Sentences with phrase «rather than the laws»

A key one is for officials or their allies to complain that a threat, hate speech or celebration of violence violates the company's terms of service, rather than any law.

There are some people out there educating girls to the best of their knowledge and promoting it as a personal conviction rather than a law, and there are other people shaming girls because of their sexuality and life choices, declaring lots of people «unpure» and «sluts» if they disagree.

For the purposes of human action, entropy (a mass - effect rather than a law of the unit) is without meaning.

We need to become much more generous than the Old Testament tithe requirement — but that comes as a response to Grace, rather than the Law.

Along comes the New Covenant, the Law of Love (rather than the Law of the Flesh), and within the freedom established by these absolute boundaries, establishes the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, and the 7 Sacraments through which we become United to that Body of Christ, of which, one is Marriage.

Here we see why an ontology based on the metaphor of habit rather than law or mechanical action and reaction is superior for describing the order in nature.

In the letter where, above all others, Paul emphasized faith rather than works and the Spirit rather than the Law, he wrote that the «fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self - control.»

His political mentor, Roy Jenkins, once opined that it was pity Blair hadn't read history rather than law at university.

Yes, he established a philosophy of biology by introducing the time factor, by demonstrating the importance of chance and contingency, and by showing that theories in evolutionary biology are based on concepts rather than laws.

As far as I understand it, China has guidelines issued by the central government, rather than laws governing both research and clinical applications using human embryos.

«We want more control of our own laws, rather than laws imposed by Europe,» says Kevin Hillier, a retired surveyor who was walking his dog in a Port Talbot park over the weekend.

As Gorsuch has observed, «a judge who likes every result he reaches is very likely a bad judge, reaching for results he prefers rather than those the law compels.»

Funds and property seized by the state from convicted drug dealers must go to local school systems rather than law - enforcement agencies, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled.

As he has explained, «a judge who likes every result he reaches is very likely a bad judge, reaching for results he prefers rather than those the law compels.»

I found that many roadblocks came from the interpretation of the law rather than the law itself.

He's living as a fugitive too, but he's avoiding self - examination rather than the law.

Most of the time, a person who tells you that «the law requires us to...» is following company policy rather than any law and doesn't actually know what they're talking about.

Susskind's model sounds an awful lot like business school rather than law school.

Granted, she's now graduated and is now a trainee at a London firm rather than a law student, but still...

He ruffled some feathers among faculty members who thought Weiss lacked sufficient academic credentials to lead the law school, coming as he did from a law practice environment rather than a law education environment.

Many insurers, however, rely on computer programs, rather than the law, for arriving at their compensation valuations.

to harassment of citizens by government agents enforcing their personal whims rather than the law.

After college, for reasons 2016 Amy can only fathom, 1988 Amy chose to pursue a career in journalism rather than the law, attracted no doubt by the prospect of making upwards of $ 17,000 a year.

And GCs like that this is a GC group, rather than a law firm - created group.

Belinda said, «I could keep overheads to a minimum by being a company rather than a law firm, having Lionshead Law consultants working from home and I could finally overcome the issue of «bad debt» and poor cash flow by ensuring clients agreed the fee and paid it in advance of any work being carried out.

Much as we solos like to view ourselves as entrepreneurs — and indeed, we are — we operate not in a free market, but in a regulated industry subject to bar rules rather than the laws of economics.

We believe that investigations involving health care fraud represent health oversight rather than law enforcement.

There is nothing more fatal to a case than an accident victim with a fixed number in their head which is based on unrealistic expectations rather than the law and facts about their case.

This is primarily a question of etiquette rather than law and is almost always resolved on that basis.

Parties have obligations under contracts, which in most cases are established by the contract itself rather than the law.

This outcome refl ected the court's view that the questions raised were essentially ones of politics, rather than law.

I am not a lawyer, so this opinion is based on experience rather than law.

Most of the time, a person who tells you that «the law requires us to...» is following company policy rather than any law and doesn't actually know what they're talking about.

Not exact matches

«I generally think that as far as privacy laws go the security breach disclosure ones are not a bad thing — they're focused, they only kick in when there's actually a problem, and so on,» Singleton says, but they can sometimes focus attention on the errant business rather than on systematic security issues.

Startup founders aren't especially worried, though, because they see the law as a nod to change rather than a realistic attempt at reform.

Environmental and tribal groups are criticizing an administrative law judge's recommendation that Minnesota regulators should approve Enbridge Energy's proposal for replacing its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline if it follows the existing route rather than the company's preferred route.

While telework and other arrangements focus on the work employees accomplish rather than the time they put in, the new overtime rules make time a lot more important in the eyes of the law.

Drone makers brag that they've cut Geoffrey Moore's law in half, doubling power every 12 months rather than the 24 Moore predicted.

Rather than scrap Harper's balanced - budget law, Trudeau should replace it with a more flexible measure that would legislate restraint over the medium term.

Big pharma is a popular target for righteous anger from many quarters, but Governor Brown's defense of the law rests on reducing income inequality rather than sticking it to the man for its own sake.

CHICAGO, Feb 16 - U.S. agricultural merchants are scrambling to register themselves as cooperatives after a blunder in the country's new tax law gave farmers a tax break for selling grains to co-ops rather than private firms.

Once fiat currencies, which derive their value based on laws rather than metallurgical content, became common, governments could simply print bank notes in large quantities.

In the latter (or, to hear him tell it, middle) portion of his career, those causes have often been philanthropic rather than commercial ones: drug law reform, death penalty abolition, ocean conservation.

Tyler Law, a spokesman, said in a statement that Ryan «sees what is coming in November and is calling it quits rather than standing behind a House Republican agenda to increase healthcare costs for middle - class families while slashing Social Security and Medicare to pay for his handouts to the richest and largest corporations.»

Consider whether the person's services are «an integral part of the organization's activities» and whether the relationship is «permanent or indefinite, rather than for a determinable time,» suggests employment lawyer John Thompson on the Wage and Hour Laws.

Cohen has long viewed his legal career through a pragmatic rather than high - minded lens, said former Cooley Law School classmate Greg Crockett, now an attorney in Okemos, Michigan.

Uber's loss follows an earlier one last year where the Luxembourg - based Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) classified the company as a transport service rather than a digital one, which stripped it of protections against undue national regulation that digital services enjoy under EU law.

Rather than looking to replace police officers on the beat — as portrayed in Robocop — iRobot is looking at extending the capabilities of law enforcement agencies, Phelps added.

Painter recommends that Congress pass a law right now that would require that when a President or his businesses have specific matters pending before a federal agency — like, say, an Internal Revenue Service audit, or a case before the National Labor Relations Board or the Securities and Exchange Commission, or a licensing issue before the Federal Communications Commission — that the matter must be decided by a career civil servant, rather than by a political appointee.

And so, in 1917, while working in the Friends» Ambulance Unit on the Western Front, Richardson decided to experiment with the idea of making a numerical forecast - one based on scientific laws rather than past trends.