Of those, 117 cases were unsubstantiated or did not constitute abuse, the report said.

The remaining 49 cases constituted the case sample.

Historians generally agree that the ultimatum did not in any case constitute a formal declaration of war.

Judge Sawyer noted that this case constituted the first naturalization application by a person from China.

So religious-liberty cases constitute the bulk of our work.

These cases constituted the majority of lawsuits in China, and in the 1980s the number was growing rapidly.

He asserted that some of the photos were planted there by investigators and in any case did not constitute enough evidence to prosecute.

In the case constituting the immediate cause for this debate, the products in question are toys from China.

The parties agreed in the district court to limit their initial arguments to the question of whether the case constituted a political question.