He is a competent soldier, but his ability to act is limited by jurisdictional rules as well as the sheer size of the Arabian desert.

The Justices offered no comment in turning down the appeal, which argued that the appeals court had misunderstood the jurisdictional rules it invoked in throwing out the award.

The Patent Reform Act would rein in this abuse of jurisdictional rules by restricting plaintiffs' options when filing a patent lawsuit.

Had they not, the suit would probably have been heard in Federal court because of a jurisdictional rule that can be invoked when parties to a suit are in different states.

These local building trades councils not only enforced jurisdictional rules by calling sympathy strikes, but also built support for unions when they went on strike.

Local autonomy also meant that jurisdictional decisions in one area held no weight in another, creating a patchwork of different jurisdictional rules nationwide.

The general concepts, such as jurisdictional rules, of collecting and reporting UCR data are the same as in NIBRs.

Judges must strain to remove the influence of the merits from their jurisdictional rules.

In defense of these unions, the AFL-CIO's jurisdictional rules may forbid such unions from organizing workers in certain occupational classes.

There would be an automatic mechanism for the handing over of illegal immigrants to the competent authority on the basis of jurisdictional rules and regulations.