Sentence examples for governing statute from inspiring English sources

Combined with the new International Criminal Court, whose governing statute, agreed upon in 1998 over American objections, defined the recruitment or use of children under 15 as a war crime, this new accord represents a potentially powerful instrument for combating this horrific form of exploitation.

But see id., at ___ (Kagan, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 3) (noting that the governing statute authorized both the inmate's imam and the prison's Christian chaplain to attend the execution, and that "the prison refused to give Ray a copy of its own practices and procedures" that would have clarified the two clergymen's degrees of access); Ray v. Commissioner, Ala.

That would be particularly inappropriate under a governing statute such as this one, which commits it to the Board to apply a standard of such inherent imprecision ("closely related to banking") that a discretion of almost legislative scope was necessarily contemplated.

The York County prosecutor invoked Mosaic law instead of the governing statute - the laws of PA.

In fact to be crystal clear, what the government said was, "If this consideration leads to the conclusion that repayment would impose an undue hardship, the holder should consent to, or not oppose the discharge, as authorized by the governing statute and regulations".

He added that under the museum's governing statute (the British Museum Act, 1963 - a law which the government has no plans to change) the trustees are prevented from giving away objects unless they are duplicates or unfit for keeping.

Instead, it has limited judicial responsibility to insuring consistency with governing statutes and the demands of the Constitution.

Yet they remain constrained by the bounds of their governing statutes and the confines of their long established regulatory roles.

A different qus tion would, of course, arise in a case which the Court of Military Appeals is not authorized to review under the governing statutes.

"We view this as a matter of statutory construction: Does the G.A.O. have the authority under the governing statutes to conduct this kind of investigation of the vice president and his advisers?

The attorney general's rule was not entitled to the deference the court usually gave to interpretations of governing statutes by executive branch officials, he said, because Congress had not given the attorney general the authority he was invoking.