But I think too often we judge environmentalism as being the equivalent of adherence to a particular statute rather than achieving specific results, and they're not the same thing".
In fact, according to the Congressional Research Service, many military ventures throughout the nation's history have been authorized by statute rather than by formal declaration of war.
The new location represents the first time that Britain has actually separated, by statute, rather than convention, its judiciary from its legislature.
Mr. Olson put it more diplomatically: "An approach to briefing that encourages the parties to focus primarily on the statute rather than on the interaction of the three judges' opinions may prove more useful to this court".
Asked whether proposals would have to be in statute, rather than self-regulatory, the PM said: "Let's wait and see.
Devolution usually occurs through conventional statutes rather than through a change in a country's constitution; thus, unitary systems of government that have devolved powers in this manner are still considered unitary rather than federal systems, because the powers of the subnational authorities can be withdrawn by the central government at any time (compare federalism).
The South Africans said they demonstrated their respect for FIFA by pursuing their appeal in arbitration, citing a clause in FIFA's statutes, rather than suing.
The authors used sensible proxies for identifying straightforward cases: ones in which the lower courts were not divided, ones where there was no dissent in the ruling under review, ones addressing two or fewer legal issues, ones concerning statutes rather than the Constitution and ones that attracted no more than one supporting brief.
For these reasons, two laws, one federal and the other a California statute, require prosecutors to use subpoenas, rather than a warrant, to obtain information from journalists in criminal investigations.
Bob Ward, the policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment said that the Paris agreement was always intended as a complement to emissions pledges, rather than a body of statute.
