Sentences with phrase «least equal authority»

In the second case theologians believe that what has been known by Christians in the past must be confronted by a quite different knowledge that has arisen through recent experience and that has at least equal authority.

Not exact matches

«A family, no less than a State, is, as We have said, a true society, governed by an authority peculiar to itself... provided, therefore, the limits which are prescribed by the very purposes for which it exists be not transgressed, the family has at least equal rights with the State in the choice and pursuit of the things needful to its preservation and its just liberty.

According to Animal Planet (and other sources), letting your dog sleep in your bed with you allows them to think that THEY, not you, are the alpha — or at least, they think that you two are equals which might seem to be superficially harmless, but actually isn't because if your dog doesn't respect your authority, they will do whatever they want.

Habeas corpus has a symbolically central place in the law because it was the primary means by which a private individual could contest government authority over a person in a court of law where the citizen was in theory at least on an equal footing with the state.

Founding on the leading authority of Edebi v Canary Wharf Management Ltd [2006] IRLR 416, [2006] All ER (D) 03 (Apr) with its emphasis on the employer being given the essence of what he has to respond to, Smith LJ here held that the comparative element of an equal pay claim is so vital to the cause of action that the employee, in raising the grievance at stage 1 of the statutory procedure, must give «some specification of comparator, at least by reference to job or job type, in the grievance document».