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Most employment discrimination statutes outlaw adverse employment actions – they bar employers from hiring, firing or otherwise disadvantaging workers on the basis of one's race, sex or religion.
Late last year, following decades of profound systematic abuse, institutional racism and the repeated denial of civil rights, Chicago citizens asked the United Nations to classify what their notoriously brutal police force does to them, in an American city, as a violation of international anti-torture statutes.
We elected these holders of high office – the home and foreign secretaries who ostensibly control MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, the MPs who cluelessly voted through laws such as Ripa (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act), Drip (Data Retention and Investigatory Powers) and will do likewise for whatever loose statutes will be proposed after the next terrorist/paedophilia/cyber crime panic arrives.
Seven years after the Law Commission embarked upon a review of what its then chairman called a "hodgepodge" of almost 40 statutes governing the care and support of older and disabled people in England, dating back as far as 1948, the Care Act is taking effect.
[The] CIA conducts those intelligence activities in compliance with the United States constitution, federal statutes and presidential directives".
Several courts, noting that Monroe's official final abode was New York, opted to abide by that state's statutes and threw out the cases.
Does it make sense to the corral the press by fresh statutes that prevent them reflecting – or possibly even correcting – what those millions of voters and readers are saying?
"The fact was that the statutes for the two ad hoc tribunals did not refer to rape as a war crime save in the definition of crimes against humanity.
The ruling has not been re-tested since, and there are still no federal statutes governing corporal punishment in children.
State Department lawyers want statutes to replace rushed assertions from the Bush era of a right to act against terror worldwide.
Scholars have gleefully dissected India's 51 central and 170 state labour statutes , some of which pre-date independence, to demonstrate how they make it hard for firms with more than a handful of staff to fire people and allow disputes to become legal endurance tests.
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The word "statutes" primarily functions as a noun, specifically a plural noun, referring to a collection of laws or regulations enacted by a legislative body. Ludwig AI confirms this usage through numerous examples where "statutes" denote legal frameworks.
Expression frequency: Very common
