legalistically

"And just what does one do in such legalistically complicated circumstances?"

Will he judge legalistically those who interpret the law symbolically?

"Whatever differences of opinion there are about it shouldn't be settled legalistically.

A posted limit should not be treated legalistically as a limiting speed.

Legalistically, you may appeal to the Emperor, but you would get no hearing.

Notice that Paul does not tie himself legalistically to the details of Jesus's words.

Many believe a natural and welcome evolution is taking place in the way the world looks at refugees - more practically and less legalistically.

'Maybe you'll use it in a book, someday,' he said, smirking legalistically.

Instead we got a speech, at once mortifying and legalistically hairsplitting, that proved one thing: People do not change their character.

You will have to define more legalistically."

"I have a delegation in Herat, working the numbers," Ghani told me rather legalistically.

"Nowhere near Christmas yet," she said, legalistically.

Palestine National Council meetings are not legalistically perfect affairs, because of the immense logistical complications they face.

"It was a legalistically sound thing for them to do, but it was morally wrong," Mr. Carey said.

Legalistically, of course, Mr. Cuomo is right.

'Not 'absolutely sure',' said the kadi legalistically. "Reasonably certain'will do.'

Legalistically, he was committing a serious crime, abandoning the ship to make contact with Gillian Baskin against specific orders from the acting captain.

(The president legalistically says he has no "specific recollection" of this, but John Huang, then Riady's agent, does.)

Dukakis responded that he would not; some critics felt he framed his response too legalistically and logically, and did not address it sufficiently on a personal level.

Pompey refused, legalistically arguing that Caesar was his subordinate and thus was obligated to cease campaigning and dismiss his armies before any negotiation.

The trial (Gaal supposed it to be one, though it bore little resemblance legalistically to the elaborate trial techniques Gaal had read of) had not lasted long.

The NSLF broke with established National Socialist tradition, eschewing browshirt uniforms and abandoning attempts to raise a "mass movement" of supporters to when power legalistically.

However, many atheists argue that treating morality legalistically involves a false analogy, and that morality does not depend on a lawmaker in the same way that laws do.

The UK agreements are not concerned with principle or with the 'spirit' of the agreement: they are trickily worded and legalistically interpreted so as to maintain the maximum freedom to advertise.

Ever since I started teaching four years ago, for example, I have lived my professional life against a backdrop of rules that force teachers and students to think more legalistically about even the most fleeting interactions.