Sentences with phrase «of arbitrary law»

Such constant propaganda can form the impression, however unconscious at times, that the Church is some sort of arbitrary law - imposer that delights in removing the fun and freedom from people's lives.

This will include a strong sense of personal sin, not as the mere breaking of some arbitrary laws but as as a sort of self - mutilation in the disfigurement of our true, originally sinless humanity.

Because there's nothing arrogant about believing that a being powerful enough to create the universe is watching you and reading your mind 24/7 to make sure that you obey a set of arbitrary laws set down by a specific group of middle - eastern men thousands of years ago, and listening to your prayers so that he can fulfill your requests if he feels like it.

Not exact matches

Americans for Annuity Protection has engaged in active outreach to leaders of influence to establish the argument that the DOL's fiduciary rule should be returned because of the analysis performed by the department is flawed, inconclusive and arbitrary; it is not compatible with the Uniform Security Law or established insurance law, and the law has potential conflict with the Dodd - Frank requirements to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on reviewing a uniform fiduciary standaLaw or established insurance law, and the law has potential conflict with the Dodd - Frank requirements to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on reviewing a uniform fiduciary standalaw, and the law has potential conflict with the Dodd - Frank requirements to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on reviewing a uniform fiduciary standalaw has potential conflict with the Dodd - Frank requirements to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on reviewing a uniform fiduciary standard.

The complaint states that in promulgating the final revisions to PTE 84 - 24, which make the exemption available to «fixed rate annuities,» as defined by DOL, but not to one class of fixed annuities — specifically, «fixed indexed annuities» — the Department «acted without providing adequate notice and an opportunity for comment, reflecting arbitrary and capricious conduct in excess of its statutory authority and in clear violation of its obligations to make necessary findings under applicable law.»

Indeed even the rule of law is a nondemocratic principle, sorely needed to hold in check the potentially arbitrary whims of the popular will.

America, like Mosaic Israel, was a government of settled laws, not arbitrary men.

God is not constrained by our categories of rationality, nor by some higher cosmic law which predefines what goodness means, but neither is God arbitrary and despotic.

Nevertheless it must also be emphasized that such law is not left to the arbitrary will of the authorities only because it exists by custom or by a legal act and is therefore of human, not divine right.

If the framers of the Constitution had been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common human nature rather than on weaker procedural grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.

Say we have a mildly complex set of physical laws, a theory of everything — let's call the theory U — that includes a few numerical parameters (let's say those are t, u, v, w, x, y, z) that are fixed at constant values that seem at first somewhat arbitrary, but also seem «fine tuned» to produce a universe that can support life.

God's Law isn't a list of arbitrary rules, but help guide us to understanding and conforming to His nature, which is the only real source of Goodness.

Regulations in family and classroom can be used as a basis for developing a high concept of law, when they are presented as approximations to right — not as arbitrary impositions, not as expressions of superior power, not as absolute rules which can never be questioned or modified.

But Kaiser knows that this arbitrary divisions of the law is not found within the Bible itself, but is forced upon the text by some scholars who want to keep some portions of the law, but not others.

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

The freedom of the Christian man which Luther rewon for the Christian is that which comes from seeing that no arbitrary rule, ecclesiastical law, or abstract principle takes precedence over this concrete necessity and our conscientious response to it.

By the same stroke, the philosophy of the will takes on its true meaning: it is not exhausted in the relation between the maxim and the law, between the arbitrary and the willed; a third dimension appears: arbitrary — law — aim of totality.

Thus freedom is always called to decisions which can not be derived from general norms and eternal laws alone (even though they must not contradict them) and which nevertheless are not left to an arbitrary choice but claim the whole man because of his special call.

This is not an arbitrary process but a method of using the principles of Law to fit the circumstances of a given case.

The curse is not arbitrary, we suggest, just the result of «natural» law.

Among them are life, liberty, security of person, freedom from slavery and from torture and inhumane treatment; equality before the law; the right to judicial remedies for wrongs; freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention; fair trials and due process of law, including the presumption of innocence; privacy; freedom of movement; equal rights in marriage; freedoms of speech, press, assembly and association; and free elections.

Yet natural law theory holds that the judgments of good and evil are not (or at least should not be) arbitrary judgments based on convenience or political utility, but are in fact located in the very nature of the behaviors (or behavers) themselves.

A Vision of Human Society We must be able to demonstrate how the whole universe relates to God, not in some arbitrary manner but from the very laws and dynamic of material existence.

Quite the contrary, large areas of Jewish law pertain to what the Torah holds up to Jews as God's (at least seemingly) arbitrary ordinances for his people.

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.

This implies protection against torture, cruel inhuman and degrading treatment and against arbitrary treatment in the form of arrest, detention or exile on grounds not established by law.

Nevertheless, the law given to Moses aims at protecting the wife from arbitrary domination by the husband, even though according to the Lord's words it still carries traces of man's «hardness of heart» which was the reason Moses permitted men to divorce their wives.

The Court gave examples of such legislative violations of due process of law: «Acts of attainder, bills of pains and penalties, acts of confiscation, acts reversing judgments and acts directly transferring one man's estate to another, legislative judgments and decrees, and other similar special, partial, and arbitrary exertions of power under the forms of legislation.»

Once the physical constituents are granted an independent existence, though, they appear to usurp the whole: gathered together in systems of arbitrary complexity, but all conforming to their inherent laws of combination, they now become coextensive with the universe they so fully explain — including, therefore, the reflecting subject, which is capable of juxtaposing itself to the rest of the world, and of enunciating the theory of the very entities that constitute both.

This latter norm prohibits the exercise of arbitrary power by state legislatures, and means that not every law that they enact is by that fact alone constitutional.

In any case, we either all enjoy «equal justice under the law», whether male or female, and no matter how large or small, athlete or not, or we just toss the idea of equality out the window and say that it's all going to be arbitrary.

Insurance companies are not in compliance with the law if they have arbitrary rules for a set number of consultations or certain age of the baby.

The whole idea of trying to police a set of sometimes logical and sometimes arbitrary laws through a combination of rule setting, surveillance, «keeping the peace», and punishment gives me the hives.

But this generated a substantial change; a precedent for the victory of the law of the community over the arbitrary exercise of power.

Human Rights Watch reports claim that while West African forces helped restore security in these crises, which took place over a decade ago, they were also complicit in serious violations of international humanitarian law, including looting, harassment, and arbitrary detention of civilians, as well as — in the case of Sierra Leone — summary executions of suspected rebels.

On liberty: Chapters 39 is most famous in protecting liberty from arbitrary arrest and related prejudice «save by the law of the land».

When the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions made inquiries into drone attacks in 2002, and again in 2005, the U.S. responded by claiming that such incidents do not fall within the jurisdiction of the rapporteur, given that the applicable law is the international law of armed conflict.

«After announcing the creation of a special pardon panel to address anomalies and injustices emanating from the often arbitrary manner in which Federal immigration laws are implemented, we received more than 1,100 applications,» Governor Paterson said.

«Tonight's vote sends a clear message that the City of New York is determined to provide relief for its residents, unlike Gov. Cuomo and Albany who recently enacted detrimental rent laws that could eliminate about 90,000 affordable housing units due to deregulation over the next four years — units that do not just provide an affordable price point for tenants but offer protections against arbitrary evictions as well,» he added.

The committee members were particularly displeased with what they called arbitrary manner in which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) used the banks to close the accounts without complying with due process of law.

For republicans, interference is rendered not arbitrary — and so does not reduce our freedom — when we are subject to the rule of law.

Rather than concentrating on improving the current system and insuring the timely designations and re-authorizations of state certified MWBE companies and their entry into the universe of state contracting, the law increases the arbitrary power of the director of the program while complicating the reporting systems required of contractors.

«PUSH Buffalo's arbitrary, noisy, harassing intrusion in the Ellicott Square Building on June 2, 2017, with bullhorns, signs and arrogant people seeking to disturb, intimidate and frighten tenants and visitors to the building and its lobby was not only a trespass and a violation of the law, but also an ignorant, mindless imposition on privacy in a private building and clear evidence of your malicious intentions in slandering and defaming me and my companies,» Paladino wrote.

Thus, the responsibility lies with the government to prove that their laws trump the individual consent / rights of the people living within arbitrary territories.

If all people are created equal by virtue of inalienable rights (those rights which don't come from government - see 9th Amendment and «inalienable rights»), then any laws must acknowledge the self - ownership of all individuals otherwise they are illegitimate (we know that governments are bad about this since they make arbitrary laws which harm people which violated no one else's rights but merely violated a law - like seat belt laws).

b) the exercise of the discretionary power shall not be arbitrary, capricious or biased either by resentment, prejudice or personal dislike and shall be in accordance with due process of law»

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.

The law around «faith» school employment in England, in allowing religious schools to widely discriminate — often against every teacher — on the basis of religion in who they employ, is «arbitrary» and goes beyond what is permitted by European law.

Any test case against a CBD seller would draw attention to both the absurdity of a law which even the department who wrote it and are tasked with enforcing it don't understand, and the truly arbitrary nature of our drug law enforcement.

«The granting of pardon also amounts to an arbitrary exercise of powers, which can only continue to weaken the rule of law, deny justice to the victims of corruption, and entrench a culture of impunity of the country's leaders,» the organization said.