Sentence examples for law hold from inspiring English sources

The current downturn could be the first serious test of how well the changes brought about by the 1996 law hold up under sharp economic stress.

In May, Mr. Obama directed Mr. Hagel and Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to develop a process that would improve enforcement of the law, hold violators accountable and protect victims.

It is unsettling that she is the only justice to insist that the law hold the line on its definition of exigent circumstances so that our "officers are under the law," as Justice Robert Jackson once put it.

The obligations enshrined in international law hold no purchase in the country: six times as many schools were attacked over the 30 days to 16 November as the month before.

For example, all systems of law hold that a person can be guilty of homicide only if he or she has caused another's death.

Many standard accounts of the nature of law hold that law presumes and reflects a world-view in which the goal is to achieve a set of presumptively coherent propositions.

Nothing in international law holds governments accountable for such harms.

For Mayor Ebrard signing the marriage law holds some risk.

In his sentencing, Justice Carro said the law held police officers to a different standard.

You consider bolting, but your brother's law holds you in place.

America's fundamental law holds competing elements, some constraining the national government, others energizing it.