Sentence examples for the basic statutes from inspiring English sources

The bills would make the biggest changes in federal regulation of campaign finance since the basic statutes enacted in 1974 in response to the Watergate scandals.

AUDIENCE: The point you mentioned about wanting to give EPA more power, more regulatory power, so we don't have to go back to Congress to revise the basic statutes every time, is that being done?

The mandate to carry out the Global Forest Resources Assessments stems both from the basic statutes of FAO, and the Committee on Forestry COFOO).

Edward's civil legislation, which amended the unwritten common law, remained for centuries as the basic statute law.

In 1934, Mr. Stokes was among many bright young men drawn to Washington by James Landis, one of his Harvard Law School professors, to draft what became the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, the basic statute governing Wall Street.

Maybe the basic statute is OK but EPA is administering it poorly, so we need a change of procedures — more peer review perhaps, or greater involvement of economists within the agency.

Q. Would you advocate repeal of the Antiquities Act or some changes in that basic statute? A. The Antiquities Act is something that has been very useful in the past.

IN the mid-1980s, when I was in college, what concerned and frustrated my peers and me was how few states had basic statutes forbidding discrimination against gay men and lesbians: laws that merely prevented someone from being denied a job or apartment on the basis of whom he or she loved.

The basic federal statute governing presidential elections, contained in Title 3 of the United States Code, provides that when "any controversy or contest" arises concerning the appointment of electors, a state's own "judicial or other methods or procedures" for resolving the dispute "shall be conclusive, and shall govern in the counting of the electoral votes".

In California, for example, the basic tax statute of limitations is four years.

LONDON — When the Buenos Aires team San Lorenzo de Almagro played and won a Primera Division match at Colón over the weekend, it knowingly breached a basic statute of FIFA law.