Sentence examples for chief source of legislation from inspiring English sources

Under a 1980 constitutional amendment, Islamic law was enshrined as Egypt's "chief source of legislation".

Article two says that "the principles of Islamic sharia" are the main source of legislation.

Article 2 of the draft mirrors the 1971 constitution and says "principles of Shariah are the main source of legislation".

The draft document retains a longstanding provision declaring the principles of Islamic law to be the main source of legislation.

TWENTY-SEVEN years ago, Egypt revised its secular constitution to enshrine Muslim sharia as "the principal source of legislation".

President Sadat amended the constitution to enshrine Islamic sharia as the "principal source" of legislation, which leaves matters suitably vague.

The draft keeps in place an article defining "principles of Sharia", or Islamic law, as the main source of legislation.

Sharia is "a primary source of legislation" under Article 2 of both the suspended 1973 Constitution and the 2011 Provisional Constitutional Declaration.

Corpus Juris Canonici, English Corpus of Canon Law, set of six compilations of law in the Roman Catholic Church that provided the chief source of ecclesiastical legislation from the Middle Ages until it was superseded in 1917 by the Codex Juris Canonici (Code of Canon Law).

Tourism is the chief source of income.

The chief source of unease had a name: Donald Trump.