Sentence examples for passed statutes from inspiring English sources

In U.S. law, for example, Congress has passed statutes permitting prosecutions under all of the jurisdictional bases listed above.

The Legislature has passed statutes that are too vague to constrain cities from taking property for private parties.

So many towns have passed statutes that stipulate the number of days past the election signs can remain.

"More than 40 states have passed statutes to confirm that same-sex couples are not allowed to marry".

Several states have passed statutes outlawing the application of Shariah, and thus lending credence to the canard that American Muslims seek to impose their religious law.

Many states have passed statutes requiring communications to women about the putative nature and health consequences of abortion, stipulating management of supposed fetal pain, or imposing regulatory requirements on clinics with the asserted aim of protecting maternal health.

Programs within this strategy include efforts to pass statutes and administrative regulations that prevent crime or enhance law enforcement's ability to tackle a particular crime problem.

Federal appeals judge Alex Kozinski writes that it "seems as if legislators now pass statutes because of, not despite, their lack of clarity.

The fear of the monarchy that the skill of archers in battle would suffer led to Parliament passing statutes restricting or forbidding the playing of bowls.

The question for Parliament to consider was whether to pass statutes backing up this system, as the Leveson reported proposed, or count on the industry to create on its own independent system to replace the current, discredited Press Complaints Commission.

Purposivists traditionally argued that because Congress passes statutes to achieve some aim, federal judges should enforce the spirit rather than the letter of the law when the two conflict.