Sentence examples for set of statutes from inspiring English sources

Because of a complex set of statutes in U.S. immigration law, children who are abandoned -- as opposed to delivered to an orphanage by their parents -- tend to have an easier time meeting requirements for an orphan visa.

But before the reins of government can pass from one hand to another, party leadership must be transferred, in a process for which there is no set of statutes and no rule book.

To trace effects to final outcomes in terms of the behavior of private individuals would thus require the analyst to predict the set of statutes that would be enacted within various legislative structures.

"Every state has a different set of statutes.

The Society is governed by its Council, which is chaired by the Society's President, according to a set of Statutes and Standing Orders.

After the granting of the charter, it took 50 years before the first set of statutes to govern the school were completed.

Lawyers for Vice President Al Gore Al Gore argue that the Florida Supreme Court did not rewrite the law, but merely interpreted and made sense of a mangled and contradictory set of Florida statutes.

There was a conflict between two sets of state statutes: one setting times for certifying election results, the other allowing manual recounts that could not be completed within those times.

As state attorney general, he made his only appearance before the United States Supreme Court, arguing a set of 1979 Missouri statutes, one of which required all second-trimester abortions to be performed in a hospital.

Each state has a set of laws called the Statute of Frauds.

"Why on earth wouldn't we want to study it?" Democrats and Republicans also fought over a provision that would set a statute of limitations on when victims of malpractice, including children, might file suit.