Word: bindings
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...after John Marshall," Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox argues that this lack is an important failing. Only by virtue of how well the court explains itself can it command consent. Its prestige comes "from the belief that the major influence in judicial decisions is not fiat but principles which bind the judges and apply consistently among all men." In addition, lack of precision leads to confusion, and confusion leads to the necessity of reinterpretation. Though the Warren court is by no means the first to spend time interpreting what it has already said, it has had to do a large...
More than records are at stake in making the closest possible approach to absolute zero. As the motion of atomic particles decreases with increasing cold, scientists can study the particles more closely and learn more about the forces that bind them together...
...times, said Gardner, call for cohesion. "Today, the first duty of responsible citizens is to bind together rather than tear apart. The fissures in our society are already dangerously deep." It was a ringing cry for unity from a wise administrator who is all too infrequently heard from...
...substance is cholestyramine, developed by Dow Chemical Co. as a water softener because impurities in the water become bound to its particles and can be precipitated out. By a similar process, the chemical can bind to itself bile acids in the digestive tract so that they are expelled in the feces...
...18th century London, privies were called Jerichos; Boswell went to bed with Rousseau's wife precisely 13 times. The Durants can scarcely resist an anecdote or an aphorism. The borrowed ones are usually the best, as for instance Diderot's Encyclopédie distinction between the words bind and attach: "One is bound to one's wife, attached to one's mistress." But the authors also do reasonably well on their own, as when they say of Louis XV that he "lacked the art of dying in due time...