Sentences with phrase «dictum states»

A scientific dictum states glacier change should happen slowly in the Arctic because temperatures are low, the ice is very cold, and it melts more slowly than ice elsewhere.

«Gibson articulates truth through his materials, which, as Wittgenstein's dictum states, shows what can not be said.

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The dictum of induced demand holds no water in this part of the Lone Star State: if roads are crowded, the Houston approach is to build more.

A people - friendly market, he further states, is a social institution, used deliberately under human direction and control; the dictum «leave it to the market has no place here».11

Remarkably, Schuklenk and Smalling endorse the Hobbesian dictum that «private consciences» are dangerous because they «weaken» the state, and must be comprehensively subordinated to «the public conscience.»

Augustine's dictum remains the most famous formulation of the broader view of a Christian's relation to the state: «An unjust law is no law at all.»

In a very perceptive, but as yet unpublished, paper devoted to evaluation and to evaluating those who evaluate, Paul Weiss has called attention to the highly practical character of the theoretical work of logical analysis, thereby helping to verify Whitehead's famous dictum that the paradox is now fully resolved which states that our most abstract concepts are our best and most useful instruments with which to come to understand concrete matters of fact and practical affairs.

The Hippocratic dictum against prescribing a deadly medicine has subsequently been set aside by initiative in the state of Washington, by legislative act in Vermont, and by court edict in Montana and New Mexico.

We may contrast this rigorism with Nathaniel Ward's dictum as the self - appointed spokesman for the most rigid of the English — the Bay Puritans — that while Scriptural injunctions make it impossible for the State «to give an Affirmative Toleration to any false Religion, or Opinion whatsoever» on the basis of concession as a right, yet it «must connive in some Cases.

There's an old Hollywood dictum which states, don't shoot the puppy.

Until you regain mobility, you will be victim of the dictum of crowd control that states,

Using these multiperspectival transparent structures in combination with opaque planes and translucent washes Matta created spaces that seemed to break the time barrier in the sense that they represented simultaneously many places and many points in time, thus fulfilling his dictum that «reality can only be represented in a state of perpetual transformation.»

Starting in the slow - motion emergency room of a local hospital that was a state stroke center, but operating with holiday staffing, I learned the stroke - specialist dictum, «Time is brain» — or, more precisely, time wasted is brain lost.

I'd say it'd be more apocalyptic (as per Dr. Venkman's «dogs and cats, living together» dictum) if the animals were migrating to environments * more * likely to result in their extinction;) Having said that, I acknowledge that a common view is that humanity is doing exactly that — not a physical migration, but an enforced anthropogenic man - handling of the entire biosphere towards a bad neighborhood in Earth's «state space», where we risk being stabbed by shadowy tipping points, mugged by run - away processes and distressed at the sight of an anoxic ocean vomiting over the local fauna.

In brief, it may be suggested that such dicta by the national court of a Member State in relation to the internal constitutional processes of another Member State may be construed as encroaching into unwarranted appraisal of «fundamental structures, political and constitutional» of a Member State as protected by Article 4 (2) TEU.

(2) The judicial dicta in the cases deciding the ambit and scope of the status of EU citizenship and rights contained therein has established that the telos of the positive law is to establish a fundamental and autonomous status of equality for all Member State nationals which guarantees a set of political and economic rights implemented via secondary legislation;

Weeks v. United States, 232 U. S. 383 (1914); Boyd v. United States, 116 U. S. 616, 116 U. S. 633 (1886)(dictum).

Finally, the Court considered, obiter dicta, whether a DPA could exercise its supervisory and sanctioning powers under Article 28 of the Directive when the law applicable to data processing was the law of another Member State.

What is more, the Court's dicta seem to point in a direction where an interpretation of provisions of CFSP acts by the International Court of Justice in The Hague would appear problematic and Member States could accordingly see themselves threatened by infringement proceedings if they participate in such proceedings.

The Court's dicta, however, do not address that the relevant obligation already binds the EU Member States now.

The court ruled in favour of the defendant on other grounds and therefore did not need to examine the validity of the limitation clause, however the judge did state, obiter dicta, that if necessary he would have upheld the # 14K contractual liability cap as a fair and reasonable clause.

Prior to the time when the First Amendment was held applicable to the States by reason of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth, the Court at least by obiter dictum approved State Sunday laws on three occasions: Soon Hing v. Crowley, 113 U. S. 703, in 1885; Hennington v. Georgia, 163 U. S. 299, in 1896; Petit v. Minnesota, 177 U. S. 164, in 1900.

Chad has written articles that have been published in the Dallas Bar Association Headnotes, the Dallas Business Journal, the Texas Lawyer, The Appellate Advocate (the journal of the State Bar of Texas Appellate Section), The Dicta, and The Texas Lawbook.

The federal Liberal government's stated intention to bring about electoral «reform» without a referendum brings to mind Lord Acton's famous dictum: «Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.»

According to Rimer LJ, those dicta had the effect of stating that, where a «husband is, either actually or in substance, the 100 % owner of a company that owns an asset that might usefully be applied in or towards satisfaction of a wife's ancillary relief claim, it will or may be open to the court to pierce the company's corporate veil and treat that asset as property of the husband so as to enable it to be the subject of a s 24 (1)(a) order».