Sentence examples for existing law for from inspiring English sources

We cannot abandon existing law for a promise.

To Mr. Jeffords, the notion of exchanging existing law for a diaphanous promise represented a "devastating defeat for public health and our environment".

Instead, officials proposed essentially extending the existing law for 18 months and finding a short-term way to pay for highway and transit projects.

Mr. Skeel said it was possible to envision how bankruptcy for states might work by looking at the existing law for local governments.

But nothing in the bill would prevent law enforcement from doing its job or change exceptions in existing law for acting without a warrant in emergencies, when time is of the essence.

Brady C. Williamson, a lawyer in Madison, Wis., who was chairman of the nonpartisan commission that reviewed the existing law for the United States Supreme Court, said the operating premise of proponents of the new law is that the system is filled with people who are able to pay their debts and choose not to.

Existing laws for co-operatives and mutual companies are inadequate.

Brandis sought to allay the concerns, saying journalists were "not the target of these laws" and the provisions were similar to existing laws for Australian Federal Police "controlled operations".

In most other states, driver fatigue can be prosecuted under broader, existing laws for reckless or negligent behavior, legal experts said.

So if history shows that proposed anti-price-gouging legislation has fallen flat on its face, and if two federal agencies have said they haven't found any evidence of price gouging by oil and natural gas companies, and no one has been prosecuted under existing laws for price fixing, then why the new legislation?

But there is already a provision in the existing law to allow for extension beyond 28 days with tighter judicial oversight in those "exceptional circumstances".