by law

基本解释

These problems cannot be solved by laws alone.
这些问题只通过法律是不能解决的。
The EU may be a multinational body bound together by laws and treaties.
欧盟可能是个由法律和条约联结起来的跨国组织。
Clinics had feared men would be put off by laws brought in six years ago that allowed children of donors to trace their biological fathers.
六年前出台的一项法律允许捐赠者的孩子追溯他们的生父，一些诊所担忧捐赠者可能会遭到阻挠。

Is there any question that, by the laws of war, property -- both of enemies and friends may be taken when needed.
This was, again, the thesis of the classical republicans according to which we are only fully human, or we only become fully human, when we are engaged in political life, in ruling ourselves by laws of our own making.
这再一次印证了典型共和派的的宗旨,根据于我们是完全的人，我们要变成完全的人，当我们被牵扯到政治生活中，我们用我们自己制造的法律来统治自己。
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The dietary laws are presented by the priests not as a sensible way to avoid various diseases that are caused by the lack of refrigeration in the desert.
饮食教规并不是被祭司们,并不是作为一个规避疾病的方法出现的,这些疾病是由于沙漠地区缺水造成的。
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Washington operates by customs and behavioral norms as much as it does by laws and parliamentary rules.
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