Sentence examples for rule of substantive from inspiring English sources

The only apparent exceptions last night to the rule of substantive orthodoxy were military spending, abortion, and gays.

The real rule of law is substantive and encompasses many human-rights requirements.

The French cardinal André Vingt-Trois, speaking at a press conference with Cardinal Erdő, also wanted to rule out the possibility of substantive change.

The Tour told the justices that it was "unprecedented for a federal court to order that a professional athlete be allowed to compete without adhering to the full set of substantive rules applicable to other competitors".

Because a significant proportion of disputes in the common-law courts were related to the occupation of land, the land law was the earliest area of law to elaborate a detailed set of substantive rules, eventually summarized in the first "textbook" of English law, Littleton's Tenures, written by Sir Thomas Littleton and originally published in 1481.

An endorsement of the "rule by law" or the "law and order" model — rather than the real, substantive rule of law — does not merely fall short of its objective.

It would take another four years, until 2016, before the Supreme Court would hold, in Montgomery v. Louisiana, that Miller established a new substantive rule of constitutional law that afforded all juvenile lifers the opportunity to be re-sentenced.

Charlotte Powell, a London-based barrister and chair of the Extradition Lawyers Associationnotesthatthet the desire to harmonise procedural rules has outstripped the harmonisation of substantive elements.Moreover, the grounds on which a court may refuse extradition still vary sharply country by country.

A commonly used rule-of-thumb considers an association of V > .10 to indicate a substantive relationship between two variables (AcaStat 2012).

On the other hand, when a thick conception of the rule of law is taken, a greater emphasis is placed on elements of substantive justice.

The first concerted criticism of substantive due process came from progressives, who elevated majority rule above individual rights and regarded the Court's insistence upon protecting rights as an impediment to social and economic experimentation.