The author did file a timely substantive appeal with the court, which was only not considered due to the technicality of the lacking process agent.

It was not a question of the size or technicality of the current access control projects but of whether they were intended only for Headquarters or as part of a global system.

Unless Ukraine s democratic opposition is allowed to take part in the election, a new crisis is certain. Tymoshenko, who has survived three assassination attempts, is not the type of woman to surrender her campaign on a technicality.

Still, it was too much for the Business Roundtable, which sued the SEC to stop it. Argued by Eugene Scalia, the son of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the case against the SEC was won in the US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit, on a technicality the SEC s failure to conduct a cost benefit analysis ahead of time.

Even if Putin has found a way to retain power without amending the constitution a possibility that was endlessly speculated about by Russia s dwindling band of democrats the undemocratic nature of his strategy is glaringly obvious. Moving from one high office in the Kremlin to another in the White House (the seat of the Russian Parliament) is merely a technicality.

COPENHAGEN Last month, the Doha negotiations, promising freer trade, broke down, ostensibly over a small technicality in safeguard rules. In reality, the talks collapsed because nobody not Europe, not the United States, China, India, or the other main developing countries was willing to take the political short term hit by offending inefficient farmers and coddled domestic industries in order to create greater long term benefits for virtually everyone.