Sentence examples for statutes allow from inspiring English sources

Federal statutes allow for a maximum penalty of $150,000 per work.

These statutes allow Catholic hospitals to refuse to provide abortions, for example.

Colorado's political statutes allow citizens to introduce ballot initiatives, a situation that encourages populist campaigning on unconventional issues.

"Many of those same states, like the federal statutes, allow a single vote against the death penalty to eliminate it as a sentence," he said.

Some 100 federal laws, including most civil rights and environmental statutes, allow judges to award lawyers' fees to plaintiffs who are the prevailing parties.

The two statutes allow human rights victims to file for claims in United States courts even if both the plaintiffs and the defendants live in another country.

Article 23 in the central bank's own statutes allows it to conduct transactions with international organizations.

In August, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, which has one of the nation's strictest marijuana statutes, allowed dispensaries to provide edible products made with marijuana leaves or extract to children.

Carter G. Phillips, who represented Pfizer, said the Buckman case and the Michigan statutes allowed lawsuits to be filed against drug makers in Michigan only if the F.D.A. itself concluded that a company had committed fraud.

The exclusion of sexual abuse of children from the incest statutes allows the courts to bring the full weight of the law to bear, both in prosecution and punishment, to anyone who sexually molests a child, regardless of their familial relationship.

The new law also enables parents to cover children up to age 30 on their policies, raising the age from 25. Thirteen states have statutes allowing bare-bones policies — and Florida has tried them on a pilot basis — on the theory that some health coverage is better than none.