Sentence examples for large statute from inspiring English sources

By throwing a large statute book at a defendant, the prosecutor can blackmail the culprit (or an innocent person) into a plea bargain.

A large paper mache statute of Ruff Ruffman stands amid a sea of open cubicles.

THE SUPREME COURT struck down an unusually large number of statutes this term.

The three artists want to take the head of the first dismantled Lenin monument, dip it in gold, attach it to a Cuban-link chain, and hang the entire artwork on the largest remaining Lenin statute.

It is estimated the act, which has 1,300 sections, is the largest to hit the statute books.

And sure enough, the Cabinet Office has put statutes as large as the Health and Safety at Work Act, the Sale of Goods Act, the Climate Change Act and the Wildlife and Countryside Act on the table.

My difficulty in coming out wholeheartedly for private-sector unions as they now exist is that they are, by and large, creatures of objectionable statutes which have badly warped the labour-capital power dynamic that would exist under the unionism of free association.Progressives and libertarians generally part ways on the justifiability of legislation that boosts the bargaining power of unions.

Richard Peters, ed., Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, vol. 2, (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1845), 45. 11.

8. George P. Sanger, ed., The Statutes at Large, Treaties, and Proclamations of the United States of America, vol. 12, 37th Cong., 2nd Sess., (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1863), 595.

This is the law that created the Food and Drug Administration FDAA) which required that the FDA approve drugs intended for human consumption, that certain drugs be available only by prescription, and that drugs that were habit forming needed to be labeled as such (Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, United States Statutes at Large (59th Cong., Sess. I, Chp. 3915, p. 768 772)).

Finally, while pronounced "management employee" power differences are manifest in all workplace settings, the right to be informed and involved in addressing relevant health determinants, especially through bipartite management-worker occupational health and safety (OHS) committees, is guaranteed by statute in a large number of jurisdictions worldwide [ 27].