Sentence examples for few statutes from inspiring English sources

"Few statutes censor today," he said.

Because the law administered by all except the local courts is based on English common law, decisions of the higher British courts are of persuasive value; in fact, a few statutes of the British Parliament that were declared by ordinance (decree) to apply to Zambia are in force so far as circumstances permit.

Legislation enacted in 2007 in an effort to harmonize treaty standards on civil and political rights (ICCPR Act) gives statutory recognition to the principal of prioritising and safeguarding the "best interests of the child", that was recognized in some jurisprudence and a few statutes.

(In a few jurisdictions statutes compel the same result).

Since then, two major cases have tested the application of the state law, one of only a few such statutes in the nation.

In truth, the government was in a complicated position: under the Privacy Protection Act of 1980, search warrants against members of the media are not permitted at all unless there is probable cause to suspect a journalist of violating the Espionage Act (or one of a few other statutes).

In an astute analysis entitled "The Ghosts of 1993" and published on his much acclaimed website fivethirtyeight.com, Nate Silver asks, "What high-profile policy change has the support of 75percentt of the American public, and could be implemented by changing a very few simple statutes at essentially no cost to the American taxpayer?" You've got it.

44 Although all but two countries, Somalia and the USA, have ratified the Convention, many have not yet drafted legislation on the health and welfare of children, and few have statutes supporting the rights of women to nurse their infants at their workplace.

Also, there are fewer general statutes providing for blanket authorization of condemnation for particular purposes (such as highways) than there are in the United States, and more often there is a requirement that expropriation of each particular parcel be authorized by the Parliament.

IN the mid-1980s, when I was in college, what concerned and frustrated my peers and me was how few states had basic statutes forbidding discrimination against gay men and lesbians: laws that merely prevented someone from being denied a job or apartment on the basis of whom he or she loved.

"I started out in environmental government, in Indiana, and we had a few very weak statutes.