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6 Mar 2017, 11:35 am
The racial overtones of Buck’s case rendered it one of the highest-profile death penalty appeals pending in Texas. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 1:33 am
The court's lengthy decision rejected the defendants' attempts to avoid suit prior to discovery based upon the following key defenses: Political Question: The court held that while this may be a case with political overtones, it does not present a non-justiciable political question. [read post]
3 Sep 2008, 8:44 pm
It doesn't take a Ph.D. in history to understand the history and political overtones of this game. [read post]
25 Oct 2006, 4:36 pm
Cohen saw Representative Ford ’s “tremendous attributes ” being overshadowed by the candidacy of brother Jake as well as by a speech given by Harold Ford Sr. in which the former congressman not only conflated a Harold Jr. rally with support for second son Jake but attacked Cohen in language that disturbed many who heard or read about it with its religious overtones. [read post]
21 May 2018, 11:03 am
Bad news for those of you who currently emit a sweet, slightly musky, vanilla fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, combined with the smell of a salted, wheat-based dough. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 10:29 am
Today, the word godparent might not have explicitly religious overtones, especially in a household that includes parents of different faiths. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 7:20 pm
Refusing to talk to a grand jury without use immunity is a reasonable stance for someone to take even if she thinks she hasn’t done anything wrong—especially where, as here, the grand jury’s investigation appears to have political overtones. [read post]
21 May 2012, 8:45 am
The other fakery is the coating of the plan with heavy "green" overtones. [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 9:53 am
While this pro-QAnon lawsuit may seem mockable, it’s surprisingly within the current Overton window. [read post]
3 Sep 2007, 11:51 pm
In the same way that so many of them appropriated the baggy pants of "the hood" (without having any idea why baggy pants have an advantage in the hood but not in the suburbs), they also appropriated the language, and refer to their neighborhoods as "the hood" and their friends as "homies" or "homeboys".Just because in your rarified [sic] pseudo academic imaginations the phrase "the hood" has racist connotations, it does not follow that most users of… [read post]
12 Dec 2010, 9:00 am
An overwhelming majority of Americans celebrate Christmas, and for most of those who celebrate, it's a religious holiday rather than a secular one despite the strong commercial overtones of the season. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 4:00 am
Below are last year’s statistics for counties in Middle Tennessee*: Bedford – 12 Cannon – 1 Cheatham – 17 Clay – 1 Coffee – 13 Cumberland – 11 Davidson – 358 Dickson – 2 Franklin – 7 Grundy – 1 Hickman – 5 Humphreys – 3 Lawrence – 21 Lincoln – 3 Marshall – 3 Maury – 11 McMinn – 5 Montgomery – 39 Moore – 1 Overton – 3 Putnam – 12 Robertson – 7 Rutherford… [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 12:30 pm
It is as simple as someone sending an e-mail that has sexual overtones and makes someone uncomfortable. [read post]
14 Feb 2007, 1:43 pm
And after taking the very unusual position of telling the State Legislature that this section is an "uncommonly bad law," Judge Cochran goes further and points out that members of the Legislature (as well as members of the Judiciary) are entitled to "special" licenses plates that don't have all the design work that your's and mine have and yet the same license plate frame which would obscure our license plate will not obscure their's.I was actually at the… [read post]
15 Sep 2014, 9:03 am
Blawgletter wrote back in 2007: [L]et's not go too far in connecting who-appointed-me with political overtones. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 8:41 am
" The tiff arose from an interview given by the movie's star Robert Downey Jr. on the "Late Show with David Letterman" in which he hinted at the homosexual overtones to the film and lead many to wonder if a romantic relationship between Holmes and his sidekick Dr. [read post]
7 Feb 2009, 12:05 am
Indeed, the Republican alternative-- tax cuts and spending on a different set of programs-- presumes the basic constitutionality of many of the devices used in the New Deal and the Administrative and Welfare State.Even so, this does not mean that the fight over the stimulus has no constitutional overtones. [read post]
29 Sep 2008, 3:32 pm
Brothers insists my comments had “ugly overtones” that show his agency is still needed. [read post]
8 Apr 2012, 8:03 am
But I was there in the White House Rose Garden last Thursday when the President used a phrase with Lincolnian overtones to describe the "big, new pool of potential investors" that the crowdfunding portion of the JOBS Act might usher into the innovation economy. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 1:48 pm
Damien Echols became a suspect when investigators concluded that, due to an apparent castration, the murder had overtones of the occult. [read post]
