Sentences with phrase «only know the law»

If you've been charged with a crime or are interested in pursuing a cannabis venture in San Diego or any of the surrounding areas, you want a lawyer who not only knows the law, but is an authority within the local courts, and can navigate through the system for your benefit.

The years and engagement with clients has created a sensitivity to not only know the laws, but also understand them and then be able to assess risk in light of the laws, what I've seen work (and not work) and the current state of regulatory and law enforcement views.

Attorney O'Meara takes pride in not only knowing the law, but also getting to know you, what's important to you, and how to find an outcome that will put you on the best path forward.

As an attorney, I wanted a family lawyer who not only knew the law, but who also practiced with professionalism.

You need someone who not only knows the law, but knows the judge!

Not exact matches

Though beach fires are no longer allowed here (they are in neighboring towns like Nags Head), stationary fireworks that emit only sparks or smoke are permitted by state law and small - time fireworks can be purchased throughout the state.

The FCC only allows the devices, which are commonly known as «stingrays,» to be used by U.S. law enforcement agencies.

The next day that firm filed two lawsuits against Diageo, one in federal court, raising a suite of traditional trademark and unfair business practices claims, but the other in New York State Supreme Court, seeking a permanent injunction under a seldom - used statute available only to charitable organizations, known as Section 135 of the New York General Business Law.

In the U.S., we generally believe that publicly - held firms are to be managed for «shareholder value» (technically, the Securities Exchange Commission's Code of Ethics for CEOs only requires the firm to provide full, fair, accurate and timely financial reporting, and to flag any known conflicts of interest or violations of securities law, but state laws often impose stricter fiduciary duties on the firm's top managers).

If however most of these tokens are investment contracts in the end, we know that due to the impact of the securities laws that registration is more or less the only thing we can do in order to operate a company coin within the bounds of US law.

SHARE director of law and policy Laura O'Neill said the only other directors she knows of who failed to win majority support this year were on the board of Quebecor Inc., where holders of class B subordinate shares voted just 43 per cent in favour of electing the entire board as a slate.

Only by knowing this, can present - day Canadians know the meaning of our constitutional law.

The reasons why one should sell the cat, pawn the mother - in - law, and use the proceeds to buy gold are well known: the Fed is printing money faster than you can read this, which will result in inflation; the government is borrowing like a drunken monkey, so the dollar will be devalued; this will debase all currencies, so the only thing that will save you is the shiny metal.

An underfunded pension fund buying stocks on margin is no different than someone buying stocks in a IRA on margin, only the latter is not allowed by law.

Also, I never proposed that randomness created anything (I only argued that some simple set of laws of physics are all that need be behind the designs of nature that we observe), so I don't know why you are going on about randomness in your last few sentences.

Or i could point out that the big bang is the biggest joke ever told... That even the top physicists can't figure out how their own theory could work, not to mention the fact that for it to work they would need for the Universe to break the fundamental laws we understand as true since the beginning i.e. (No matter in the Universe can be created nor destroyed, you can only change it's state (solid to liquid, liquid to gas etc.).

Let them know that there is only one God and He is not one born of man, One savior and He took all the laws and ordinances that were against us and moved them out of the way, nailing them to His Cross (Col 2:13 - 15).

You know very well that not a single Christian is under the Law of Moses... the only ones (or so it seems) who argue that O.T. laws apply to Christians are atheists — who may have read the Bible, but never truly studied it.

They not only have no clue as to how our government works or what it takes to change laws, they wouldn't know a good president from a hole in the ground if they didn't first ask their pastor or fox news pundit their opinion.

The group of women, who call themselves the Women of the Wall, went to pray in Jewish shawls known as tallitot that Israeli law says only Jewish men can wear there.

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

Only by reducing the love affair Americans have with guns can we start to reduce the macho gun owner mentality (and I know many gun owners... most are hunters, and I have no issue with that, but no deer was ever so formidable that anyone ever needed an assault rifle to take it down (and I've caught wild turkey with nothing but snare traps) People get up in arms caliming their rights are violated when some law limits guns, but that does not remove the right to bear arms, simply limits it to reason within the spirit of the amendment.

All of a sudden, «The soul knew in its very depths that it was living a lie, and this knowledge, together with the will to perform could only be communicated to the body as a resistance against its law of total obedience to the universal law of the Good and the True.»

A Catholic Christian and theologian will know that there is not only a history of the consciousness of faith, but also a history of dogma, hence that he possesses what is permanent in his faith and his Church only in history and not outside it, and he will therefore have no reason to be afraid of a development of the Church's constitutional law.

Most memorably of all, «If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man, who cares only for the material consequences which such knowledge enables him to predict, not as a good one, who finds his reasons for conduct, whether inside the law or outside of it, in the vaguer sanctions of conscience.»

After all, the only way to live out the truth of the natural law is to know and love the natural law giver.

We all live only so many years... there is no way each of us can study all of the science we need... scientists (Complexity - Chaos - Systems) tell us that computers can not even predict the future given the known laws of physics, etc...

They believe in a Church which knows of a natural law and which aims at subjecting not only the sentiments of men's hearts but also the concrete reality of life and history to the law of the Gospel.

In short, anyone who appreciates the rapid change in historical circumstances and does not flee from this into a ghetto; anyone who knows that there is and always has been a mutable, human law of the Church, and that this kind of change has always been practised; anyone, moreover, who reflects that the Church not only has the right but the duty of shaping its canon law in accordance with changes in the times, will not be surprised at the change in many legal regulations which he is living through at the present time, but will recognize and accept this as a sign of the vitality of the Church and its pastoral care.

I would curious to know that if people who call themselves Christian really believe that their actions don't matter and that they only have to answer to God, how they would handle any matter if they were dealing with Law Enforcement, or any Court system.

Gravitational Singularity is only a theory at best, and what it concerns is something of this world, that is infinite gravity and density — however, they are not really infinite but because all the known Laws of Physics breakdown at that point, they call them infinite, hence a created matter, so it can not possibly be self - existent nor «First Cause.»

Finally, we mere mortals are always tying ourselves in knots over minutiae and missing the big principle — Jesus said the only thing we need to know is that we need to love god and love each other — «On these 2 commandments hand all the law and the prophets.

To a modernist, who by definition relies only upon human authority, natural law in the Thomistic sense is no longer supportable because it would have to rest upon the unacceptable premise that nature was supernaturally created.

And the truth of the matter, most slugs making noise about abortion are only concerned with tax money being used, which in of itself clearly shows they do not know anything about the law, and the use of tax funds for abortion, because it is already illegal.

The question was how much of that law we could know from natural reason (or academic philosophy), and how much we could know only from Scripture or the Church.

Not only that, the Congress that passed the law no longer exists.

We may pretend, as in the case of the boss, in - laws or potential customer that we care what they think, but in the end we really care about what anyone says or thinks only if we know they care about us.

You know that the law was only give about 1500 years before Jesus... which means that none of the forefathers observed these holy days.

The Law kills; the Spirit gives life; but this is known only by faith.

We know that it is only by working along His laws natural and spiritual that we can work with efficiency.

Relational truths, whether in the form of physical laws (such as gravity), social convention (as with mores) or personal reality (such as friendship), are known only by engagement and interaction.

Everyone knows the current law is not Con ### itutio #nal and it is only a matter of time before all of those bigoted laws eventually fall.

In fact, he still does — though it has already been transformed and resurrected and is therefore no longer subject to the ordinary laws of our physics, which govern only mortal bodies and material objects.

there's really no room for the concept of an independent entity possessed of «will» in a worldview shaped by cause and effect; the only place for «will» to retreat to is the zone of true randomness, of complete uncertainty, which means that truly free will as such must be completely inscrutible [sic]... Statistical laws govern the decay of a block of uranium, but whether or not this atom of uranium chooses to fission in this instant is a completely unpredictable event — fundamentally unpredictable, something which simply can not be known — which is equally good evidence for the proposition that it's God's (or the atom's) will whether it splits or remains whole, as for the proposition that it's random chance.

For «law - abiding citizens» this does not generally require the penalties of the law to be invoked, though one need only to ask himself how far his driving is affected by known traffic regulations, or his income - tax filing by fear of penalties, to realize the degree to which the law is in the background as a restraint to his self - centeredness.

The best short summary of the traditional, natural law understanding of conscience was given by Thomas Aquinas when he said that the core principles of the moral law are the same for all «both as to rectitude and as to knowledge» — in other words, that they are not only right for all but known to all.

Thus he can no longer think of God as the Power over what is (as Jesus conceived Him), but only as the Power over what ought to be, that is, only the personification of what the law of his own being demands of him.

Instead of the Power whom man obeys and for whom he decides, he knows only the law of his own spiritual being, and the idea of God becomes «the irreducible coefficient of moral processes in self - consciousness.»

While I don't know if it is ever stated exactly this way, it sometimes seems that we teach that Jesus kept the law perfectly so that as the only perfect person, He could credit His righteousness to our account.

In fact, the reader will perhaps be surprised to learn, David Novak's book is not only a most effective and learned defense of the use of natural law in Judaism, it is also one of the most brilliant expositions of natural law theory I know, fully worthy to join ranks with works on natural law by Yves Simon, Russell Hittinger, and John Finnis.