Sentence examples for collected to lay from inspiring English sources
This article reports on two sets of data that were collected to lay the groundwork for developing an empirically based typology of corporate World Wide Web sites.
Near the very end of the decline he collected himself to lay out the case for common stocks.
On emergence, thirty pairs were collected and allowed to lay eggs for a few days.
But they were embarrassed that they hadn't collected a larger bounty to lay out on a table for the news cameras, not that they had just subjected innocent people to unnecessary violence.
It took till 1909 for Congress to win the power "to lay and collect" income taxes.
* Did the Justice feel that the mandate was constitutional because it qualifies as a tax, and thus falls under Congress's authority to "lay and collect Taxes"?
The decision was mooted (unsettled) in 1913 by ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution, giving Congress the power "to lay and collect taxes on incomes".
But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government's "power to lay and collect taxes".
The very first power the people grant their elected representatives in the Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 1) says, "The Congress shall have the power to lay, and collect, taxes, imposts and duties...."....
The decision, from a divided three-judge panel, said the mandate overstepped Congressional authority and could not be justified by the constitutional power "to regulate commerce" or "to lay and collect taxes".
The Obama administration contends that this part of the law, often called the individual mandate, can be justified by the constitutional power of Congress "to regulate commerce" and "to lay and collect taxes".
