Critics say this erodes the fundamental principle that both sides are equal before the law.
The court said it overturned the settlement because it violated the fundamental principle behind a class action.
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The Supreme Court subsequently failed to support the fundamental principle of limited government.
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Liberal Democrat education spokesman Phil Willis said ministers had "abandoned the fundamental principle" of making academic and vocational qualifications of equal value.
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Widely considered the "Magna Carta of space law, " this treaty lays down the fundamental principle of non-appropriation and that the exploration and use of space shall be the province of all mankind.
The fundamental principle is a simple one that is apparently difficult to implement: Keep doing the same things that brought you to power in the first place, and don't let success and power go to your head.
Since the Second Continental Congress declared America's independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776, the United States government has sought to realize the fundamental principle on which our nation was founded: that all people have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Speaking during a debate on a report into Lords reform, Lord Ashdown said that "at a time when people are dying for democracy", the House of Lords "infringes the fundamental principle of a democratic state, which is that the people's laws are made by the people's representatives".
And for Mr Issing the implied transfer of money would violate the fundamental democratic principle that there should be "no taxation without representation".
The Supreme Court decided in 1853 that Morse could keep the patent on his innovative method for transmitting telegraph signals over long distances, but not the fundamental scientific principle that electricity can transmit information.
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She has also departed from the fundamental Leveson principle of 'statutory underpinning' and proposes instead to proceed by a royal charter, thus by-passing the legislature, especially in relation to defining which publishers are to be regarded as 'significant'.
Just as Kandinsky turned his back on figuration, so did the atonal composers of the early 20th century, led by Arnold Schoenberg, abandon tonal harmony, the fundamental ordering principle on which all Western classical music had previously been based.
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Traffic lights are bad enough - they make us stop when we could go, they take our eyes off the road, flouting the most fundamental safety principle but they are only the symptom of a dysfunctional system.
The foreign secretary said in a Commons statement on 10 February 2010 that he had fought to prevent the release of secret information on the former Guantanamo Bay detainee to defend the "fundamental" principle that intelligence shared with the UK would be protected.
The wonderful, work-based, affluence-inducing, effects of low marginal tax rates is not the only fundamental economic principle that Ibn Khaldun got right.
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By contrast in the United States, it is a matter of fundamental principle that the state should not spy on its citizens.
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When you talk about cutting into the mortgage deduction in a way that taxes middle-class Americans, that violates a very fundamental principle that the President has, which is this should not -- in order to preserve low taxes, low tax rates for wealthy Americans, to ask the middle class to pay the price is not going to happen.
The same principle led to fundamental changes in personal bankruptcy laws--debts could be wiped out or rescheduled without someone having to go to debtors' prison.
The same principle led to fundamental changes in personal bankruptcy laws--debt could be wiped out or rescheduled without a person's having to go to debtors' prison.
Supporting democracy and human rights is a fundamental principle behind the President's policy in the region and the world, and he will carry that message on this trip.
Finally, and most troubling, Secretary Powell's efforts to get a "deal" on strategic arms violates a fundamental principle of the President's approach to Russia: The Cold War is over.
Although the artificial neural networks used in the research are much less complex than the human visual system, this simplicity helped the researchers to identify and further understand what they believe is a fundamental principle behind why we see illusion: the statistics of our past visual experiences.
"It is hard to think of a more fundamental American principle than the sanctity of the home and private property, " says Robert McNamara, an institute attorney.
The fundamental that should inform and guide our policy on immigration is the principle of individual rights.
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On National Hunting and Fishing Day, we pay tribute to the community of sportsmen and women who have kept faith with that fundamental principle, and who will continue to help drive our environmental progress in the years to come.
Indeed, well into the 1920s the history of the House of Saud is replete with violent campaigns to force other Muslims to submit politically and theologically, violating yet another fundamental Quranic principle that prohibits the use of compulsion in religion.
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"It guarantees the right to due process of law, a fundamental principle of international criminal law, " Ms Fernandez said.
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On Monday, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called the agreement to set up a judicial commission "historic", saying it guaranteed "the right to due process of law, a fundamental principle of international criminal law".
It is a fundamental principle of our work together, in the name of our common humanity.
The principle of absolute equality between aggressor and victim was clearly fundamental to the bargain.
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