Sentence examples for abstract law from inspiring English sources

The French title of Brizé's film is "La Loi du Marché" ("The Law of the Marketplace"), and the movie's actual subject is the convergence of this abstract law with France's actual employment laws — and the diabolical potential of such a convergence to make life hellish for ordinary French workers.

Our theoretical point of departure can range from the folk theory of participants to any abstract law.

In short, the move from (1) and (2) or from (1) and (3) to appropriate phenomenological models, is not fully specified by either abstract law pairing.

Fear of injuring someone is abstract; laws are concrete.

Classical scholars work piecemeal toward the formulation of abstract laws, and in the process they sometimes "murder to dissect".

The drug's flow "was governed by abstract laws like those that Mr Newton had applied to the movements of the planets".

In Washington, it's sometimes hard to connect the abstract laws that are being passed to the actual effects on neighborhoods or families.

Their hymnbook rhythms and Blakean dodges are appropriate to their sentiments, which aren't as simple as they might seem at first sight: "But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone.

For these cases, abstract laws "run out" (Cartwright 1983) and are rarely smoothly "deidealised" (Suárez 1999).

In general, abstract laws predict and explain only within a given domain of application, and only under ideal conditions.

This does not mean that abstract laws of physics (e.g., the laws of aerodynamics) play no role in the explanation of functional behaviors of evolutionary systems (e.g., that birds can fly).