Sentence examples for statute were passed from inspiring English sources

If such a statute were passed, Plumer says, a president's power to classify and declassify information would be transformed into "the power to create or dissolve at will the conditions for felony prosecution.

"If such a statute were passed, even without the support of the government, it would be a clear indication that the two houses of the parliament, as constituted by elected representatives, were in support of the inquiry," Laing writes.

The statute was passed in 2006.

In 1401 the first English statute was passed for the burning of heretics.

A new statute was passed in 1999 but prompted bloody protests on the streets of Jakarta within hours.

"If, when the statute was passed, it applied to pirates, the question to me is, who are today's pirates?" he said.

Once a statute was passed, there were virtually no means for individuals to successfully challenge it within the domestic political or legal system, short of demonstrations or riots.

A few days before the statute was passed, Trooper Tate was working at his department's information booth at the Eastern States Exposition in Springfield, Mass.

Even though we believe that the current city administration would use the law rationally, once such a vaguely worded statute is passed, it opens the door for abuse.

In Kansas, for example, one need show only that there is related evidence that was not tested; in Georgia, whose statute was passed in May 2003, one must show that such testing could have affected the outcome of the case.

The original F.I.S.A statute was passed in 1978 in order to protect civil liberties against overly expansive government surveillance, and had clear penalties of $100 per person, per day, plus punitive damages, for telecommunications companies that conducted electronic surveillance without judicial oversight.