Sentence examples for explicit law from inspiring English sources

Since interrogators used such methods anyway, it was argued, passing an explicit law would at least make it possible to set out some limits.

And some experts note that there is no explicit law that prohibits companies from offering health benefits exclusively to opposite-sex spouses.

In the absence of an explicit law, the immigration service had ruled that Elian, as a 6-year-old boy, could not request an asylum hearing on his own.

The cooling mode could influence post-fire slip resistance and shear behaviors of bolted connection to a certain extent, but no explicit law was discovered, which needs further deep researches.

Chinese officials in Beijing were hostile to the elections — and particularly the characterization of them as an informal referendum — because they have long feared that Taiwan might hold a referendum on whether to declare political independence from the mainland and because Hong Kong law does not have an explicit law authorizing referendums.

As much as was reported about what Spitzer had done, and as much discussion as there was about what should be done to him (in addition to violating any number of implicit compacts, he violated at least one explicit law), there seemed to be even more discussion — in print, on TV, at dinner parties — about how Mrs. Spitzer must feel and what she should do.

To the extent that there has been a rise in extreme law-following relative to explicit law-breaking, it might look like progress.

Even some explicit laws laid down in the Koran are routinely circumvented by Islamic judges.

But many Australian state and territories do not have explicit laws requiring the reporting of child abuse complaints.

But the sorts of constraints that we considered in the earlier discussions of this concerned explicit laws.

But twenty-nine states in the nation, including West Virginia, don't have explicit laws protecting people from workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.