Sentence examples for main law from inspiring English sources

The main law governing data mining, this has provided the administration with broad and unprecedented electronic-spying powers.

The panel plans to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the main law governing federal policy on public schools.

(I have written before about the limitations of a law called Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which is the main law that deals with Internet speech).

The European Council is, in practice, the highest incarnation of the Council of Ministers, the main law- and budget-making body, which brings together national ministers (eg, of finance, foreign affairs or agriculture).

In his State of the Union address, President Obama held out the hope of overhauling the main law outlining the federal role in public schools, a sprawling 45-year-old statute that dates to the Johnson administration.

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which was passed in 1986 and remains the main law governing access to electronic communication, requires police only to certify to a court that the information is relevant to an investigation.

The blockaders were careful to stay, in the main, law-abiding.

Anyway, any desire in Hong Kong for greater democracy will need the approval of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's main law-making body.

The issue was debated in a series of sessions that were also attended by representatives of the Ministry of Public Security, China's main law-enforcement body.

It is clearly against the spirit, though not the letter, of one of the main laws binding the agency, the 2000 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which forbids the tapping of British phones without special approval.

But these days he did.The growing idea among influential pundits that America is "ungovernable" is being driven in large part by Barack Obama's failure so far to pass some of the main laws he wants to.