The body of laws and international agreements that have been carefully built up (and fought for) over centuries to protect all people from arbitrary authority and persecution.
It cannot be denied that there are problems, for liberals and supporters of full female emancipation, with the application of Sharia, the body of laws deemed to derive from the Koran, in those countries where the judicial system is wholly or partly based on it.
The government will need to be absolutely sure that it's robust and watertight if the reputation of the institution as a body capable of passing laws for Wales is to be established and maintained.
Historians, meanwhile, note that in past ages, as well as in countries such as Saudi Arabia today, the relatively thin body of accepted sharia laws has in practice needed bolstering by secular rules.
As the Senate in Brazil debates reform of abortion laws, the body that regulates medical practice has for the first time backed the legalisation of abortion on request.
Going over the fiscal cliff could knock enough points off the growth rate to drive America into a recession, predicts the Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan body that analyses the economic effects of federal laws.
Law four of the laws of the games as outlined by FIFA, the global body which governs soccer, relates to the equipment and attire players can wear.
This group is lobbying for tougher securities laws and the setting-up of a regulatory body independent of the finance ministry and modelled on America's Securities and Exchange Commission.
Indian Head, however, finding that the manufacturer of metal electrical conduit may have violated antitrust laws by recruiting hundreds of allies to pack a standard-setting body that banned plastic conduit from fire codes.
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He specializes in scaling laws, the mathematical patterns that appear to govern phenomena as diverse as earthquakes and the body sizes of animals.
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