Sentences with phrase «serving rule of reason»

To counter this tendency we may on the other hand attempt to develop a more critical, descriptive, naturalistic account of the relation between mind and nature, thereby avoiding the purely logical demands of system and the self - serving rule of reason.

Not exact matches

I have avoided the use of this phrase here for two reasons: (I) The popular understandings of this phrase range from perfection on earth, to heaven, to the millenial rule of Christ after the Second Coming, all of which serve to confuse the issue at question here.

To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.

While the DOE's reasoning for linking fuel stores to grid resiliency has been widely criticized for its vagueness and gaps in logic, its idea for a solution is clear: «full cost recovery» for those power plants now playing by the rules of the energy and capacity markets run by interstate grid operators serving about three - quarters of the country.

The report was criticized for a number of reasons including being served beyond the timelines required under the Rules of Court.

It can not be ruled out that, even where there is no such impossibility, the transfer of water may be regarded as satisfying the conditions mentioned in the preceding paragraph and, in particular, (i) the condition that it serves a general interest and / or the benefits to the environment and society linked to the achievement of the objectives set out in Article 4 (1) of that directive are outweighed by the benefits to human health, to the maintenance of human safety or to sustainable development resulting from the transfer of water and (ii) the condition that the beneficial objectives pursued by that transfer can not, for reasons of technical feasibility or disproportionate cost, be achieved by other means which would be a significantly better environmental option.

«For that reason, Mississippi's adoption of class action rules would serve no purpose,» wrote Kim.

As Professor Mary Liston has written: ``... skeletal, generic, boilerplate, formulaic reasons can not serve the function of reminding the political, social and legal order of the rules of conduct we believe are necessary to regulate our activities.»

«An appraisal (i) of the manner in which, and the apparent purpose for which rights, powers, duties and discretions are allocated by the contract; (ii) of the contract's particular commercial or business setting, and (iii): of the self - serving actions lawfully open to a party both under, and not withstanding the contract will, as a rule, indicate decisively whether the role and reason of a party in the contract (or in a discrete part of it) can properly be said to be to serve his own interests, the parties» joint interests, or the interests of the other party.»

In holding that the Rule of Reason Test would apply, the court stated «if properly administered, membership requirements serve pro-competitive purposes,» and «the Board's activities were not «plainly anti-competitive» and lacking in «any redeeming value.»»