Sentence examples for rule of men from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ryan said as much in Wednesday's hearing, in which he declared that our currency "should be guided by the rule of law, not the rule of men".

In Thailand's slow-motion revolution from the rule of men to the rule of law, the test ahead could not be more stark.

Think of all those who suffer from the principle that parenting should be the sole exception to the rule of men and women being equal before the law.

All that invective, taken together, really does add up to a long and revolutionary argument against tyranny, against arbitrary authority — against, that is, the rule of men above law.

The perfected assured them that the present unjust order was soon to end and that the rule of men on earth was to be replaced by a universal Daoist imperium.

Through them, she also learned of the experiences of other women in the extended family, notably their arranged marriages and frustated -- at times fatal -- love affairs, their desire for education and their submission to the rule of men.

Since then, the code has become a political football, bouncing back and forth between the rule-of-man and rule-of-law factions.In the code's first year, there were only 98 cases in the whole of China, even though, on proper accounting, virtually the entire state-owned sector was insolvent.

Censorship "has obvious characteristic of 'the rule of man' rather than the rule of law," Mr. Shi said.

They believe that democracy, which entails the rule of man by man, is a negation of Islam's insistence on man's obedience to God alone.

The rule of law is being replaced by what Mr Kapur dubs the rule of man: politicians and central bankers are changing the system on the hoof.

Curiously, the way in which Ai Weiwei's freedom was restored — arbitrarily, unannounced, with no formal proceedings — embodies the very force that he has criticized for nearly a decade: the rule of man over the rule of law.