Sentence examples for underlying law from inspiring English sources

So, besides the correlation between metabolite levels and effective treatment (which is an unpatentable natural law), there is nothing "inventive" about the test developed by Prometheus; really they were just trying to patent an underlying law of nature.

However, the underlying law has not been substantially amended at the national level for years.

The Democrats noted that the underlying law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, would remain in force.

This is not the kind of prosecutorial zeal we need when the underlying law is far from clear.

The problem was not the underlying law, Mr. Lockyer said, but the lawyers who were taking advantage of it.

But the underlying law in Riegel required pre-emption, in so many words; in the jargon, it involved "express pre-emption".

That, of course, raises the questions of what, exactly, the conspirators did and what underlying laws they may have violated.

On the contrary, "its underlying laws reveal a beauty, a symmetry and economy which are capable of moving scientists to tears".

Updated at 5.18pm GMT 5.06pm GMT Government reaction A Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) spokesperson said the reforms will not change underlying laws.

Musser notes that Geoffrey Chew's attack on the notion of underlying laws in physics "was radical, and radicalism went over well in '60's-era Berkeley".

Ideal systems in this sense are used to identify what features of an actual system are essential to it, or what underlying laws are responsible, in combination with empirical factors, for a system's behaviour in actual circumstances.