Sentence examples for primary statute from inspiring English sources
Its primary statute is that the game must be free of politics.
The primary statute, Article 27 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949), already included language protecting women "against any attack on their honour, in particular against rape, enforced prostitution, or any form of indecent assault"; this protection was extended in an additional protocol adopted in 1977.
The National Forest Management Act of 1976 is now the primary statute governing the administration of national forests.
Initially, we reviewed the statutory language of Title I of the 1990 (CAAA)—the current, primary statute for setting air quality standards (U.S. Clean Air Act Amendments 1990).
The primary criminal statute dealing with civil rights violations, 18 U.S.C. § 242, comes out of the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War and was originally intended to protect the voting rights of former slaves.
The Lanham Act is the primary federal trademark statute of law in the United States however, as it only applies to "commerce which may lawfully be regulated by Congress," it does not address terms that are used in foreign countries.
"Thus, it is indisputable" that the primary purpose of the statute "is to prevent youth access to cigarettes".
But that requirement was difficult for New York because by statute its primary was on Sept. 14, just four days before the deadline for mailing general election ballots.
The government was proposing to give ministers powers to open, close, or merge so-called arms length bodies, even those that were created in statute, without primary legislation and a debate in parliament.
According to the Preamble of the Rome Statute, the primary responsibility for investigating and prosecuting the most serious crimes falls under national jurisdictions.
In his ruling on Tuesday, the judge, Franklin D. Burgess, equated an injunction against the primary with rewriting election statutes.
