Sentence examples for function of the law from inspiring English sources

He also places great importance on the function of the law to express society's disapproval.

If dispute resolution is the social function of the law, what we have is far from the most efficient way to reach fair or reasonable resolutions.

The government now dismisses the idea that one function of the law is to defend people against the arbitrary exercise of state power.

Malcolm has written that the word "objection", uttered in a courtroom, "betokens the story-spoiling function of the law", but in the cultural realm – in criticism and biography, for example – an unspoilt orthodoxy all too often reigns.

Lying at the heart of all conflicts theories is a recognition that the function of the law of conflicts is to ensure rational and just solutions to controversies involving foreign elements.

He was still at it in 1991 at Hofstra's law school when he said "the principal function of the law ideally should be to curb the abuses of raw power and to clear the way for the fulfillment of the human potential".

"It is a function of the laws, the facts, and the painstaking nature of these investigations".

The young private saw very clearly what so many professors and generals take pains to deny: that the primary function of the laws of war is not to restrain violence, but to justify it, often with the greatest lawyerly ingenuity.

Locke considered arresting a person, trying a person, and punishing a person as all part of the function of executing the law rather than as a distinct function.

But it is crucial to the functioning of the law.

One of the functions of the law is to teach, to draw lines between what's permissible and what's forbidden.