Sample sentences for NATURAL LAW

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rules of conduct said to be universally desired by all peoples

There is much disagreement about natural laws, but everyone can agree that the concept was vital to the creation of the Bill of Rights.

It is a natural law; every animal must fight for its own livelihood.
Henrik Ibsen -- An Enemy of the People
That natural law surmounts every other; we can't help what it clashes with."
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.
Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief
Science has claimed the power to eventually control everything, through its understanding of natural laws.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
It is an issue of natural law and a free man's inherent right to maintain his liberty.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
It's a natural law and the world is better off without them.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
Was there some natural law that demanded equal shares of happiness and misery in the world?
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
It was all he wanted—a genuine miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
The ocean outside is rising, and by a perfectly natural law of balance, the level of this lake is also rising.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
According to natural law.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
Because Obie was certain of one thing as if it was a natural law, like gravity—Renault wasn't going to sell the chocolates.
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
All this was inviolable, like any set of natural laws.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
What is evil, if not a natural law?
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
The idea, my dear sir, of both natural law and universal reason is alive in international law and—
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
This apparently astounding acoustic mystery is easily explainable by simple natural laws; it arose from the conductibility of the rock.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
But Samuel had put up a laughing wall against natural laws, and Una's death breached his battlements.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
It was like all the natural laws had changed on them, and suddenly steel was soft and flesh was hard, rock was brittle and leather weak as grass.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
Her mother had warned her and Evangeline often enough about respecting the Natural Laws.
Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl -- Beautiful Creatures
But it is certain that natural laws vary from universe to universe—and believe this you must, milord, else neither of us will live long!
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road

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