Sentence examples for rewrite the statute from inspiring English sources

They seek to rewrite the statute to create a scheme that serves their personal problems or conveniences.

Instead, we are going to resort to the will of the people, the will of the electorate, the will of the voters, so to speak, and we are going to, because we can't rewrite the statute, but we are going to partially rewrite the statute, we are going to resort to our equitable powers.

In regard to the "dangerous exception" issue, the court did not believe that Congress had allowed for such a provision when creating the EAHCA and refused to rewrite the statute to include it.

Administration officials said they needed the Legislature's approval to rewrite the statute that details what government workers are paid, separate from any question over the state's contracts with the unions.

I can lawfully direct the secretary to properly exercise her discretion in making a decision on the returns, but I cannot enjoin the secretary to make a particular decision, nor can I rewrite the statute which, by its plain meaning, mandates the filing of returns by the canvassing boards by 5 p.m. on Nov. 14, 2000.

In an editorial titled "The Roberts Rules," the Wall Street Journal editorial board bemoaned the fact that "the Chief Justice had to rewrite the statute Congress passed in order to salvage it".

But by publicly reprimanding Google for its conduct, the F.C.C. is hoping that Congress will see that the law has not kept up with advances in digital communications and will rewrite the statutes.

MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said that Transit Police support the Suffolk County District Attorney's efforts to work with the Legislature in rewriting the statute.

I would emphasize that what the Florida Supreme Court did is basically essentially say we're rewriting the statute, we're changing it.

But that is the best that can be said of a decision in which the court not only substituted its statutory interpretation for a federal agency's but, in effect, also rewrote the statute itself.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his intention to rewrite the state's abortion statutes to guarantee women the right to late-term abortions if their health is in danger or the fetus is not viable.