While the city council vote was met with applause inside the council room, opponents to the measure, including soda lobbyists made sharp criticisms and a promise to challenge the tax in court.
2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
This case gives the court an opportunity to rein in the growing use of patents to protect genetically engineered crops and other life forms―but the court may well use it to give this trend a powerful new endorsement.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
Have we really gotten to the point that planting a seed can lead to a high-stakes Supreme Court patent lawsuit?
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
Rather than pay up or work out a settlement, Bowman decided to appeal—all the way to the Supreme Court
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
But this is a real-life argument before a Supreme Court that has a well-earned reputation for looking out for the interests of large corporations.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
What are Monsanto's critics hoping the Supreme Court will do
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
The Supreme Court will try to change its reputation for supporting large corporations.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
The Supreme Court is likely to persuade the parties concerned to work out a settlement
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
It is by no means certain that the settlement will be?enacted?(执行)?–?it is the subject of afairness hearing in the US courts.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
Many people are seriously concerned by this - and the company is likely to face challenges in other courts around the world
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
The fine points of the law are decided by the courts and by acceptable common practice overtime.
出自-2014年6月听力原文
On the occasions when hunting has been tried, local animal rights people have worked to secure court orders against the hunts.
出自-2013年12月听力原文
Legislation and court decisions have made it legally possible in most states for parents to educate their children at home and each year more people take advantage of that opportunity
出自-2013年12月听力原文
The court eventually freed Jackson after the police found the man who had really committed the crimes.
出自-2012年6月听力原文
This responsibility takes her to many different places every week——the police station, the court and the hospital.
出自-2011年6月听力原文
All of the incentive is really on winning and not losing on the field or on the court.
2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
And to get at the contents of a single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple's help to write new code; in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on 热衷于 privacy, the Fbi might have been abl
2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
So, while there may be insights to be gained from matching behavior to brain activity, those insights will I not necessarily lead to justice in a court of law.
2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
The action stems from a federal court order issued on Tuesday requiring Apple to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation to unlock an iPhone used by one of the two attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in December.
2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
There will probably be months of legal confrontation, and it is not at all clear which side will prevail in court, nor in the battle for public opinion and legislative favor.
2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
To her, it meant moving confidently around the court room, using convincing body language, and projecting her voice so it could be heard from the judge's bench to the back door.
2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
Connor gave the deciding vote in many important cases during her 24 years on the top court.
2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
Her little work experience in court.
2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 选项
If a student has kept a cat in his room for a week since the warning, he will face the student court.
2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设
If, one week from the date of written notice, the pet is not removed, the student is referred to the student court.
2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
She is a famous judge in court.
2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文
With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four kings and one queen.
2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
The judges on the Federal circuit are “reacting to the anti-patient trend at the supreme court” ,says Harole C.
出自-2010年考研阅读原文
The Federal circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court’s judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is weather it should” reconsider” its state street Bank ruling.
出自-2010年考研阅读原文
Similarly, some Wall Street investment films armed themselves with patents for financial products, even as they took positions in court cases opposing the practice.
出自-2010年考研阅读原文
Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.
出自-2010年考研阅读原文
In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.
出自-2010年考研阅读原文
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said it would use a particular case to conduct a broad review of business-method patents.
出自-2010年考研阅读原文
The legal issues in the case are obscure: whereas the Supreme Court has ruled that states do have some regulatory authority over nuclear power, legal scholars say that Vermont case will offer a precedent-setting test of how far those powers extend.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文
Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文
On a five to three vote,the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona's immigration law Monday-a modest policy victory for the Obama Aministration.
出自-2013年考研阅读原文
Justice Anthony Kennedy,joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the Court's liberals,ruled that the state flew too close to the federal sun.
出自-2013年考研阅读原文
The court, though, may want to allow room for police to cite situations where they are entitled to more freedom.
出自-2015年考研阅读原文
The court would be recklessly modest if it followed California’s advice.
出自-2015年考研阅读原文
The court has ruled that police don’t violate the Fourth Amendment when they sift through the wallet or pocketbook of an arrestee without a warrant.
出自-2015年考研阅读原文
Just how much does the Constitution protect your digital data? The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.
出自-2015年考研阅读原文
The high court’s decision said the judge in Mr.McDonnell’s trial failed to tell a jury that it must look only at his “official acts,” or the former governor’s decisions on “specific” and “unsettled” issues related to his duties.
出自-2017年考研阅读原文
The court’s ruling is legally sound in defining a kind of favoritism that is not criminal.
出自-2017年考研阅读原文
The court’s ruling is a step forward in the struggle against both corruption and official favoritism.
出自-2017年考研阅读原文
The court did suggest that accepting favors in return for opening doors is “distasteful” and “nasty.
出自-2017年考研阅读原文
The basic compact underlying representative government, wrote Chief Justice John Roberts for the court,” assumes that public officials will hear from their constituents and act on their concerns.
出自-2017年考研阅读原文
In a rare unanimous ruling, the US Supreme Court has overturned the corruption conviction of a former Virginia governor, Robert McDonnell.
出自-2017年考研阅读原文
He taught himself shorthand to get an even better job later as a court stenographer and as a reporter in Parliament.
出自-2017年考研阅读原文
But the ruling reinforces the need for citizens and their elected representatives, not the courts, to ensure equality of access to government.
出自-2017年考研阅读原文
Plays aiming at literary distinction were written for school or court, or for the choir boys of St.
出自-2018年考研翻译原文
Paul’s and the royal chapel, who, however, gave plays in public as well as at court.
出自-2018年考研翻译原文
Court, school organizations of amateurs, and the traveling actors were all rivals in supplying a widespread desire for dramatic entertainment; and no boy who went a grammar school could be ignorant that the drama was a form of literature which gave glory to Greece and Rome and might yet bring honor to England.
出自-2018年考研翻译原文
A federal appeals court overturned the prior decision, ruling that Myriad Genetics could indeed hold patents to two genes that help forecast a woman's risk of breast cancer.
2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
At the very least, the court should make itself subject to the code of conduct that applies to the rest of the federal judiciary.
2012年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents, despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.
2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.
2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized I0 years ago.
2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
On a five to three vote, the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona's immigration law Monday-a modest policy victory for the Obama Administration.
2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
similarly, some Wall Street investment firms armed themselves with patents for financial products, even as they took positions in court cases opposing the practice.
2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Some Congress members are trying to block the plan, and at least a dozen industry groups, four states, and three environmental groups are challenging it in federal court.
2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
States will be able to force more people to pay sales tax when they make online purchases under a Supreme Court decision Thursday that will leave shoppers with lighter wallets but is a big financial win for states.
2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ
The case may yet reach the Supreme Court.
2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
The cases the court overturned said that if a business was shipping a customer's purchase to a state where the business didn't have a physical presence such as a warehouse or office, the business didn't have to collect sales tax for the state.
2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ
The court cannot maintain its legitimacy as guardian of the rule of law when justices behave like politicians.
2012年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
The court did suggest that accepting favors in return for opening doors is "distasteful" and "nasty".
2017年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
The court has ruled that police don't violate the Fourth Amendment when they go through the wallet or pocketbook of an arrestee without a warrant.
2015年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
The court would be recklessly modest if it followed California's advice.
2015年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
The ethical judgments of the Supreme Court justices have become an important issue recently.
2012年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
The Federal circuit's action comes in the wake of a series of recent decisions by the Supreme Court that has narrowed the scope of protections for patent holders.
2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.
2015年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
The US Supreme Court frowns on sex-based classifications unless they are designed to address an "important" policy interest, Because the California law applies to all boards, even where there is no history of prior discrimination, courts are likely to rul
2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Their success may be determined by a suit related to this issue, brought by the Mayo Clinic, which the Supreme Court will hear in its next term.
2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
This and other similar cases raise the question of whether there is still a line between the court and politics.
2012年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
When the court deals with social policy decisions, the law it shapes is inescapably political-which is why decisions split along ideological lines are so easily dismissed as unjust.
2012年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ