Sentence examples for modifying the law from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rossi late Friday proposed modifying the law so that smaller producers would pay fixed taxes of 30percentt or 35percentt depending on their production.

However, for homeowners whose mortgages are deeply underwater, our proposal might require modifying the law to enable Fannie Mae and the other agencies to float bonds backed by the new mortgages.

"We need to really focus on modifying the law so we could maybe include this as a day for education and not a day off for two boroughs," said Mr. Walcott, who oversees city education policy and whose boss, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, has been known to complain that public school students do not spend enough time in class.

Fifty-nine percent of Democrats surveyed and 58percentt of Republicans surveyed strongly agreed with modifying the law.

One legal theorist who adopts exactly this approach, and so views interpretation in legal reasoning as 'straddling the divide' between identifying existing law, and developing and modifying the law, is Joseph Raz (see Raz 1996a and 1996b).

In order to interpret an action as one of creating or modifying the law, it is necessary to show that the relevant legal significance of the act/event is conferred on it by some other legal norm.

There have been several controversial proposals to obviate the need for these enigmatic forms of matter and energy, by modifying the laws governing gravity and the dynamics of cosmic expansion, for example modified Newtonian dynamics.

President Vladimir Putin has modified the law.

The court gave the Illinois legislature six months to modify the law.

I didn't expect the court to lift the ban, but I hoped they would modify the law.

Congress should modify the law to give prisoners themselves the right to seek compassionate release from a court.