Judge Wright may view them as lawyerly confections designed to bolster a weak case.
Mary Higgins QC, for Daly, also contended that her client was facing "a weak case based on a scintilla of evidence".
The companies, in survival mode and out of pure self-interest, jump at the chance, as even a weak government case can destroy them.
Judge Anton Veldhuizen found that evidence brought forth in the 10-month trial was so weak that the case really should never have been brought to court.
You can rest assured that they will only settle when they think their case is weak.
But if the euro strengthens and economies remain weak, then the case for a rate cut will gain ground again.
While competitors such as Microsoft and vertical search engines such as Nextag have complained and will continue to complain that Google favors its own services unfairly, others think the FTC case was weak in the first place.
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"We are very supportive of management and think the SEC case is weak, but at a certain point we can't afford not to ask for a management change, " said one major Goldman shareholder, adding that the company needs to somehow escape its quagmire in the next month or so.
It is often the case that technically weak rallies only last 2-3 days.
Morgan Stanley declined to comment, but already its case is looking weak.
With weak evidence and a difficult case, they pressured KPMG in effect to indict itself, go into deferred prosecution mode, and participate in the case against individual defendants.
Recent weak EU economic data makes the case for such action by the ECB.
The latter are vulnerable to the weak economy and, in the case of ethanol projects, a change in the underlying economics.
By the same logic, weak demand would tend to cause prices to sag, which is why deflation is often associated with a very weak economy, as was the case in the 1930s.
The case for the prosecution was weak but it was complicated by a completely incompetent defense attorney who needlessly antagonized witness who were actually agreeing with his client (he antagonized members of the jury in the process).
Zakaria: I think when you read the SEC's case carefully, frankly the civil case against Goldman is very weak, because what Goldman Sachs did was act as a bookie between two people who wanted to make bets.
Credit Suisse was not charged in the case, but did admit that weak controls allowed the fraud to take place.
If the case for continuing to hold the investment is weak, a taxable event is a secondary concern.
In any case, if those base specs are too weak for you, you can get it with an i5 or i7 processor, 8GB of RAM and discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M graphics with 2GB of memory.
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He described the case against the plane-spotters was "hopelessly weak and flawed".
But if the efficiency argument is weak evidence, the fairness argument is assumed to make the case, and make it for zero percent taxation.
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What's breathtakingly bizarre about Rawitch's new claim, however, is that if it had been true, our case would have been much weaker--so weak that we doubt we would have prevailed or even pursued it.
Greece has not made the case for how it can recover: how its weak economy can earn the money needed to sustain income and benefits at Euro Zone levels while repaying its remaining debts.
Ministry officials emphasized that monthly volatility in the data was common, as was frequently the case in 2012 when strong months would be followed by weak, and vice versa.
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Members of the jury rightly rejected that argument stating that the case is about the merits not about who is strong or weak.
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