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Example sentences for: canons

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However, I am not so ignorant of the canons of journalism (and of common sense) that I would take a plausible fellow like Brian Arthur at face value without checking up on him.
Analyzed in light of these canons of interpretation, the Corporation's appropriations act requires that an alien must be "present in the United States" in order to be eligible for legal assistance.
Dodson, 454 U. S. 312, 321-322 (1981) (holding that a public defender does not act "under color of state law" because he "works under canons of professional responsibility that mandate his exercise of independent judgment on behalf of the client" and because there is an "assumption that counsel will be free of state control").
Long before the Information Age, man struggled to digest the mounds of words contained in his religious, cultural, and legal canons.
Then, ruthless urban planner Baron Haussmann swept away almost all the medieval and 17th-century structures, leaving just place Dauphine and rue Chanoinesse (ancient home of the cathedral canons) as signs of the island’s once rich residential life.