Sentence examples for and the permissibility of from inspiring English sources

Debates about disability rights and the permissibility of eugenics rest in part on theoretical disagreements about the moral status of cognitively impaired humans.

This year, there may be more of the same, as the Court is poised to take on such combustible topics as the constitutionality of gun control, the trials of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the new photo ID requirements for voters, and the permissibility of lethal injections for executions.

35 These unconventional and investigational procedures test the boundaries of the determination of death and the permissibility of organ donation.

Similarly, if the soldier who throws himself on the grenade in order to shield his fellow soldiers from the force of an explosion acts permissibly, and if the permissibility of his action is explained by double effect, then he must not intend to sacrifice his own life in order to save the others, he must merely foresee that his life will end as a side effect of his action.

Such a model does not seem able to capture or even accommodate basic deontological notions like strict cutoffs between prohibited and permissible acts, the permissibility of an act depending on more than its expected consequences, or the significance of intended versus non-intended harms and benefits.

If those talks fail, the European Union could ask for a dispute settlement panel to examine and rule on the permissibility of the measures, a step not possible until next year.

It seems that our judgment about the legitimacy of this minimal state should turn at least primarily on how it now conducts itself and not on the permissibility of the actions that lead to its existence (Paul 1979).

But hope and belief are not the same; and the standards for the permissibility of the latter are considerably higher.

Unless the United Nations can send a clear and unequivocal message about the permissibility of cloning, he said, scientists will continue to pursue human cloning of all sorts wherever it is still permitted.

Implications of the Claim That All Combatants Are Liable to Attack The foregoing criticisms involve an element of speculation because the Theory has never had a fully explicit and determinate view about the permissibility of defense by civilians against combatants.

Rabbi Herschel Schachter, the head of the rabbinical school at Yeshiva University in New York City and a Jewish legal expert for the Kosher division of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, said that there have been disagreements between Israeli and American rabbis over the permissibility of some Sabbath devices.