Sentence examples for main source of law from inspiring English sources

"If Islam is the main source of law, none of these things would happen".

The draft constitution states that Islam will be "a main source" of law, and some Shiites prefer a secular government.

They have enshrined "the principles of sharia" as the "main source of law", which non-Islamists can probably live with.

Conservative Shias, dominant in the Iraqi government, had clashed with Kurds and other minorities who wanted Islam to be "a" rather than "the" main source of law.

Although it makes use of codes as the main source of law, its decisions are always accompanied by a discussion and analysis of earlier relevant literature.

They oppose establishment of Islam as the main source of law, insist on keeping their own militia independent and want to control substantial oil resources, particularly in the oil-producing city of Kirkuk, in the north.

It is particularly fundamental since case law is one of the main sources of law.

The largely secular Kurds and moderate Shias want Islam to be one of the main sources of law, rather than the main source.

Shia clerics and politicians vowed to make Islam one of the main sources of law, moving Iraq closer to the theocracies of Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Foremost is the desire to protect, if not strengthen, the second amendment of Egypt's Constitution, which enshrines Shariah, or Islamic law, as the main source of Egyptian law.

Religious extremists who advocate violence still try to punish those who deviate from Islam's "straight path," as they define it, with charges of heresy and apostasy, crimes punishable by death under sharia, or Muslim holy law, which since the mid-1980's has been the main source of Egyptian law.