Sentence examples for understood law from inspiring English sources

"Even secret operations need to be conducted within the bounds of established, publicly understood law.

But, they said, the government in a democracy must act within publicly understood law so that voters "can ratify or reject decisions made on their behalf" — even if that "obligation to be transparent with the public" creates other challenges.

Mr. Miller said he benefited enormously because he understood law enforcement hierarchy and was aware of the kinds of pressure brought to bear on the officials at the scene.

Onto the less bright: The biggest issue of course is copyright – the least understood law when it comes to agencies and brands and the easiest to break without realising that you have done so.

Ford's Lincoln — who understood law mainly as a matter of "right and wrong" — faces down the posse at the jailhouse door with a blend of bravado and rhetoric, then displays his moral genius in the courtroom, where the defendants are threatened with a legal hanging.

Burke understood law in this arrangement as the guarantor of interests of the governed because it was law passed and secured by Parliament.

The simulations include not just the effect of actions, but also the understood laws of physics (e.g., will a falling object continue to fall).

"This is counterintuitive, but you have to understand law enforcement," the mayor said.

His long-term goal is to see "that anyone with law enforcement authority is well trained, well supervised and understands law enforcement".

Crudely put, they think that we should understand law to claim only the sort of authority it would be justifiable for law to have.

Natural law theories all understand law as a remedy against the great evils of, on the one side anarchy (lawlessness), and on the other side tyranny.