Sentence examples for american statute from inspiring English sources

And this tension has to be resolved, one way or another (the relevant American statute dates from 1986).

Supporters of the law in Russia compare it to an American statute, the Foreign Agents Registration, which seems to shed light on lobbying of the United States government by foreign countries.

The first American statute removing the disability of interested nonparty witnesses seems to have been Michigan's in 1846, and Connecticut was first to abolish the general incapacity of parties in 1849.

On June 21 , 2001 just before the American statute of limitations would have expired, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., returned a 46-count indictment charging 13 Saudis and an unidentified Lebanese chemist with murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction for their part in the bombing.

With respect to those works the American statute produces an extended term of 95 years [537 U.S. 258] while comparable European rights in "for hire" works last for periods that vary from 50 years to 70 years to life plus 70 years.

The Congress party leader was targeted by the same American lawyer, under the same American statute, charged in relation to an anti-Sikh massacre in Delhi in 1984 - until that case was dismissed earlier this year.

The same appears to be true of the American statutes that attempted to broaden potential liability.

Contemporary commercial disputes also cross borders, and the Justices rely on foreign and international law, as well as on American statutes, to adjudicate them.

In a huge victory for environmentalists, the panel said the American statutes posed no problem under the 1995 global trade accord, which authorizes countries to establish such safeguards.

It is thus apparent that at common law, at the time of the adoption of our Constitution, and throughout the major portion of the 19th century, abortion was viewed with less disfavor than under most American statutes currently in effect.

Lindgren identifies early English statutes and cases to support his contention that official extortion did not require a coercive taking, nor did it under the early American statutes, including the later New York statute.