Word: traction
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...this is providing legal traction for constitutional lawyers. The most obvious point of attack is the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. One suit involving prisoners in a Wisconsin supermax has led to rulings requiring that mentally ill inmates be kept out of such facilities. The state is challenging the decisions, and arguments will be heard in February, but at least six other states have fought similar suits, and all of them have failed. "So far, the prisoners are batting a thousand on the issue of mentally ill inmates," says David Fathi, a senior staff counsel with...
...falsehood perpetuated not just by the likes of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, who came late to the slogan after their actual beefs--Saddam with his neighbors; bin Laden with the Saudi royals--gained insufficient traction in the Arab world. The mantra is also repeated like an axiom in the U.S.--in parts of the State Department, in various think tanks, by editorial writers and Sunday talk-show hosts...
...Gross wrote in that e-mail. Ryan A. Petersen ’08, who announced the decision at last night’s UC meeting, emphasized that FAS has not agreed to repeal the tax. “I think it is great that we are finally getting some traction on it, but I don’t think it is the end,” Petersen said. “We need to be sure that the FAS dean and the president of the [University] all realize the discrimination that would be done to undergraduates in our diverse community...
...think it is great that we are finally getting some traction on it, but I don’t think it is the end,” said Petersen. “We need to be sure that the FAS dean and the President of the college all realize that discrimination that would be done to undergraduates in our diverse community by the tax’s existence...
...think it is great that we are finally getting some traction on it, but I don’t think it is the end," said Petersen. "We need to be sure that the FAS dean and the president of the University all realize that discrimination that would be done to undergraduates in our diverse community by the tax’s existence...