law-giving

Hence it is to be viewed as a law-giving faculty.

But the United States, jealous of its sovereignty, would apparently prefer to wage war rather than build civilized international law-giving institutions.

The theory of false necessity attempts to understand humans and human history without making ourselves the object of a law-giving fate.

Alexander the Great stayed here, so did the peace-loving and law-giving Buddhist emperor Asoka.

These children describe a God who is not the mediating, saving Jesus, nor the Law-giving father Yahweh.

They had obviously been here some time, and apparently feared no law-giving mute testimony to the strength and leadership capabilities of the half ogre, Steeltoe.

They told him to make his will, for he possessed a fifty-thousand dollar Sunrise claim, and they were a law-abiding as well as a law-giving breed.

The noble line rotted as it proceeded into the earth, carrion birds alighting on the descending lineage, plucking out regal eyes and law-giving tongues.

There was another article I saw of the Head of the EU reassuring that the proposition the COE put forward wasn't law because they have no law-giving authority.

Adoption of the analytical approach had helped geography become a more law-giving science, and the conception of the discipline as an idiographic field of study has become less acceptable starting in the 1980s.

At the time he was still pressing the church's law-giving body to allow the ordination of women as priests and bishops, an emotional issue since the 1970 convention decreed their acceptance only as deacons.

The moderate liberals wanted to draw up a document that would be presented to the monarchs as a constitution, whereas the small radical group of members wanted the assembly to declare itself a law-giving parliament.

The author thinks that Islam was the culmination of divine law and Muhammad was the last law-giving prophet, after whom there was no place for a new prophet and a new divine law.

The Portland Club, which regulated the laws of whist since early in the nineteenth century, remains the law-giving body for bridge in Britain, and has taken part in every subsequent revision of the laws of bridge.

It is a small town, with a textile industry, and on the first Sunday of May each year it is the scene of the meeting of the Landsgemeinde-the formal assembly of all vote holding citizens of the canton and its law-giving governing body.