Sentence examples for statutes apply from inspiring English sources

In the United States federal money laundering statutes apply to nearly every major transaction through which illegal profits are disguised to look legal.

Yet there are no fishing or boating regulations there, although some seasonal state and federal statutes apply that overlap with its waters.

Despite its unsexy title -- "The New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice: A Practical Guide" (Pearson/Prentice Hall) -- the book is drawing note for its use of fiction to illustrate how state statutes apply to real-life situations.

So "even though the intent [of the law] is there," she says, it's difficult to make 20th century statutes apply to 21st century corporations, which use "creative corporate structuring to evade the law's protections, so that you're back in an exploitative place that existed before the laws were written".

Similar cases to Grimm's have been filed throughout the country, so other appellate courts will soon have to weigh in on whether anti-discrimination gender statutes apply to trans students.

Also, the words "wages" and "salaries" are not found anywhere in the text, and there is no ruling in that case that the federal income tax statutes apply only to "corporations".

In British India some British statutes applied, and a few have remained in force.

He said that federal authorities had examined the case, determined that "no federal statutes applied," and deferred to local officials.

A judge dismissed the case, noting, with some chagrin, that the statutes applied only to "motor vehicles," and not those under horse - or human - power, like bicycles.

As in the earlier case, the administration also said Friday that it would continue to enforce the statutes applying to same-sex military spouses unless Congress repealed them or a court ruling striking them down.

For example, the American Civil Liberties Union, in a brief filed on the plaintiffs' behalf, said that while courts could tailor injunctions to cover specific people who have engaged in unlawful conduct in the past, statutes applied generally without any requirement of past misconduct, and so should be subject to more searching review.