Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.
‐‐ Jonathan Turley
Under the Constitution, federal law trumps both state and city law. But antitrust law allows states some exceptional leeway to adopt anticompetitive business regulations, out of respect for states' rights to regulate business. This federal respect for states' rights does not extend to cities.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori
Under the cover of encryption, terror masterminds provide recruits with the tactics and tools necessary to carry out attacks using small arms and explosives. None of this requires any overseas travel.
‐‐ Tom Cotton
Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.
‐‐ Ginny Brown-Waite
Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.
‐‐ Ariel Garten
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon
Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.
‐‐ Mary Schapiro
Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.
‐‐ Melissa Bean
Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, it is possible for other parties to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon
Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin
Under the French system, you have to take into consideration that every five years, the president is directly elected by the people. He's the one that has the legitimacy.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron
Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.
‐‐ John Yoo
Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.
‐‐ George McGovern
Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.
‐‐ Ron Wyden
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
‐‐ Livy
Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.
‐‐ Theodor Mommsen
Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
‐‐ Ed Rendell
Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
‐‐ Marty Meehan
Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.
‐‐ Jose Serrano
Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.
‐‐ M. Stanton Evans
Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.
‐‐ John Mica
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
‐‐ Cordell Hull
'Under the Poppy' is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who've been parted by jealousy - and a secret betrayal by Istvan's sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar.
‐‐ Kathe Koja
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
‐‐ Edmund Burke
Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.
‐‐ Eskinder Nega
Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.
‐‐ Tran Duc Luong
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
‐‐ James Surowiecki
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
‐‐ Herbert Marcuse
'Under the Skin' is handsome, in a dour way, but inert - a cunning experiment that died in the shooting or on the editing table. You'll want to get the DVD, though, and not just for its study of Scarlett. Odds are that the Making-Of documentary will be far stranger and more fascinating than the movie that was made.
‐‐ Richard Corliss
Under the snowcapped mountains of Fiordland National Park, freshwater streams empty into the saltwater fiords, creating a unique ecosystem. This is a heavily wooded park, so the water in the streams is stained with tannin, a substance found in plants that makes clean water seem dirty, though it isn't.
‐‐ Brian Skerry
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
‐‐ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!
‐‐ Dave Sitek
Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.
‐‐ John Muir
Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.
‐‐ Carlos Fuentes
Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky
Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.
‐‐ Simon van der Meer
Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.
‐‐ Marco Rubio
Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol.
‐‐ John Charles Polanyi
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift
Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.
‐‐ Rashid al-Ghannushi
Under well-settled legal principles, lethal force against a valid military objective, in an armed conflict, is consistent with the law of war and does not, by definition, constitute an 'assassination.'
‐‐ Jeh Johnson
Under Xi, China has again become the world's top jailer of journalists. China's rank on the Reporters Without Borders index of press freedom is 176th out of 180 countries. China comes in dead last on the Freedom House 'Freedom on the Net' list.
‐‐ Terry Glavin
Undercook swordfish, and you get rubber. Overcook it, and you lose the fat and succulence.
‐‐ Geoffrey Zakarian
Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas
Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle.
‐‐ Ryszard Kapuscinski
Underlings look up to the boss for behavioral cues, subtle signs, hints and gestures.
‐‐ Grace Poe
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
‐‐ Milton Friedman
Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.
‐‐ Sid Vicious
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged.
‐‐ Henry Giroux