Sentence examples for statute passed from inspiring English sources

A statute passed in 1975, however, permitted the councillors once again to elect their own mayor.

A French statute passed in 1351 tried much the same thing.

It's his job to carry out this statute passed by Congress".

Rather it is a national court, based on a Bangladeshi statute passed in 1973 and amended in 2009 and 2012.

He cited a 2007 statute, passed under military rule, which gave an amnesty to all government officials who were facing disciplinary charges.

Consider President George W. Bush and his hundreds of signing statements, asserting his power to disobey any statute passed by Congress when it conflicted with his ideology.

The Pen Register Statute, passed as part of the ECPA, requires the DoJ to report its use of pen/traps to Congress.

But the statute, passed in 1970 and last amended in 1977, left some major pollution problems unaddressed and proved inadequate to deal with others.

The village of Hempstead has passed a living-wage law, the third such statute passed on Long Island in recent months.

"Abortion is currently an offence in English law by virtue of an archaic and punitive statute passed at the midpoint of the reign of Queen Victoria," they write.

Imagine a statute passed in 1928, declaring that it was a felony to offer movies with sound, but exempting states that are already showing talking pictures.