Sentence examples for mere legality from inspiring English sources
Then, too, Ripka added that in its hiring the bank pays no mind to employees' religious backgrounds, and for a reason quite beyond mere legality.
On Maimon's view, one cannot determine whether an action simply accords with the moral law "and hence possesses mere legality" or whether it in fact follows from the motive of duty itself, and as such lays claim to morality.
"He is trying to make himself a fighter against institutionalized corruption, of acting decisively to uphold common-sense justice as opposed to mere legality," said Jean Francois Prudhomme, a political science professor at Colegio de Mexico here.
If they are a truly responsible company with a desire to "support wildlife efforts," they will acknowledge that the mere legality of a listing isn't the issue--acting ethically regardless of the law is the issue.
If law is reduced to ideology, or seen as its mere effect, then legality looks contingent and unprincipled, having no necessary content or definition, no intrinsic character.
This suggests that the ideals of legality are not a mere charade but are instantiated in the law, if only in a partial and incomplete form.
At community meetings and among officials, the mere idea of the sites has generated a heated debate over their legality and their potential effect on the neighborhoods where they might be located.
Conceiving of law as ideological above all else in the Marxist sense can promote a crude and erroneous understanding of the relation between power and legality, where law serves only the interests of the powerful and where legal guarantees are mere shams.
I am after all, a mere mother in their eyes who has no knowledge of the legalities for American Indians.
Critics dismiss these efforts as mere political posturing, an effort to obscure the profound divide on abortion's morality and legality.
