Sentence examples for law proceeded from inspiring English sources

For Jaffa, Lincoln was a philosophical rationalist whose commitment to natural law proceeded from almost geometric logic; its consequences can be known to all on the basis of unaided reason.

Until case law in the 1990s when the first judgment in the modern era was given by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, the law proceeded on the basis that a husband could not be criminally liable for raping his wife if he had sexual intercourse with her without her consent.

And this maxim of the law proceeded upon a general principle, that every man owes natural allegiance where he is born, and cannot owe two such allegiances, or serve two masters, at once.

"I think the authors of the law proceeded primarily from the necessity to resolve demographic problems and were far from being guided by the idea of infringing on somebody's rights".

But the approach suggests something of how Mr. Rosenbaum would have the law proceed: holistically, leisurely, until we are all talked out.

The models, one from the RAND Corporation and one from the Urban Institute, compare scenarios for 2016 in which the law proceeds without change with one in which subsidies are eliminated in 34 states.

When people find themselves involved in a family law proceeding such as a divorce, the attorneys drafted onto a "team" will most certainly impact the outcome of that case.

Although the Department of Justice announced that it will allow Colorado and Washington's new recreational pot laws proceed, marijuana remains illegal under federal law and that means that government agencies like the Food and Drug Administration won't oversee the testing and policing of the products.

History, like law, proceeds by way of analogy.

In fact, recent years have seen reforms to cannabis policy and law proceeding apace around the world.

Traditionally, philosophy of law proceeds by articulating and defending propositions about law that are general and abstract i.e., that are true not of a specific legal system at a particular time (e.g., the United Kingdom in 1900) but of all legal systems in the present or perhaps of all laws at all times.