Sentence examples for since statutes from inspiring English sources

Gay urges welled up across Europe during the Romantic era; France, in particular, became a haven, since statutes forbidding sodomy had disappeared from its books during the Revolutionary period, reflecting a distaste for law based on religious belief.

And since statutes of limitations for these crimes aren't defined at a federal level, that leaves activists with a piecemeal battle.

Since university statutes forbade arts masters from teaching or writing about theology, Buridan produced no theological works and no commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, the principal genre of philosophical writing in the fourteenth century.

Since other statutes make it a crime to assault or to attempt to kill the President, some question has arisen as to whether it is necessary to have a statute banning threats.

For the conservatives, Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr., wrote, "Our country has changed" since the statute became law fifty years ago.

The US Justice Department said that this is the first known federal indictment since the statute was amended in 2010.

Since the statute was rolled back in 1998, making those already serving time parole-eligible, nearly all have been released, leaving Wershe increasingly alone.

While about a dozen such cases have been brought since the statute was enacted, this is one of the few where the defendants have appeared in court.

There is talk of strengthening the church's 2002 guidelines for dealing with sexual abuse.The law provides no clear remedy, since the statute of limitations bars prosecution for abuses that occurred decades ago.

Even if it did, Mr. Braverman said, the letter writer would not have recourse now, since the statute of limitations bars legal actions in such cases after six years.

One source familiar with the case described it as a blunder by Blatter, since Swiss statute is said to forbid immediate disclosure of private documents to foreign jurisdictions, which should have been obvious prior to the announcement of publication.