Sentence examples for statute considering from inspiring English sources

Locke had spent the early 1690s campaigning against the statute, considering it "ridiculous" that the works of dead authors were held perpetually in copyright.

Let us therefore read the remainder of this statute considering both the possibility that the landlord is holding the trump cards and the possibility that the real power resides with the tenant.

Criminal statutes considered by the Court during this period involved assimilative crimes, counterfeiting, embargoes, insurance fraud, piracy, and slave trading.

The Justice Department, which is defending the statute, is considering whether to appeal Judge Hudson's ruling to the Fourth Circuit, which hears cases from Virginia and four other states.

Similarly, one cannot simply compare the language of statutes without considering how they are implemented.

A 1977 opinion by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel under President Jimmy Carter concluded that a president could ignore a statute he considered unconstitutional, depending on the circumstances.

Fee awards under this civil rights statute are considered "equitable relief" rather than damages, and government entities are not immune from equitable relief.

The statute is considered a "watershed event in Anglo-American copyright history ... transforming what had been the publishers' private law copyright into a public law grant".

The police often quite understandably say they want new powers on the statute book and politicians often say: 'Well hang on a minute, we don't just constantly put new powers and offences on the statute book without considering the knock-on effect on the prison population, on rates of reoffending.'" Clegg said: "This is just about carrying a knife, not committing an offence with it.

Republicans advocating limited government should take a close look at these statutes and consider supporting changes".

Congress is considering a "statute of racial equality" that would give quotas a big extra push.