Sentence examples for every statute from inspiring English sources

And virtually every statute reflects a bundle of political deals.

But over-complex language is only one worry in a process where every statute and constitutional amendment interacts with every other to shape policy in this huge state.

"The government has every statute it needs to stop the bad guys, and when they don't, I think they are just playing politics," he said.

The first would be to comb through the entire U.S. Code, identifying and amending every statute potentially affected by the implementation of new computer and telecommunications technologies.

"Every single statute that bears on marriage is being amended to include homosexual pairings," the group's national affairs director, Peter Stock, said in a statement.

In the fearful aftermath of Sept. 11, Attorney General John Ashcroft vowed to use the full might of the federal government and "every available statute" to hunt down and punish "the terrorists among us".

I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.

"But to potentially change every criminal statute that's on the books -- that just makes no sense and it's dangerous".

I reached the conclusion that every criminal-obscenity statute — and most obscenity laws are criminal — was necessarily unconstitutional, because it was impossible, from the statute, to define obscenity.

Decided in 1972, it struck down every death penalty statute in the nation as then practiced without outlawing the death penalty itself.

While sovereignty might theoretically have returned to the UK, it would be meaningless unless every EU-derived statute was reviewed and a decision taken about whether it should be replaced with home-grown legislation.