Sentence examples for soft laws from inspiring English sources

Labour sources argued a vote for the Greens was a vote for higher taxes, new restrictions on drivers, higher benefits for people who choose not to work and soft laws on drugs.

The idea that connectionist systems may follow graded or approximate regularities ("soft laws" as Horgan and Tienson call them) is intuitive and appealing.

There are a number of different governance mechanisms available within the European context to address some of the ethical, legal and social issues pertaining to SynBio's health applications that range from hard laws (i.e. directives and regulations) to soft laws (i.e. codes of conduct, ethical review, and public engagement), which have been listed in the columns of Table 3.

Rarely is de-tabooing unconditional but enabled by stipulated positioning as in soft laws (palliative care guidelines) and hard laws (euthanasia/PAS legislation).

If one side in the interaction struggle gains dominance, there will be stipulated positioning, including ethical reasoning and soft laws (e.g. palliative care guidelines).

In some impoverished places such "soft law" helps to fill a void.

But the act was packaged as a recommendation, a form of so-called soft law subject to local interpretation.

Third, how to accelerate GRI reporting from "soft law" to "hard law" through integration in government policy, law and regulation.

However, she was also wary about whether this kind of soft law would ever develop into legislation.

UN resolutions are "soft law" that have little direct effect, yet often lead to hard national enforcement.

Analyses rarely look into EU soft law, the role of EU standard setting or self-regulatory measures.