Sentences with phrase «point of law by»

Decisions on points of law by more senior courts have to be accepted by more junior courts.

Not exact matches

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

Collins pointed out that a big part of UK (and indeed US) election law relates to «declaration of spent», before making the conjoined point that if someone is «hiding that spend» — i.e. by placing dark ads that only the recipient sees, and which can be taken offline immediately after the campaign — it smells like a major risk to the democratic process.

A series of filing anomalies point to a Donald Trump camp that is either unaware of campaign finance law, or is actively funneling donors» cash to insiders, according to several experts interviewed by CNBC.

Of course, this raises a thorny issue: How do the agents and prosecutors review the documents for privilege status, if the entire point of privilege is that it's not supposed to be seen by people outside the lawyer's office, particularly members of law enforcemenOf course, this raises a thorny issue: How do the agents and prosecutors review the documents for privilege status, if the entire point of privilege is that it's not supposed to be seen by people outside the lawyer's office, particularly members of law enforcemenof privilege is that it's not supposed to be seen by people outside the lawyer's office, particularly members of law enforcemenof law enforcement?

But the Nunes memo implies the case was primarily built on the Steele dossier — and points out that it was funded partially by a law firm on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

First, the «returns on equities» here are typically taken to be earnings yields, which as we've frequently noted, are affected by cyclical variations in profit margins that make them notoriously poor indicators of long - term prospective returns (see Two Point Three Sigmas Above the Norm and Margins, Multiples and the Iron Law of Valuation).

The present ruling does raise a novel (at least to the extent not already covered by Châteauguay) point of law, which is the circumstances under which delay can serve as a trigger to render a municipal or provincial regulatory requirement inoperative or inapplicable.

Many have pointed out (most recently, Carson Holloway) that the application of natural law to our situation requires the virtue of prudence, a mastery of the details of our circumstances (such as is possible for a human being), with the goals and the weights given to particular considerations by good moral character (or, if you will, a well - formed conscience).

If you really go down the list looking at every word and the heart behind it in light of scripture and in the light of the law of the Spirit of life you'll find major discrepancies and see how carnal, worldly and unbiblical those points of views really are... I'm concerned about the heart behind such views because it isn't one of a disciple (one who emulates their rabbi and is possessed by the «Holy» Spirit of God).

In order for this to work, as Bill Nye pointed out there have to be natural laws established and provable, repeatable and predictive of future experimental results that hold up to peer review by the whole world of true scientists.

That was the whole point — that one could be driven to revolutionary action by standards of justice that are higher than the law, and against which the law is judged.

And to that point, since 1950 there have been over 10,000 children in the USA that have been raped by Catholics (and a few thousand other religious leaders) and it's just very recently that any of them have faced the law the way any non-priest would.

The exclamation point was stamped on our conviction to do something about our situation when we attended a talk at our parish by a monsignor who acts as a judge of the canon law tribunal in our diocese, considering annulment cases.

Taking as a starting point the speech of Pope Benedict XVI to the Houses of Parliament in 2010, Duddington echoes the view that Christianity ought not to be sidelined by law and policy - makers.

In this perspective, the existence of God, far from being disproved by science is something pointed to clearly by the Unity - Law of material being and the universal, ordered inter-dependence within creation.

We have reached a point in a society were it has been determined by enough people to influence the government that we must now take better care of PEOPLE, so that's what the law does.

For elucidation of the difference of the repetition of the singular to the forming of laws, Deleuze points to Kant's paradigm of the «Categorical Imperative,» which states a individual standard as general law of the same or similar actions, and opposes it to Nietzsche's anti-legalistic postulate of the «eternal return»: It is the repetition of the singular which can not be understood by any law.

Here's the confusion: Arkes proposes and defends the notion that natural law best accounts for our intuitions of equality and justice; Prof. Smolin responds by pointing out that people have believed evil things in the name of natural law.

You said, «I am sure you understood the point that we are run by religion and you are not free of it just because you write some man made law that says no religion.»

LinCA I am sure you understood the point that we are run by religion and you are not free of it just because you write some man made law that says no religion.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

And I ended up rejecting it, because I think that the emphasis on the law completely misses the point of the law and misrepresents the good news message of Jesus that anyone and everyone can have eternal life simply and only by believing in Jesus for it.

For decades, the mystery surrounding the death of Sister Cesnik has haunted officials in Baltimore, but recent details — some uncovered this year in a new journalistic investigation — point to some extremely disturbing possibilities: The young nun may have been murdered because she was preparing to expose a horrific pattern of sexual abuse and even sex trafficking perpetrated by priests and involving law enforcement.

I know that none of us believed that he was proved guilty as charged beyond a reasonable doubt, to the point of moral certainty, by the evidence presented to us in court, construed as the law provides and as the judge instructed.

The element of creativity, which is not accounted for by the so - called laws of nature, and which points to the organic character of the universe or its life as a whole, gives us a clue to God's transcendent functioning.

This means we can not point to God by means of an incident here or there which somehow violates what we know of natural law.

Whichever point of view one adopts, we see that the belief that the law and God's commandment are based on rank imposition by an all - powerful Master on a terrorized slave is based on a misinterpretation.

At the end of the Second World War the Nuremberg trials for those guilty of war crimes highlighted the point that it was not acceptable to justify one's actions by claiming you were following orders or laws.

Von Campenhausen believes that if the story were simply a legend «it would not have specified three women (who, by Jewish law, were not competent to testify) as the decisive witnesses ’25 and he is supported at this point by H. H. Rex who claimed that «This is in itself a point in favor of the authenticity of the tradition.

So in one sense it all seems to be over; as though, having reached its final point of Noospheric Reflexion, the cosmic impulse towards consciousness has become exhausted, condemned to sink back into the state of disintegration implacably imposed on it by the laws of stellar physics.

Justin also points to Galatians 5:13 - 14, which reinforces the Christian teaching that followers of Jesus are no longer bound by the Law and says, «You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free.

I just posted this on another topic... change a few words, youll get the point: In an ideal situation, «World Religions» would be part of a «World History» class, unfortunately, in the USA, there are far too many conservative Christians with power to rewrite history, make whole groups of people second class citizens by making laws against them, and travel the world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and more.

I long to Love, I long to offer grace, particularly to those struggling under their own new Laws, I long to worship, I'd rather write a better story than a point - by - point defense, and I long to really see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

For example, as the result of law suits instituted by public - interest groups, the courts held that whenever broadcasters present a particular point of view on a matter of public importance, they also must provide opportunities for opposing viewpoints to be presented.

The standard was lowered not by any real point of science but because the standard was lowered because the ability to judge moral issues was given up by the APA.The Bible standard was also given up, so now you essentially have no standard just a set of laws telling people you can or cant do.

This reductionist point of view, which seeks knowledge by analysis, almost inevitably leads its proponents to assume, quite unwarrantably, that all that is then required is to work out the consequences of these laws by the prosecution of what is called «extensive science,» whereupon all truth will be revealed!

A slight unevenness of distribution occurring by chance at any given point (a contingency that was bound to arise) was all that was needed to cause the entire edifice to break up into parts which, sundering themselves from their neighbors, coiled in more and more tightly upon themselves in enormous clots — their vastness, by the law of celestial mechanics, being directly proportionate to the lightness of the matter of which they were originally composed.

Who are we to judge, was the point of «who among you is without sin» Don't be fooled by this lie of law being done away with.

It is said that you can not teach anyone what they do not know already; and Jesus, being a good teacher, has reached back into the tradition that he shares with the young man and pointed out what both of them know: If you would be like a tree planted by rivers of water, learn to know, love, and obey the Law of God.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

(The same point is made in other terms by Hayek, in his defense of the common law.)

that was an absolutely pathetic attempt to divert the message... this isnt here say or mere allegations... 21 of 35 or so were pointed out by the law... over 10,000 priests have been in court ove this mess and many convicted... the catholic church has paid out over 3 billion dollars in out of court settements....

The point of the law is to suggest the inadequacy of the current assumption that the success or failure of a marriage can be determined by marrying the «right person.»

The media (of which major factions are controlled by the government) is starting to point out these fringe lunatics, so we all get so disgusted that we will gladly support these new laws.

Finally, though they are not as numerous, but still quite important in their influence, there are Reconstructionists, who aspire to replace civil codes with biblical laws, even to the point, among hard - liners, of making homosexuality, adultery, blasphemy, propagation of false doctrine, and incorrigible behavior by children punishable by death.

We can not at this point follow the tragic, challenging story of Jeremiah, but with reference to the law he saw, more clearly than any other man of his time, that its essence could not be fulfilled by cultic busyness at the temple.

Judging the book by its title, I was expecting just another account of the various «coincidences» found in the fundamental laws and constants of the universe, which seem amazingly carefully chosen to allow the emergence of life, and which therefore point to the existence of a Cosmic Designer who brought the world into existence for just that purpose.

The particular amount of distance between any point visited by a moving body and the next one visited must be in accordance with some or other law of nature and must be decreased by a mathematical Mind.

The reason for the wording of this new law by Mordecai was so that it counteracted Haman's horrible law at every point, [6] except for the whole thing about killing women and children.