Sentence examples for statute down from inspiring English sources

When Congress enacted DOMA in 1996, after a day of hearings and before any state had embraced same-sex marriage, it was hardly thinkable that the Supreme Court, which had yet to disavow its upholding of a criminal sodomy law, would strike the statute down less than two decades later.

The statute cracks down on everything from traffic stops to apartment rentals to elementary school enrollment.

No journalist will take even a "dab of statute" lying down.

The statute lays down the conditions under which it is lawful for the administration to act and confers on the authorities the appropriate powers, many of which involve a large element of discretion.

A majority of state statutes go down the drain.

"Cable is stuck with a lot of legacy regulations from consumer protection statutes on down".

I haven't had time to check for an update, or to see whether the town has any statutes cracking down on this waste.

Among the statutes set down were that the law could only be made by Parliament and could not be suspended by the King, also that the King could not impose taxes or raise an army without the prior approval of Parliament.

Their statute was watered down and then axed.

The Liberal Democrats have pledged to overhaul libel law by putting the Reynolds defence into statute, to clamp down on local council freesheets, and to make BBC finances more transparent, in the party's manifesto launched today.

In the fearful aftermath of Sept. 11, Attorney General John Ashcroft vowed to use the full might of the federal government and "every available statute" to hunt down and punish "the terrorists among us".