Sentence examples for statute argued from inspiring English sources

When the FAA was first enacted, defenders of the statute argued that a significant check on abuse would be the NSA's inability to obtain electronic communications without the consent of the telecom and internet companies that control the data.

Lawyers for a man who was charged under a seldom-used state terrorism statute argued on Tuesday that the law was too unconstitutionally vague to be applied in this case and that the evidence presented to the grand jury was not legally sufficient to support the charges.

Even late last year, when critics of the foreign intelligence statute argued for changes, the only members of Congress who know about PRISM were bound by oaths of office to hold their tongues.

"Fat Tony and the Bail Principle" (editorial, Nov. 29), which opposes the Federal preventive-detention statute, argues that pretrial detention to prevent the commission of crimes violates the presumption of innocence, and judges cannot accurately predict future criminality.

On Friday, Mr. Avila's lawyers filed a motion under the new statute arguing that recent developments in biomechanical science that were unavailable at the time of their client's 2001 trial indicate that Nicholas Macias's death may have been the result of an accident.

The US government's official complaint says "it will cause the detention and harassment of authorized visitors, immigrants, and citizens who do not have or carry identification documents specified by the statute" arguing this would "result in countless inspections and detentions of individuals who are lawfully present in the United States".

Some critics in Kenya have also questioned the constitutionality of the Rome Statute, arguing that it is incompatible with the Constitution of Kenya, which was passed by a referendum in 2010.

There are, of course, many countries without quotas that still have more women in boardrooms; opponents of such statutes argue that these examples are evidence that quotas aren't the only way to boost the numbers.

But in South Dakota, lawmakers in 2007 excluded bicycles, tricycles and any other "unpowered foot-pedal conveyance" from the drunken-driving statutes, arguing that this might help intoxicated people find safer ways home.

Like other suffragists in Britain and the United States, she based her case on the words person and persons in the voting statutes, arguing that such unspecific words were no basis for the exclusion of one entire sex from voting.

The federal Medicaid statute, he argued, does not compel the city to provide information or health screening at shelters.