Sentence examples for statutes from from inspiring English sources

But officials said he could draw on a range of treaties and statutes, from the Geneva Conventions to the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Justice Teresi said that he would present the jury with two statutes from New York penal law on when the use of deadly force is justified.

You laugh about funny case names, read obscure legal statutes from the 17th century and spend ages translating Latin phrases, which you forget a minute later.

The central bank can prop up markets by buying bonds in the secondary market, but is forbidden by European Union treaties and its own statutes from financing countries directly.

Is that considered a bribe?" People working for American companies and most European companies are barred by anticorruption statutes from entertaining government officials or buying them gifts to influence their decision-making.

Polish law was first codified in the Statutes of Casimir the Great (Piotrków Wiślica Statutes) from 1346 1362.

Moreover, people with criminal convictions are typically barred by statute from law enforcement jobs and from other sensitive positions.

In California, companies are generally prohibited from enforcing noncompete agreements because of a worker-friendly statute from the 19th century.

In addition, we cited, perhaps for obvious reasons, the statute from Texas, which provided statutory guidelines for defining that.

Instead, in an apparent attempt to show how neutral the statute is, the state's lawyers unmoored the statute from the history cited by Justice Thomas.

Both a Federal District Court and the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit have blocked four parts of the statute from going into effect because they so clearly usurp federal authority.