How to Use natural law in a Sentence

natural law

noun

• But there is no natural law that says there must be a next big thing.
  — Paul Ford, Wired, 8 Apr. 2021
• This tells us that the Greater Will, the natural law of the world which the Golden Order worked to uphold, and the study of astrology were at odds with each other.
  — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2020
• In a world ruled by the precepts of natural law and honor, Shannon would have had the right to stand up, grab this bum by the collar, and throw him through a plate glass window.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2023
• Parents who want their children to study CRT, or natural law, or Talmud, or none of these things would be able to find schools that meet their needs.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 14 July 2021
• And on Friday, parents began that act that inverts the natural law of the universe: burying their own children.
  — TIME.com, 17 Feb. 2018
• The natural laws of physics force one to flip the bird, switch up oven temperatures, spatchcock it, bard it (drape it with fat), baste it, or do a thousand other silly things.
  — TheWeek, 17 May 2020
• Relativism prevails, the rules of natural law evaporate, and evil takes root.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 30 Sep. 2017
• The company has already defied the natural laws of business.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
• But a really good fusion should feel predestined, like the product of some natural law.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
• In an age where even facts are subject to dispute, the superiority of Lincoln is a near-universal truth, a natural law of the land.
  — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 16 May 2020
• Events in Ukraine also remind us that world order is not a product of natural law or moral inevitability.
  — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2023
• Love for one another, across difference, is the only natural law here.
  — Tmerrigan, Longreads, 25 Sep. 2017
• The worst things imaginable can happen to this guy for no reason at all without violating any natural law.
  — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• This may cost you dearly in your relationship with your mother; your actions will have consequences, too, since that bit of natural law doesn’t spare people who act in good faith.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• This is why the act of counting is the gateway from our subjective, messy world of confused half-truths into the objective, Platonic realm of indisputable facts and natural laws.
  — Charles Seife, Wired, 21 May 2020
• There’s a taboo quality to the breach of natural laws separating humans and big cats that implies strength, virility, and power.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2020
• Taggart is a champion of natural law, a representative of the gods.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2011
• Perhaps Vermeule and Smith are of the view that the natural law does, in fact, forbid the constitutional arrangements adopted by the people through the Constitution.
  — J. Joel Alicea, National Review, 3 May 2022
• Even when LuPone is just shimmying along with the ensemble, her magnetism is as incontrovertible as a natural law.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2022
• The details may differ, but the authors argue that the parallels suggest that a natural law is appropriate to describe the behavior.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023
• Though not exactly in vogue in the academy these days, natural law is an objective and reliable framework, the idea being that the moral claims of any creature are evident in its nature.
  — Matthew Scully, National Review, 2 Jan. 2023
• Sympathy for our fellow humans plugged the holes that science had blown in the moral verities of orthodox theology and natural law.
  — Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
• Even the Catholic Church sees this not as a theological issue but as a matter of natural law, more a subject for philosophers, psychiatrists and scientists than for preachers as such.
  — Garry Wills, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• The loser was gravity, and a similar suspension of natural law was visible among the skateboarders, who dwell in a haze of dudeish fellowship where age has no dominion.
  — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
• But some of the same natural laws apply to both situations, meaning crowd researchers have had success in using similar models to study crowds as physicists use to study particle flow.
  — Evelyn Lamb, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
• Neither historian, layman, nor lawyer will be persuaded that all the details prescribed in Roe v. Wade are part of either natural law or the Constitution.
  — WSJ, 3 May 2022
• Gordo, by contrast, went unpunished—a dereliction of natural law that haunts a kid named Cirk (Tye Sheridan), the third person of interest, whose father served and sinned alongside William, and suffered the consequences.
  — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• But the greater popularity of men’s sports right now is not the result of some natural law, like gravity or the diminishing quality of Radiohead albums.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2020
• Gin, citrus, simple syrup, and basil—its inherent deliciousness is so evident to bartenders and non-bartenders alike as to approach something like a natural law.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2023
• The prior order that natural law detects is not a strictly religious assumption.
  — Matthew Scully, National Review, 2 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024