Sentence examples for do or forbear from inspiring English sources
He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right.
According to Austin, commands are expressions of desire that another shall do or forbear from some act and are accompanied by a threat of punishment (the "sanction") for disobedience.
Following Hobbes and Bentham, the English jurist John Austin says that to have a legal obligation is to be subject to a sovereign command to do or forbear, where a command requires an expression of will together with an attached risk, however small, of suffering an evil for non-compliance.
It may be that in Reality the pains I inflict on you affect me or at least a larger mind-like thing in which we both participate but if I never experience those effects, how can this give me a motive to do or forbear if my interests conflict with yours?
If one thinks perceptively and carefully about what to pursue (or shun) and do (or forbear from), one can readily understand and assent to practical propositions such as that life and health, knowledge, and harmony with other people are desirable for oneself and anyone else.
Governments claim unique authority--the power not only to compel individuals, against their will, to act (or forbear from acting), but to do so legitimately.
What spurs us to act or forbear acting is not perception of the greater good, but some uneasiness instead.
Arbitrary government power--government power to compel members of the public to act (or forbear from acting) on the basis of the mere will of the politically powerful--is contrary to the Constitution's fundamental premises.
At most historic parks, the costumed employees either present themselves as present-day guides, describing in modern parlance what their forbears used to do, or they take on the guise of permanent residents of the past, caught in an unchanging time capsule and unaware of anything that has transpired since, say, 1585.
Federal courts continue to give the FCC leeway to regulate the internet as if it were a public utility, or forbear from regulating it at all, or anything in between.
