Sentence examples for statutory lines from inspiring English sources

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Vague statutory lines drawn by Congress, as well as loose oversight, are a fourth contributor to regulatory capture because they give captive regulators plenty of room to stretch and contort the law without necessarily breaking the law or even having to explain their actions.

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Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal told Reuters late on Friday he was "considering action that might be brought against an interim appointment that violates the normal statutory line of succession and raises very serious constitutional questions".

Senate Democrats were considering suing Trump, the sources said, on the grounds that, in naming Whitaker, the president ignored a statutory line of succession at the Justice Department and deprived senators of their constitutional "advice and consent" role on some presidential appointments.

If she becomes vice president, or most unfortunately, president, she will have to push, pull, bargain and trade, line by statutory line, a multitude of bills, maneuvering trillions in the federal budget, billions in taxes, trade-offs between social security, Medicare and welfare, and do it at the same time she memorizes the names of senators and congressmen whom she is meeting for the first time.

Rights such as access to paid annual leave and protection from discrimination provide the statutory base line on to which most employers add further benefits as part of the employment contract.

The lyrics read like an ode to statutory rape, with lines including "They say she young, I shoulda waited / She a big girl, dog, when she stimulated," and "She a big girl, dog / I'm gonna do what the fuck I wanna do when I wanna do / She a big girl, dog / I'm puttin' in, I'm penetratin'/ I'm gettin' big, I'm stimulated".

His latest song, "Stimulated," reads like an ode to statutory rape, with lines including "They say she young, I shoulda waited / She a big girl, dog, when she stimulated," and "She a big girl, dog/ I'm gonna do what the fuck I wanna do when I wanna do / She a big girl, dog / I'm puttin' in, I'm penetratin'/ I'm gettin' big, I'm stimulated".

So the only way to ensure that the public can have confidence in a reformed PCC is to give it some kind of statutory underpinning on the lines I suggested in my evidence to Leveson (as did others).

"I may need some statutory authority down the line if I'm going to rearrange some of the responsibilities and give cleaner lines of responsibility to the agencies," he said.

Blatter, who as president has a statutory responsibility for the line management of Fifa's secretary general, refused to express any view about Valcke's explanation.

But he said: "The central question for lawyers was a narrow one; locate, under the statutory definition, the thin line between harsh treatment of a high-ranking Al Qaeda terrorist that is not torture and harsh treatment that is.

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