Sentence examples for could not violate from inspiring English sources

The ever-understated Mr. Coll maintained that the president could not violate a Congressional law and that torture was illegal.

The parallels are not exact – Israel, unlike Iran, never signed up to the 1968 NPT so could not violate it.

He would draw it after him, as if in obeisance to some natural law that magic could not violate, and then she would be left with nothing.

Mr. Clinton and Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, according to the administration officials, concluded that they could not violate the 50-year unwritten rule that allows Europe to fill the I.M.F.

Mr. Assad's defiance was notable partly because of efforts in recent months by Secretary of State John Kerry and other leaders of a 17-nation collaboration, known as the International Syria Support Group, to set a series of deadlines and limits that Syria could not violate.

Justice Scalia, writing for four conservatives and joined by Justice Sotomayor, held on narrow technical grounds – the tracker had been a physical invasion of the suspect's property, he wrote, and so it fell within a narrow technical category of "trespass" that the government could not violate without a warrant.

According to Abi-Habib: "I told her I had first amendment rights as a journalist she couldn't violate and I was protected under.

Still, it was a firm rule that trade interventions had to be "GATT-legal" -- that is, they couldn't violate the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

A President couldn't violate the emoluments clauses simply by owning a business that receives some foreign revenue, he went on, citing book royalties collected by President Obama as one example.

There the Court held that a Texas law shortening the time within which a defaulted land claim could be reinstated did not violate the Contract Clause.

In response to an earlier request from members of the House of Representatives, the General Accountability Office concluded last week that NASA study groups looking into how the proposed policy could be carried out did not violate the Congressional ban on starting new programs.