Sentence examples for based on a law from inspiring English sources

Similar cases have failed, but the DoJ's complaint is based on a law passed in 1989 in response to the savings-and-loans crisis.

At issue in the case was a ban on same-sex marriage based on a law enacted in 1977 and a statewide initiative approved by voters in 2000.

The government had also resorted, controversially, to an emergency decree, based on a law of 1955 (at the time of the Algerian war), to permit the imposition of local curfews.

The second limitation on the types of crystal structure that can be adopted by ionically bonded atoms is based on a law of physics that the crystal must remain electrically neutral.

The ban on same-sex marriage was based on a law enacted in 1977 and a statewide initiative approved by the voters in 2000, both defining marriage as limited to unions between a man and a woman.

The new federal transportation security agency is supposed to begin overseeing airport screening, based on a law enacted in November, and will hire the screeners and appoint airport security directors.

Gen Prayuth claimed his decision to impose martial law was based on a 1914 law, from a time when the country was an absolute monarchy.

In view of the current law (which is based on a British law from 1861 [ 33], now considerably amended in the UK), active management of this case (e.g. medical termination of pregnancy using misoprostol) could have been illegal.

"Those appointments were made based on a faulty law," the prime minister, Beata Szydło, said.

The request was based on a 1913 law that requires depositions in antitrust cases to be made public.

The deliberations to expel him from the Senate are based on a 2012 law that bars anyone with such a conviction from holding public office for several years.