Sentence examples for system of warrants from inspiring English sources

In 1978, with broad public support, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which placed national security investigations, including wiretapping, under a system of warrants approved by a special court.

In the buildup to the launch of the draft bill, the government gave the impression it was making a major shift away from a system of intrusive warrants issued only by ministers and that in future, judges would be equal partners in the warrant process.

Some people think there should be a system of "torture warrants" for special cases.

Accordingly, the volume of information capable of being provided under a system of torture warrants is extremely limited.

So by comparison with telephone and surveillance warrants, torture warrants are likely to yield unreliable information; there is a serious question about the quality of much of the information provided under a system of torture warrants.

The Igbo Women's War of November 1929 began when thousands of Igbo women vociferously protested a crippling tax on market women by the ruling British colonials, who had set up an undemocratic system of appointing "warrant chiefs" to rule locally.

Testing with DS systems also has potential usefulness as part of an education system to warrant the driving fitness of patients with glaucoma.

In the light of the above three points concerning torture warrants that have just been made in the comparison between these and surveillance and interception warrants, the inevitable conclusion is that the practice of torture could not be contained under a system of legalised torture warrants and the consequences of its not being contained would be horrific.

The coalition promised to review it and the workings of the equally criticised system of European arrest warrants that could see the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, sent to Sweden.

Finally, the benefits of a system of legalised torture warrants over the longer term are likely to be slight; and certainly easily outweighed by the costs.

Indeed, it is by no means clear that the utility in terms of saving lives (and leaving aside the costs)—of the system of legalised torture warrants will be very high.