What's the difference between circumstance and law?

Circumstance


Definition:

  • (n.) That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
  • (n.) An event; a fact; a particular incident.
  • (n.) Circumlocution; detail.
  • (n.) Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.
  • (v. t.) To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
  • (2) The conus was found to contribute little to forward flow under ordinary circumstances, but its contribution increased greatly during bleeding or partial occlusion of the truncus.
  • (3) This paper details the circumstances of some of the cases and cites precautions to be taken in the use of this therapeutic mode.
  • (4) Attention should be paid to the circumstances under which the chart is applied, as normal micturition behaviour seems to be highly dependent on social factors.
  • (5) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
  • (6) Under any other circumstances, a penalty of life imprisonment could be imposed on both the woman undergoing the abortion and anyone assisting her – even if the abortion is sought because of a fatal foetal impairment, for example, or because the pregnancy is the result of rape.
  • (7) Duraphat-treated samples submerged in water after the exposure lost only about 50% of the deposited fluoride, whereas samples treated with 2% NaF are known to lose all their fluoride under similar circumstances, a condition which may be related to the favorable clinical effect of Duraphat.
  • (8) The circumstances surrounding 142 hospital admissions for acute asthma in 110 children during a one year period were examined.
  • (9) The length of the interpulse interval for LH release secretion decreased in unilateral decorticate animals, whereas the length of the cycle of FSH secretion increased in this circumstance.
  • (10) However, there are exceptional circumstances in which it is in a child’s best interests to be resettled in the UK.
  • (11) Differences in incidence of unplanned pregnancies among women was more a result of socioeconomic circumstance and the tendency to have a large family than attitude towards children.
  • (12) Ten patients (16.67 per cent) of the mortality group were in the ninety-ninth percentile of risk, whereas these factors or variables of similar weight produced an equivalent risk of only 0.34 per cent of the survivors; thus, operative death in these circumstances could be predicted with an estimated 98.0 per cent assurance.
  • (13) Under certain circumstances, the effects of chlordiazepoxide appear to be best predicted by knowledge of maintaining conditions.
  • (14) It is proposed that although the same retinoblastoma cells in different circumstances are responsive to HPD-PDT, no clinical response is demonstrable utilizing this model, due to the absence of tumor vascularity.
  • (15) • Police would be given discretion to remove face masks from people on the street "under any circumstances where there is reasonable suspicion that they are related to criminal activity".
  • (16) Naturally, in individual patients, special circumstances may exist which alter these decisions.
  • (17) In such circumstances faith in the project inevitably ebbs among the faithful.
  • (18) During this period, however, the cows were housed in a stable with markedly worse environmental circumstance than those in production stable.
  • (19) A Home Office spokeswoman said: "It is vital that police and security services are able to obtain communications data in certain circumstances to investigate serious crime and terrorism and to protect the public.
  • (20) In the second phase of diagnosis are further neurophysiological investigations, which are only indicated in more special circumstances.

Law


Definition:

  • (n.) In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts.
  • (n.) In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition and conduct of all responsible beings toward him and toward each other; a rule of living, conformable to righteousness; the rule of action as obligatory on the conscience or moral nature.
  • (n.) The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament.
  • (n.) An organic rule, as a constitution or charter, establishing and defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other organized community.
  • (n.) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority.
  • (n.) In philosophy and physics: A rule of being, operation, or change, so certain and constant that it is conceived of as imposed by the will of God or by some controlling authority; as, the law of gravitation; the laws of motion; the law heredity; the laws of thought; the laws of cause and effect; law of self-preservation.
  • (n.) In matematics: The rule according to which anything, as the change of value of a variable, or the value of the terms of a series, proceeds; mode or order of sequence.
  • (n.) In arts, works, games, etc.: The rules of construction, or of procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a principle, maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of architecture, of courtesy, or of whist.
  • (n.) Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject, or emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law.
  • (n.) Legal science; jurisprudence; the principles of equity; applied justice.
  • (n.) Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy; litigation; as, to go law.
  • (n.) An oath, as in the presence of a court.
  • (v. t.) Same as Lawe, v. t.
  • (interj.) An exclamation of mild surprise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (2) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
  • (3) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
  • (4) A statement from the company said it had assigned all its assets for the benefit of creditors, in accordance with Massachusetts' law.
  • (5) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
  • (6) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
  • (7) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
  • (8) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
  • (9) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (10) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
  • (11) If Bennett were sentenced today under the new law, he likely would not receive a life sentence.
  • (12) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
  • (13) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
  • (14) Their efforts will include blocking the NSA from undermining encryption and barring other law enforcement agencies from collecting US data in bulk.
  • (15) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
  • (16) Four Dutch activists were charged in Murmansk this week under the law.
  • (17) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
  • (18) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
  • (19) I have heard from other workers that the list has also been provided to the law enforcement authorities,” Gain says.
  • (20) "Law is all I've ever wanted to do, but it's so competitive.

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