Sentence examples for statute article from inspiring English sources

The majority in the Florida court pointed to the language of a critical federal statute, Article 3, Section 5 of the U.S. Code.

The primary statute, Article 27 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949), already included language protecting women "against any attack on their honour, in particular against rape, enforced prostitution, or any form of indecent assault"; this protection was extended in an additional protocol adopted in 1977.

The Court's jurisdiction is limited to "the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole" (Rome Statute, Article 1).

The statement went on: "FIFA will not recognise any person or organ not elected in compliance with the NFF statutes (article 17, par 2 and 3 of the FIFA Statutes) and therefore it will not consider the appointment made by the Minister of Sports.

Education in common law countries "is all about cases," she said, while her own education had been focused on "statutes, articles, texts".

This has been replicated in the Rome statute 2002 article 7(1), where it is described as "inhumane acts carried out in the context of an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime".

Under statutes like Article 8 of the Anti-Terror Act and Article 301 of the Penal Code, journalists are jailed for insulting public officials or crimes against the state.

By Jane Mayer The New Yorker, May 11 , 1998P. 37 Talk story about Washington lawyer and former independent counsel Jacob Stein, who criticizes the independent-counsel statute... View Article Jane Mayer has been a New Yorker staff writer since 1995.

Yet their argument won the day, over the objections of states which have ratified the statute without invoking article 124 (and in so doing knowingly put their own officials at risk of prosecution).

This value system, covering the ideals and principles which are the common heritage of the Council of Europe (Article 1, Statute of the Council of Europe), in the case of biolaw provisions, may provide valuable interpretive pointers which allow the reconstruction of the standards contained therein.

This withdrawal was based on the optional clause of the Statute of the ICJ and Article 298 (1) of the United National Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and reflected its assessment of the weakness of its own legal position.