Sentences with phrase «immutable rules»

And now the high court asks the parties to make immutable rules out of standards, and flexible standards out of rules.

The pick - up lines that do work tend to follow the three immutable rules:

What I said is that if the Creator of teh Universe has eternal, immutable rules that They wish to be communicated and followed, They should have been a bit more clear and specific.

The final journal entry lists some «immutable rules» that he hoped would bring order and comfort: «To pray every morning to God, the source of all power and all justice; to my father, to Mariette, and to Poe, as intercessors; that they may give me the necessary strength to fulfill all my appointed tasks.»

«It is an immutable rule of nature that every sadist needs a masochist, every leader needs a follower, and every addict needs an enabler.

Not exact matches

For the sake of irony, I'll offer my own «immutable law»: no set of rules or laws can ever do the marketing for you.

This leap of faith is much smaller than the leap of faith required to believe that some unobserved god laid known immutable moral rules for humans it designed.

Beyond the addition of a third dimension, the imperative of Dimensions is to challenge each series convention in turn, breaking each rule, regardless of how immutable it may seem.

Even in mathematics, which is much more exact than the other sciences, since it builds on immutable axioms and the rules of logic, there are numerous conjectures that are believed to be true, but for which a stringent and in itself conclusive mathematical proof is missing.

If there are immutable moral rules then there is little daylight between Churchill and the hypothetical Madoff — both violated a moral axiom by admitting the possibility that lying may be justifiable.

This question gets us right to the heart of a central issue in moral cognition and philosophy: Are there immutable moral rules — such as «thou shall not lie» — or does morality legitimately involve a trade - off between competing ethical imperatives that includes consideration of the ultimate outcomes of one's actions?

This reasoning is mirrored in the cognitive laboratory, where people's responses are also often informed by the consequences associated with competing paths of action (the data are quite complex but it seems safe to conclude that most people are sensitive to weighting the outcomes of competing actions rather than being exclusively entrenched in immutable moral rules).

The duty to make legal services adequately available should be given constitutional status based upon a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms s. 15 «equality rights» argument that recognizes, «legal services at reasonable cost» as a constitutional right, based upon the principle that being middle class, or of «middle income,» and unable to obtain legal services at reasonable cost, is a state of one's condition that is «immutable, or changeable only at unacceptable cost to personal identity,» and to one's ability to invoke constitutional rights and freedoms, and the rule of law.