A complex net of laws and policies, from intellectual property rights to producer subsidies and tax benefits, have flowed from this basic assumption.
Your portrayal of modern gold mining practices in the United States doesn't mention the comprehensive safety net of laws and regulations at the state and federal levels that control air emissions, water quality and reclamation activity at mineral mining operations.
Fishing seems a simple enterprise but behind each rod and reel is an invisible and elaborate net of laws and regulations and shifting enforcement.
For the children living on the streets – without the safety net of laws to protect them or family and/or communities and educators to shield them from harm – it is often only a matter of time before they are abused and exploited.
Bad luck leads him inexorably on the path to blackmail, murder, and the ever-tightening net of the law.
Lawless does heat up after an hour or so, when Shia Lebeouf's Jack Bondurant starts selling liquor to gangster Floyd Banner (played with steely style by Gary Oldman, albeit too briefly) and the net of the law tightens around the brothers.
A little more flexibility is to be allowed on working hours, subject to union approval.But these amendments are more than cancelled out by a promise to extend the net of labour laws to cover "workers who in law may be regarded as independent contractors but de facto are workers".
"Ye shall watch while strong men draw The nets of feudal law To strangle the weak; And, counting the sin for a sin, Your soul shall be sadder within Than the word ye shall speak.
Caught in the net of Alabama's law in November was a German Mercedes-Benz executive, who left his passport at home while out for a drive and as a result found himself in a county jail.
Last month, it voted to begin preparing regulations aimed at giving net neutrality the force of law.
