This was against the laws of the hotel; therefore Staines had to pause a few moments in the hall to get the laws altered.
She told me of the life she had led and of the laws by which her people were governed.
It proceeded on laws as immutable as thelaws of nature.
But they learned early the immutable and inexorable nature of the laws imposed on their race.
And further, that if they were not exported, if by prohibitory laws they could be retained in a country, the effect on the exchange would counterbalance the effect of high prices.
In order to understand this part of the subject, we must inquire into the nature of rent, and the laws by which its rise or fall is regulated.
Happily these laws have been in operation during a period of progressive prosperity, when the funds for the maintenance of labour have regularly increased, and when an increase of population would be naturally called for.
In all countries probably these lawsare evaded, but records give us little information on this head, and point out rather the legal and fixed rate, than the market rate of interest.
I shall therefore take only a brief survey of some of the general laws which regulate its quantity and value.
All laws relative to "towns" are applied to "cities" in so far as they are not inconsistent with general or special laws relative to the latter, and the powers of the selectmen are vested in the mayor and aldermen.
On Taxation: See especially the official "Report of the Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Expediency of Revising and Amending the Laws .
These laws are to prevent fictitious capitalization and "stock-watering.
Her kindness to poor people is undoubted, and the severe execution of her laws seemed only a necessity.
The state laws for the protection of fish and shell-fish were long carelessly enforced because of the fishermen's strong feeling against them, but this sentiment has slowly changed and enforcement has become more vigorous.
It is simply military authority exercised in accordance with the laws and usages of war, and is limited by military necessity.
Justinian in one of his laws bespeaks her advocacy for the empire, and he inscribes the high altar in the new church of St Sophia with her name.
The laws relating to labour are full, but, as compared with those of other states, present few features calling for comment.
The laws practically offer such education free to every child of the commonwealth.
Their sole occupation was war, for which their lawsand organization were designed to fit them.
Nothing was to be deduced from preconceived ideas; from the observed evolutionary laws and forces of modern society alone were conclusions to be drawn.
Massachusetts had excluded the English Book of Common Prayer, she had restricted the franchise, laid the death penalty on religious opinions, and passed various other laws repugnant to the Crown, notably to Charles II.
This spirit, mind, is a machine, piano, And has its lawsof harmony and use.
Is a country Free where the laws permit such things?
An informer accuses Apollonius of being a Christian, at a time when the imperial laws made such an accusation a capital offence.
But though Domitian's edicts had been reversed, like those of Nero, one of the most ancient laws of the Roman empire forbad the worship of any god not approved by the Senate.
The most favourable suspended the action of the lawseither by positive edict, or by letting it be understood that they did not wish Christians to be disturbed.
We learn that there were periodical meetings, convivial and conversational, among the members both of the Academic and Peripatetic schools, and laws for their regulation established by Xenocrates and Aristotle.
In the year 64 Nero had declared by initiating a persecution against Christians that their religion was illicit, and fell under the ban of the old Roman laws which forbade the exercise of any worship not approved by the senate.
In this period of two hundred and forty-eight years it is true that there were intervals of comparative peace when the emperors did not themselves call into action the laws against Christians.
Each assembly among you, forsooth, pretends to an equality with the British parliament, and allows no laws binding but those, which are imposed by itself.
He can grant any body of men a charter, by which they are empowered to make bye-laws for their own government, but farther his prerogative does not extend.
One of the great laws of Nature is the law of variation; that is, no two children of any parents are ever exactly alike.
Simple as this may seem and simple as it really is, the laws underlying the best way of teaching how to secure a beautiful tone are the evolution of empirical experiences coming down through the centuries.
He was also in Ægypt, and obtained information respecting the laws and customs of that country.
But they have no assemblies for consulting together, nor administration of laws, but live on the heights of lofty mountains, in deep caves, and each gives laws to his wife and children.
Afterwards they established a democracy, and acquired so great renown for their political wisdom, that the Italian Greeks, after their dissensions with the Pythagoreans, adopted most of the laws and institutions of the Achæans.
The following are the principal of the laws of Crete, which Ephorus has given in detail.
He had the same name as his brother, who appears to have been the first to civilize the island by laws and institutions, by founding cities, and by establishing forms of government.
The pastor folded his hands and waited, reminding himself of the object of his visit, and rehearsing a well-thought-out address, which was to be divided into three parts according to the laws of rhetoric.
For the Courts are not for those who want justice; the laws are not for peasants; and there's no protection for those who have been wronged.
Although I still believe in the theory of central heat, I confess that certain circumstances, hitherto very ill defined, may modify the laws of such natural phenomena.
But for my part, I desire to be tried by the laws of my own country; for it seems unjust to me, that the French should prescribe here, till they have conquered.
Let dull Octavia Survive, to mourn him dead: My nobler fate Shall knit our spousals with a tie, too strong For Roman laws to break.
See how the lovers sit in state together, As they were givinglaws to half mankind!
Is it not the same with moral evil, the laws of which are just as calculable?
And yet we know that intermarriage between relations is in direct contravention of the laws of nature for the well-being of the race.
It required a sound mastery of the laws of household hygiene, some knowledge of medicine or surgery, and, above all, an acute and sympathetic faculty of observation.
The senses, the reason, the feelings appreciate the laws of goodness, benevolence, and righteousness in the Thought of God; but Circumstances indicate a want of benevolence unless there is reason to believe in a future development.
The laws of God were the laws of life, and these were ascertainable by careful, and especially by statistical, inquiry.
We have learnt the physical laws since then; but mental laws--why, people don't even acknowledge their existence.
He is untrue to himself in saying how little we can ever find out of the Laws of History.
That a man should ride in a carriage and have twenty thousand a year is contrary to thelaws of Nature," said their leader, and slapped his leg.
Even in observing illustrations of Mendel's laws allowance has to be made for the variability due to "chance" meetings of germ cells.
It must be borne in mind then that the histories given below illustrate the nature of the facts of heredity rather than the laws of heredity.
In a few cases it is known that immunity or insusceptibility to specific forms of infection is a unit character which follows Mendelian laws in heredity.
It is to be hoped that these laws are enforced with greater effectiveness than that with which our own less stringent laws of similar character are administered.
Biology has learned much from Physics and Chemistry, but the biological applications of the laws of these sciences must be carried out with the greatest care.
The most significant fact here is that this normal variability exhibited by the traits of living organisms follows closely the laws of chance or probability.
Thus the enforcement of certain forms of Employer's Liability laws has led to discrimination against married persons by large employers of labor and a premium thus put upon nonmarriage.
The indiscriminating application of biological laws in the field of sociology may result in confusion and retardation in the progress of both sciences, or at any rate in their practical applications.
The ultimate aim of Sociology is doubtless the working out of the laws according to which stable communities are formed and maintained, and in which each component individual may enjoy and contribute the maximum of pleasure and profit.
Similar laws have been passed in Oregon and Connecticut, and are being carefully considered in several other States.
Pure varieties breeding true can be established permanently by taking into account the Mendelian laws of heredity.
We do not consider ourselves subject to this court, since as an unenfranchised class we have nothing to do with the making of the laws which have put us in this position.
Eminent jurists held that the District had no right to convict a person under its laws and commit that person to confinement in another state.
The whole philosophy of your movement seems to be to obey no laws until you have a voice in those laws.
The rightness or wrongness must be a matter of law, not of personal discretion, and for you to attempt to substitute your discretion is to set up a little autocracy m place of the settled laws of the land.
Under the highly Christian national laws of "Old Virginny," these children were the slaves of their grandfather.
When real and actual evil arises, if it shall arise, the laws ought to be amended or repealed; but in the absence of imminent danger I see no reason at present for renewed controversy or contention.
The Constitution has made it the duty of the President to take care that the lawsbe faithfully executed.
He justly appreciates his obligations to maintain the integrity of the Constitution, and to see that the laws are faithfully executed.
The present laws provide for a semi-monthly mail from New York and New Orleans to Chagres, and for only a monthly mail from that point to San Francisco.
He will know no distinction between the North and the South, but will enforce obedience to the lawsevery where.
Before they went to Cromer, she had been as docile to her aunt's laws as if she were still the scared little stranger who cried herself to sleep that first night in the Harley Street nursery.
Upon my word, mother, I wish the old combination-laws were in force.
But it was one of Mrs. Thornton's rigorous laws of hospitality, that of each separate dainty enough should be provided for all the guests to partake, if they felt inclined.
But all laws which depend for their enforcement upon informers and fines, become inert from the odiousness of the machinery.
Indeed, long past infancy, children and young people are the happiest under the unfailing laws of a discreet, firm authority.
Brought up under the stern discipline of military rule, they took sides with the Major, and expostulated with Murphy upon his unwarrantable violation of the laws of war.
If we expect to be well, spiritually or naturally, we must strive to know and obey the laws of health and life.
It is equally evident that men who are actuated by the supreme love of self, vain show, or sensual gratifications must be restrained, in that world as in this, by penal laws and punishments.
It is an apparent truth that God is angry with the wicked every day; but the real truth is that God is never angry, but when man disobeys His laws and brings upon himself consequent suffering, it appears to him that God is angry.
It is evident that those who are guided in all they think and do by either love of the Lord, the neighbor, or of obeying the Divine Commandments, need no penal laws or punishments.
If they do, they are a violation of the laws of God as manifested in the organization of the human body and in His Word.
But she shall not succeed; the Barbarina shall never be called my daughter; this marriage shall be set aside, the ceremony was not lawful, it is contrary to the laws of the land.
And if there is no law to which a princess can appeal against the king, there shall at least be laws for all my subjects, which protect them, and are in strict accordance with reason, with justice, and the godly principle of equality.
He had no trial; had committed no offence against the laws or the king; was guilty of no other crime than wishing to marry the woman he loved.
Happily, we are not Jews, and our laws do not forbid the younger sister to marry first.
There's your idle lady with the pretty face, who wants to make laws for the amusement of breaking them.
From my point of view, a man becomes noble in spite of the material laws which condition his life, never in consequence of them.
The laws operating are precisely the same in one region as in the other.
That he makes no distinction between words immediately derived by us from the Latin, and those which being copied from other languages, can therefore afford no example of the genius of the English language, or its laws of derivation.
I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the baselaws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
And when all Wales beside (by fortune or by might) Unto her ancient foe resign'd her ancient right, A constant maiden still she only did remain, The last her genuine laws which stoutly did retain.
But as the laws of metre are included in the idea of grammar, I have thought proper to insert them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laws" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: book; code; generality
