Sentence examples for application of the statute from inspiring English sources

It was the first application of the statute to defendants not charged with selling or trafficking in drugs.

He said there was a "substantial body of case law indicating that there is no constitutional impediment to detention of grand jury witnesses, and the unquestioned application of the statute to grand jury witnesses over a period of decades".

"This is the break-in period for the new law," Mr. Borgsmiller said, adding that the exact application of the statute would depend on election board rulings on specific cases that could arise.

But he rejected the administration's attempt to narrow the scope of the law and said the application of the statute, which was passed in 1789, should be guided by international norms with "definite content and acceptance among civilised nations".Fourteen of the cases before the Supreme Court this term and next concern America's relations with the rest of world.

"This is an odd application of the statute".

The defendants claimed that Medina's statement that "as matter of law that there is sufficient danger of a substantive evil that the Congress has a right to prevent to justify the application of the statute under the First Amendment of the Constitution" was erroneous, but Vinson concluded that the instructions were an appropriate interpretation of the Smith Act.

The fact that some of the supposedly deceptive statements were made in United States was not enough for the court, which said Congress had not authorized the application of that statute to crimes committed outside the United States.

244 As a result, the homicide statutes were declared unconstitutional as they applied to the plaintiffs and the application of those statutes to the plaintiffs was enjoined.

Since then, two major cases have tested the application of the state law, one of only a few such statutes in the nation.

"Application of the independent counsel statute was not adequately considered" by C.I.A. officials, the report says.

This sets off application of the business combination statute and the four-year waiting period.