Sentence examples for mere law from inspiring English sources

The judges decided that such a step required a constitutional reform, not a mere law.

In the view of Axelrod, now director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago, no mere law could stop the flood.

Robert Kurtter, vice president for state ratings at Moody's Investors Service, said Wall Street would be more reassured by a debt limit in the State Constitution -- something the governor proposed -- rather than a mere law, which lawmakers here are expert at circumventing.

The most violent Islamists, notably Al Qaeda, has become a Hydra so threatening to the security of the Saudi rulers that the reaction has gone beyond mere law enforcement, and commentators are raising new questions about the role religion itself plays in Saudi society.

But it is unclear why the lapse of a mere law presents any obstacle to an administration that has argued that it has the right under the Constitution to wiretap suspects for national security purposes without first getting a warrant.

As the scandals continue to spread, most recently to mutual funds, people have begun to realize that mere laws, mere new regulations and even the threat of prison sentences will never do the trick.

In particular, his equation of mere law-likeness with principles that can be followed by all may seem much too quick.

Chlöe Swarbrick, the Green Party's drug law reform spokesperson, wrote on Twitter that the proposed change was mere "law-and-order rhetoric".

They can't agree on just how Islamic the new republic should be, and whether the leading Shiite clergy should be above the dictates of mere national law.

The Holy See is not a democracy, nor a signatory to the European Convention of Human Rights, and it stands above mere democratic law, refusing to hand over its criminals to democratic authorities.

Some state courts have been receptive to these challenges, but the likely prevailing view among them, and certainly the predominant view in the federal courts and the legal academy, is that such challenges amount to attempts to resurrect Lochner's misguided constitutionalization of mere common law.