Sentence examples for Underlying law from inspiring English sources

Particular attention to the ways in which, historically, theological debates play out in contemporary secular legal arguments about the value underlying law.

The House approved changes to the underlying law last month, barring sexual relationships between lawmakers and their employees, canceling the requirement that accusers undergo counseling and mediation, and requiring members to reimburse the Treasury Department when they are involved in settlements, among other provisions.

So, besides the correlation between metabolite levels and effective treatment (which is an unpatentable natural law), there is nothing "inventive" about the test developed by Prometheus; really they were just trying to patent an underlying law of nature.

However, the underlying law has not been substantially amended at the national level for years.

The Democrats noted that the underlying law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, would remain in force.

This is not the kind of prosecutorial zeal we need when the underlying law is far from clear.

That, of course, raises the questions of what, exactly, the conspirators did and what underlying laws they may have violated.

For these reasons, we conclude that the patent claims at issue here effectively claim the underlying laws of nature themselves.

On the contrary, "its underlying laws reveal a beauty, a symmetry and economy which are capable of moving scientists to tears".

Updated at 5.18pm GMT 5.06pm GMT Government reaction A Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) spokesperson said the reforms will not change underlying laws.

Musser notes that Geoffrey Chew's attack on the notion of underlying laws in physics "was radical, and radicalism went over well in '60's-era Berkeley".