by natural law
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
But it does seem that rights, relationships, values and even notions of what is meant by natural law have all been redefined by mankind for a good long while.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2011
Practically all Protestant bodies today repudiate the position that contraception is forbidden by natural law.
From Time Magazine Archive
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, only 41 years old in 1900, proposed a scientific basis for the notion that progress was gradual but inevitable, ordained by natural law.
From Time Magazine Archive
What he means by natural law and what uses he would put it to as a life-tenured Supreme Court Justice are not clear.
From Time Magazine Archive
Says the dervish, “They might do so by natural law; why might not a staff loosed from the hand spring skyward as naturally as it falls to the ground?”
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
