During the 1990s, the rising price of football players seemed like a law of nature.

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"Specialization is a law of nature, " says Robert Tibbs, a neurosurgeon and part-owner of the Oklahoma Spine Hospital.

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Indeed, violence isn't so much the choice of free moral agents as a law of nature that flows as predictably from certain circumstances as rivers flow to the sea.

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The discriminatory nature of the law does a great disservice to American consumers of tuna.

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Other theorists, such as Georgi Dvali of New York University and Joao Magueijo of Imperial College, London, say a changing alpha might come from a hitherto unknown force of nature that could modify the law of gravity.

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Karen Steinhauser, a criminal-defense lawyer and former prosecutor in the Denver District Attorney's Office, said the state often files multiple murder charges if the nature of a crime matches more than one definition under state law.

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"It is a messy inquiry, but that's the nature of this area of the law, " said Leahey, who said he took the case because he is a graduate of Brooklyn College, where Seidemann teaches.

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Barrister Guy Tritton also questioned the nature of the letters sent by ACS: Law, asking why it described MediaCAT as a "copyright protection society" - a title that he said was "misleading".

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Natural law, that is, the extrapolation from nature of laws for human society, has at times been a compelling idea.

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As the incident was of a similar nature to a breach ITV made in 2011 when Amanda Holden gave undue prominence to a group of law firms on This Morning, Ofcom said it expected ITV to "take further steps to ensure compliance in this area".

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