Sentences with phrase «law as models»

When western nations began to emerge, they used the church's law as models for their own laws.

In the December revision of his paper entitled «Metcalfe's Law as a Model for Bitcoin's Value», Timothy Peterson models Bitcoin price according to Metcalfe» Law, which posits that the value of a network (Bitcoin) is a function of the number of possible pair connections (among Bitcoin wallets, assuming all are equal) and is therefore proportional to the square of the number of participants.

We will use the new California law as the model, but be aware that there are variations in the exact formulas used in different jurisdictions.

Not exact matches

As it stands, for now, the trolls will continue to plague startups and big companies alike unless Congress musters the will to pass proposed laws to undercut their business model.

Most states have a version of a model law known as the Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Act, which sets standards for handling claims and prohibits policies that, for example, require you to sue to collect.

As required by the nonprofit's by - laws, more than half of the Fortune Society's staff and at least a third of its board share with Kozlowski the experience of having been incarcerated, providing role models to those they serve.

Senator Charles Schumer, i n what Republicans saw as tax - po licy blasphemy, declared President Ronald Reagan's 1986 tax reform «obsolete» as a model fo r ov erhauling tax laws.

Whole companies such as law firm Cognition LLP and accounting firm Numericanswers.ca, not to mention IT firms (Mob4hire, Fluidsurveys, Mercury Grove, Itteco Software), have moved to a completely home - based office model.

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation takes effect in May, and many privacy advocates look to it as a model for the kind of baseline privacy law the US sorely needs.

That is because the CFTC rules, created as part of the 2010 Dodd - Frank financial reform law, allow banks to calculate capital needs using their own proprietary models but force non-bank swaps dealers to use standardized models.

This adjustment has historically been important, as adjusting for that embedded profit margin significantly improves the relationship between the CAPE and actual subsequent market returns (something we can demonstrate both with algebraic return estimates and regression models — see Margins, Multiples, and the Iron Law of Valuation).

«We hope the full Uniform Law Commission will adopt the model act so that it can serve as a reasonable option for states who wish to ensure consumers are protected while protecting innovation.»

Legal entrepreneurs also fit this model as they introduce contractual innovations and disrupt the field of business law itself.

Finally, as technology, laws and new business models continue to expand the way we buy and talk about wine, Millennials have led the way.

This impressive milestone marks a long journey from a one - man operation providing small businesses with consistency in their marketing efforts, to a fully staffed hybrid agency model serving clients large and small in a wide variety of fields, including healthcare, law, software, retail and other B2B business, as well as non-profits.

One possibility is broader legislation dealing with bots, perhaps modeled on the Better Online Ticket Sales Act (better known as the BOTS Act), a 2016 law meant to clamp down on ticket scalping and computer programs that sweep up large numbers of tickets in online sales.

AAP supports the NAIC Model Laws on Use of Certifications and Professional Designations and Advertisements of Life Insurance and Annuities that have been adopted as law or issued as bulletins / notices in all states.

Conservatives can not push enough Democrats and wobbly moderates toward greater comfort with originalist - like its - the - only - Constitution - we've - got thinking, can not get them to sacrifice the judicial avenue to what they see as policy goodies, or get them to really censure the kinds of unconstitutional short - cuts Obama is modeling, if they think that folks like you and I believe that Real originalism would ban hours - laws, collective bargaining, etc..

Great post, and the really disproportionate thing about it is this is all done using the «law» demanding the tithe when not one New Testament book endorses this model (The reference in Hebrews was not to establish tithe as it was to establish Jesus in a different order, and his comments in the gospels was to people living under the law)... how is it that no other «law» is preached with the same force and conviction as tithing?

Our task is not (as it is for positivism) to discover the covering laws that explain and predict observable associations of conditions and events, but to use all available empirical evidence and powers of reason to develop conceptual models that as accurately as possible describe the real capacities and causal processes operating at the deeper, unobservable level of reality.

The first man Adam did break a law and, since that time, humanity has not had access to God as a model to imitate, and thus accurately image him.

The organic model we are suggesting pictures reality as composed of multitudes of embodied beings who presently inhabit a planet that has evolved over billions of years through a process of dynamic change marked by law and novelty into an intricate, diverse, complex, multi-leveled reality, all radically interrelated and interdependent.

Committed as they are to Christ as the source and model of all that is holy, Christians are in no way exempted from obedience to the moral law permanently inscribed by the Creator in human nature (Romans 2:15).

Furthermore, Paul, viewed by most Christians as a great role model, said, «I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets...» It seems Paul couldn't see the scapegoating either.

Thus, for instance, the philosophes of the secular Enlightenment (overwhelmingly male) frequently disparaged women as weak and emotional, and in seeking to restore an ancient, «classical» model of society undermined the rights women had enjoyed since the Middle Ages (a process which culminated in the laws of the Code Napoleon, promulgated in 1804).

But I would imagine that in having John and Carol Wimber as your in - laws you had a model for what marriage within a ministry family looks like?

Arturo Castiglione wrote about the overwhelming importance of this biblical medical law: «The laws against leprosyin Leviticus 13 may be regarded as the first model of sanitary legislation» (A History of Medicine).»

When the State Kills is the model for such an approach, with fascinating and accessible chapters on such topics as the never - ending quest for «painless» executions, the role of and pressures on the jury in capital cases, the portrayal of executions in contemporary films, and the increasingly desperate efforts of death - penalty lawyers to ensure that those who are condemned to die have received something approximating fair treatment under the law.

So are the miracle wheat and rice of the Green Revolution, the technology of behavior modification proposed by B. F. Skinner, 1 and the computerized model of the global ecology produced by the authors of The Limits to Growth.2 This kind of reasoning operates within the limits of what is possible as defined by (1) the available material and human resources, (2) the laws of nature, and (3) the state of knowledge at the time.

As CT reported, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) spearheaded discussion of a potential nationwide Fairness for All law — modeled after a well - regarded compromise enacted in Utah in 2015 — among its members and partners.

These priestly directions for instituting the Covenant are presented as coming from Moses and Sinai, and detail the building of the Temple as modeled on the Tabernacle, with descriptions of the Ark, table, lampstand, altar, court, nightlamp, priestly apparel and other more minor items, and culminating in a priestly emphasis on the Sabbath law as absolute.

As Americans, we pride ourselves as being a beacon to other nations — a model of the rule of laAs Americans, we pride ourselves as being a beacon to other nations — a model of the rule of laas being a beacon to other nations — a model of the rule of law.

Lincoln is therefore today not only the model of a president committed to faithful execution of the laws and of his constitutional duties, but also the model for those who today embrace a strong view of the president's power that he holds as commander in chief in time of war.

A theory that is articulated in the light of a familiar model resembles in important ways the laws or theories which are assumed to hold for the model itself; and in consequence the new theory is not only assimilated to what is already familiar, but can often be viewed as an extension and generalization of an older theory which had a more limited scope.

88 The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act converted Title IV of the National and Community Service Act of 1990, known as the Model Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, into permanent law, and transferred it to the Child Nutrition Act of 1966.

The Sustainable Economies Law Centre in Oakland, California is another example of an organization committed to supporting producers, consumers and everyone in between in developing sustainable models through independent advice as well as their regular «Resilient Communities Legal Café», freely available to all.

Dr. Kelly is trained in the interdisciplinary model of collaborative family law and functions as a neutral coach in collaborative cases.

Legislators considering changing their divorce laws should consider the full range of legal options available to them, such as those compiled by Americans for Divorce Reform and posted on their Internet «Divorce Reform Page «69 This site presents arguments for and against the initiatives as well as model legislation.

As a model for the new ordinance, which was approved Monday, Holmer cited a law that Naperville's City Council approved in December 2004 to deal with the same issue.

Prosecuting would be a «difficult and unworkable task, as little or no evidence is available regarding [the substances»] pharmacological activities in vivo in humans and expert witnesses may be reluctant to extrapolate data from animal models, in silico or in vitro studies,» lecturer in criminal law Amber Marks told the committee.

The Levellers had a different social model to draw on: they harked back to law and society as it existed before the Conquest.

Five years ago today, Andrew Cuomo signed into law the SAFE Act, a package of gun control reforms the Governor has described as a model for the nation.

@SteveMelnikoff - the degree to which it's not unique now is says nothing about whether it was back then, and the degree to which it is not unique now would be a testament to how often others have found it impressive enough to feel they should model their own supreme national laws using the US version as a model.

Constitutional Republics (especially those that used the U.S. Constitution in part or wholesale as a Constitution model) are governments where the highest law of the land are laws that restrict the government (in the U.S. the government is the only legal entity that can commit illegal offenses against the constitution).

In subsequent written correspondence with civil servants, the BHA stated that «Our concern is for the government to make absolutely clear that there is no chance it will ever accept [creationist Free School] bids, or allow any state - funded school to teach creationism as science, anywhere in the curriculum, and this is only possible through a change in the law... we would support any adjustment to the model funding agreement to add a statement [to this effect]... Could we request that the next time the [Free School] model funding agreement is reviewed, our desire for this point's inclusion is considered?»

«As everyone knows, our union is opposed to high - stakes testing and value - added model, but even when MaryEllen applied it as required under Florida law, she made collaboration her mantra,» said AFT President Randi WeingarteAs everyone knows, our union is opposed to high - stakes testing and value - added model, but even when MaryEllen applied it as required under Florida law, she made collaboration her mantra,» said AFT President Randi Weingarteas required under Florida law, she made collaboration her mantra,» said AFT President Randi Weingarten.

His willingness to lead on campaign finance reform is just as important, and I believe we are closer than ever to finally enacting a law that could be a model for the rest of the country.»

Signed into law by Mayor Robert Wagner on April 19, 1965, the New York City Landmarks Law is among the strongest in the nation and continues to serve as a model for cities and towns throughout the United States and around the worlaw by Mayor Robert Wagner on April 19, 1965, the New York City Landmarks Law is among the strongest in the nation and continues to serve as a model for cities and towns throughout the United States and around the worLaw is among the strongest in the nation and continues to serve as a model for cities and towns throughout the United States and around the world.

Some of the ideas already mooted include drafting of a model law establishing SIECs to bring them in line with the Electoral Act and global best practice, as well as the development of voluntary «Guiding Principles for the Conduct of Free, Fair and Credible Elections in Nigeria» to which we expect all 37 Election Management Bodies in Nigeria to accede.

And a main character — prosecutor Adam Schiff — was modeled after former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau (left), renowned as one of the nation's top law enforcement officials over a nearly half - century career.