Sentence examples for exempted from giving from inspiring English sources

Selig, and other M.L.B. officials, were exempted from giving depositions in the case, and presumably from testifying in court, by Judge Gross.

"It shows how vital evidence was hidden from public scrutiny, how the Royal Family were exempted from giving evidence and how journalists, particularly those working for the British media, systematically misreported what was happening".

Of course other issues matter too; but if you hate the war, you must surely now be seriously disenchanted with the warrior.Mr Brown was initially exempted from giving evidence to the inquiry before the general election, on the grounds that his appearance would "politicise" the process.

The bill would also require employers to offer their workers paid sick days, make more white-collar workers eligible for overtime pay that they're currently exempted from, and give more workers the right to join a union.

A Bloomberg spokesman, Andrew Brent, echoed those ideas, saying, "As a matter of equity, it was important to us throughout the negotiations that the Yankees were not exempted from such gives or treated any differently than other teams".

Extraordinary circumstances, which would exempt airlines from giving air passengers the help and support they are normally entitled to, should be limited to clearly defined events that are outside the airline's control, such as bad weather.

He had tried to claim he should be exempt from giving evidence for fear of incriminating himself.

The real clincher is that the UK is exempt from giving Turkey even that visa-free access, it only applies to some other countries in the EU.

The support of the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, may also be jeopardised by the fact that the tobacco industry in his home state of Kentucky has been exempted from controversial rules giving multinationals more legal authority over national regulators.

Justice Byron White wrote, in a 5-4 opinion, that the First Amendment does not exempt reporters from giving evidence in criminal cases.

Notably, companies governed under this category only need to produce two years of audited financial statements when filing for an IPO (normal rules require three years); they are exempted from Dodd-Frank rules giving shareholders a non-binding vote on executive compensation; and are freed from the requirement of hiring an outside auditing firm to check internal financial controls.