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At the dawn of the administrative age, then-professor Felix Frankfurter warned against theorizing administrative law without reference to its practice: "[h]ere we must be especially wary against the danger of premature synthesis, of sterile generalization unnourished by the realities of 'law in action.'" (19) A similar wariness is appropriate about this new chapter in administrative law, direct final rulemaking, now no longer in its infancy but still quite unnoticed.
The poem, one of the shortest in Les Fleurs, collapses under the inertia of happy memories, unnourished by the metaphysical urgency that dominate other poems, and most especially in the section "Les Fleurs du Mal," to which we now turn.
Evidence shows that many poor children go to school hungry, unnourished or suffer from malnutrition.
They "tortured" individual fact patterns "into universal molds which do not fit the infinite variety of life." (109) Prescriptive administration was "law in the making." (110) Its effectiveness would be crippled if courts imposed a "premature synthesis[] of sterile generalization unnourished by the realities of 'law in action.'" (111)
The curse that results from turning from the Lord and relying on human strength is borne by images of being dry, barren, and unnourished. A shrub in the desert, parched wilderness, and salt lands evoke a sense of futility.
"Starving," (25) read in conventional terms, suggests the unnourished earth, which is not implausible, since we are dealing with a relationship that has been starved of love.
Unnourished by such arteries, and failing to stimulate industry and enterprise, the continent's distant heartland was perceived in terms of a terrible nothingness, as if it were a moral and spiritual void, defying the vine-clad cottage, dutiful wife and vulnerable child.
The barren soul, the unnourished inner life, bears the marks of the tundra: spiritual starving threatens.
Cross College at Oxford, maintains that in every generation from the Reformation to the present there has been one, distinctive stream of Anglicanism which held to the position that religion unnourished by a historic visible church with its sacramental system could not long maintain vital spiritual life within the realm of England, that a visible church is essential to the survival of Christianity, and that bishops in the apostolic succession are necessary.
Elaine stands alone and unnourished. After the party, Charna invites her to dinner but she declines.
The fateful misuse of science and technology dictated by the Germans and Soviets in the 1930s and 1940s suggested that the fruit borne on a tree of science and unnourished by religion and human concern was bitter and malignant.