He points to one of the most time-tested principles in science: the first law of thermodynamics.
In The First Law trilogy, the wise-old Wizard archetype is turned on its head.
Too much is cribbed from the First Law trilogy in terms of both theme and plot.
At least Mr Henderson, contemplating his awful inheritance, seems inclined to follow the first law of holes: stop digging.
In any case, Perry can be commended for daring to violate the first law of politics: whatever you do, do not question entitlements.
It seems that Sir Isaac Newton got it right with his First Law of Motion: Bodies at rest tend to stay at rest.
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Battlefield robots would be required to violate the first law.
But as a follow-up to the First Law books, it felt too much the retread of an excellent idea rather than something new and surprising in its own right.
There were elected officials, taxes, street cleaners, stores selling household goods, and crucially, compulsory education for children aged six to 15 - the first law of its kind in South Carolina.
Looks like iRobot just violated the first law.
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In 1882, Congress passed the first law restricting immigration.
The value to IBM is captured in my recent definition of the First Law of Big Data: The value of data grows with the growth in the number of people sharing similar data.
Instead of handing the lucrative work to the first law firm that filed a case, judges were supposed to appoint the combination of plaintiff and law firm that best represented the interests of the class.
Mr. Norris has paid scrupulous attention to the First Law of Theatrical Success: If you want to hit the jackpot at the box office, be sure not to tell your viewers anything they don't want to hear.
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Colonel BENJAMIN: The problem is here that the other side, unfortunately, are deliberately using civilian areas as platforms for launching these rocket attacks, which is really in breach of what I would call the first law of warfare, which is to keep the civilians out of the picture.
If there had never been a minimum-wage law passed -- if, as in the years before 1938, Americans today could be paid as little as employers could get away with -- and if, in 2013, someone in Congress proposed the first law ever that would guarantee workers a minimum wage.
It starts with after-school educational centers called Score, moves to the core test-prep business, on to Concord University School of Law, the nation's first online law school, and right up through BrassRing, a career development service Kaplan formed with Accel Partners and the Tribune (TRB) Co. last year.
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Google lawyers recently helped draft the first state law dealing with self-driving cars, in Nevada.
We've made a lot of progress as a nation since the act first became law.
Many exist solely in cyberspace, like Concord University, the first online law school, created in 1998.
More than 5 million patents have been issued in the U.S. since the first patent law of 1790.
Postal inspectors, customs and other revenue agents were some of the first federal law-enforcement officers in the years after the Revolution.
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The Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA or employer sanctions) was the first such law, and it tried to regulate unauthorized workers out of the market.
Third is ignorance among these armies of administrators of both First Amendment law and, perhaps more importantly, the moral principles and philosophy upon which that law is based.
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He won a scholarship to Cambridge, gained a first in law and was admitted to the charmed circle of barristers (who in Britain work in the higher courts).
Fast forward roughly five years, Charlie has drifted from his friends as college friends often do after graduation, yet somehow I heard that he was a first year law student at a Midwestern university.
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Meanwhile, the UNESCO-IHP's Internationally Shared Waters Resource Management programme (ISARM) has assisted the United Nations in drafting the first international law on transboundary aquifers, due to be discussed in October during the UN General Assembly.
When Ali first left law for business, she became marketing head at Gazoontite, a retailer of allergy products, But soon she became attracted by the opportunities presented by the growing demographic of older parents.
And so Wilson Livingood, who is, by the way, the first professional law-enforcement officer to serve in the position of sergeant at arms, he is the one to be retained by the Democratic majority from the previous Republican majority.
Kagan, 50, has achieved a number of firsts in her career: She is the first woman dean of Harvard Law School and the first female U.S. Solicitor General.
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