Sentence examples for statute from inspiring English sources

Andrew Lansley was belatedly shuffled away from the portfolio in 2012, but not before he had unleashed a gratuitous reorganisation, and written his marketopian plan on to the statute book.

When the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) – the statute which ostensibly "legalises" everything that GCHQ & co do in cyberspace – was going through parliament in 1999, those of us who campaigned against it were astonished to find that no more than a handful of MPs were interested.

There is no statute of limitations for such extreme violence.

They concluded that his name could not be removed because, although he quoted the correct statute in his letter, Taylor did not specifically claim to be "incapable of fulfilling the duties of office".

Cameron suggests his promises on tax should be statute.

Settlements are also war crimes under Australian domestic law implementing that statute.

(2006) (statement of Michael Hayden) (stating, in debate preceding passage of FAA's predecessor statute, that certain communications 'with one end in the United States" are the ones "that are most important to us').

"That," the official continued, "is why the statute requires that there be minimization procedures to ensure that when communications of, or concerning, US persons are acquired in the course of lawful collection under Section 702, that information is minimized and is retained and disseminated only when appropriate.

The way in which this statute satisfies the test is on the basis of the factors that I have identified.

It remains, in some form, on the statute books in 42 Commonwealth, or former Commonwealth, countries, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

When Congress passed the statute in 2008 it was not reacting to a longstanding history of discrimination.