Sentence examples for instead of the law from inspiring English sources

The justice system is diminished when the government tries to enforce the law it wishes for, instead of the law that exists.

Tyler often wished he had chosen the ministry instead of the law, but he was sure that his sinfulness would have been a blot upon the church.

"There have been plenty of messages that have been sent to the overseers, which is this committee, that certain elements of NASA and other parts of the administration intend to follow their own directions instead of the law," said Senator Bill Nelson, the Florida Democrat who led the hearing.

Indeed, Sandra Day O'Connor, a former Supreme Court justice, fears that judicial elections have turned into "political prize-fights, where partisans and special interests seek to install judges who will answer to them instead of the law and the constitution".The meagre salaries of judges, whether at state or federal level, do not help raise standards either.

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is the most prominent and persistent critic of judicial elections, called them "political prizefights where partisans and special interests seek to install judges who will answer to them instead of the law and the Constitution".

In other words, instead of the law making it easier for women to find out whether they earn less than men doing equal work in breach of the sex equality clause implied into their contracts of employment, Ms Swinson seems to be emulating Norman Tebbit in advising women to get on their bikes and do it themselves.

One of the things I liked most was the way Ms. Yerushalmi invoked the laws of the cosmos instead of the laws of the gods.

Instead of the laws of quantum physics governing a quantum realm, however, Barri's "virtual matter" is governed by machine laws: algorithms.

Instead of obeying the law of property of the society in which I live, I may simply decide to send money to another part of the world where property rights are enforced.

Instead of questioning the law of averages, he focused on the memory of the 25-foot birdie putt he made in the gathering darkness last year to beat Hoch.

We need to question the nature of such laws, instead of allowing the law to teach us the order of nature.