Sentence examples for statutes like from inspiring English sources

Federal courts interpret state election laws as well as federal statutes, like the Voting Rights Act.

"Judge Walker is saying that FISA and federal statutes like it are not optional," Mr. Eisenberg said.

Local police are already allowed to arrest immigrants for violating criminal statutes, like crossing the border illegally.

In-house businesses wind up in still other courts when city statutes — like plumbing regulations and occupancy rules — are violated.

The spread of concealed carry laws and statutes like Florida's that expand the legal use of deadly force in self-defense also came in for criticism.

I'm not talking about a violation of federal or state statutes, like Medicare or Medicaid fraud, although crime in that sense definitely exists.

"Our statute, like our constitution back home, is just a bare-boned mandate," she said.

As Mr. Verrilli explained, in interpreting a statute like the Anti-Injunction Act, "the precise choice of words" matters.

The ICC's statute (like the UN genocide convention) defines genocide as acts committed with the intent to "destroy, in whole or in part", a national, racial or religious group.

Photograph: /Wikpedia Grand Junction & Colorado National Monument: From eshockley, who describes the monument as "not a statute, like many think, but a beautiful collection of canyons and monoliths that doesn't take long to drive through".

Thus, White would have overturned the statute on grounds of preemption under Section 7 of the NLRA: I am willing to hold that, as a matter of law, a statute like § 93(b), which prohibits a union from collecting dues from its members, impairs the union's ability to represent those members to such an extent that it infringes on their § 7 right to bargain through the representative of their choice.