Sentence examples for statute enacted from inspiring English sources

The statute, enacted in 1971, only dealt with drugs.

As a result of a Pennsylvania statute — enacted after an aborted $12.5 billion sale to the Wm.

There should be a sweeping federal statute enacted immediately that gets rid of it at every level.

It may bring victory: the demise of a spiteful federal statute, enacted by an opportunistic Congress and signed into law 17 years ago by a cowardly Bill Clinton.

The RICO statute, enacted in 1970 in a drive against organized crime, was written so broadly and provides for such severe penalties that lawyers have tried to use it in a wide range of disputes.

When Governor Kean imposed a building moratorium in 1988, he signed a "certificate of immediate peril," relying on a little-used 1914 statute enacted to control development along the Hudson River.

Judge Phillips also made a strong case that the federal statute enacting the "don't ask, don't tell" policy violates the Constitution.

It also underscores the bravery and competence of Virginia Phillips, the federal judge who mustered logic and persuasive evidence in September when she struck down the statute enacting the policy.

The act is the most controversial of the great wave of environmental statutes enacted in the early 1970's.

The Florida Supreme Court's decision was an interpretation of, not an amendment to, Florida statutes enacted prior to Election Day.

But Mr. Wainstein said it was not uncommon for statutes enacted for one purpose to later be applied in different ways to other circumstances.