Sentence examples for law to act from inspiring English sources

They said the president was obligated under the law to act once the committee sent the case to him.

A mortgage broker would be required by law to act in the borrower's best interest, not his or her own interest.

They also note that Shariah courts have been set up in England, where they have the power under a 1996 law to act as arbitration tribunals in Muslim civil disputes, provided all parties agree to abide by the ruling.

But the governor has repeatedly refused to give his views of it, and he did not inform the Legislature of his conditions until Wednesday, the last day he had, by law, to act on it.

Robert H. Tembeckjian, administrator and counsel for the commission, said in a phone interview on Tuesday: "It is clearly improper for a judge who is obliged to uphold the law to act outside the courtroom in a manner that disrespects the law and takes disputes to such an extreme level.

iiNet contended that it was not required by law to act on allegations of copyright infringement; that customers were innocent until proven guilty; and that the case was comparable to suing a power company for the activities clients use electricity to engage in.

We rallied the world to pursue terrorists abroad and strengthen our laws to act against terrorists at home.... We're using intelligence and law enforcement better than ever before.

To do one's part within such a cooperative enterprise is just to obey the laws, to act as a citizen.

Each case was asked to nominate an unaffected relative (preferably first degree) to participate in the study and a friend or in-law to act as a control subject.

He did not tell the law minister to act as he did.

Mr. Navalny said he still did not expect law enforcement to act against such a senior official.