"statute" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Whereas 20 years ago the inventory of laws governing ethics was limited to statutes outlawing bribery, vote-buying and the like, today the ethics library is filled with codes, regulations and statutes covering a wide variety of conduct.
- Jim Shively, the United States attorney for eastern Washington, said he was still studying whether the 1855 ban, as well as an even earlier federal statute generally outlawing liquor on Indian lands, could be enforced.
- To the Editor: Thank you for your editorial condemning South Dakota's statute outlawing all abortions except those necessary to save the life of the mother ("A Warning From South Dakota," March 12).
- Worldwide, there are no reported cases or statutes specifically outlawing the lowest-unique bid auction model.
- The Twitchells' defense contended that the couple were within their First Amendment rights to treat their son's illness with prayer and that Massachusetts had recognized this right in an exemption to the statute outlawing child neglect.
- The Senate tonight stopped just short of passing a statute outlawing flag burning, legislation that many Democrats hoped would defuse the drive for a constitutional amendment to protect the flag.
- He makes an academic apologia for that slave owner when he cites Jefferson's signature on the statute outlawing the Atlantic slave trade.
- In Massachusetts and New York, agents of humane societies and associations may be appointed as special officers to enforce statutes outlawing animal cruelty.
- Ironically, Federal Judge James B. McKean's court convicted Thomas Hawkins not of polygamy but of violating an 1851 territorial statute outlawing adultery.
- As such, simply deciding that a certain statute outlawing assisted suicide was constitutional did not mean that every possible application would be likewise.
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