law-courts

I realised as a 1st-year undergrad that all religious language is in some sense metaphorical or analogical - namely, it seeks to describe what we cannot grasp (God) in terms of things we can grasp - so Paul uses all kinds of metaphors and analogies (like justification, borrowed from the law-courts) to explain his theology.

Mind The Gap James F. McGrath 2010

Plus of course the UN is gone forever along with all those pesky foreigners with their lib-left notions about international law-courts and global initiatives on health and poverty and the environment and truly eliminating nukes world-wide.

Tony Hendra: No Terror Funding? Consider the October Surprise 2008 2008

A bold and restless spirit, ever wrangling in law-courts, is like some yelping cur.

Consolation of Philosophy 2007

Chaerephon, and Chaerecrates, to Hermogenes, to Simmias and Cebes, to Phaedondes and others, who clung to him not to excel in the rhetoric of the Assembly or the law-courts, but with the nobler ambition of attaining to such beauty and goodliness of soul as would enable them to discharge the various duties of life to house and family, to relatives and friends, to fellow-citizens, and to the state at large.

Memorabilia 2007

A battle in the law-courts costs quite as much as a battle on the field; but David has held his ground, he has his secret.

Eve and David 2007

A battle in the law-courts costs quite as much as a battle on the field; but David has held his ground, he has his secret.

Eve and David 2007

But let us begin by putting the law-courts out of the question.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

Sergeitch had lived in his Suhodol for almost seventy years on end, and had had hardly anything whatever to do with the existing authorities, with the police or the law-courts.

A Desperate Character 2006

Police and law-courts were here also, as I understood; but it was not the time of the Egyptian assizes.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

And herein it was most unlucky that we could not have Master Stickles, with his knowledge of the world, and especially of the law-courts, to advise us what to do, and to help in doing it.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004