Sentences with phrase «imposes arbitrary laws»

Worst of all, perhaps, there is the narrowly moralistic idea, where God is conceived to be the governor of the world who imposes arbitrary laws that must be obeyed or those upon whom they are imposed will suffer ghastly punishment — a picture of God that some sadistic pervert might have thought up, modeling deity after his own character.

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Rulers should not Impose from the top down laws which are opaque and arbitrary incapable of rational explication and defense.

The contrived nature of the system is even more abundantly clear when it comes to the discriminatory burdens placed on the nation's minor parties and independent candidates, whether the issue is unfair ballot access laws or the arbitrary and exclusionary 15 percent polling threshold imposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Greens — or any other third - party presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates this autumn.

Arbitrary government - imposed pay scales will open the door to a flood of law suits.

«The mountain of evidence we put on at trial proved — beyond any reasonable dispute — that the irrational, arbitrary and abominable laws at issue in this case shackle school districts and impose severe and irreparable harm on students,» he said, in a statement.

These new regulations, which are all good laws BTW, intent to protect consumers by prohibiting banks from imposing arbitrary high interest rates on credit cards and charging outrageous bank fees.

A perennial problem in family law practice is arbitrary judges who dislike family law cases and impose strict time limits upon trials.

But apart from the (rather fundamental) rule of law point — that obligations need to have some legal authority for them to be binding — if they do want to impose such an obligation, it should be expressly set out in the Rules, with a corresponding commentary, so that lawyers know exactly what actions they have to take, or not take, to comply with their obligation (and, crucially, aren't at the whim of arbitrary diktats from the LSUC).

As of June 30, 2015, after having practiced intellectual property law for 20 years, Andrei decided to give up his Canadian lawyer license in order to focus on offering trademarking services without being constrained by archaic and arbitrary limitations imposed on lawyers by the Law Socielaw for 20 years, Andrei decided to give up his Canadian lawyer license in order to focus on offering trademarking services without being constrained by archaic and arbitrary limitations imposed on lawyers by the Law SocieLaw Society.

Looking at existing Mississippi law, the court found that while private organizations are generally free to discipline members who violate prescribed rules of conduct, private organizations must also describe possible punishments which can be imposed for various rules violations, in order to alert the member as to the possible punishments when he / she joins the organization and also avoid arbitrary disciplinary actions by the organization against its members.