Sentences with phrase «ordinary laws of»

Surely the onus of proof is upon you to show why the ordinary laws of thermodynamics, the ordinary definition of thermodynamic equilibrium, is suddenly on holiday so that this gas, perfectly balanced in terms of gravitational force and energy, and utterly lacking a thermal gradient to drive the flow of heat, is somehow going to change.

The «ordinary laws of Physics DO NOT «still apply».

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.

Since morphic resonance is non-energetic, and morphogenetic fields are not composed of mass or energy, there is no reason for us to expect them to have to obey the ordinary laws of physics.

Should, for example, the ordinary law of insolvency apply?

The law governing employment contracts continues to diverge from the ordinary law of contract.

... a human rights code is not to be treated as another ordinary law of general application.

Not exact matches

Teresa Scassa, the Canada research chair in information law and policy at the University of Ottawa, poked around the links and said she thought «wow, the ordinary consumer lost interest minutes ago.»

This accord -; one of the few provisions welcomed by environmental groups -; allows groups and ordinary citizens to accuse member nations of failing to enforce their own environmental laws.

For law - abiding investors, however, the process of reporting digital currency profits — which are taxed as ordinary income in the short term and as capital gains in the long term — will be arduous since Bitcoin exchanges have yet to provide customers with a 1099 form.

Under current law, high - income fund partners pay the long - term capital gains rate of 20 percent on their carried interest income, instead of the 39.6 percent individual tax rate that applies to the ordinary wage income of high earners.

«With ordinary warrants, the SEC requires investors who have exercised their warrants to delay selling their stock until expiration of a holding period — generally two years,» notes Rufus King, a partner at Boston law firm Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault.

«For the ordinary consumer, these rates are completely unaffordable,» said Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa.

Under it, courts first look to the state law definition of ordinary business matters.

In their rush to pass anti-labour laws that would force the province's largest union into a new contract and increase penalties public sector unions that enter illegal strikes, could Premier Alison Redford «s Government also be infringing on the free speech rights of ordinary Albertans?

This isn't a «distraction,» but gets right at core concerns about Trump and his ability to govern — the Daniels story is one of many warnings that suggest Trump believes that laws and policies that limit the behavior of ordinary humans simply don't apply to him.

I would suggest that we consider the example of Jesus to religous leaders who were oppressing the ordinary faithfuil people by adding laws and rules.

There are many ways in which such language can be given an orthodox construction: If, for example, you take your definition of «justice» from a law textbook (Aquinas likes the Roman jurist Ulpian) or from ordinary political usage, then there's no problem in saying God's mercy surpasses that.

There are hundreds of these prophecies, so that the possibility of their accidental convergence on any ordinary man is completely ruled out by the laws of probability.

The authorization comes from «the competent ecclesiastical authority,» which usually means the local bishop (in canon law often called «the ordinary»), although the wording of the law does allow the bishops» conference to suggest another competent authority.

Along the way, we also instruct ordinary citizens about the general majesty of the law and the particular evil of the criminal's offense.

A similar revulsion was recorded even earlier by the imperial Roman poet Virgil, who depicted an episode of the Roman civil wars as a victory of human law and ordinary human beings over «every kind of monstrous god and barking Anubis too.»

There are, for Christians, two steps here: God speaks the law through the ordinary things of daily life; but his extraordinary Word is spoken in the Endtime through Jesus Christ, who fulfills and transcends the law of creation.

It includes everything from «the eschatological expectation, the proclamation of the [kingdom of God]... the introduction of the Gentiles into salvation history, [and] the rejection of the ordinary religion of cult and Law.»

While the former aims at the restoration of «true man,» «original man,» the goal of the latter was the transcendence of the human condition, the acquisition of some degree of freedom from the needs or laws that determine ordinary human life by assimilation to a radically different state of being [The Heating Journey (Pantheon, 1973) p. 17].

Is that what you mean by «law» — just the ordinary notion of scientific law?

I've found that most people — including many law professors — have a great deal of difficulty wrapping their minds around the idea that the Court would permit the intentional destruction of a healthy infant who was capable of living outside his or her mother's body, when the mother's health (in the ordinary meaning of that word) is not in serious danger.

While natural law and Augustine's moral theology might be difficult for some, the rules derived from them were understood by ordinary Catholics: Sexual intimacy is permissible only in a sacramental marriage between one man and one woman, and the purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children.

That is to say that there is no firm evidence whatever against, and an immense amount of evidence for, the view that the «ordinary» laws of physics and chemistry hold within the organism just as they do within a man - made machine.

Despite efforts in international law to distinguish between degrees of culpability with regard to politicians, generals and ordinary citizens, policies of direct attacks upon civilians continue to find a rationale in the identification of the citizen with the state — even if the ordinary citizen is both ignorant of and indifferent to affairs of state.

But if that is the case, why are there so few public statements, with the «conservative» label attached to them, that tell us exactly what policy should be in the matter of education, welfare provision, environmental protection, planning law, urbanization, infrastructure, and everything else that matters to the ordinary citizen?

The subliminal region, whatever else it may be, is at any rate a place now admitted by psychologists to exist for the accumulation of vestiges of sensible experience [whether inattentively or attentively registered], and for their elaboration according to ordinary psychological or logical laws into results that end by attaining such a «tension» that they may at times enter consciousness with something like a burst.

The laws of nature are the most general of contingencies now prevailing, and for ordinary purposes possibilities excluded by those laws are regarded as «only logically possible,» while possibilities not excluded by them (or by historical circumstances) are regarded as «really possible.»

And Ford cites a passage in which Hartshorne calls God's selection of the laws of nature which characterize the universe «a «lure,» an irresistable datum, for all ordinary acts of synthesis» (TPP 77, citing WEP 21).12

After having been sentenced to a perpetual ostracism from the esteem and confidence and honors and emoluments of his country, he will still be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law.

Prohibition was reversed because of the federal and state governments» prudential judgment that it had been a practical and social failure, spawning organized crime and making criminals of ordinary, otherwise law «abiding citizens.

Some teachings of the ordinary magisterium can be fallible, and do not command interior assent of mind and will, if such teachings are clearly contrary to reason, or to the natural law, or to the divine positive law.

Their goal was to help ordinary people become more observant of the law (both written and oral) as a way of affirming or reinforcing their Jewish identity.

Richard A Miller, David K Round, «Price - fixing, price leadership or ordinary commercial considerations: Guilt under section 45 of the Trade Practices Act» (1982) 10 Australian Business Law Review 251

Brent Fisse and Caron Beaton - Wells, «Private disclosures of price - related information to a competitor «in the ordinary course of business»: A new slippery dip in the political playground of Australian Competition Law» (2011) 39 Australian Business Law Review 367 - 379

Brent Fisse, «Private disclosure of price - related information to a competitor «in the ordinary course of business: A new slippery dip in the political playground of Australian competition law (working paper)

Martin's contention is that it is not the law that disappoints; rather, it is the subversion of the law by elites that deprives ordinary people of their constitutionally enshrined rights to education, health, tenure, etc..

Mr Freddy Blay, who has been accusing the EC and the ruling NDC of planning to rig the impending elections told Ultimate FM that «I can not guarantee what will happen, the party can not guarantee, we the executives, we who are at the top, the Presidential candidate can not guarantee, if the ordinary people get angry, God forbid if they decide that they won't agree to what is happening, and some people take the law into their own hands, what can we do?

You were recently invited to talk about the principle of Magma Carta on a BBC programme which was broadcast live across the globe.The right to personal freedom means that no man may be punished, imprisoned, or coerced, except for breach of the law proved in a legal manner before an ordinary court, and this right flows directly from the provisions of Magma Carta, the Petition of Right, 1628, and the Bill of Rights, 1968.

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First, it appointed in 2009 a seven - member Constitutional Committee comprising mostly academics from a range of fields, including law, literature, and science, thus implicitly acknowledging that the constitution is not exclusively, and not even principally, a legal document, but primarily a social compact, a political declaration that supersedes ordinary legislation by virtue of the fact that the people are superior to Parliament.

This seems not to be compatible with what we find in our data: high overall popular agreement with the following statements «Government should redistribute incomes» (agree 52 %, disagree 23 %), «Big business takes advantage of ordinary people» (agree 77 %, disagree 8 %), «Ordinary working people do not get their fair share» (agree 72 %, disagree 11 %), «There is one law for the rich and one for the poor» (agree 71 %, disagree 14 %), and «Management will always try to get the better of employees» (agree 68 %, disagreordinary people» (agree 77 %, disagree 8 %), «Ordinary working people do not get their fair share» (agree 72 %, disagree 11 %), «There is one law for the rich and one for the poor» (agree 71 %, disagree 14 %), and «Management will always try to get the better of employees» (agree 68 %, disagreOrdinary working people do not get their fair share» (agree 72 %, disagree 11 %), «There is one law for the rich and one for the poor» (agree 71 %, disagree 14 %), and «Management will always try to get the better of employees» (agree 68 %, disagree 12 %).

Along with vigilant enforcement of the law, disclosure of contributions, and lower contribution limits, public financing of elections can «end the mad chase for campaign cash that starts some elected officials down the road to corruption and... make candidates dependent on ordinary voters rather than special interests.»

All of the things that make life better for ordinary people disrupt profit - maximisation - child labour laws, environmental protections, employment rights.

Speaking at the event, paramount chief of the area, Oblempong Nii Kojo Ababio, said the reason for honouring Nana Akufo - Addo with the stool was because of his sterling career as a human rights lawyer who stood for the rule of law and advocated for the rights of the ordinary Ghanaian.