Sentence examples for apply to statements from inspiring English sources

It does not apply to statements made during confession, which remain confidential.

The trial judge rejected that defense, saying the First Amendment does not apply to statements the speaker knows to be false.

Thus, for example, the rules will apply to statements made over the telephone by someone who works in a doctor's office, regardless of whether the information is recorded in a patient's file.

There is in fact a notion of truth the minimal notion defined by the equivalence schema It is true that p if and only if p which is guaranteed to apply to statements of any kind for which there are standards of proper or correct assertion (see semantics: Meaning and truth).

For instance, to what extent does the testimonial analysis apply to statements made outside the context of law enforcement?

The relevant law, the same one under which Martha Stewart was prosecuted for lying to federal investigators, applies to statements made to government officials of any of the three branches of government.

Gibbard (2012) provides a detailed proposal for how an expressivist analysis can be applied to statements about meaning and mental content on the assumption that such statements are normative.

On his version of the correspondence theory (a more elaborated variant of (4) applied to statements), a statement as a whole is correlated to a state of affairs by arbitrary linguistic conventions without mirroring the inner structure of its correlate (cf. also Vision 2004).

In 1987 Congress adjusted the language of what has come to be known as the "Johnson Amendment" to clarify that the ban applies to statements both endorsing and opposing candidates.

That same analysis should apply to false statements about medals, he said.

The court held that the rape shield law did not apply to the statements because they were not offered as evidence of the woman's sexual history but of her intentions and Mr. Jovanovic's understanding of them.