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19 Jan 2011, 12:10 am
The combination is irresistible: a victory for the media over the hated “CFA” and the opportunity to publish more photographs of Naomi Campbell. [read post]
5 Oct 2020, 11:08 am
Yet the lure of savings can be irresistible. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 8:52 am
The problem of over-application, which is the remaining 150% of my concern, is one of war-creep: the irresistible impulse to apply the more relaxed rules of targeting that IHL offers, rather than the more stringent ones of international human rights law. [read post]
8 Jan 2008, 10:40 am
Like the dazzling disclosures in the final page of a gripping whodunit or the fascinating revelation of a magician's secrets, 'The Marketing of Evil' irresistibly exposes how it was done. [read post]
26 May 2014, 4:00 am
A few examples: A Chat With Chris Berzins on Administrative Tribunals, Privacy and the Practical Obscurity of Information (July 2010) Immovable Object, Meet Irresistible Force (July 2012) The Price of Open and Free (May 2013) Privacy and an Open Administrative Justice System (August 2013) In the last of this list, written by Ian Mackenzie (an arbitrator and adjudicator of prominence with experience on both human rights and workplace safety boards), we find the classic arguments raised by… [read post]
7 Dec 2014, 9:05 pm
Sorry about the hyperbolic post-title, but the chance to quote Grand Moff Tarkin was irresistible.) [read post]
23 Apr 2009, 5:33 am
Thus, they instructed the pop star wannabe: The first of the component parts you are going to need to find is the irresistible dance floor groove. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 10:16 pm
When the sentence proceeds with the words “or in any other place or district of country under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States”, the construction seems irresistible that, by the words “other place” was intended another place of a similar character with those previously enumerated, and with that which follows. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 2:27 pm
But no matter how flawed a business method or personality may be, they seem to have an irresistible lure to academic managerialists: witness the ascension of Lord Browne to lead a British education review after his smashing job at BP. [read post]
2 Dec 2019, 9:00 am
For many successful editors, however, there seems to be a nearly irresistible temptation to pass along the wisdom gained over decades of showing writers how to improve their work, even though the advice is often the same: be concise, eliminate jargon, get to the point, don’t bury the lede, be original, use declarative sentences. The latest entry in this genre is Writing to Persuade, by Trish Hall, the former editor of the op-ed page at the New York Times, which… [read post]
8 May 2007, 5:53 am
Thus, in high-stakes product liability cases, Ford is seemingly irresistably drawn to assert that Michigan law -- the law of Ford's home state -- should govern claims for punitive damages. [read post]
2 Jun 2013, 9:26 am
It’s cool – in a dorky, sci-fi kind of way, and for those of us brought up on a diet of SF it’s close to irresistible. [read post]
12 Jan 2007, 2:36 pm
I think you're acting against your own best, fully enlightened self-interest, but I will cut you some slack since bashing lawyers on this point is a nearly irresistible impulse. [read post]
8 Nov 2022, 2:47 pm
The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines "compel" to mean "to drive or urge forcefully or irresistibly," or "to cause to do or occur by overwhelming pressure. [read post]
23 Oct 2012, 9:50 am
However, the economy is now on downward trend: there is a serious war in the east; and an almost irresistible pull in that direction, into the areas of conflict about which Ataturk warned. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 6:39 am
“Boss” Tweed was another irresistible target. [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 11:02 am
When, then, the constitution declares the jurisdiction, in cases where a State shall be a party, to be original, and in all cases arising under the constitution or a law, to be appellate — the conclusion seems irresistible, that its framers designed to include in the first class those cases in which jurisdiction is given, because a State is a party, and to include in the second, those in which jurisdiction is given, because the case arises under the constitution or a law. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 3:08 pm
A defesa invocou em favor de Anita Leocádia o disposto no artigo 22 do Código Penal (CP), que trata da obediência hierárquica e a consequente exclusão da culpabilidade (se o fato é cometido sob coação irresistível ou em estrita obediência a ordem, não manifestamente ilegal, de superior hierárquico, só é punível o autor da coação ou da ordem). [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 8:42 pm
Of course, the story was irresistible to Above the Law, which delights in highlighting lawyers' most unlawyerly behavior. [read post]
24 Oct 2015, 7:01 am
And she wasn’t an irresistible force. [read post]
