No one should want to see Iran, with its contempt for international law, acquire a nuclear weapon.
At times, Maritain appears to hold that natural law acquires its obligatory character only because of its relation to the eternal law; he writes that "natural law is law only because it is participation in Eternal Law" (see Man and the State, p. 96).
Under emergency laws, the police acquired extensive powers and engaged in surveillance and monitoring of the population.
Signals, releasing factors, orders, and laws acquire causal character and rationality only in the context of the whole.
INTERNET LAW LIBRARY INC., -- Houston, which provides Internet-based databases for the law profession, acquired a controlling stake in Compass Data Systems Inc., Salt Lake City, a privately held publisher of electronic information databases.
While the theory initially guided the development of the law, by the 19th century and especially over the course of the 20th, the law had acquired such great practical importance that the most significant developments in normative thought about war were pioneered by legal theorists, with just war theorists trailing humbly along behind.
They demonstrated a positive double causality long-run relationship between the rule of law and income per capita, indicating that as income increases, more respect for the rule of law is acquired and vice versa.
Sun and Law had other lists, detailing the things that they hoped to accomplish in life, a habit that Law had acquired while working as a counsellor at a science camp.
The tax code encourages expansionism under Spanish law, goodwill acquired during foreign takeovers is tax-deductible.
In his experience practicing law, he acquired an intense loathing for the class bias of the legal system and a lifelong revulsion for lawyers, even those who claimed to be Social-Democrats.
