Sentence examples for law standing from inspiring English sources

The protesters, Mr. Mokbel argued, are the ones defending the rule of law, standing up for their right to peaceful expression.

The Ohio Supreme Court invoked both the Federal Constitution and the Ohio Constitution without clearly indicating whether state law, standing alone, independently justified the court's rule.

The court agreed to hear appeals from a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, which struck down the individual mandate to buy health insurance but left other parts of the law standing.

There appears to be a tendency to interpret this requirement more strictly in German than in French law and its derivatives, with the common law standing somewhere in between.

Greve, Michael S. (1989) "The Non-Reformation of Administrative Law: Standing to Sue and Public Interest Litigation in West German Environmental Law, Cornell International Law Journall: Vol. 22 : No. 2, Article 2.

Eager to regain favor with conservatives as he considers running for president, Mr. Rubio has fully embraced Mr. Cruz's effort to block financing for the new health care law, standing with him at news conferences and through procedural maneuvers that led to the shutdown.

I do recall my father-in-law standing up and rubbing his back.

One morning I walked into the kitchen and found my son-in-law standing frozen in front of the TV.

But there they were, Tara and Natalie, my fiancée and her sister-in-law, standing in the bathroom doorway, chatting.

After we (mostly) won this case, I started rereading much of the constitutional history that I studied at Duke, and I discovered a dark past riddled with decisions striking down child-labor laws, standing with white supremacists, and holding that women could be sterilized against their will.

An official anticipating stretching the law ranks alternatives by precedent, punishment as specified in the law and standing as to who can claim a violation of the law.