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- adjective Clearly distinguished or demarcated; unambiguous.
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Examples
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The bankruptcy code is crafted with a strong bias for so-called "bright-line rules."
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The bankruptcy code is crafted with a strong bias for so-called "bright-line rules."
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The Court held that there was no so-called "bright-line rule" whereby a given, single fact or occurrence would always be deemed dispositive of the issue of materiality - in this case, the mere absence of statistical cause and effect would not render the proof as falling short of establishing materiality.
Forbes.com: News Bill Singer 2011
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The Obama Administration or, better yet, Congress itself must finally step-up and develop a set of relatively bright-line principles where certain categories of defendants and crimes get tried in military court and others in civilian courts.
Aitan Goelman: Time to Get it Right on Terror Trial Venues Aitan Goelman 2011
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The Obama Administration or, better yet, Congress itself must finally step-up and develop a set of relatively bright-line principles where certain categories of defendants and crimes get tried in military court and others in civilian courts.
Aitan Goelman: Time to Get it Right on Terror Trial Venues Aitan Goelman 2011
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And if such a law did exist, what would the bright-line rule be that should be written in law so real human beings making arrests know when it is OK and when it is not to kidnap someone to Gitmo?
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » How Is This Different From Citizens United 2010
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And if such a law did exist, what would the bright-line rule be that should be written in law so real human beings making arrests know when it is OK and when it is not to kidnap someone to Gitmo?
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The Obama Administration or, better yet, Congress itself must finally step-up and develop a set of relatively bright-line principles where certain categories of defendants and crimes get tried in military court and others in civilian courts.
Aitan Goelman: Time to Get it Right on Terror Trial Venues Aitan Goelman 2011
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At the very least Congress should use its power of the purse, accompanied by its ongoing powers of investigation and oversight, to delay implementation of Dodd-Frank's 'systemically important' regulations until the regulators can prove they have a bright-line, closely defined set of rules that will guide financial and nonbank firms in compliance.
Are 'Systemically Important' Institutions Too Big To Fail? 2011
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The case-by-case analysis resists bright-line determinations and the resulting decisions inevitably represent a sort of rough justice.
MA GOP's lame ad and James Taylor's copyright: upon further analysis, it's still not "fair use" 2010
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