Sentence examples for substantive constraints from inspiring English sources

When a judge hears a case and decides for the plaintiff, ordering the defendant to pay monetary damages, the judge's authority to do so derives from rules of the legal system that authorize the judge to render such decisions, subject to various procedural and substantive constraints enacted by a legislature.

The idea is that the combined requirements of rationality (outside ethics), freedom, and happiness impose substantive constraints on all persons.

If by 'rationality' we mean a substantive psychological capacity involving particular desires or dispositions that enable us to respond to reasons, then we have a form of internalism that places substantive constraints on what can and cannot be a reason.

Cities have been marked by austerity measures and spending cuts, especially in countries that implemented substantive constraints in public spending, as well as by a widespread anti-immigrant backlash.

Ordinary discourse about integrity involves two fundamental intuitions: first, that integrity is primarily a formal relation one has to oneself, or between parts or aspects of one's self; and second, that integrity is connected in an important way to acting morally, in other words, there are some substantive or normative constraints on what it is to act with integrity.

It must, instead, be viewed as incorporating a substantive and independently specified constraint on what those properties and relations could turn out to be.

However, strong substantive theories that place direct constraints on the contents of the preferences permitted for autonomous agents are constitutively relational because, on strong substantive theories, external conditions are necessary conditions of autonomy (see §8).

One might say instead that attributions of integrity involve the judgment that an agent acts from a moral point of view those attributing integrity find intelligible and defensible (though not necessarily right) —and that this formal constraint does have substantive implications.

While many might complain about the dizzying complexity of Dodd-Frank legislation, the truth is that the industry beat back the most substantive restrictions on derivatives trading as well as any constraints on size or leverage.

Benson is careful to point out that a requirement of normative competence should not be conflated with a strong substantive conception of autonomy in which the theory places direct normative constraints on the contents of the preferences of autonomous agents.

"The absence of substantive changes to targets and policy illustrates that there are often constraints to major policy shifts".