Sentence examples for statute gathered from inspiring English sources

But if Mr Ruto were to be forced out of office as a result of an ICC verdict against him, ethnic tension could boil over again.As for the ICC, representatives of the 139 states that have signed up to its statute gathered in New York on December 8th for the court's annual week-long meeting, hoping to put the Kenyatta case behind them.

This despite "the clear purpose of the statute as gathered from the words alone ('no drinking saloon' is the prohibition) was to protect schoolhouses not saloons".

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In 1998, 160 states gathered in Rome to agree on the Statute of an international criminal court, the culmination of five decades of painful negotiations.

He then specifically addressed the events in Charlottesville, which led to three deaths, including that of Heather Heyer, who was among a group of people counter-protesting neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members and white supremacists gathered to protest the removal of a statute of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

In its suit, the museum said that the American government had not gathered sufficient evidence that the mask was stolen, and that the statute of limitations had run out on the government's right to seize the mask.

Canada, Australia, and New Zealand all adopted FOI statutes in 1982, and during the next decade the spread of legislation gathered pace in Europe and the British Commonwealth.

About 200 protesters gathered between the steep Capitol steps and the backside of an imposing statute of Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan astride a horse.

"This statute is grossly illegitimate," said René Hilari, 28, a lawyer who lives in Plan Tres Mil, as stone-throwing protesters gathered nearby amid the stench of burning trash and open sewage.

Karavelov's publications gathered a number of followers and initiated the foundation of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee (BRCC), a centralised revolutionary diasporic organisation that included Levski as a founding member and statute drafter.

The Statute was originally conceived by Henry VIII of England as a way to rectify his financial problems by simplifying the law of uses, which moved land outside the royal tax revenue, traditionally gathered through seisin.