Sentence examples for narrow the application of 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.

The Arizona Supreme Court upheld the state's law, noting that death sentences are not sought in most first-degree murder cases, and that each of the individual factors did in fact narrow the application of capital punishment.

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.

The New Jersey Supreme Court recently narrowed the application of this law, and it would no longer apply to Mrs. Chesimard.

This is an application of the doctrine of equivalents in a restrictive role, narrowing the application of broad literal claim elements.

Subsection (c) narrows the application of subsection (a) in the case of a person serving as a special Government employee to two, and only two, situations.

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.

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.

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.