Sentence examples for law constituted from inspiring English sources

The United States Supreme Court ruled that Georgia's death penalty law constituted "cruel and unusual punishment," which violated the Constitution because of the arbitrary manner in which it was imposed.

Mr. Oliver's lawyer said the law constituted cruel and unusual punishment and amounted to double jeopardy.

The complaint alleged an actual occurrence which under the law constituted a prima facie offense—possession of narcotics.

Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst's mantra more than a century ago recognised that the law constituted one of the greatest obstacles to women's rights.

The Florida civil liberties group sued the state last year, arguing that the law constituted an "unreasonable search" by the government, a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

From the beginning of the colonization of the Americas, Castilian law constituted the basic private law in the colonies, but, because special conditions prevailed there, the Spanish crown legislated specifically for the Indies (America), in the area of public law.

This law constitutes a massive alteration of the constitutional balance of power between the federal government and the states, and strikes at the heart of American federalism.

PM No. EU-related law constitutes more than one-sixth of our statutes.

The law constitutes "classic prior restraint on speech," said Ann Beeson, staff lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union.

Florida's law constitutes several huge steps backward in the fight for equality, and not just for the United States.

The model developed here disputes the claim that labor and employment law constitute distinct - and inimical - regulatory regimes.