Sentence examples for law commanded from inspiring English sources

Once radio took hold, copyright law commanded that the owners of AM/FM stations pay royalties to the songwriters (who wrote the notes on the page) or to whoever had acquired the music's publication rights (starting in the seventies, this included the rights to particular recordings), but not to the musicians who performed the music.

Until a law commands otherwise, private probation companies will continue to profit from Georgia's poorest.

Instead, he proposes a law commanding the president to bring the troops home.

At school few would have tipped her to rise to the top in the law, commanding £500 an hour.

Will they vote to pass a law commanding all governments to run a surplus (in "normal times")?

Jewish law commands that every inhabited room have a mezuza on the door, but many Jews in America today put them only on the front door.

Beyond that, it is a resounding rebuke to the Bush administration, whose eagerness to satisfy a narrow political constituency caused it to violate its statutory obligation to protect the parks from degradation and to leave them, as the law commands, "unimpaired" for future generations.

If there's anything technical left that can go wrong, Murphy's Law commands that it happen now.

There is nothing especially totalitarian about the rule of law pervasive in Kallipolis (see esp. 415d-e, and cf. the laws that apply to the rulers, such as the marriage law and the law commanding philosophers to rule).

As the way in which we are motivated to obey the moral law, reverential respect for the law is thus the way in which we are motivated to treat persons with recognition respect as the law commands us to do.

Energy is where the second law commands the script.