Sentence examples for statute on which from inspiring English sources

The main statute on which they are based, dating from 1970, says that nobody can be sacked except "for a just cause".

But his lawyers argue that the statute on which the government is basing its claim applies only to commercial and financial transactions.

While companies aggressively fight both the lawsuits and the statute on which they are based, many have also endorsed documents like the State Department's Voluntary Principles on Human Rights and Security.

President George W. Bush started the process last year when he signed legislation, passed by Congress in July 2008, that repealed the statute on which the ban was based.

Hence we need not speculate as to whether the portions of the statute on which the order rests are so intertwined with the others that the various provisions of the state Act must be considered as inseparable.

Professor Grundfest argues that the statute on which most securities fraud is based — Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act — was intended by Congress to mean actual reliance because the statute is similar to another one in the Exchange Act that does specifically state such reliance is required.

The statutes on which this suit rests makes elaborate provision both for a criminal punishment and a civil remedy.

Reviewing this case under the "collateral order" doctrine, see supra at 742, we assume for purposes of this opinion that private causes of action may be inferred both under the First Amendment and the two statutes on which respondent relies.

So the Prime Minister's wife can have a dolphin tattoo on her ankle and dress like Lil Kim, with scant regard for the statutes on which an open-minded society exists.

877, the Court denied injunctive relief against threatened application of a city ordinance to constitutionally protected religious solicitation, 'since the lawfulness or constitutionality of the statute or ordinance on which the prosecution is based may be determined as readily in the criminal case as in a suit for an injunction.' 319 U.S., at 163, 63 S.Ct., at 881.

It is possible, as conjectured by Mike Bartlett's recent play King Charles III, that Charles might refuse to sign a statute to which he objected on principle.