Sentence examples for intelligible principles from inspiring English sources

The industry coalition argues that by reading a cost-benefit requirement into the statute, the justices would be providing the "intelligible principles" that the appeals court found lacking and would thus be able to avoid the whole sticky nondelegation issue.

Ghosts are mysterious and unintelligible: machines are composed of identifiable parts and work on intelligible principles.

The main issue which divides Ammonius and his followers from Numenius is the number of the intelligible principles.

CE), tried to construct a hierarchical system of intelligible principles (archai) of reality, but unlike them he held that intelligible principles are responsible only for the order of the world, wherein its goodness lies, while matter has an existence independent of these principles and accounts for disorder and badness.

In so far as we are rational agents and let ourselves being determined in our choices only by intelligible principles, we may transcend the determinism of fate to which we belong as corporeal beings.

The answer the Platonists developed (the roots of which they thought reached back to Plato and his immediate successors in the Academy) was to postulate that the two most fundamental intelligible principles produced by the hyper-intelligible One should be the principle of unity and the principle of diversity as such.

"There's no intelligible principle that I could discern," Mr. Levy said.

The Circuit Court argued further that the E.P.A. had failed to produce an "intelligible principle" for its new pollution limits -- suggesting that its science was insufficient.

Mr. Levy said that earlier cases had found such delegation was appropriate if Congress laid down "an intelligible principle" that provided clear guidance to an agency or a regulator.

Under that test, a delegation of legislative authority will be upheld as long as Congress "shall lay down by legislative act an intelligible principle" to which the agency "is directed to conform".

The 2-to-1 appeals court decision held that the Clean Air Act lacked an "intelligible principle" for guiding the Environmental Protection Agency's use of its regulatory power -- leaving the agency theoretically free, for example, to insist on bringing down to zero the permissible level of pollutants for which there is no known safe amount.