Sentence examples for codified law from inspiring English sources
This codified law is known as sharia and is perhaps more misunderstood today than at any time in its history.
Thus Count Mikhail Speransky codified law, and Count Pavel Kiselev changed and improved the lot of the state peasants; but even limited reforms became impossible after 1848.
Its name has had a magical ring since Hammurabi, the Babylonian king who ruled from 1792 B.C. to 1750 B.C. and is credited with handing down one of the first sets of codified law.
On both sides of the struggle, informal pressure has as much force as codified law.
During the Jim Crow era, the unspoken but brutally enforced local customs were far more difficult and dangerous to navigate than codified law; don't look a white person in the eye, never raise your voice to a white person, and above all, don't get caught in the white part of town after dark and never challenge a white man's authority.
Philosophy may be many kinds of answers about "belief," but traditional religion, codified law and conventional medicine are not mainly personal belief.
Before the mid-1980's, Babylon existed as a powerful myth, a quiet but constant reminder that civilization as we know it -- writing, literature, codified laws, irrigation, astronomy -- was born in this region.
A campaign to encourage guardianship, but also to demand that codified laws protect the abused, makes more sense.
The work of the UN on developing and codifying laws of war was built on the previous accomplishments of the Hague Conventions (1899 1907), the League of Nations, and the Kellog-Briand Pact (1928).
Not only was he a conventional nation-builder: codifying laws, instilling bureaucracy, creating borders, he was also a nation-boner who fucked his country into his own image in perhaps the most lasting way possible.
Documents shared with alliesUS officials say the records that were seized have given the US government a deep look into how Islamic State organizes, raises funds and codifies laws for its followers.
