Sentences with phrase «from ordinary principles»

In its cert petition Samsung already told the Supreme Court that «Congress could not have intended design - patent damages, alone among all forms of intellectual - property remedies, to be exempt from ordinary principles of causation and proportionality.»

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At the beginning, a physical organism, whose life - principles were breath and blood, whose mental and emotional experiences were the functions of bodily organs, the ordinary man was submerged in the corporate mass of his tribe, without individual status, separate hopes, personal rights, or claim on divine care apart from the group.

Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

These more advanced principles are probably incipiently present from an early stage in development, but it may be that ordinary social life can exist in which they are not clearly operative.

You were recently invited to talk about the principle of Magma Carta on a BBC programme which was broadcast live across the globe.The right to personal freedom means that no man may be punished, imprisoned, or coerced, except for breach of the law proved in a legal manner before an ordinary court, and this right flows directly from the provisions of Magma Carta, the Petition of Right, 1628, and the Bill of Rights, 1968.

In political theory in particular it's inescapable: we need to abstract from the flux and thick texture of ordinary life in order to highlight the tendencies and generalities that enable the formulation of democratic principles.

His principal purpose was to distinguish the extraordinary measures necessary for dismantling Jim Crow in the 1960s and 1970s from the «ordinary principles of our law, of our democratic heritage, and of our educational tradition.»

Brave men possess an ethical core In accord with researches brave men possess 2 vital features that distinguish them from ordinary people: they live according to their personal principles and wish to run the venture to defend such values.

Ordinary income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with federal income tax regulations, which may differ from accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.