impermissibility

By compiling numerous comments made by a range of religious clerics, scholars and authorities over the last several years, the goal is to assess the substance and significance of the religious discourse concerning Shi'a Islam and the permissibility or impermissibility of WMD acquisition, possession and use.

Rahim Kanani: Islam and the Bomb: Religious Justification for and Against Nuclear Weapons Rahim Kanani 2011

The common law is pretty clear about the impermissibility of ex post facto legislation and bills of attainder.

Archive 2009-03-01 Dr. Sanity 2009

This charade is the result of the impermissibility of quotas.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Epstein on Ricci: 2009

A further question is whether the other parties to the treaty may accept and thus legitimate an impermissible reservation or whether a determination of impermissibility is conclusive.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Yet Another Reason Not To Sign the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: 2009

Once the impermissibility of a reservation has been demonstrated, there are two fundamental possibilities.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Yet Another Reason Not To Sign the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: 2009

The second runs contrary to patent observations that virtually everyone can see, such as the preferability of happiness to misery, the impermissibility of murder, etc.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ethics, But Were Afraid to Ask, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

A second misinterpretation is fostered by applications of double effect that contrast the permissibility of causing a harm as a merely foreseen side effect of pursuing a good end with the impermissibility of causing the same kind of harm as one's end.

Doctrine of Double Effect McIntyre, Alison 2009

Should we allow the expressio unius interpretive canon to govern and conclude that the inclusion of some resignation provisions implies the impermissibility of resignation where there is no such clause?

Archive 2008-04-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

And so it went, as Rehnquist was defeated on decisions ranging from the permissibility of affirmative action to the impermissibility of criminal penalties for gay sex between consenting adults.

Whatever Happened to the Lone Ranger? 2007

The debates concerning the impermissibility of procreation raise deep issues in metaphysics and value theory, and have been particularly active in recent years

Parenthood and Procreation Bayne, Tim 2006