| In view of the confusion, contradictions, and legalistic hairsplitting, which characterize the realm of antitrust, I submit that the entire antitrust system must be opened for review. |
| A hairsplitting decision allowed Catalans to continue claiming they belonged to a nation, while stating that the claim had no legal worth. |
| This is not a semantic hairsplitting but part of the reaffirmation of the Constitutional principle of civilian control of the armed forces. |
| I'm the lonely, hairsplitting traveller, forcing advice about life and carry-on luggage onto Marta. |
| It was fine legal reasoning, not without some of that hairsplitting for which Jefferson reproached Randolph. |
| The mass of the party, he said, did not trouble their heads about theories, but plodded along unmindful of hairsplitting. |
