Turning to the facts of this case, we do not think that the Company was a third party so far removed from the underlying controversy that its assistance could not be permissibly compelled.
Legality is supposed to constrain or regulate that power, by constituting a necessary condition that demands against persons must meet if they are to be permissibly enforced.
It is an open question whether 'metaphysical definition' saying what it is to φ can be permissibly circular, so long as the circularity is contained in the scope of an attitude.
A conception of law must therefore articulate the relation that must hold between some right or obligation and institutional practice if the right or obligation is to be permissibly enforced.
Second, below the threshold, treatment may be permissibly withdrawn or may be continued.
The idea that life support may be permissibly withdrawn from newborn infants who are predicted to have lives worth living may seem striking, even shocking to some.
After all, it's proximity to greatness that urges the character to overleap what is permissibly civilized.
Like a VAT, the plan's authors hope the system is permissibly border-adjustable under arcane World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, resulting in the end of double taxation for U.S. exporters.
By contrast, a society in which it is merely the case that coercion is justified is one in which the subjects are permissibly treated as means to morally defensible purposes.
Thomson prefers the view that there really are conflicts of rights, and suggests that we should speak of a "defeated" right as being permissibly "infringed" (instead of "violated"), leaving residual obligations on the infringer.
The city is "permissibly uninsured," he said, which means that it pays for job-related injuries out of its own coffers.
