GONZALES: We have confidence in the lawfulness of this program. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2006] Reference
A lady consulted St. Francis of Sales on the lawfulness of using rouge. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 395, October 24, 1829] Reference
Without responsibility, without order, without lawfulness, there is no freedom. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By President At Crime Bill Signing] Reference
As we have seen, Aquinas was quite clear as to the lawfulness of such a voluntary payment. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching] Reference
On the contrary, the lawfulness of property is emphatically asserted on more than one occasion. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching] Reference
Most, however, are simply followers, as easily led astray into lawlessness as back to lawfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Voice of the Gods]
The lawfulness of any ambition may often be tested by the amount of selfishness which inheres in it. From Wordnik.com. [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference
Durie's resolution raised the question of the scripturalness and lawfulness of the office of a bishop. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series] Reference
But when they came to me and we discussed its lawfulness, our discussion anchored itself on Article II. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 18, 2006] Reference
The bull decides in favour of the lawfulness of rent charges, provided certain conditions were observed. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching] Reference
I mean, this bill is being sold as a bill that would stop and create -- illegality and create lawfulness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2007] Reference
It was made lawful by Moses, without any distinction of days; but they had denied its lawfulness on the sabbath. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
But if this public profession of lawfulness meant nothing to 70,000 of them, why think it means more to the rest?. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Conspiracy] Reference
"They do inculcate a certain lawfulness and discipline in their members, which is admirable," the mayor once said. From Wordnik.com. [Busting The Prince Of Love] Reference
It is not, however, with the lawfulness, but with the policy and morality of the practice, that we are now dealing. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference
Now Moses does not speak disparagingly of the pleasures of that feast, but rather takes their lawfulness for granted. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
A crucial element in this defense is that defendant secured the advice on the lawfulness of his possible future conduct. From Wordnik.com. [Janan Hanna: Blago: The Lawyers Made Me Do It] Reference
Court on the application by ANC President Jacob Zuma on the lawfulness of search and seizure operations by the Scorpions. From Wordnik.com. [ANC RESPECTS CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULING] Reference
From the last division the same legists deduce the lawfulness of slavery, piracy and constant war against the unbelievers. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
Habeas Corpus: Writ requiring person to be brought before judge or into court, esp. to investigate lawfulness of his restraint. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Ephron: Yay, It's a Holiday] Reference
The right of the detainees, as the Supreme Court ruled in 2004, to challenge the lawfulness of their detention in a federal court. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2006] Reference
First of these is a tendency to accept the lawfulness of the actions of any government - except, of course, a Communist government. From Wordnik.com. [THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AND RACISM (1)] Reference
State of Pennsylvania, and especially against the power, right, and lawfulness of the acts of the magistrate who had just married him. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think it sets just a horrible precedent, in terms of law or lawfulness, or unlawfulness as I might refer to it now. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2007] Reference
If he denies the validity of this argument in favor of political despotism, he must renounce his own against the lawfulness of domestic slavery. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
We must not, however, doubt concerning the sinfulness or lawfulness of everything we do; for that would be foolish and lead us to be scrupulous. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine] Reference
But then it approved a devastating prohibition on the use of habeas corpus by Guantánamo prisoners to test the lawfulness of their imprisonment. From Wordnik.com. [Anthony Lewis: The Torture Administration] Reference
He resigned the great seal rather than sign the marriage articles of Anne Boleyn, and would not take the oath as to the lawfulness of that marriage. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
And from the whole, it appears a commendable duty for the Lord's people to disown the right and lawfulness of rulers set up in contradiction to the divine law. From Wordnik.com. [Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive] Reference
And I think that's the test we ought to apply, that's the test government agencies ought to apply, in terms of any lawfulness -- you know they're looking at that. From Wordnik.com. [Interview Of The President By Al Hunt Of The Wsj And Cnbc] Reference
And there began the transformation of habeas from a tool to bring people to trial to a legal action allowing detainees to challenge the lawfulness of their detention. From Wordnik.com. [Anthony D. Romero: Cutting the Cake for an Ancient Rule of Law] Reference
We directly confronted demagogues like Long, educated ourselves about our constitutional traditions and lawfulness, and tailored reform around action, rather than rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [Stop the Violence: Taking on Today's Demagogues] Reference
In 2004, the United States Supreme Court upheld the right of Guantanamo detainees to file habeas corpus petitions to challenge the lawfulness of their indefinite detentions. From Wordnik.com. [Geoffrey R. Stone: Restoring Habeas Corpus Rights Eliminated By the Military Commissions Act] Reference
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