Sentence examples for by reference to rule from inspiring English sources

The book, though, largely addresses the professional question, arguing that the governing legal rules in the community are identified not by reference to the commands of a sovereign but by reference to rule of recognition used by the legal officials to identify the set of norms that governs their (public) actions.

The invitation extended to him, but bizarrely denied to two former Labour prime ministers, has been explained by reference to rules of protocol that now clearly need to be changed.

The most common form of partial rule-consequentialism claims that agents should make their moral decisions about what to do by reference to rules justified by their consequences, but does not claim that moral wrongness is determined by rules justified by their consequences.

Probably should be a reference to Rule 4(i).

There is a certain tradition of theater that everything human beings do can be understood fundamentally by reference to the rules of psychology.

The essence of fair procedure is that the interested parties be given a reasonable opportunity to have their dispute resolved on the merits by reference to articulable rules.

The existence of a property interest is determined by reference to existing rules or understandings stemming from an independent source such as state law.

Section 5, however, this court has an independent obligation to ensure that Florida resolves any controversies over the appointment of electors by reference to the rules enacted by the Legislature prior to the election, not post hoc standards announced for the first time by courts some two weeks after the election.

With his army on the verge of defeat, Muʿāwiyah, on the advice of one of his supporters, ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAṣ, ordered his soldiers to put pages of the Qurʾān on their lances and asked ʿAlī to allow the dispute to be resolved by reference to Qurʾānic rules.

In a consequentialist ethical system we cannot predict our actions by reference to existing rules, but by consideration of the consequences of those actions.

Yet another idea popular with consequentialists is to move from consequentialism as a theory that directly assesses acts to consequentialism as a theory that directly assesses rules or character-trait inculcation and assesses acts only indirectly by reference to such rules (or character-traits) (Alexander 1985).