Sentence examples for statute called from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — Among the highest-profile laws of recent decades was a failed one: the 1985 deficit-reduction statute called Gramm-Rudman-Hollings for its Senate sponsors.

Like the Louisiana statute before us, that statute called expressly for the continued application of a sufficient electric current to cause death.

A 2003 federal statute, called the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, finances a wide range of public health initiatives to treat and prevent disease around the world.

A federal statute called the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act prohibits claims based on state law when the underlying transaction involved trading in securities subject to the federal securities law.

But the Getty is still fighting a court battle in Italy over another prized object in its collection, the Getty Bronze, a statute called "Victorious Youth" that it acquired in 1977.

The state deemed the city financially distressed last year and placed it under a Pennsylvania statute called Act 47, which eventually gives access to state money and requires an outside financial adviser to carry out a financial recovery plan.

On another point, however, the House version of the new securities-fraud statute calls for penalties only for those who "execute" a scheme to defraud investors.

The party-expenditure provision at issue in the new case is a hybrid, dealing with what the statute calls an expenditure but that the commission has always treated as the functional equivalent of a contribution.

They include the creation of a securities-fraud statute calling for prison time for anyone using a "scheme or artifice" to defraud investors and prison terms for senior executives who "recklessly and knowingly" publish misleading financial statements.

Storage of the gasoline and withdrawal of it from storage within the state for use or sale are, as the state Supreme Court has held, the events which, by the very terms of the statute, call it into operation.

Garzón's efforts were immensely controversial in Spain, not only because many Spaniards were still convinced that the pacto del olvido had worked, but also because the country's 1977 Amnesty Law holds that murders and atrocities committed by either side during the civil war that could be categorised as having had what the statute calls "political intention" were sheltered from prosecution.