But such imaginative violations of the basic laws of physics no longer stand up to scrutiny.
Mr Brown is in part the victim of one of the basic laws of politics: gravity.
But with 10-year Treasurys yielding 1.6%, basic laws of physics start making it tough for yields to fall much more.
But it looks like the basic laws of economics are scaring tens of thousands of those slow-to-grow-up graduates away from the bar.
Several basic laws come with hundreds, even thousands of regulations or interpretations.
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Start with the basic laws of technology--Moore's Law is the most important--but there are now perhaps a dozen more covering everything from networks to bandwidth.
Apple is not exempt from the basic laws of economics.
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In a global depression, though, Governments have again tried, in vain, to stimulate economies when they should have been figuring out how to enforce the basic laws of capitalism.
Most notably, it began treating Israel's Basic Laws, a sort of partial constitution, as if they were a real constitution, and has used them as a basis for junking other laws.
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You also don't need to be a libertarian to demand that any new intervention meet this burden of proof: It will accomplish something that tort law and enforcement of basic laws against force, fraud and collusion do not accomplish.
While the policymakers in Washington may not understand economics and the basic laws of the capital markets, the legions of U.S. trained economists that advise the Chinese government understand full well that when you have more supply of something than demand, prices will fall.
What does that tell you about his sense of his own immunity to the laws and basic morality that apply to everyone else?
The basic argument is that laws must precede definitions of private property, and so any distributions of income, wealth, and property we have are fully government constructs.
The rule against the retrospective application of laws is a basic tenet of most legal systems.
Are you for making sure that laws enforce that basic principle?
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Poor basic education and restrictive labour laws will make it hard for many to find jobs in manufacturing, and there is a limit to how many can work in services.
For a bit of extra perspective on the small business regulatory climate to absorb alongside the flow of rules and RFAs, the table below depicts a partial list of the basic, non-sector-specific laws and regulations that affect small business.
The draft report said that al-Maliki's government was incapable of even the most basic enforcement of its own anti-corruption laws.
After all, the social construct of private property is a basic one, and in the real world laws need to be precise and often complex.
And our administration consistently has supported the basic concept that we are a nation of laws but we're also a nation of immigrants, and that immigrants continually have strengthened America's economy, America's culture, and that we have to create a system that works for all of us.
The basic thrust of the book is that financial reform laws in individual countries are irrelevant as tools against a future crisis, because they simply provide incentives to firms to take their riskier business elsewhere.
In the past, ultra-orthodox and national-religious Jews in Israel have felt so estranged from the judiciary's largely liberal mainstream that they have set up their own arbitration courts, applying laws from the Torah, Judaism's basic text, sometimes with the tacit sanction of the state.
"Our basic area of problem is the gray areas that where you apply the federal laws but the mindset of the people is still more akin to the tribal systems, " Pakistani Federal Law Minister Khalid Ranjha says.
We are making progress, but there's one basic point: that progress rests not just on attitudes changing, but it rests on laws.
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