Sentence examples for laws statement from inspiring English sources

UNICEF statement on anti-homosexuality laws STATEMENT * Today 78 countries around the world have laws that subject their citizens to severe criminal penalties for homosexuality.

Henry's law, statement that the weight of a gas dissolved by a liquid is proportional to the pressure of the gas upon the liquid.

Stefan Boltzmann law, statement that the total radiant heat energy emitted from a surface is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature.

Dulong Petit law, statement that the gram-atomic heat capacity (specific heat times atomic weight) of an element is a constant; that is, it is the same for all solid elements, about six calories per gram atom.

According to this account a law statement is true provided the type of system in question has the disposition that the law statement attributes to the system.

The law statement, a linguistic assertion, must in his view be distinguished from the law itself.

Whether a law statement yields a reliable inference rule is spelled out in terms of the stability of the statement.

Law statements are straightforwardly conceived as inference rules, such that if "All As are Bs" is a law statement, then it permits the scientists to infer 'Ba' from 'Aa'.

They merely hold for a certain range of possible values (of those variable figuring in the law statement).

According to this account a law is true provided the type of system in question has the disposition that the law statement attributes to the system.

The law itself is not linguistic; it is a state of affairs, "that state of affairs in the world which makes the law statement true" (Armstrong 1991, 505).