Sentence examples for law tailored from inspiring English sources

Prosecutors built their case largely on hearsay thanks to a new law, dubbed Drew's Law, tailored to the case.

Because they would be used mostly for electronic surveillance, they were given special status under a 2006 law tailored for forensic work that grants civilians some police powers but forbids them to make arrests or carry guns.

Laws tailored for the momentary need always look terrible in hindsight.

But countries that want to clamp down on tax evasion, protect their national language, or deter such foreign customs as forced marriage, should do so through specific laws tailored to these ends, rather than relying on the symbolic power of citizenship.

"The electoral law is tailored to ensure the new parliament is exclusively for wealthy, Muslim men," said Abdulrahman.

Rather, the Vermont law restricts tailored efforts to market drugs to doctors aided by databases showing what medicines they have been prescribing.

It was the first case in Illinois history to permit the use of hearsay evidence, based on a 2008 state law specifically tailored to Mr. Peterson's case.

This is because privacy law is tailored to questions of whether one is in public an open field or in a space where one has a "reasonable expectation of privacy".

While victims of assault can always sue under broadly worded civil statutes, the thinking behind the Illinois legislation is that a law specifically tailored to particular kinds of victims gives them a better chance of prevailing at trial.

In upholding the law, the court ruled that the United States Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, which struck down bans on campaign spending by corporations and unions, did not apply because the Montana law was tailored to meet a compelling state interest and any burden on speech was minimal.

The breadth of the resulting provisions raises serious questions as to whether the law is tailored to address an appropriately narrow class of security threats.