special rule

noun

Law.

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Example Sentences

The law says a waiver could be granted to “meet compelling and extraordinary conditions,” but the oil producers argued the “global climate is not the kind of California-specific condition” that justifies a special rule for the state.

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The majority has not created “a special rule for the insurrection disability in Section 3,” as Sotomayor charges.

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Why, the liberals wondered, did the majority create “a special rule” for the insurrection clause alone?

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It explicitly provides, moreover, that the House must apply a special rule for selecting a president if no candidate gets an Electoral College majority.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used a special rule to give police greater emergency powers.

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