Sentence examples for narrower statute from inspiring English sources

The judge did not charge Mr. Sarzoky with illegal campaign financing, which has a narrower statute of limitations.

Their views are part of a deep commitment to the European Convention on Human Rights, which became law in Britain in 1998, but which the Conservatives, in the election that brought them to power last week, said they would replace with a narrower statute less invasive of the rights of British courts.

In 1984, Congress passed the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a narrow statute to curb computer hacking, when hacking was so novel that criminal laws did not really address it.

The act was born, in 1984, as a narrow statute enacted for the reasonable goal of combating malicious hackers: people who break into computer systems and steal valuable data (like credit-card numbers) or do real economic damage.

"We believe the issues raised by the Apple case are too important to rely on a narrow statute from a different technological era to fill the government's perceived gap in current law.

The effect is to greatly narrow the statute's reach.

We hope it narrows the statute's scope, carefully sorting through what kinds of assistance are protected speech, and what are the sorts of aid the government can properly prohibit.

In an interview, she said it appeared that "the court was not willing to send the case back to Congress again," and so "narrowed the statute in order to save it".

It recently revised its narrow securities statute into a broad state consumer protection law that allows regulators to shut down boiler rooms without first trying to figure whether what they are selling is a security.

But Mr. Bush's proposals threaten to do just that, suspending or narrowing important statutes that require environmental review of logging projects and provide for citizen appeals.

The Virginia statute is narrow and careful and bans intimidating and threatening behavior.