Sentence examples for interpret law from inspiring English sources

It's the executive branch job to interpret law".

Since that time, the mujtahids (i.e., the Shīʿite divines) have been able to interpret law and doctrine under the putative guidance of the imam, who will return toward the end of time to fill the world with truth and justice.

Judges, the President says, should interpret law, not make it; but as the Supreme Court ruled earlier this week, his lawyers' "Baby Doe" regulations wildly exceeded anything ever authorized by Congress.

That is an agency assuming the power of the entire government -- to make, enforce, and interpret law.

And courts, whose job it is to interpret law, have long known this and still accepted — even encouraged — Title II regulation.

On such an approach, then, once courts establish what the settled law is, they should then interpret law in applying it to a new case such that their decision is in accord with the most coherent account which justifies that settled law.

Then the courts can interpret laws properly.

Agencies can interpret laws but they can't rewrite them, he said.

Using legislative history to interpret laws once risked tiptoeing over the hot coals of his scorn.

The efforts are complicated by the many ways people interpret laws governing redistricting.

• To the Editor: Adam Freedman does well to remind us of the hazards of using punctuation to interpret laws.