Sentence examples for statutes about from inspiring English sources

One might think it would make the Republican congressmen who voted with him to add the word "forcible" before "rape" in statutes about the sort of abortions federal health funds might help pay for feel worse.

Let's say an unpleasant government official (Angelo) goes on a law-and-order binge, enforcing old statutes about fornication, while his boss (Vincentio, the Duke) is out of town.

There is nothing in these statutes about helping borrowers avoid abusing themselves.

"In sum, the Court finds that Congress spoke plainly, that Congress did not delegate authority to the FEC to narrow the disclosure requirement through agency rulemaking, and that a change in the reach of the statute brought about by a Supreme Court ruling did not render plain language, which is broad enough to cover the new circumstances, to be ambiguous," the ruling continued.

In 1991, Congress passed a statute about passports effectively requiring the State Department to send different officials to Israel and Arab countries.

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the government from enforcing a controversial statute about the indefinite detention without trial of terrorism suspects.

Perhaps as a result of the new statute, about 15,400 Colombians registered to vote this year with the New York consulate -- triple the registrants for the 1998 election.

A congressman, Representative John Conyers Jr., a Democrat from Michigan, has called for a revision of U.S. copyright law to remove ambiguities in the current statute about who is eligible to reclaim ownership rights to songs and sound recordings.

Arguing that Congress has an obligation "to preserve fairness and justice for artists," the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee has called for a revision of United States copyright law to remove ambiguities in the current statute about who is eligible to reclaim ownership rights to songs and sound recordings.

Page B7 Arts LEGISLATOR URGES REVISING COPYRIGHT LAW FOR SONGS Arguing that Congress has an obligation "to preserve fairness and justice for artists," the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee has called for a revision of United States copyright law to remove ambiguities in the current statute about who is eligible to reclaim ownership rights to songs and sound recordings.

Emily Hornaday, a spokeswoman in the State Division of Criminal Justice, conceded in a statement that there was some ambiguity in the statute about the crimes it addressed, but insisted that legislators' frequent references in debate to their desire to increase sentences for violent crimes covered the most violent of crimes, murder.