Sentence examples for statute set up from inspiring English sources

The Consultative Council Statute set up an advisory body of 60 (later expanded to 120) members plus a chairman.

In June it issued an emergency ordinance modifying the 2003 statute setting up the Romanian Cultural Institute, which had previously reported directly to President Traian Basescu, Mr. Ponta's political rival.

A long-awaited report on the behavior of British newspapers embroiled in the phone hacking scandal recommended on Thursday a new system of press regulation that would be backed by parliamentary statute, setting up what threatened to become an acrimonious debate about curbs on Britain's 300-year-old tradition of broad press freedom.

LONDON — After months of hearings, a long-awaited report on the behavior of British newspapers embroiled in the phone hacking scandal recommended on Thursday a new system of press regulation that would be backed by parliamentary statute, setting up what threatened to develop into an acrimonious political debate about curbs on Britain's 300-year-old tradition of broad press freedom.

In this way, Article 61 7) of the Statute sets up an even higher hurdle for the prosecution to clear in order for the case to be propelled to trial.

As the states party to the Rome Statute — which set up the I.C.C. — meet in Uganda this week to review progress, we can reflect that the balance has been tipped in favor of justice.

This was defined in 1998 by the Rome Statute, which set up the international criminal court, as "a systematic attack directed against a civilian population, resulting in extermination or torture, or an inhumane act intentionally causing great suffering".

Of the 122 signatories to the Rome Statute that set up the court in 2002, 34 are Africans.

The AU resolution Saturday that sitting leaders should be immune from prosecution will not affect the Rome Statute that set up the court in 2002.

Whittingdale said this was an entirely sensible way to give press proper incentives to join a press regulator, and would allow a regulator to be recognised by statute but not set up by statute.

"It was only after Bosnia that the Rome Statute," the treaty that set up the International Criminal Court, "made rape a war crime.