Sentence examples for statutes and decisions from inspiring English sources

Blackstone's Commentaries, reprinted in America in 1771, was widely used, even though new English statutes and decisions were officially ignored.

Law is concerned with the application of causal ideas, embodied in the language of statutes and decisions, to particular situations.

The 1947 court, therefore, was intended to have the freedom to work independently of the government and to decide the constitutionality of statutes and administrative decisions.

They point to statutes and court decisions that indicate once a worker has a government job, his pension plan cannot be changed for the duration of his employment.

"Several statutes and court decisions indicate clearly that the General Assembly has authorized a marriage relationship only between a man and a woman," Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said in a two-paragraph statement.

The protections proposed by the new legislation are weaker than those in almost all of the 49 states that shield journalists from state actions through statutes and judicial decisions.

After he received treatment and was deemed competent to stand trial, his insanity defense failed in the face of a combination of statutes and judicial decisions that make Arizona one of the most unreceptive states in the country to a criminal defendant's evidence of mental illness.

No electronic magician could design from my arguments a computer program that would supply a verdict everyone would accept once the facts of the case and the text of all past statutes and judicial decisions were put at the computer's disposal' (Dworkin 1986, p. 412).

The F.E.C. is interpreting the statute and Supreme Court decisions in ways that allow the candidate-specific super PAC and the candidate's campaign to be joined at the hip.

I always worked within the norms of the statute and made decisions in accordance with the Commission, and, above all, the Holy Father.

Corporation statutes and most judicial decisions largely tend to reflect the interests and orientation of management or, to use another popular term, insiders.