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Central to the court's ruling was its view that the human rights provisions of the Good Friday Agreement are generally too vague to give rise to directly enforceable rights in most circumstances.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

“Preventing activity lest it give rise to tax evasion places no limit whatsoever on Congress’s power under the taxation clause,” Judge Edith Jones writes for the unanimous panel in McNutt v.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

Gas fields, LNG tankers, pipelines, and distribution lines also give rise to massive leaks of methane -- a gas with an even greater global warming potential than CO2.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

There was no news, no public chit-chat, nothing that would give rise to such a big move, but there it was.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

At other times, two languages may come together, fuse, replicate, and give rise to nests of new tongues.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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