Sentence examples for act without reference to from inspiring English sources

My book Rooftoppers is thick with orphans and near-orphans, because the books I loved most as a child were the ones where children were free to act without reference to the dull concerns of the adult world.

While the chief rabbis have certain kinds of limited authority because of their official position, they have jurisdiction only over those members of the Jewish community who are ready to accept it; others form their own ecclesiastical units and act without reference to the chief rabbinate.

The ability to autonomously assess one's options allows an individual to act without reference to the instructions of another person and without reference to a pattern of behaviour which may have been exhibited by another.

They conducted terrorist acts without reference to Christianity or Islam, in fact, terrorists and terrorist organizations were generally secular, nationalist, and Marxist-Leninist.

To read the Defense Production Act of 1950 without reference to this model is to read it out of the context in which Congress enacted it.

He spoke about how there is no accountability of government officers who act contrary to or without reference to department policies, particularly the "Aboriginal child placement principle" that determines that Aboriginal children should be placed with family members as a matter of priority.

He accused the court of being "unfair to me since the beginning," because the trial was addressing the acts of the Khmer Rouge without reference to their cause and context.

In other words, having regard to the powers conferred, to the protection of society, to the honest and fair administration of justice and to the evil to come from its obstruction, the wrong depends upon the tendency of the acts to accomplish this result without reference to the consideration of how far they may have been without influence in a particular case.

Secondly, one must make the object part of oneself because, in the act of willing, one necessarily makes the chosen object impossible to understand without reference to one's act of choice.

These decisions in the field of family law are highly discriminatory against women, and children are also at risk because decisions about residence and contact are made without reference to the Children Act.

The justices could uphold it only if a majority agreed that Congress really had made the law "content-neutral" - that is, that the statute prevents defacing the flag without reference to whether the act of defacement was an expression of opinion.