Sentence examples for principle statutes from inspiring English sources

As the court chooses to describe that principle, statutes of Congress can be disregarded, not only when what they prescribe violates the Constitution, but when what they prescribe contradicts a decision of this court that announced a constitutional rule.

After all, dynasties need neither the ideologies nor the consensus of the members of an organization with principles and statutes, much less do they need to conform to the script drawn up for a party meeting.

The Act puts principles into statute that have long been in the domain of social work, and provides a script for modern social work with adults.

The first direct attack came through Massey v Boulden, where the Court of Appeal held that Hansard could not be used in criminal law cases, because of "the principle that penal statutes are to be narrowly construed intervenes to resolve any ambiguity without resort to Hansard".

Going forward, it is not a stretch to see Justice Kennedy applying equal protection principles to state statutes and constitutional amendments denying recognition to marriages between people of the same gender.

One day, our courts are likely to have to rule on whether particular statutes infringe the principle.

To be sure, the court's construction of this statute so as to make it include procedures other than live-birth abortion involves not only a disregard of fair meaning, but an abandonment of the principle that even ambiguous statutes should be interpreted in such fashion as to render them valid rather than void.

Its supreme body is the congress, which meets every other year and proclaims the organization's principles and determines its statutes and membership.

In a country governed by common law principles as well as statutes, a superficial education focused on contemporary rules is as limiting practically as it is intellectually.

And, after the future court loss, a new FCC will replace it with yet another new "principle" found in no statute.

These principles provide – when developed by statutes that reflect the intent of the principles – a legal justification for acting, even though scientific causation is either incomplete or perhaps unavailable.