Sentences with phrase «law as an idea»

Poland fits into Ireland model of societally strong Christian (Roman Catholic) influence, which is why those laws as an idea arose, as discussed in an earlier answer.

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To give you an idea of the training required for this designation, «the pass rate for the exam to become a CFP certificant is about the same as the pass rate on the bar exam that law school grads are required to take in order to practice law,» she explains.

It's an idea that the organizers have apparently been looking into, with a 4,000 acre property in Northern Nevada even identified as the ideal site for a permanent community where the Burning Man principles of «radical inclusion» and «gifting» could be the law of the land year - round.

As someone who practiced law, the idea of a client taking to Twitter to predict a judge's sentence sounds crazy to me.

With tax laws likely changing soon, it's a good idea to follow Lackey's lead and donate before the end of the year, as one of the proposed revisions for 2013 is a cap on itemized deductions.

Here's a discussion of a paper, «Regulating Against Bubbles: How Mortgage Regulation Can Keep Main Street and Wall Street Safe - From Themselves,» by Ryan Bubb and Prasad Krishnamurthy (disclosure: my law school classmates), that sort of takes the idea of a housing bubble seriously as a bubble.

Instead, the inclusion of a law of nature or abstract idea exception in a claim is more often than not regarded as sufficient to consider the claim as being «directed to» the corresponding exception in the context of the eligibility framework analysis.

As such, by limiting the currently available data as contained within the new law would make harder the already tedious «sifting through often - byzantine layers of shell companies and nominee shareholders to identify the true owners of certain assets,» and the ability for third parties to add information to the public sphere and marketplace of ideas is unnecessarily curtaileAs such, by limiting the currently available data as contained within the new law would make harder the already tedious «sifting through often - byzantine layers of shell companies and nominee shareholders to identify the true owners of certain assets,» and the ability for third parties to add information to the public sphere and marketplace of ideas is unnecessarily curtaileas contained within the new law would make harder the already tedious «sifting through often - byzantine layers of shell companies and nominee shareholders to identify the true owners of certain assets,» and the ability for third parties to add information to the public sphere and marketplace of ideas is unnecessarily curtailed.

As long as the Arab world continues to embrace the idea of Shira law, they will be without freedoAs long as the Arab world continues to embrace the idea of Shira law, they will be without freedoas the Arab world continues to embrace the idea of Shira law, they will be without freedom.

It should give one pause, however, that Abraham Lincoln was quite comfortable with the idea that law is a business as well as a profession, and that his idea of virtue in a lawyer was not much different from common decency in any other occupation.

I also find it quite weird that the law is seen as «bad» when it is their to define our directions — guide our steps — help us set - up values and boundaries for our very nurturing (this idea is also very clear in the gospels).

The intention behind the law simply is: caring about others as you care about yourself — this is pleasing an idea to God — Creator of the creation — and basically the scriptures only want us to deal with this delicate balance of «treating others» kindly.

Again and again throughout history, what started as pure mathematics — ideas developed solely for the sake of their intrinsic interest and elegance — turned out later to be needed to express fundamental laws of physics.

With the widespread loss of belief in God as law - giver, the idea of being morally bound or obliged — as if this or that verdict on your action hangs in the balance — loses its basic meaning, however much it might retain its compelling psychological effect.

«The opponents of enforcing immigration law and supporters of amnesty for illegal immigrants are using this as an emotional issue, raising this phony idea that a nun ladling out soup to an illegal alien is going to be wrestled to the ground by a SWAT team,» he said.

At the core of his system is the idea of the Unity - Law of Control and Direction which presents creation and salvation as the manifestation of a single, dynamic wisdom and purpose that shapes the fabric of every created nature.

However, because people either fear guns or desperately want violent crimes to be reduced and see guns as their cause, they will still believe that gun control laws will actually protect them, as fallacious as that idea is.

War is a particular demonstration of the power of sin in the world and a defiance of the righteousness of God as revealed in Jesus Christ and him crucified» Yet the conference accepted the idea that criteria exist by which some wars can be regarded as just: to defend international law, or to vindicate «an essential Christian principle» such as the defense of «victims of wanton aggression.»

II, pp. 14 - 15) Christian ideas, however, soon moved too far away from either the practice or the perusal of sacrificial laws as a means of reconciliation with God for the early Christian to be content with such a solution.

The concept of ambiguity is useful to express the idea that the orders of creation are good as created by God, and yet permeated by the law of sin and death.

Perhaps Professor Ayala is postulating the idea of God as something like a watchmaker who creates the initial laws in such a way that there is no need for His later intervention.

Today as i was thinking about Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he made a decision.This idea came from your other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to make a judgement call he is sovereign and it shows his tender heart and mercy that not a single person was afflicted.The pigs unlike men have no soul so have no eternal consequence upon them they live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the Laws of God even even when we do nt know or understand his laws.brentnz

This was the first of several occasions in which the pope introduced the idea of natural law as a necessary principle in the beliefs that «forged the soul of the nation.»

In the same spirit Santayana and Whitehead agree in objecting, like Nietzsche, to the idea that change in the natural world is controlled by «laws of nature,» viewing the laws rather as simply descriptions of what each unit to which they apply «decides» to do itself (RB 301 - 302).

Reuters: Saudi sharia judges decry «Westernizing stench» of king's legal reforms Saudi judges who enforce sharia (Islamic law) have condemned what they see as «the stench of Western ideas» in sweeping legal reforms pushed by King Abdullah, underscoring friction between government modernizers and religious hardliners.

In Catholic thought the idea of just war remained as an element in canon law and moral theology, but largely without substantive development, almost as a historical artifact.

The idea was that, just as all bodies are governed by the law of gravitation and organisms by biological laws, so the creature called man also had his law - with this great difference, that a body could not choose whether it obeyed the law of gravitation or not, but a man could choose either to obey the Law of Human Nature or to disobey law of gravitation and organisms by biological laws, so the creature called man also had his law - with this great difference, that a body could not choose whether it obeyed the law of gravitation or not, but a man could choose either to obey the Law of Human Nature or to disobey law - with this great difference, that a body could not choose whether it obeyed the law of gravitation or not, but a man could choose either to obey the Law of Human Nature or to disobey law of gravitation or not, but a man could choose either to obey the Law of Human Nature or to disobey Law of Human Nature or to disobey it.

Moreover, the impersonality of the cosmic order in Hindu thought is reinforced by the idea of karma as an impersonal moral law concerning the inexorable consequences of one's deeds.

As applied to modern democracy, the idea is that the moral legitimacy of a law or public policy can not be established merely by showing that it was put into place through the workings of democratic institutions.

As the Greeks progressed in their application of reason to the understanding of law, they developed quite naturalistic ideas of how law arose in social community.

When ANY American claims that a particular right is «inalienable» — regardless of their beliefs about God or religion — they are paying homage to the idea of Divine Rights as derived from the concept of Natural Law and are IMPLICITLY agreeing that our rights are Divine in origin.

It seems impossible to live any sort of decent life without ideas about moral truth, just as it seems a corruption of the judge's function to confuse those ideas with the law to be applied.

It is not difficult to see that the idea of Natural Law flows easily out of his vision of the Unity Law, especially as it applies to our own nature.

Still, the old patriarchal institutions were not completely unsuited to land tenure, and through these early centuries the idea of family possession took such firm hold as to be written into the laws and to provide the background for the colorful incident of Jezebel's theft of Naboth's ancestral property.

Senator Daniel Inouye at the Iran - contra hearings described the network that had subverted the U.S. Constitution and carried out illegal foreign policy as «a shadowy government with its own air force, its own navy, its own fundraising mechanism and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

For process thinkers history, whether as scholarship or as temporal process, did not obediently follow pure ideas, physical laws, or divine directives and principles.

Just as Paul wrote that the Law was given to lead people to Jesus (Gal 3:24), so also, other religions and pagan traditions and ideas about creation and the afterlife and defeating evil were given to lead people to Jesus.

For Jesus applied the idea of law neither to God nor to the world, and his concept of causality is not abstract but concrete, referring a specific phenomenon to a specific cause, as daily experience taught him.

Man chose satan as their god and have had the chance to show what they could do without their creator and his ideas, principles and laws but it has not been pretty and as Jesus taught that satan is «The ruler of this world», «the god of this system» etc.but for «a little while longer» and the Creator will take his wisdom, justice, power and love and take over to show what was intended from the beginning.for scriptures (see 1 John 5:19, Rev. 12:9 - 12, Luke 22:31, Matt.25: 41, 1 Pet.5: 8,9, John 8:44,45) and so many others for those who care.

Second, materialist physicalism's acceptance of causal determinism, along with the correlative acceptance of the idea that «science» provides precise predictive laws, 5 excludes the idea that a partially self - determining mind could affect the physical course of nature, It is these two metaphysically - based exclusions that, as we have seen, prevent materialist physicalism from doing justice to our inescapable presuppositions about the reality and efficacy of our mental life.

But the leading Mystic ideas are Grace as an indwelling power, Freedom, the Inner Light, Discontinuity (Law and Gospel, Flesh and Spirit, World and God).

We do not deny or circumscribe the Creator, because we hold he has created the self - acting originating human mind, which has almost a creative gift; much less then do we deny or circumscribe His power, if we hold that He gave matter such laws as by their blind instrumentality moulded and constructed through innumerable ages the world as we see it... Mr Darwin's theory need not then be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of Divine Prescience and Skill... At first sight I do not see that «the accidental evolution or organic beings» is inconsistent with divine design - It is accidental to us, not to God.»

In September, Time magazine organized a debate between Collins and Dawkins which touched on all the crucial issues: the false idea that science and faith should be held as not overlapping; the place of Darwinian evolution in the plan of God; the fine - tuning of the physical constants of nature; the literal interpretation of Genesis; the place of miracles including the incarnation and the resurrection of Jesus; and the origin of the moral law within the human heart.

This idea would have been abhorrent to the biblical writers if they had thought of it, as of course they could not before — the idea of a universal system of natural law had emerged.

At first glance, no marriage in the history of ideas would seem more unlikely to succeed as an artificial union of opposites («arranged,» as it were, by Yenta the village matchmaker) than that between Jewish ethics and natural law.

While there are many sects within Hinduism, and numerous interpretations of the basic Hindu ideas, there would be general agreement that the world as we know it is an emanation from an original Source, Brahman, that ultimately the world as we know it will return to its Source; in the meantime, living beings go through numerous rebirths, their progress upward toward Brahman or downward toward material existence determined by the law of karma.

As a Creationist, I find the idea that I have to believe in such radical concepts as «Science,» and «The Laws of Physics» offensivAs a Creationist, I find the idea that I have to believe in such radical concepts as «Science,» and «The Laws of Physics» offensivas «Science,» and «The Laws of Physics» offensive.

Just as abortion, gay rights, and baseball doping will have no effect on the economy, illegal invaders, the wars we are locked in, or the housing market, neither will the candidate's religious beliefs (counting any religion that advocates the murder of others, the subjugating of women, and the establishment of it's own set of laws — though I have no idea or what major religion would do so...).

The word Accountability reeks of the Law while God is «not keeping an Account / Record of our sins» 2 cor 5:19 Accountability focuses on self and we tend to look for our sin side as is habit in these groups... bad idea; consider Peter who said to Jesus» Depart from me I am a Sinful Man «after the miracle Fish thing.

Perhaps here and there the idea entered in, that through such laws as those of circumcision and the Sabbath the chosen people was separated from the Gentiles and designated as belonging to God.