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
  • There are laws, but then there are deeper natural laws at stake as well.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026
  • There Hugo continued his life’s work, writing on natural law, the rules of war, and the freedom of the seas.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Love for one another, across difference, is the only natural law here.
    — Tmerrigan, Longreads, 25 Sep. 2017
  • But a really good fusion should feel predestined, like the product of some natural law.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Relativism prevails, the rules of natural law evaporate, and evil takes root.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 30 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
  • How is our current world ordered, and to what extent is that a result determined by those in power rather than a function of natural law?
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • But analogies and artworks don’t exist outside of their creators in the way that natural laws and biological traits do.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 24 June 2023
  • Taggart is a champion of natural law, a representative of the gods.
    — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2011
  • Hence, the importance of the natural law foundation of property rights arises.
    — Wanjiru Njoya, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • The prior order that natural law detects is not a strictly religious assumption.
    — Matthew Scully, National Review, 2 Jan. 2023
  • My interest in science fiction inspired me to want to understand the physical sciences and to learn how to use natural laws and logic to make things.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Today, modern liberals call those rules universal values, natural laws, or human rights.
    — Gregory Fried, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2014
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the research lab, my colleagues and I discovered that, when treated according to natural laws, the heart could be stopped, repaired, and revived.
    — Russell M. Nelson, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The semiquincentennial of our country is the perfect time for liberals to reclaim natural law and not cede it to their antagonists.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 2 July 2026
  • Advocates for and against women’s equality similarly argued in terms of natural law.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 2 July 2026
  • Indeed, there is convincing evidence of momentum in stock and other asset returns, but this is not an unfailing natural law.
    — Bill Stone, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Everything in it is acting rationally (in accordance with its instincts, natural laws, orbits and thrust).
    — Roger Van Zanen, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Thomas has described his judicial philosophy as one of natural law, in which liberty and equality are endowed by God.
    — New York Times, 22 Feb. 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
  • 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

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