Sentence examples for definition of law from inspiring English sources

It also means networks with international plans for growth are making subjective decisions; the western definition of terrorism, the western definition of law, the western definition of free speech.

The sources debate has usually been posed in terms of the extent to which morality is intrinsic to the definition of law.

The definition of law offered by Aquinas in ST I-II q. 90 a. 4 is: "an ordinance of reason for the common good of a [complete] community, promulgated by the person or body responsible for looking after that community".

In a world (paradise) of saints (completely virtuous persons), there would be need for law but not for coercion; so coercion is not part of Aquinas's definition of law and law's directive force can be contrasted with its coercive force (and see 6.1 ii) above).

But in our actual world the need for (the threat of) coercion is such that Aquinas will say without qualification that law ought to have coercive force [vis coactiva] as well as directive [vis directiva]; he even says that it is a characteristic of law [de ratione legis] (ST I-II q. 96 a. 5), despite not including it in his official definition of law's nature [its ratio] (q. 90. a. 3).

However, they do not expressly address the problem of whatconstitutes law (in particular constitutional law), and seem to operate within certainassumptions and broad definitions of law.

(As I wrote earlier, the government having its own, unpublicized definitions of laws is something that Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall have warned about).

Existing policies have cryptic and opaque definitions of laws that vary state-to-state and at the federal level.

Thirty other states have passed definition-of-marriage laws, including Hawaii and Alaska, which did so through ballot initiatives.

Steven Silk Chicago, July 6 , 2010The writer is a director of the Hekhsher Tzedek Commission, a not-for-profit initiative started and financed by the Conservative Jewish movement to revise and update the definition of kosher law to reflect social and ethical values that are part of Jewish law and the Torah.

What would fall under the definition of this law?