Sentence examples for command of the law from inspiring English sources

At the hearings, she showed an impressive command of the law.

You have to have more command of the law than he does to subvert it.

She is widely considered to have a sharp command of the law and of her courtroom.

He was fair in all of his rulings and he demonstrated a complete command of the law.

Fierce defender of the Constitution and advocate for the less fortunate, he combined a passion for justice and command of the law with unassuming modesty and wisdom.

The Final Authority Judge Roush is a graduate of Wellesley College and the University of Virginia's law school, and lawyers who have appeared before her praise her intellect and command of the law.

In dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia criticized the majority for violating the command of the 1871 law.

Opposed to the dry casuistry of the lawyer-divines, the mystics nevertheless scrupulously observed the commands of the divine law.

The results, from surveys of more than 20,000 households by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, revealed what Julie Katzman, the IDB's second-in-command, calls "the tyranny of the law of averages".In all of the poorest areas levels of stunting, a harbinger of ill health, were well above national averages (see chart).

But the ending makes clear that the political clarity and complexity, the historical insight, the command of custom and law that marked his four-decade filmmaking career was also graced by the ability to make decisive, symbolic moments.

If "use force to promote the true religion" were a command of natural law addressed to all magistrates, it would not promote the true religion in practice because so many magistrates wrongly believe that their religion is the true one.