Sentence examples for lawgiver from inspiring English sources

Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsMrs Merkel holds out the prophecy of a political union.

Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsIn November Poland's foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, gave a big speech in Berlin in which he urged Germany to act to save the euro.

Modern Turks like to boast of his armies reaching the gates of Vienna and to refer to him as the "lawgiver".

Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsThe fuss erupted in January after media reports drew attention to how many of the party's leading lights are being spied on, sometimes with clandestine methods.

Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsPolls suggest that Mr Hollande will win (see chart).

Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsOn Yale University's Environmental Performance Index, the Netherlands comes 20th out of the 27 EU countries.* It scores particularly badly on the quality of its soil, where those phosphates and nitrates linger in large quantities.

Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsIn one sense, this is odd.

Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsMr Rajoy's centre-right People's Party (PP), which took power in December, largely blames the regions, which provide key services and account for a third of the country's public spending, for Spain's failure to meet last year's budget-deficit target agreed with the EU.

The level of competence was already high as early as the Old Babylonian dynasty, the time of the lawgiver-king Hammurabi (c. 18th century bc), but after that there were few notable advances.

Hence Rousseau suggests the people need a lawgiver a great mind like Solon or Lycurgus or Calvin to draw up a constitution and system of laws.

However, the passages in Religion where the Ethical Community is discussed makes it clear that it, like HGi, demands a "supreme lawgiver…who knows the heart" and can "penetrate to the most intimate parts of the disposition" (6:99).