Sentence examples for force of laws from inspiring English sources

Laws are part of the common law only if, as Hale said, "they have acquired their binding power and the force of laws by a long and immemorial usage".

The Massachusetts advisory lacks the force of laws enacted earlier this year by Minnesota and Connecticut legislators, who have banned BPA in baby bottles and other containers used by young children.

Congress can provide the force of law.

It had no force of law.

Such guidelines have no force of law.

Some of these have the force of law.

(The I.U.C.N. designations do not have the force of law).

"It's something you achieve by force of law".

But those guidelines do not hold the force of law.

But the agreements do not have the force of law.

"Regulations have the force of law," he said.