Sentence examples for legally extended from inspiring English sources

-- Certain benefits should be accorded to same-sex partners and families of gay servicemembers, although full benefits cannot be legally extended because of the Defense of Marriage Act.

It took more than a century, but the vote was legally extended to all white men, regardless of land ownership, then to former male slaves, women, all Native Americans, all people of Asian ancestry, and those aged 18 and older.

In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that statutes protecting the ability of individual contributors to fund political broadcasts legally extended to corporations, because campaign finance laws could not deny free speech rights based on the type of entity claiming such rights.

But it says it cannot legally extend the experiment beyond December if it is not budget neutral.

Dan Livingston, the coalition's chief negotiator, said that the state could not legally extend the offer without union approval.

And it is not clear whether an executive order could legally extend to the county level and cut off the party chairmen; one administration official said different lawyers had given different answers.

Workers had a legal right to picket, to persuade others to show solidarity by not working themselves, but that did not legally extend to intimidating people or physically stopping vehicles.

Mr. Schwarz, who was the city's corporation counsel and chairman of a charter revision commission during the Koch administration, said over the weekend that he believed the charter empowered the City Council to legally extend the two-term limit approved twice by voters without another referendum.

And, as we first reported in February, San Francisco may be the only city in the United States that can legally extend this payroll tax to stock options.

GA maps the land masses below the ocean's surface through basic geological work and seismic and bathymetric analysis (measuring water depth at various places in a body of water) to better define and legally extend Australia's continental shelf for a submission to the United Nations under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

A DoD working group that studied the issues involved with repealing DADT pointed this out, and the Secretary of Defense has known for over a year exactly what benefits they can legally extend.