Sentence examples for stretched law from inspiring English sources

The vast majority of identity crimes go unsolved, because the number of cases has stretched law enforcement resources thin.

Along with three former governors, Mr. Brown argued to the Supreme Court that the early release of thousands of prisoners would endanger the public with offenders who have "a history of serious or violent offenses who are very likely to commit more serious crimes, impacting already stretched law enforcement, social service, mental health and substance use treatment resources of counties".

This added to the chaos by stretching law enforcement thin.

They ignored, circumvented, or stretched the law when it stood in the way of America's destiny and their own — or were themselves the law when it served their purposes.

To critics, they may have sometimes exploited or even stretched the law, but they have not broken it.

It will be because the justices wanted a certain political result and stretched the law to get there, as they did in Bush v. Gore.

That was one of a series of rulings in recent years that stretched the law to come out against little-guy parties.

He ruled that the government's case had stretched racketeering law "to the breaking point" and that the five-year statute of limitations on conspiracies had run out.

In doing so, they said, it had stretched the law to breaking point by including harmless documents in the broad categories of material it refuses to hand over or discuss.

(Hidalgo's friend Martine Aubry, the Socialist mayor of Lille, has stretched the law to meet Islamist sensibilities by closing municipal pools to men for several hours a week so that Muslim women can bathe alone).

"Nothing has done more to damage America's place in the world than the revelation that this nation stretched the law and bounds of executive power to authorize torture," Mr. Leahy said.