Sentence examples for law asserting from inspiring English sources

Citizens United challenged the law, asserting that its right to freedom of speech was violated.

Last Wednesday a clause was inserted in the law asserting that the beneficiaries of the bill were victims of "armed conflict".

If Cameron presents a symbolic law asserting parliament's sovereignty over knavish foreign laws, Johnson will bask in the recognition that he advocated the idea first.

They also called on the supreme court to clarify the law, asserting that reporter's privilege is "a matter of the highest importance as to which there is ongoing and irreconcilable disagreement in the lower courts".

Muslim Driving School 10pm, BBC2 British Muslim women are increasingly taking advantage of the parity they enjoy under UK law, asserting their independence by getting behind the driving wheel – and thus treading on taboos.

It asks why the American statement chose "to turn a blind eye" to what China sees as provocations by (unnamed) other countries.This is a reference to Vietnam's adoption of a maritime law asserting its territorial claims, and to recent disputes with it and the Philippines over fishing and the opening of disputed waters to oil and gas exploration.

Opponents to the early publication law asserted that inventors would be vulnerable to copycats and infringers before they had won patent protection.

More precisely, the law asserted that the sum of all excess supplies, evaluated at market prices, must be identically equal to the sum of the market values of all excess demands.

The first law asserts that if heat is recognized as a form of energy, then the total energy of a system plus its surroundings is conserved; in other words, the total energy of the universe remains constant.

The Cleveland suit, filed Thursday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court under the state's public nuisance law, asserts that the financial institutions created nuisances across broad swaths of Cleveland because their loans led to widespread abandonment of homes.

The First Law asserts that bodies not acted upon by an external force will move with constant velocity; similarly for the Second Law and acceleration.