Sentence examples for federal purpose from inspiring English sources

There are more than 100 federal surface transportation programs, many of which are duplicative or do not serve a federal purpose.

Five transgender soldiers are suing the president and other top officials for not only violating equal protection and due process rights but also "lacking rational basis" and serving no federal purpose.

"The federal courts would have more work to do in deciding how such cases would be handled for federal purposes".

The Defense of Marriage Act defined marriage for federal purposes as the union of a man and woman.

A "farm," for state and federal purposes, includes "any agricultural operation that produces or sells over $1,000 worth of product".

Romansh, the standard language of Graubünden canton, has been a national language in Switzerland, used for cantonal but not federal purposes, since 1938.

Judge Tauro struck down the section of the law that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman for all federal purposes.

At another point, he disagreed with the lawyer's contention that the law simply creates a single definition for federal purposes.

But if they were talking about marriage law, the status quo there was for "the federal government to recognize for federal purposes, any marriage declared valid according to state law".

This final kind of license would have a lower fee than the other licenses, would be demarcated "not valid for federal purposes," or some similar designation, and could not be used to board planes or cross borders.

The lawsuit before the Supreme Court, set to be heard on March 27, seeks to strike down the section of DOMA that defines marriage for federal purposes as the union of a husband and a wife.