Sentence examples for draft statutes from inspiring English sources

With the adoption of the United Nations Genocidee Convention, in 1948, many nations used Lemkin's language to draft statutes that expressly addressed Nazi atrocities.

For all their appeal to universal values, their draft statutes are a response to the radical Islam so many liberals and leftists have ignored or indulged.

"The agreement signed is a huge step backward," Lloyd Axworthy, a former foreign minister from Canada who helped draft statutes for the court, told reporters in Bogotá today.

The Legislature may hold hearings, debate the relevant policy considerations, weigh the testimony, and, in the event it determines a change in the law is necessary or desirable, it can then draft statutes which would most adequately meet the needs of the public in general, while balancing the interest of specific sectors.

iRobert Hooke's draft statutes (1663) of the Royal Society, quoted after Van den Daele ([1978]): 25.

The Council and the Legislature have been working together for decades to draft statutes governing corporate law, and SB 236 was a typical exercise, drafted with near-unanimous approval by the members of the Council and Senate sponsors.

In 1992 the General Assembly directed the International Law Commission to prepare a draft statute for an International Criminal Court.

This was confirmed to me by his minister of justice, who is working on the draft statute.

This agreement was particularly evident in regard to the draft statute o the Free Territory of Trieste.

The principle that the international court should complement, not supplant, national courts is key to the draft statute and is not in dispute in the United Nations negotiations.

Moreover, the "complementarity" principle in the draft statute insures that effective prosecutions within a functioning national legal system like ours will not be overridden by the court.