Now, as I said, I expect the Supreme Court actually to recognize that and to abide by well-established precedence out there.
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But the current tribunal has been given the power by the UN of taking precedence over any national legal authorities in the strife-torn region.
Senator John McCain of Arizona agrees, saying it's important that, in his words, we stand by 200 years of legal precedence concerning classified information, because the defendant should have the right to know what evidence is being used.
"There were a lot of heroes that day and by no means am I to take precedence over them, " Burnette said.
There is an excellent precedence for this approach established by the U.S. Congress when it passed the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.
In the choices made by consumers, the emotional value of the brand takes precedence over the functional value of the product.
Become aware of when conformity to the group norm is counter-productive and should not be followed, when independence should take precedence and be adopted regardless of social rejection by that group.
Any legal or normative system which is not articulated and enforced within a political structure of codified laws, procedures, courts, binding legal opinions providing precedence, and effective enforcement mechanisms will, by definition, lack Transparency.
Democrats will point to guidelines signed into Texas law by Bush in 1997 saying that a manual vote recount takes precedence over an electronic one.
Italy argued for its part that such claims were admissible as the abuses committed by German troops amounted to "international crimes" which had precedence over state immunity.
Adopting a policy that payments to investors should take precedence over other U.S. legal obligations would merely be default by another name, since the world would recognize it as a failure by the U.S. to stand behind its commitments.
Mae started skiing aged four but her violin playing took precedence and she made her international professional debut aged 10, marking herself out by mixing classical music with pop and cultivating a glamorous image.
The decision follows calls by MPs to use equality legislation to abolish a 300-year-old law which gives males precedence in the royal line of succession.
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