Sentence examples for statutes adopted from inspiring English sources

The Arizona law stood out from hundreds of statutes adopted by states in recent years to discourage illegal immigrants.

The powers of the five special regions which are Sicily, Sardinia, Trentino Alto Adige, Friuli Venezia Giulia, and Valle d'Aosta derive from special statutes adopted through constitutional laws.

The most powerful lever working for desegregation in Slovakia has been the court system, which has been reinforced by antidiscrimination statutes adopted in the past decade to bring the code into conformity with European Union standards.

In fact, the language of partial birth legislation in Congress and in most of the statutes adopted by some 30 states is so vague that it could potentially apply even to common procedures used before viability of the fetus.

The central economic question behind Measure 37 and compensation statutes adopted in other states is, what is the effect of land-use regulations on property values?

They are vulnerable to legal attack by reason of the "reception statutes" adopted in most states at the time of their joining the Union.

Section 102.168 in its present form is a new statute adopted by the Legislature in 1999.

The rules affect a section of the Clean Air Act, the antipollution statute adopted more than 30 years ago.

The letter refers to the independent counsel statute, adopted in 1978, which authorized the appointment of a special prosecutor for investigations of government officials.

The government is bringing charges under a provision of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act, a statute adopted in 1989 during the savings and loan crisis to make it easier to pursue fraud cases in the banking business.

They have turned to an unusual state statute, adopted in 1887, that allows ordinary citizens who gather enough signatures on a petition to demand that a grand jury investigate an alleged crime, a decision usually left to a prosecutor.