Sentence examples for statutes aimed at from inspiring English sources

These are but the most famous of many statutes aimed at efficiency and sound administration.

The House Ways and Means Committee, reacting to the nation's huge trade deficit, today completed the drafting of sweeping changes in trade statutes aimed at making it easier to win protection against the flood of imports.

As he sat in the courtroom, his chin propped awkwardly on his fist, his predicament could be seen either as a state's admirably muscular response to the abusive treatment of a vulnerable young man or as an attempt to criminalize teen-age odiousness by using statutes aimed at people more easily recognizable as hate-mongers and perverts.

Yet the mere existence of criminal statutes aimed at forcing women to make decisions to protect their fetuses — even at the expense of their own health — has injected fear into maternity wards and operating rooms, complicating even routine health care decisions.

Once signed into law, Native Americans across the country can finally tap into the budding industry of craft spirits on their own lands, no longer stifled by a policy from a time when federal authorities forcibly removed tribes from their homelands and enacted discriminatory statutes aimed at choking off Native wealth.

Florida statutes aim at both objectives.

When Donald J. Trump suggested this week that recent court rulings against voter identification laws could contribute to a "rigged" election this fall, his comments ran counter to the findings of many judges and researchers, who say such statutes aim at a form of fraud that is rare and typically isolated.

Mr. Salzman blamed the Jackson-Vanik law, a cold-war statute aimed at Communist countries not allowing free emigration.

The upshot is that the court today holds that a regulatory statute aimed at unsafe drugs and devices does not authorize regulation of a drug (nicotine) and a device (a cigarette) that the court itself finds unsafe.

The Connecticut court said the suit, which seeks unspecified damages for each death, could go forward under that state's Unfair Trade Practices Act, a statute aimed at harmful marketing, in this case marketing not of the weapon but rather its use as a potential tool for "offensive military style combat" by civilians, which is illegal.

The fact that some of these statutes are aimed at elections, lobbying, and the mails makes their restraint no more palatable, nor the abuses they prevent less deleterious to the public interest, than the present ordinance.