law of gravity
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflawandgravity
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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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gravity
noun[U]
uk/ˈɡræv.ə.ti/us/ˈɡræv.ə.t̬i/
the force that attracts objects towards one another, especially the force that makes things fall to ...
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(Definition oflawandgravityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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That was because he despised thelawofgravity.
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With a deft swivel of their joy sticks, thelawofgravityis reversed and taxes appear to be falling, even as they are soaring upwards.
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Surely it is better to suggest to the driver that he should change his course before thelawofgravitytakes the decision out of his hands.
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Or with thelawofgravity?
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Thelawofgravityalso involves only vectors and is also, therefore, invariant under parity.
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The former are benign natural relationships that affect all humans equally-all humans, for example, are "dependent" on thelawofgravity.
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Could there be the equivalent of such grand deductive theories aslawofgravity, relativity and evolution in the bioinformatics of genes and neurons?
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Political economy showed how society was governed by natural, immutable laws comparable to thelawofgravity.
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These are eminently reasonable suggestions which avoid both empiricist and relativist/constructivist excesses, emphasize the centrality of critical awareness and re-establish rule of law, at least thelawofgravity.
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Their enemies are not simply the sharp, pervasive dusts, but the very elements and, indeed, thelawofgravityat its most pitiless.
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That law is as ineluctable as thelawofgravity.
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To say that such a splendid response was entirely beyond expectation is like saying one does not know of thelawofgravity.
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I suggest that they are plummeting and obeying thelawofgravity.
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He would not be breaking thelawofgravity: he would only prove it.
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It wants to defy the laws of economics, and probably thelawofgravitytoo.
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In fact, thelawofgravityin relation to prices no longer operates.
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It seems to me that to suggest that four to one against is a delicate balance is defying thelawofgravity.
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The laws that govern political actions are quite as imperative as thelawofgravity.
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We fly in aircraft only because we have devised an efficient means of defying thelawofgravityby the laws of aerodynamics.
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That is just as much an axiom as thelawofgravityis an axiom.
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