immutable law

collocation in English

meaningsofimmutableandlaw

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immutable
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmjuː.tə.bəl/
us
/ɪˈmjuː.t̬ə.bəl/
not changing, or unable to ...
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law
noun
uk
/lɔː/
us
/lɑː/
a rule, usually made by a government, that is used to order the way in which a ...
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(Definition ofimmutableandlawfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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No longer an icon ofimmutablelawand harmony, it seemed bizarre and dissonant, knocked from its theoretical, pedagogical and symbolic pride of place.
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Counterpoint and the strict style did not necessarily symbolizeimmutablelaw.
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Yet there is noimmutablelawof nature that decrees that such children are less academically gifted than any other group in the country.
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This is not animmutablelawof nature which nobody can change.
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There is noimmutablelawthat says that poverty shall exist in our regions.
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There is noimmutablelawas to who should pay for archaeological investigations, and nor should there be.
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There is noimmutablelawthat the more one spends the more one gets.
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I have always been rather sceptical about the old-fashioned theory that commerce is predestined, by someimmutablelawof nature, to undergo these alternations of prosperity and depression.
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In the production of food, if you give an extra dose of capital or an extra dose of labour, you are up against theimmutablelawof diminishing returns.
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Cash limits are not someimmutablelaw.
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That the new emerges victorious and the old perishes is animmutablelawof historical development.
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Political economy showed how society was governed by natural, immutable laws comparable to the law of gravity.
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In short, kinship politics and western values are not fixed, immutable laws.
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It is the circuit bench where the immutable laws of economics have started to have their erosive incidence.
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No one expected that scheme to be perfect from the beginning, or that its provisions would become immutable laws of the country.
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It seems to run counter to the immutable laws of arithmetic.
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We have all been brought up to believe that one of the immutable laws of nature is the law of supply and demand.
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There are obviously no immutable laws of economics.
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It is one of the immutable laws that nations, as well as individuals, reap what they have sown.
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Agriculture is not merely an industry, it is an art, because the people who work at it have got to study and understand the immutable laws of nature.
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