Sentence examples for the existing statute from inspiring English sources

"There's the potential for significant evasion of the existing statute," said Scott E. Thomas, a Democratic commissioner.

The bipartisan bill "is actually worse than the existing statute," said Senator Barbara Boxer (D CA), a lead author of the alternative bill and top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

But the existing statute doesn't account for nuances in the student-teacher relationship, according to the judge, AL.com reported.

The two women have since worked with students nationwide on filing complaints against other institutions, helping lead to a current tally of 72 colleges and universities under investigation for potential violations of Title IX, the existing statute that requires schools to respond to reports of sexual violence.

In 1988, Congress added language to the existing statutes governing mail and wire fraud, which are considered a crime if an individual undertakes a "scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest service".

With acuity, the committee asks why a government that claims no desire to curtail the health secretary's powers does not simply leave the existing statutes as they are.

But unless facts emerge suggesting otherwise, there was nothing in the existing statutes to prevent Santiago from getting his gun back.

Maybe now we can begin the slow but necessary process of transforming perceptions of hackers and reform the existing statutes which enable prosecutors to seek long jail sentences for "crimes,"such as violating a website's terms of service.

"We think there is a responsibility for Congress to review some of the existing statutes governing whether those sorts of mergers have the ability to go through," Tuma said. .

Brian Sims, the first openly gay person to serve in the Pennsylvania House, said that even though some in Harrisburg may oppose all hate crimes laws, they know how unpopular it would be to try to repeal the existing statutes that protect people on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin.

Gov. Christie first issued an executive order barring political donations by public employee unions to state and local candidates when he took office in 2010, only to have the order struck down by a state court on the ground that the governor could not add to the already existing statute.