkley Point C is legally robust,” a spokeswoman for Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change said last week.
(20) At present, anyone can bring a legal action for an indefinite period over a posted article.
Legalist
Definition:
(n.) One who practices or advocates strict conformity to law; in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 (a).
Example Sentences:
(1) The official code of conduct for special advisers adopts legalistic terms to describe their key role as "devilling", or squirrelling away at all government policy and communications to ensure it toes the appropriate political line.
(2) In short, the ECB bond-buying programme has transformed the ECB from a passive observer of the euro crisis, paralysed by the outdated legalistic constraints of the Maastricht Treaty, into a proper lender of last resort.
(3) He said: "The central and only point that was remaining late on being discussed on Sunday night – and by the way I left before midnight – was this highly technical and legalistic argument of the wording on exemplary damages.
(4) And it continues today, the discourse and the amiable discord, by turns legalistic, linguistic, poetic, artistic, metaphysical, practical, transcendental, earthy, comedic.
(5) Though he has presented a plan that would cut taxes for the richest Americans, in May he said: “ For the wealthy, I think, frankly, it’s going to go up .” Hillary Clinton “She’s a world-class liar; just look at her pathetic email server statements, or her phony landing ... in Bosnia where she said she was under attack and the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers.” – 22 June, New York City Clinton has answered questions about the private email server she used as secretary of state with careful, legalistic language.
(6) O’Donnell also advised against appointing judges or lawyers who would adopt a “legalistic” focus.
(7) Baum argues that, while informed consent promotes respect for patient autonomy and increases understanding of the illness and treatment, it is chiefly a legalistic device to shift unpleasant physician responsibilities onto the patient and will result in fewer patients entering clinical trials because of negative attitudes induced by uncertainty of treatment and diminished confidence in the physician.
(8) We're not talking legalistically now; I just want the facts.
(9) In 2011, in United States v Jones , the justices exhibited two opposing visions of what a constitutional court should be – a technical legalistic court, and a broad constitutional-vision court.
(10) Definitions of appropriate mechanisms of self-regulation within an increasingly legalistic environment are discussed.
(11) In addition, the principles implicitly reverse those important principles that have guided our society and the clinical process for more than a century; namely, a shift from a "therapeutic state" to a "legalistic state", the roles of institutions in our society, and the adultomorphization of adolescence.
(12) Over the past four years Medvedev has done nothing to dispel the impression that he is anything other than a useful seatwarmer, his time in the Kremlin a legalistic blip in an epoch of endless Putin rule.
(13) MP hits back after Sir Philip Green calls BHS collapse report 'bizarre' Read more Wright said: “This legalistic opinion doesn’t question the facts of the unanimously agreed select committee report but it does mirror Sir Philip’s litany of excuses for the collapse of BHS and for his delay in ‘sorting’ the BHS pension deficit.” Frank Field, the chair of the work and pensions committee who co-chaired the BHS inquiry with Wright and is also sponsoring the motion, is singled out for particular criticism by Green’s lawyers for jumping to conclusions “before he had heard all of the evidence”.
(14) Workplace smoking deterrents are shown to involve three different types of strategies: 1) legalistic approaches use policies and rules to restrict or foreclose smoking on the job; 2) economic strategies create incentives and disincentives, often through the employee health benefit plan; and 3) educational programs seek to motivate smokers to quit and to supply them with information and skill that may facilitate that process.
(15) And it was this legalistic distinction that meant he was now trapped by the inflexibility of Australia’s byzantine migration laws.
(16) The accusations are worded in pretty strong terms, even if the language does not appear to be overly-legalistic.
(17) There is a great danger that low expectations will be baked into this process and that these giant jamborees will start to resemble trade negotiations, notorious in diplomatic circles for getting bogged down in legalistic haggling and stubborn brinkmanship.
(18) The model chosen for this new system of safeguards is far from a thorough-going legalistic model.
(19) However, Schmidt said Google's pledges on social responsibility were not incompatible with a legalistic approach to paying taxes: "I do not agree with this and the reason is that at least under American law we have a fiduciary responsibility to our shareholders to account for things properly, so if we were, for example, to just arbitrarily decide to pay a different tax rate than we were required to, a more favourable one for example to a particular country, how would we account for that?
(20) But the committee reserved its strongest criticisms for Miller's attitude towards the inquiry, saying she chose to prevaricate and use legalistic language instead of directly answering questions.