Sentences with phrase «by force of law»

Is this: (a) a good idea, and (b) even remotely possible, even by force of law?

So God, according to the bible, is a ruler who demands our obedience in moral and immoral acts backed by the force of law and terrifying punishment, yet by an administrative substitution our obedience is not necessary, yet remains a demand (for faith without works is dead).

But it is an exercise of «authoritarian» power to compel by force of law and under pain of imprisonment that all citizens support and finance government programs that in some manner, efficiently or otherwise, benefit the poor.

Would our government embrace the tactics of regimes in the past that made hypocrites of citizens by insisting that they agree by force of law, if only outwardly, on matters of faith?

It also asked if you could be persecuted (sure, from non-police), or can you declare yourself publicly to be a communist (sure, you can do whatever you want), when what the question really is about is can you legally do so without being punished by the force of law.

Although not a natural comedy player, DiCaprio has a great comic moment when a cheesy infomercial he's shooting is horribly interrupted by the forces of the law.

The short - term effect of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision was to reduce the influence of markets which made some degree of integration possible by force of law.

A beautiful suite of paintings by McArthur Binion, their surfaces pasted with shredded official documents — the artist's birth certificate and car registration, for example — painted over with a crosshatch of black and grey or bright colours, willfully turn identity into an abstraction, much the way governments do by force of law.

Calling environmentalists doom - mongering «communists» intent on scaring the public into accepting full - throated government control, Milloy warned his audience that the «greens» are «burning with an impatient zeal to begin dictating by force of law your mobility, diet, home energy usage, the size of your house, how far you can travel and even how many children you can have.»

And next, decide who by force of law has the power and the duty to act by innovating that support - services solution?

Endangered species in any form to include their eggs, embryos are protected by the force of law.

Activists attending the Bali gathering say that the real answer to climate change will not be generated by profit - motivated corporations, but by the concrete commitments of political leaders backed by the force of law.

Endangered spe - cies in any form to include their eggs, embryos are protected by the force of law.

SOGI policies attempt to impose, by force of law, a system of orthodoxy with respect to human sexuality: the belief that marriage is merely a union of consenting adults, regardless of biology, and that one can be male, female, none, or both, again, regardless of biology.