Sentence examples for control statute from inspiring English sources

So, in 1961, the executive director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, Estelle Griswold, began a legal battle to overturn the state's anti-birth control statute.

In Connecticut, which was, in 1963, one of the most Catholic states in the nation, the state was actually willing to try and enforce their anti-birth control statute (the 1879 Comstock Act).

It was a nice bit of timing that the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the Illinois gun control statute right in between the shooting at an Oregon mall and the massacre in Connecticut.

The local law, which dates to 1976, is generally regarded as the strictest gun-control statute in the country.

He once explained his disaffection thus: "I was brought up to believe that when you were elected to parliament, you were elected to control the statute book, the purse and the sword.

Such reviews are fully consistent with the Superfund law, the controlling federal statute in this case, and are appropriate as long as they are not used as a phony pretext to delay or scuttle the plan.

The Chief Justice of a neighboring State once said that lawyers were bound to control the Statutes in their interest.

Generally, the election of Diet members is controlled by statutes passed by the Diet.

But I have sat in a commons that has abandoned control of the statute book to Brussels, control of the sword to the White House and the purse to the IMF".

As we noted, before United Technologies can acquire Diebold in an unsolicited offer, it must gain pre-approval of a Diebold's shareholders under Ohio's antitakeover control share acquisition statute.

It effectively disenfranchises from voting at the special meeting for purposes of the control share acquisition statute any shareholder who now acquires a block of shares constituting more than 0.5percentpercentnt of Diebold.