Sentences with phrase «much the written law»

Don't forget, in western jurisdictions the legal system is as much about the precedence of prior interpretation and / or application of a given law as much the written law itself.

Not exact matches

According to «Bonds of Citizenship: Law and the Labors of Emancipation» by Hoang Gia Phan, Franklin wrote that he «lik'd [the printer's profession] much better than that of [his] Father, but still had a Hankering for the sea.»

«If Dodd - Frank was written exactly as it's written except there was no Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, no Title X of the law, community banks really wouldn't feel much of the impact from Dodd - Frank — it would be marginal at the most,» said Camden Fine, president and chief executive of the Independent Community Bankers of America.

«Plaintiffs» brief illustrates the views of those who may never have even laid eyes on the weapons they vilify,» the group wrote, «much less squeezed off a few rounds at the range, like millions of peaceful, law - abiding Americans regularly do.»

Write a lease that protects you from abusive renters, know the renter / landlord laws in your area and do as much as you can to make yourself safe.

PRESS RELEASE: Blogger loses will to write / live after being asked to weigh in on proposed gay discrimination laws — by Kristen Howerton (pretty much sums up how I feel, too, but she's clever)

@RightTurnClyde If people who DID believe in the Oracle of Delphi were trying to get her words and visions written into the law of the land, non-believers would spend as much time debunking the Oracle as we do debunking Christianity.

Aristotle wrote that the criterion of good moral action is not a principle or a law so much as «the man of practical wisdom» ¯ that is, the person in your environment who habitually makes the wisest and bravest decisions of anyone else you know.

If the law written on the heart can be repressed, then we can not count on it to restrain us from doing wrong; that much is obvious.

And they got upset and were trying to figure things out and finally became so frustrated that the Law was so hard to follow and God kept sending them into captivity and there was so much death and eventually the prophets started prophesying about a day that would come where the hearts of the fathers would return to their children and a sacrifice that would be the final sacrifice so that they could all stop killing so many animals (which God also admitted He never wanted in the first place because that was not the point), and also that God would eventually wipe out the old system and write his law on their hearts and minds so that they could finally follow him without making so many mistakes and messing up everythiLaw was so hard to follow and God kept sending them into captivity and there was so much death and eventually the prophets started prophesying about a day that would come where the hearts of the fathers would return to their children and a sacrifice that would be the final sacrifice so that they could all stop killing so many animals (which God also admitted He never wanted in the first place because that was not the point), and also that God would eventually wipe out the old system and write his law on their hearts and minds so that they could finally follow him without making so many mistakes and messing up everythilaw on their hearts and minds so that they could finally follow him without making so many mistakes and messing up everything.

David discovered this principle and this was probably why God let him off the hook and did not have him stoned to death for adultery and murder like the law required: because David was humble and repented (even though Achan and plenty of other people repented and God still punished them, and this has nothing to do with the fact that David was king and probably would not have commanded his own stoning to keep the law even though he wrote Psalm 119 which is all about how much he loved keeping every commandment in the law).

It does not stipulate how much a person needs to know about God in order to be saved, but simply qualifies that the fruit of saving faith is good works.Paul writes that «it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.»

The same EU law leaves it to member states to «give effect» to principles and aims of the much - cited International Code of Marketing of Breast - milk Substitutes, written by the World Health Organisation (WHO) back in 1981.

But first, a caveat — this is written from the eyes of a recent transplant still learning about and getting accustomed to Argentine culture and politics, and trying to glean as much as possible about what's going on with limited Spanish during heated conversations about politics at the weekend lunch table with my in - laws or with friends.

You could feasibly write about how the coalition government looks unlikely to tackle it (ie, Tories dropped their IHT threshold raise and raised CGT, but it seems very unlikely that they'll go further on either position; tax reform overall remains to be seen, but I don't hold out much hope while it consists of «crackdowns» rather than actual proposals for changing the law).

A codified constitution is a single document; states that do not have such a document have uncodified, but not entirely unwritten, constitutions, since much of an uncodified constitution is usually written in laws such as the Basic Laws of Israel and the Parliament Acts of the United Kinglaws such as the Basic Laws of Israel and the Parliament Acts of the United KingLaws of Israel and the Parliament Acts of the United Kingdom.

The Lib Dem manifesto - writing sausage factory is a curious mix of democracy and patronage which characterises much of the party's internal processes — the mostly - elected, 27 - member Federal Policy Committee, chaired by Clegg's former PPS, Duncan Hames, appointed a 12 - member manifesto working group to be chaired by David Laws, who was nominated by Clegg.

In 2014, my administration proposed and authored 19 pieces of legislation designed to modernize state child protective services law, which was written more than 40 years ago and has not changed much since.

I don't know how Margaret Chen is going to write the law when key money is being mentioned now in litigation for 68a Mott Street which means true market rents are much higher than reported (and that my mother is really charging a very low rent for an ongoing vacancy) but the fake rent is going to be used to claim so many things about owners.

Rather than appropriate specific amounts for each of these, the Legislature writes formulas into state law — sending each district so many dollars for each elementary - school pupil, each hospital so much for a day of care for each patient, and so on.

«The meeting is largely future - oriented, and focused not so much on law enforcement use, but on admissibility in court,» Steven Hyman, co-chair of the committee and director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, wrote in an e-mail to Scientific American.

Written without much in terms of legitimate explanation from the not - as - clever - as - you'd - think script by the team of Solomon (The In - Laws, Charlie's Angels), Yakin (Prince of Persia, The Rookie), and Ricourt, the amount of razzle - dazzle is high and the amount of expository information is at a minimum, explaining only a few minor illusions on the hope that we'll buy that there is a logical explanation for all of the other jaw - dropping moments we aren't in the know on.

This movie is written to appease people like my dad and father - in - law, but I found myself enjoying this testosterone flick just as much as they will.

Joanne Weiss, the former Duncan chief of staff who will likely be remembered as the administration's edu - MVP, wrote that the law «cements the K — 12 Obama - Duncan legacy» and will «codify into law so much of what the Obama administration has been fighting for.»

«A frankly missionary program,» wrote Stanford professor Linda Darling - Hammond in an oft - cited 1994 Phi Delta Kappan article, «TFA has recruiters and advocates who have focused much of their attention on the advantaged college graduates for whom TFA serves as something useful to do on their way to their - real jobs» in law, medicine, or business.»

In writing regulations for the new law, Secretary of Education, John B. King, proposes that school districts spend as much per student of state and local funds on students in poor schools as is spent on students in the district's other schools.

To evaluate whether districts have the right tools to implement the math placement law, we provided districts the opportunity to write in the challenges they have or that could arise when placing students into the right math course.9 The new law attempts to address some of the following concerns, but district feedback suggests that there is much room for improvement.

Bradley Campbell and Deanna Moran of the Conservation Law Foundation write, «Much of this land belongs to the public, on «loan» or licensed to private developers so long as they are serving public purposes.

As we wrote not long after ESSA passed, a much larger number of schools could potentially qualify for the second category under the new law.

But as our union leadership had a hand in writing the law imposing this on us, and as John King had carte blanche to impose pretty much whatever reformy nonsense he saw fit, we are stuck with it.

I faithfully read the education blogs written by Jonathan Pelto and Diane Ravitch; I follow the writing of Wendy Lecker, senior attorney at the Education Law Center as I grapple with so much of the misguided education reform which is strangling the efforts and morale of excellent teachers.

Between them they were responsible for the earliest known writing, establishing mathematical principles and laws, developing irrigation techniques, the wheel and much else.

Virtually all ISP's do comply with the law as written and these yahoos are pretty much wasting money on lawsuits.

I didn't have much time to write for pleasure in college and law school.

With so much to study, students often fail to acquire in - depth knowledge of each of the law subjects which can in turn affect their performance while writing assignments.

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Keep in mind that the Statute of Limitations laws were written to be applied only against your interests as well; the IRS doesn't only have 3 years to collect your back taxes... they get much longer.

Mark handled the business side of things and spent as much time writing grants as he did working at his law practice.

Last week, after I sent some of the clips and blogs about cold weather and global warming to Cass Sunstein, the University of Chicago law professor who has written much about «availability entrepreneurs» who try to shift public attitudes using dramatic events, he wrote back:

Admittedly, President Obama and Administrator McCarthy should not bear the full burden of blame when much of what needs fixing requires amendment of four - decade old laws that were not written with the 21st century in mind.

Carriage Horses, Animal Abuse, and A Little Perspective Rachel writes, «The incident has much in common with recent events in Ohio, where dozens of exotic animals (some of them endangered species) were killed last week... There's talk of fixing the nation's laws to prevent issues with exotic animals in the first place, but individuals also need to take responsibility for their own actions — for example, does buying a baby monkey to live with you in a Louisiana home really seem like a good idea?»

He combined a thriving and prestigious practice with a prolific output of writing and teaching, with much of his work centering on the inter-relationship of international and national law.

He hates it so much that he wrote an entire law review article about it in 1986 «naively entitled «Goodbye to the Bluebook.»»

Much has already been written about the controversial Arizona immigration law (PDF) that was signed by Governor Jan Brewer last Friday.

He hates it so much that when he writes his law review articles about hating the Bluebook, he asks the law review editors not to make his citations conform to the Bluebook (his request was granted).

Much has been written about the need to fill gaps in law graduates» legal research proficiencies.

In recent years, legal writing professors and law librarians have given much scholarly attention to questions of pedagogy and training in a world of online legal research.

Rather, their approach was much more theoretical than practical.60 In 1779, Thomas Jefferson, then the Governor of Virginia, established «a Professorship of Law and Police» at William and Mary College.61 George Wythe, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and, not coincidentally, the lawyer under whom Jefferson apprenticed, was appointed.62 The purpose of the course of study Wythe taught was less about producing practicing lawyers than it was educating the statesmen of the New Republic.63 Wythe did attempt to blend in some practical training with his lectures and readings through the use of a moot court and a moot legislature, though there is no indication that Wythe required any writing on the part of the students.64

Law is much more than the text narrative — despite a tradition of resistance to move beyond the written word.

In this context, much is written about law firms» use of innovation, which manifests itself in myriad forms for the benefit of clients.