Sentence examples for actual statutes from inspiring English sources

Among those barred by various laws over the years — the language is from the actual statutes — were convicts, prostitutes, lunatics, idiots, paupers, polygamists, epileptics, professional beggars, anarchists, imbeciles and tuberculars.

When investigating hate crimes, Mulvaney sometimes found people complaining about police inattention when they'd been taunted and harassed in a way that didn't violate any actual statutes.

Before anyone utters a peep anent an opinion on this matter, it is imperative that you read the actual statute that The Skipster was alleged to have contravened.

And they have refused to recite any actual codified statute that gives them legal authority to keep my property.

"While we appreciate your desire to revise the statute to reflect your expansive vision of it, the fact is that we must work with the actual language of the statute, not the aspirational version" that the F.B.I. had provided.

DNA testing also identified the actual rapist, though a statute of limitations prevents his prosecution; Ms. Gaertner declined to identify the man, but said she would try to force his registration as a sex offender.

Professor Grundfest argues that the statute on which most securities fraud is based — Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act — was intended by Congress to mean actual reliance because the statute is similar to another one in the Exchange Act that does specifically state such reliance is required.

A third way, followed notably by the United States in its Fair Labor Standards Act since 1938, has been to specify by statute the actual minimum wage applicable to wide categories of employment the amount set being such that only a relatively small number of workers, namely the lowest paid, are immediately affected.

Among those factors were the poor fit between that purported purpose and the actual language of the statute, the singling out of evolution for special treatment, the long history of religious opposition to evolution, and statements from the law's sponsors indicating an intent to promote religion.

While this was a problem that needed correcting, the actual motivation of the Statute was not to do so, but instead to bolster the finances of Henry VIII.

I recently learned that report card grades for gym cannot be pass/ fail -- they must be actual grades, according to state statute.