Sentence examples for narrow the application from inspiring English sources

The decision interpreting the Alien Tort Statute came as a relief to human rights organizations that had feared the court would accept the Bush administration's invitation to narrow the application of the 215-year-old law.

They then have to be voted on by member states, some of which are seeking to narrow the application of the 1951 United Nations Geneva Convention in the face of a flood of asylum-seekers.

Although Justice Scalia was not on the court when it struck down the death penalty in 1972 and permitted its re-imposition in 1976, he has made it clear that in his view the Constitution does not require the steps the court has insisted on to narrow the application of the death penalty through the weighing of aggravating and mitigating factors.

Although this limitation might narrow the application range, this problem could be improved by further progress of our process with optimal infiltration conditions.

It is well known that when the diameter distribution of SWCNTs is more narrow, the application values of SWCNTs are higher.

By wide margins, the court also narrowed the application of two federal money-laundering statutes and gave federal judges added discretion to show leniency in sentencing defendants for crimes involving crack cocaine.

The final wording narrowed the application of force by saying it would require the express consent of Somalia's government and should be pursued with an appropriate level of intensity.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court narrowed the application of the federal money-laundering statute on Monday, ruling for criminal defendants in two cases in which prosecutors had employed broad definitions of two of the law's major provisions.

However, Appleby dismissed the second-degree murder of Zayd Shakur, as the New Jersey Supreme Court had recently narrowed the application of the law.

Last fall, after narrowing the applications to about 275, the university began bringing groups of 50 to Abu Dhabi for long weekends, taking them to a mosque, the desert and the Emirates Palace Hotel for a resplendent dinner.

The initial HTS BCG primary hit list (see Supporting Information for more details) was narrowed after the application of a number of similarity and physicochemical property filters.