Sentence examples for statute defines from inspiring English sources

The statute defines torture as a crime and includes a provision stating that testimony obtained by torture should be inadmissible.

The 1996 statute defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman, and applies that definition to about 1,100 federal laws and programs.

"This is a far-reaching case" that has been anything but orderly, adding "It may require stepping out of the bounds of what the statute defines".

The statute defines various defenses like talking in a private place or being unaware of the likelihood that the speech would stir up racial hatred.

The statute defines discrimination as "a failure to make reasonable modifications in policies, practices, or procedures" unless those modifications "would fundamentally alter the nature" of the activity.

The Rome Statute defines "crimes against humanity" as a set of acts "committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population".

First, the original statute defined a deceased celebrity as one who had died within the 50 years before 1985.

An Italian statute defining and banning fascism in any of its phases is known as the Scelba Law.

The statute defined an economic spy as anyone who "takes, carries away or conceals" or otherwise "misappropriates" a trade secret with the intent of aiding a foreign government.

The statute defined the procedure as "an abortion procedure in which the person performing the abortion partially delivers vaginally a living unborn child before killing the unborn child and completing the delivery".

Ms. Cardona says that after she married her partner in 2010, the V.A. regional office rejected her application for a spousal increase in her monthly disability compensation, citing federal statute defining a spouse as "a person of the opposite sex".