Under the broad method, the court may reinterpret the law at will when it is clear that there is only one way to read the statute. |
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Stephenson, having come from the North, spoke with a broad Northumberland accent and not the 'Language of Parliament,' which made him seem lowly. |
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Although IMC is a broad strategic concept, the most crucial brand communication elements are pinpointed. |
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He carried out studies, around 1838, to show the superiority of the broad gauge for railways, used by Brunel's Great Western Railway. |
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His decision to use broad gauge for the line was controversial in that almost all British railways to date had used standard gauge. |
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Part of a mixed gauge point remains at Sutton Harbour, one of the few examples of broad gauge trackwork remaining in situ anywhere. |
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On 1 April 1869, the broad gauge was taken out of use between Oxford and Wolverhampton and from Reading to Basingstoke. |
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In the early years of the GWR its wagons were painted brown, but this changed to red before the end of the broad gauge. |
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The President made his proposals in broad strokes, and the details remain to be worked out. |
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So sketch with broad strokes, dial up the imagery on a few main points, and leave room for a reader to play a part in your novel. |
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While the movie unfolds in broad strokes, Ms. MacLaine treats this character with exquisite sensitivity and without condescension. |
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Wrestlers and promoters began to realise opportunities for gimmicks with broad appeal which would be used to put bums in seats. |
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In the center lay the broad Abbey buildings, with church and cloisters, hospitium, chapter-house and frater-house, all buzzing with a busy life. |
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In narratology and comparative mythology, the monomyth is the common template of a broad category of tales that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory. |
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We'd been two years on our Pedernales acreocracy, not far from Fredericksburg, when our neighbor had two horses stolen in broad daylight. |
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This supports the broad hypothesis that many of the neurodevelopmental disorders are, to a certain extent, aetiologically linked. |
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It is as broad as long, whether they rise to others, or bring others down to them. |
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My Sif, Even the wide plains, Even Middle Garth's broad reaches, Even Ase's Garth itself Cannot hold our love enclosed. |
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Another broad issue regarding the physical setting involves decisions about the setting's frontstage and backstage. |
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Bull did not hesitate to obey, for the broad, cold blade of a bowie rested lightly against the back of his neck. |
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His plan, in broad strokes, was to outfit a small fleet of cars with a number of miniature directional microphones. |
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Whitman uses free verse to achieve effects impossible under even the broad restrictions of blank verse. |
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They emerged atop the broad curving steps that fronted on the Street of the Sisters, near the foot of Visenya's Hill. |
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He rubbed the sweat from his broad forehead. He looked fustered, as usual. In a hurry to have the visit over. |
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English Heritage is a governmental body with a broad remit of managing the historic sites, artefacts and environments of England. |
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Heavy goods transport on these roads was by means of slow, broad wheeled, carts hauled by teams of horses. |
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In broad terms, Ireland is regarded as one of the Celtic nations of Europe, alongside Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Isle of Man and Brittany. |
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More daring buildings soon followed, with great pillars supporting broad arches and domes. |
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A fireball hurtled across the southern Tucson sky in broad daylight Saturday morning. |
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It's still too dangerous for the wife of a journalist who was murdered in the street in broad daylight. |
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Feminism emerged in Paris as part of a broad demand for social and political reform. |
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He had originally planned to form a broad coalition government, but faced the opposition of George III to the inclusion of Fox. |
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The Foundation continues to serve the broad purposes for which it was established as written in the Memorandum of Understanding. |
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From there, the Royal Staircase leads up to the principal floor with a broad, unbroken flight of 26 steps made of grey granite. |
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Ideologically, One Nation Conservatism identifies itself with a broad liberal conservative stance. |
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Cameron took paternity leave when Arthur was born, and this decision received broad coverage. |
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This broad understanding of nature enables scientists to delineate specific forces which, together, comprise natural selection. |
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In a broad survey of zoo animals, no relationship was found between the fertility of the animal and its life span. |
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During the 19th century, a number of Gaeilgeoir organisations were founded to promote a broad cultural and linguistic revival. |
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Some subsequent comments criticized the definition as overly broad in failing to limit its subject matter to analysis of markets. |
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Energy economics is a broad scientific subject area which includes topics related to energy supply and energy demand. |
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It aimed to be understandable to a broad audience and was based mainly on Central and Upper German varieties. |
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The political separation of the Church of England from Rome under King Henry VIII brought England and Wales into this broad Reformation movement. |
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Within the Methodist Church, members have a broad range of views about human sexuality, relationships and the nature and purpose of marriage. |
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It's a professional level where theory and practice are focused in a broad sense. |
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Not all colleges offer all courses, but they generally cover a broad range of subjects. |
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Many deploy broad blocks of harmoniously arranged colour and are symbolic rather than narratival. |
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In Shakespeare's day, plays were most often performed at noon or in the afternoon in broad daylight. |
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Though Mary Godwin received little formal education, her father tutored her in a broad range of subjects. |
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In broad terms, Dodgson has traditionally been regarded as politically, religiously, and personally conservative. |
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Nevertheless, the term has become widely used and accepted for this broad range of music. |
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The laws are often framed in broad terms, which allow flexibility in their application depending on the nature of the game. |
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Misconduct may occur at any time, and while the offences that constitute misconduct are listed, the definitions are broad. |
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Cricket has had a broad impact on popular culture, both in the Commonwealth of Nations and elsewhere. |
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The Games attracted a broad international field of participants and generated great public interest. |
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The IOC also expanded the swimming and diving programs, both popular sports with a broad base of television viewers. |
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Each configuration offers either specialised advantage or broad capability, and each design creates a different riding posture. |
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The Court was open to all the nations of the world under certain broad conditions. |
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In the eleventh century, conti like the Count of Savoy or the Norman Count of Apulia, were virtually sovereign lords of broad territories. |
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The civil service of Ireland consists of two broad components, the Civil Service of the Government and the Civil Service of the State. |
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Helen's clientele encompasses a broad range of different ages, races and social statuses. |
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The cobby cat is a solidly built animal with short, thick legs, broad shoulders and rump, and a short, rounded head with a flattish face. |
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Broiling is but another way of roasting those cuts of meat which have a broad, flat surface such as steaks, chops, or cutlets. |
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The ground-colour is a pale drabby stone-colour, and all about the large end is a broad dense zone of dull brownish purple. |
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The hands and feet were small, the proximal phalanges broad and the nails small and dyschromic. |
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However, the emphasis on the moral and political orientation of the ecocritic and the broad specification of the field of study are essential. |
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We were now within the embrace of a broad bay flanked on either hand by a low promontory. |
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Endive and escarole are the same vegetable, but endive has leaves that are cut and curled, while escarole has smooth, broad leaves. |
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Erethizontids inhabit a broad variety of habitats, from tundra to the tropics and from dense forests to open settings. |
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His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail. |
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A PUNT FOR SALE, thirty-four feet long, twelve feet broad, and three feet ten inches deep, chunamed, sheathed, and coppered, carries about fifteen tons. |
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Along Hammond's lines, Raymond Williams explains art as a set of practices influenced by broad cultural factors rather than simply the ideas of genius alone. |
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The IOC's wanted television coverage to reach as broad a worldwide audience as possible, and London 2012 was covered by several national and regional broadcasters. |
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I get the creeps walking down that street, even in broad daylight. |
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A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart. |
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Undrowned, unducked, as safe from the perils of the broad lake as we had come out of the defiles of the rapids, we landed at the carry below the dam at the lake's outlet. |
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The duckbilled dinosaurs had broad, ducklike beaks. They walked or ran on their hind legs, and leaned down on their shorter front legs to graze on vegetation. |
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A bipartisan group of nine U.S. Senators, after meeting for nine months behind closed doors, is nearing an agreement on the broad strokes of a health-care-reform bill. |
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The term 'bean' originally referred to the seed of the broad bean. |
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The felon Rufus Dawes had stretched himself in his bunk and tried to sleep. But though he was tired and sore, and his head felt like lead, he could not but keep broad awake. |
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The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case. |
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To the right rose a semicircle of old planes and a copper beech whose branches plunged to the ground and made a broad bell-tent that was cool and gloomy even at midday. |
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Comte's sociologie was more an early philosophy of science than we perhaps know it today, and the positive philosophy aided in Mill's broad rejection of Benthamism. |
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The two broad types of exotic wagers are horizontal and vertical. |
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State education is inclusive, both in its treatment of students and in that enfranchisement for the government of public education is as broad as for government generally. |
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Like English, German is also notable for its broad spectrum of dialects, with many unique varieties existing in Europe and also other parts of the world. |
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Schedule 5 to the 2006 Act may be amended to add specific matters to the broad subject fields, thereby extending the legislative competence of the Assembly. |
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The Scottish education system has always remained distinct from the rest of the United Kingdom, with a characteristic emphasis on a broad education. |
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Scottish Standard English, a variety of English as spoken in Scotland, is at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum, with broad Scots at the other. |
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Production music libraries will typically offer a broad range of musical styles and genres, enabling producers and editors to find much of what they need in the same library. |
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The vowels e and i are classified as slender, and a, o, and u as broad. |
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A more recent theory, with broad support among archaeologists, is that Celtic culture and language arrived in Ireland as a result of cultural diffusion. |
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A beam reach is with the wind at right angles to the boat, a close reach is anywhere between beating and a beam reach, and a broad reach is between a beam reach and running. |
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Senators wore tunics with broad red stripes, called tunica laticlavia. |
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In 1684, England revoked the Massachusetts charter, sent over a royal governor to enforce English laws in 1686 and, in 1689, passed a broad Toleration Act. |
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Hinduism's tolerance to variations in belief and its broad range of traditions make it difficult to define as a religion according to traditional Western conceptions. |
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The Mahayana sutras are a very broad genre of Buddhist scriptures that the Mahayana Buddhist tradition holds are original teachings of the Buddha. |
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The Jacobin Society began as a broad, general organisation for political debate, but as it grew in members, various factions developed with widely differing views. |
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Satanism is a broad term referring to diverse beliefs that share a symbolic association with, or admiration for, Satan, who is seen as a liberating figure. |
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This is expressed by the phrases wide white top and broad side up. |
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As it appears in the London Gazette, the broad stripe is where expected for three of the four quarters, but the upper left quarter shows the broad stripe below. |
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Serious concerns have been raised about 18C's effect on freedom of expression. In this book, the authors argue that s 18C is too broad and too vague to be constitutional. |
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The plates of the head are thin and broad, and marked on their outer surface by lines of growth, and radiating ridges resembling the plates of the marsupite. |
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This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder. |
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There is a broad split between the northern and the southern Cheviots. |
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The dip slope is dissected by many small dry valleys, and in the broad eastern part in Kent, by further river valleys such as that of the Little Stour. |
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The following year saw mixed gauge laid through the Box Tunnel, with the broad gauge now retained only for through services beyond Bristol and on a few branch lines. |
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Locke uses the word property in both broad and narrow senses. |
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In the United Kingdom the early lines of the Great Western Railway were built to Brunel's broad gauge, which was also associated with a more generous loading gauge. |
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