Sentence examples for statutes such as from inspiring English sources

There are federal statutes — such as the Mann Act or the Travel Act — that could be used to prosecute people who bring prostitutes into the country.

Donna Mauro, a state representative, asked Gingrich if he agreed that states had the right to unilaterally nullify federal statutes, such as the ones in Obama's health-care bill.

Still, the major environmental statutes, such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, were written with no attention to the unequal vulnerability of poor and minority groups.

Congress on innumerable occasions has given new scope to the document through statutes, such as those creating executive departments, the federal courts, territories, and states; controlling succession to the presidency; and setting up the executive budget system.

US agencies for example have turned environmental statutes such as the Clean Air Act inside out: On state, local, and federal level, the agencies treat environmental laws as if they were broad permitting systems, with permit denials the exception.

St Clair – who was a senior civil servant at the Foreign Office before becoming a historian – added that in the absence of a written constitution, assorted statutes such as the Public Records Acts "are essential components of democracy and public accountability", and that the department was in clear breach of the law.

Certain other officials may be given notarial functions by statute, such as justices of the peace, consular officials, certain military officers, and various court officials.

The *last* thing D.O.J. wanted was a statute such as DeWine, because that would *undermine* the secret theory on which they were already relying for the N.S.A. program".

Arrest in civil cases is today regarded as a drastic remedy, and in most jurisdictions it is available only in situations specified by statute, such as the arrest of a debtor who may otherwise abscond.

Alongside these other markets and actually somewhat larger in outstanding volume are the markets for securities issued by various "agencies" created by federal statute, such as the Federal Home Loan banks and Federal Land banks.

Other pieces of the statute – such as the provision related to a new fiduciary duty for broker-dealers – were much longer in the making, but avoided the scrutiny that they would have gotten had they been standalone pieces of legislation.