legal footing

There is little question that the prosecutors are on firm legal footing.

And Congress may yet put some or all of the president's programs on firmer legal footing.

As a result, the trial was allowed to proceed on its original legal footing.

The new provision would allow such behaviour to continue and put it on a legal footing.

"I thought you were the legal footing," Jacobi said with a grin.

The rights of carers are expected to be put on the same legal footing as those of the people they look after.

The objective was to obtain legal footing in part of the archipelago before the Soviets did.

Members of Congress have proposed to amend the law to put the eavesdropping program on a firm legal footing.

Finally, our checklist will help you make sure that you have put your business on a proper legal footing.

I stressed that the program is grounded on solid legal footing and has many built-in safeguards.

This gave some comfort to the airlines, but we recognised that it did not provide a sound legal footing on which to proceed.

Before long, management-side employment lawyers were urging corporate clients to put themselves on the same legal footing.

I think I'd better check our legal footing before I can agree to that."

However, we also expect that cooperation with the United Nations in the fight against terror should continue, but on a proper legal footing.

I'm not sure of my legal footing."

This proves when you authored an original work, giving you much better legal footing in any copyright disputes.

They were, in essence, placed on equal legal footing with Crimean Tatars.

This Constitution puts the European Union on a better legal footing for conducting negotiations.

If workers are to be enabled to avail themselves of their rights, then their employment needs to be put on a legal footing.

A patent war is either mutually assured destruction OR its just a bunch of companies checking each other's legal footing.

In 1871, the first Lloyd's Act was passed in Parliament which gave the business a sound legal footing.

But the labels lost on all the important legal questions, putting music locker services on a firmer legal footing.

They originally would have given credit-card companies equal legal footing with single parents in trying to recover such payments from someone who has filed for bankruptcy.

Apple actually got the okay (by paying for it) to make the change, but Amazon at least has legal footing for their service under previous agreements.

They played an important role foremost in livestock trading, even after the French Revolution had put them on a like legal footing with Christians.