Sentence examples for set the term from inspiring English sources

The Constitution was explicit in granting Congress the power to set the term of copyright, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote, provided that term was a limited one.

Congress set the term of F.B.I. directors at ten years, in order to establish a standard of political independence for them; no President had heretofore violated that tradition out of personal or political pique.

The "work-for-hire" terminology is the subject of a storied battle between music artists and record labels dating to 1978, when the federal copyright law was revised to set the term of a copyright grant at 35 years, after which the rights revert back to their original author.

"It would look at who set the term of reference, it would look at who was excluded, who was protected by the terms of reference, and that would lead to Havers himself who was responsible for that".

At the time it was hailed by many as the "missing link", helping set the term as primarily used for human fossils, though it is sometimes used for other intermediates, like the dinosaur-bird intermediary Archaeopteryx.

He set the terms of the election.

France and Germany set the terms for the two appointments.

So saying, she set the terms of the relationship.

"Congress should set the terms, goals and timeframe".

Only this time, they would set the terms.

I set the terms of my self-presentation.