Sentence examples for against statutes from inspiring English sources

The Universities Committee, which last met in 1995, considers Petitions against statutes made by Oxford and Cambridge Universities and their colleges.

As a result they have bumped up against statute of limitations that prevent prosecutions after a certain time limit.

True, a charter requires legislation (albeit of just a single clause) – hence the resistance from those against statute of any kind.

And as Marci Hamilton, a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, has written, bishops "publicly rail against statute of limitation reform as though it were the equivalent of mandatory abortion".

Government interference in soccer is against FIFA statutes, yet the British sports minister, Hugh Robertson, threatens to impose financial regulation on the football industry, and on its foreign investors.

Victims' organizations will try to get the bishops to agree to lobby against the statutes of limitations that in many states make it difficult to file lawsuits and to bring abusers to justice.

Only then can the best argument against these statutes be properly framed: In the long-term, they will undermine the physician-patient relationship by making the doctor the mouthpiece of the state.

"My office has a duty to defend our statutes against constitutional challenges -- as we will do against the legal action filed today," he said.

But the government was running up against the statute of limitations.

Yesterday, a judge threw out a lawsuit brought by Amazon against a statute that would make its online sales subject to the New York state sales tax.

Protest letters against the statute have also been sent to the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, by the World Jewish Congress and a US Congress taskforce on antisemitism.