Social facts make a positive legal rule a reason for action because the desirability of authority as a means of securing common good, and the desirability of the "rule of law and not of men," are standing and potent reasons for acknowledging such facts as an instance of valid legislation giving presumptively sufficient reason for compliance.
The building is home to more than 3,000 people, standing as a potent sign of resistance in a city of great disparity of wealth and equality.
Once viewed as a potent symbol of cold war vigilance -- eagles standing against the Soviet bear -- the American soldiers in Germany are now seen by some people here as something approaching a nuisance.
It wasn't only his hip-swiveling, lip-curling presence, so potent that when he was once legally coerced into standing still, he had to wiggle only a finger to make the girls scream.
The "swift boat" fleet arsenal headed for Obama standing alone is reasonably predictable and predictably potent.
Tremendous in aerial combat, despite standing at only 5ft 9in, Pointer also packed a potent shot in either foot – and was ready to hammer the ball goalwards from any angle.
(1) One of these was diethylamine, whose reaction with NO produced a white powder of formula 1 that, on standing exposed to air overnight, was converted to the potent carcinogen N-nitrosodiethylamine (2) (eq 1).
Then, in 2000, McGuigan et al. described a new 2′-deoxynucleoside analogue, bicyclic nucleoside analogue (BCNA), actually a bicyclic furo [2,3- d]pyrimidine derivative (Cf 1743, Cf standing for Cardiff), which was still about 10-fold more potent than BVDU.
And on a day of drizzle, standing among the stone hut-circles of Dartmoor, that feeling – of the landscape's abandonment – can be potent.
Standing on principle for GLBT equality would go a long way in diffusing and dispelling this still potent line of criticism.
