Sentence examples for laws of man from inspiring English sources

In a Lahore courtroom, the laws of God had trumped the laws of man.

He lived and played with a blatant disregard for the rules and laws of man.

In America more than two centuries ago, believers in God elected to live under the laws of man.

Why should those who are called to serve God be denied the protection of the laws of man?

"If you were told by the prophet," Mr. Barlow said of Mr. Jeffs, "to disobey the laws of man, would you do it?" "I would," Mr. Steed replied.

Whatever has caused the town to feel cut off from the rest of civilization has also ensured its disconnect from the laws of man.

But now the laws of men, and not some ticking clock on Rupert Murdoch's health, have brought other questions into play.

Artabanus answered him: "O stranger, the laws of men are different, and one thing is honourable to one man, and to others another; but it is honourable for all to honour and observe their own laws.

What was astonishing, to most of the revolutionaries themselves, as well as to the outside world, was that the revolution swept away secular rule and the laws of men, replacing them with clerical rule and the laws of God.

They nursed him back to health and in a memorable couple of panels he discovered his gift: The acid bath had given him the ability to violate the laws of physics; the monks gave him the will to defend the laws of men, first as part of the police force and later as a special agent for the F.B.I.

Heraclitus is not only claiming that human prescriptive law must harmonize with divine law, but he is also asserting that divine law encompasses both the universal laws of the cosmos itself and the particular laws of men.