Sentence examples similar to legally observed from inspiring English sources

Legally, as Anatole France observed, the starving may not filch even bread.

The federal guidelines -- which are not legally binding but have long been observed by federal prosecutors in both Republican and Democratic administrations -- provide for such subpoenas when the information sought is essential to the investigation of a suspected crime.

Under the law, the New Guidelines have become legally binding as the minimum standards to be observed.

Heist was eventually declared legally dead, while her ex-husband and children observed her birthdays and anniversaries in remembrance.

The study subjects were observed from the first day they could legally pick up their handgun 15 days after they made the purchase, at the time the study started to the end of 1991.

But, he went on, "corporate formalities were observed" and the fund and its adviser "remain legally separate entities".

A contract signed with a powerful person in Mexico may not be a legally enforceable document, one member of Mexico's business elite observed.

Tocqueville observed in the early 19th century that primogeniture was not legally institutionalized in America, sparing the country the establishment of a permanent landed aristocracy.

That means that if citizens of A are killed during operations against hostile forces F, nation B is not legally in the wrong (if the general rules of due care, proportionality etc are observed).

He certainly welcomed the prescriptions to take away the nausea of his chemo, but, he observed, "Personally, I never wanted to have to wait until I had cancer before I could legally smoke".

Well observed.